Not the most flattering pic of me - but this was taken over 8 hours after giving birth via emergency c-section June 19 to our little Katelyn Rosie. This was the first time meeting her and getting to hold her (long story).
Needless to say her rather abrubt and chaotic arrival is taking some time to recover from - but I wanted to pop on here now that I'm home and starting to get a bit settled in and give an update as I've had people e-mailing and whatnot.
Also people have been worried about the flooding in Alberta and if that was why I was quiet on here. No - I'm about 300 miles from Calgary and live in the middle of tons of fields - so their devastating floods haven't affected us (in that way - but Calgary is a major hub of everything for western Canada so we're ALL affected by it in some way or another). My heart goes out to all the people that ARE suffering and have lost homes/lives/business/etc in those floods - what I did see in the news updates while I was in the hospital was just surreal.
Thank you all for the concern though! Me and baby girl are doing well - I'll prolly have a video update coming SOON (maybe within the day or two) as it'll be easier for me to just do a video than type everything out!! :)
I'm gonna go take a nap and snuggle my new little munchkin ;) :D :D :D
I made this one a couple of months ago now for a good friend of mine - hard to believe the baby is over 2 months old already (which just reminds me how fast time will fly when our little one arrives :( - they don't stay little for long!).
Someone else I know just had a baby recently and this time it was a girl - seems like lately everyone I know is having boys! So I had fun making a girly baby card for the new parents :)
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If you missed my other baby card videos/posts you can find them here:
So I needed to make another baby card (I actually need to get my butt in gear and make up a bunch - it seems like everyone around me is having babies right now!) for a friend who just had a baby boy.
I dug through my stash and came across my BG Oliver papers and embellishments that I've held on to - PERFECT for cards like this. This collection came out a couple of years ago so it's not readily available anymore. I linked to what's left of it on the BG site below with the supplies.
I really enjoy making personalized cards when it's for a new baby - most of the time the parents end up keeping it. I even had one friend who framed the card I made and put it in the baby's room. That *really* meant a lot to me and was totally unexpected - but SO nice.
FYI if you missed my first card in this "series" you can find it here:
Yup that's right - I'm starting a Baby Card series too ;) I think this will be a good thing. As I see it the more "series" I have going on at once the easier it will be for me to just add a new card/video here and there without feeling like I *need* to get a certain amount of cards filmed and posted within a certain amount of time.
I made this card a couple of months ago for my newest nephew to join the family, and filmed the process and took pics before sending it with the gift.
I do NOT know why but my iMovie program won't let me upload videos longer than 10 minutes (that used to be the standard YouTube video length - they all had to be under 10 mins - not anymore I think it's 15 now unless you're a partner and whatnot) so I had to edit this video down to make it work and got it JUST under 10 minutes!!
I had originally bought all the Basic Grey Olivia goodies from All That Scraps but they've since sold out and aren't carrying it anymore. It's still on the Basic Grey site though.
My hubby's boss's wife had a baby boy the other day - and when Tim told me I knew I had to make them a baby card. I had a few baby cards on hand but when I have the time I really enjoy making a card specifically for someone - it's so much fun to give it a more personal touch YKWIM?
My first thoughts for the card was the standard blues etc - but then I REALLY started thinking and decided to step right out of that box and do something different.
Tim works at the local Chev/GM etc dealership (so if you're in Saskatchewan or even Alberta and need a new/used vehicle you can just look up Rosetown Mainline Motors and ask for Tim - he's a fab salesman - there's my good wife deed of the day LOL. **Side story - Tim was actually "spotted" at the local Dairy Queen this past summer by someone who reads my blog and recognized him from one of the fishing videos I linked to or something - he got a kick out of being identified as "AmyR's husband" ROFLOL! So yeah if you really are in the market for a vehicle and you DO contact Mainline and talk to him tell him you heard AmyR's hubby was a great salesman to deal with *wink*).
Anywho I knew I had the perfect collection to use for this cardso I pulled out my Basic Grey Wander collection that I haven't had the chance to use yet - and this was the end result:
I used my The Best stamp set and stamped the word baby onto one of the patterned papers and cut it out. I just used a craft knife to cut out the insides of the 3 letters. I then stamped the boy (also from The Best stamp set) on an agle below it.
I used my Labels 2 dies with kraft cardstock which is what I adhered the letters to, and then used the same die to cut pieces from another patterned paper that I adhered to the top and bottom of the kraft piece.
I decided to use a BUNCH of brads from the collection - I chose one of the stitched brads, some of the glazed and several of the regular and added them.
I couldn't resist adding the satin ribbon - the color matched PERFECTLY to this BG collection.
AND since it's a question I've been asked a lot I did a quick video showing how I conceal the backs of embellishments so that you can't see them from the inside of the card:
Finally on the inside of the card I basically just used the same layout I used on the front and just mixed up the patterned papers I used (and that scalloped piece with all the signs on it is one of the Wander ribbon doilies) and die cut another Label 2 from kraft cardstock and that was it!
I hope Tim's boss liked it - I thought the papers were rather fitting for a dealership owner ;o). Regardless though it was so FUN to make a baby card that was in completely UNtraditional colors. If you've never done it I challenge you to try it - and if you DO and post it on your blog/online gallery link to it in the comment section of this post so I can see it too!
A couple of days ago my younger sister had her baby - a little boy they named Wesson who weighed in at 7lbs 3oz - he's just a tiny little thing!
I went to see her yesterday and got to cuddle the little guy for a bit - man you forget how tiny your kids were!!
And of course I had to make her a card and had a couple little gifties for him as well:
I picked up these little blue sandals and the socks a couple of months ago - they're SO small (this is an A2 card - 5.5" x 4.25" to give you an idea!) so I had to buy them.
The 'sweet, small & wonderful', 'baby', and 'boy' are all separate stamps. I inked them up with white pigment ink and stamped them onto kraft cardstock. I embossed them with white detail embossing powder (I chose detail because it's finer and the smaller words wouldn't come out as clear if I had used regular embossing powder).
I colored in the 'baby' letters with Copics using B01, B02, B04 and W3. You can check out my post HERE where I did a video showing how I faded the colors the same way I did on these.
I pulled out several buttons from my stash and sewed them onto the cardfront.
On the inside of the card I used one of the sentiments from my Baby Sentiments set - I stamped it onto kraft cardstock with white pigment ink and embossed it with the detail white EP. I then used the largest of the Labels 11 dies to cut it out and adhered it to the inside and that was it!
I had to take a bunch of pics to show y'all everything - so here we go:
I mentioned some time ago that I was making several cards with my latest stamp set - Baby Sentiments.
I FINALLY finished them - even though they are pretty simple my stampin' mojo has been seriously suffering for weeks now - and I am just blocked. So it took me a while to finish all of these, and then there was the pics and the editing and the uploading - all fun stuff of course *wink*. But they're DONE!
**also SORRY but I don't know the Copic colors I used on these! I had them sitting out and before I wrote them down I put all the markers back in the containers. And since I colored the images weeks ago I can't remember what colors I used!! I think I need to just get a little notebook SPECIFICALLY for me to write down my Copic colors - that way I can keep better track (well better than scraps of paper and sticky notes - which is what I usually do and again I'm lucky if I don't lose them or throw them out beforehand.....)**
I did a set of three in pink.
The baby carriage image is from the CC Designs Gingersnaps Oh! Baby set (no longer available in rubber - but you can get the digital version of the set HERE).
I kept the inside of the cards simple. I stamped various verses from the Baby Sentiments set onto a lighter pink cardstock, matted it with the darker pink and added a strip of white cardstock.
Then I made a set of 3 in blues.
*this argyle ribbon was in my stash - I got it at Michaels a year or two ago*
The insides of these cards were done in the same way as the pink set.
Then I did a set of 2 in yellow (which is my favorite. I think it's because it's so bright and cheerful looking!).
As with all the rest I used more verses from the Baby Sentiments set with 2 shades of yellow cardstock and a strip of white and that was it!
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