To Die for Friday - Baby Shower Card

     Sorry this has taken me so long to post. I thought I had until I looked and saw that no I didn't. I have left everything in here so you can see how crazy I can some times be.

     I finally found the footage for today's post and wanted to add it to this but I never even posted this blog post. Wow I guess taking some time off was not helpful lol. I am finally getting things back in order and uploaded on here and YouTube. I hopefully will be able to continue once school is out which for us is right around the corner (not sure I am looking forward to it either lol).


     I want to share everything from the baby shower but the post for all this will just go on for days. So I will be share the baby shower decorations in a different post on a separate day. I had such a great time and my friend did an amazing job putting this all together. 

     I want to share this fun card I made for the soon to be mother, well this is her third child. I thought it would be so much fun to combine three different stamps sets from Lawn Fawn as well as using some two different dies. I have been wanting to use the Loads of Fun stamp set since Lawn Fawn first introduced them. With a baby shower to go to I wanted to stick to the theme of the shower and that is how I came up with this card. The theme of the baby shower was April Showers bring May baby. So she picked umbrellas and rain. So lets get right into it there's a lot to cover.

     From Lawn Fawn's Plus One stamp set I stamped out the stork and umbrella using memento black in and colored them with my copic markers.I colored everything with the same colors we used for the shower. I used C00 and C02 for the body of the stork and for the beak I used YR04 and YR14. I used BG000 and BG01 for the sack since she had a baby boy. The umbrella I colored with G02. I then took C00 and C02 and gave the clouds just a little bit of color. Once everything was colored I die cut them out and I took my x-acto knife to cut a slit just above the beak so it will look like the stork is hold both.

     I used the largest Stitched Rectangle and die cut some light blue cardstock for the back ground. I then die cut out a bunch of clouds from the Spring Showers die. I laid everything out on the card to see if i need more clouds and where I wanted to put the sentiment. Once I was happy with the placement I took some memento black ink and stamped out the sentiment from Little Bundle stamp set. I then used ranger multi mat to glue down the clouds and stork. I cut off the clouds that hung over the sides and glued the back ground on to the top folding A2 size card base. 

     For the inside I colored (with the same colors) the laundry basket from the Loads of Fun and glued it in place. I stamped the sentiment from Little Bundle I just covered the parentheses with some tape so I would not stamp them. I thought it was just a funny way to not only welcome the new baby but to joke about the extra laundry she was going to have.

     I really had fun not only coming up with this card idea but putting it together. I love the idea of combining so many different stamp set and dies. Keep a look out for the post sharing the baby shower decorations. Thank you guys for going me and I hope you all have a great weekend. 

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April Showers Bring May Baby - Baby Shower Pictures

     I really wanted to show off the decorations that my friend Kristina did as well as the ones I made. She did an awesome job on this baby shower and I am so happy she asked me to help. It was so much fun not only helping with the decorations and set up but just being at the shower. 

     I am first going to talk about her decorations. She came up with a great theme April Showers come May baby. The baby's due was in May & she had him about a week or so after the shower. She had some wonderful ideas and I was so happy to help her with her ideas.

     She originally wanted to hang this from the center of the room filled with all kinds of party favors but once it showed up it was bigger (or at least had a longer handle) then she thought it would be. So she decided to hang it in the corner of the room and fill it with light blue balloons. She then took some green and blue streamers and hung them from the umbrella to the other corners of the room. It's hard to see in the pictures but we took some shiny ribbon and cut them to hang off the streamers to look like rain. 

     I had some sign from a previous baby shower that was going to work great with the games she wanted to play. So we set up everything for that here on this table. I will start with the farthest thing. At the end of the table she set out a small bag with some diapers in front of so the guest can add a small note or funny message for the wee hours of the night diaper changes. In the middle is a sign I made and there will be more about that later. On this end of the table is the clothes pins for the don't say baby game.

     I made this sign so everyone can add their names to shower the baby with love. I cut everything out with the Cricut Explore. The elephant is from Zooballoo and the umbrella is from (I believe) Create a Critter. The blanket the elephant is sitting on is just a diamond shape that I adjusted the size and put it on at an angle so it would look like a blanket. I then just sized up a circle and cut in off to look like a hill. I add the umbrella that was used on some of the other decorations.

     This is the finished project with the names of the guests. I add the remaining hearts to fill in the spaces. I really love the way this turned out and so does the mama. 

     I made some umbrella party favors. I used a cone shape from 3D Cones. I add some green dots that I just punched out. I used a paper straw for the handle and the hook is from a cricut cartridge but I can remember where I found it. After filling the umbrella up with candy I used some white tulle and wrapped and just used some sheer blue ribbon.

     I have to say this banner was a pain to make and it was my idea too. I love the way it turned out I just didn't know it was going to be so much work. I used the cricut to cut everything out. I then used some fishing line to hang it all. I just add some tape to the back to hold the line to the cut outs. I know its had to see here but it says welcome on the clouds and baby on the umbrellas. 

     Not that this is any better of a picture but here is the banner hang up at the house we had the baby shower at. She even asked us to leave it up so she had it up to bring baby home to she liked it that much. She posted picture of her other two kids holding the new baby brother sitting under this banner.

     I had so much fun helping with this baby shower and my friend did an amazing job. I was hoping to share the diaper cake she made but I forgot to take a picture of that. But it was an amazing job and her first one. Thank you all for joining me on the special post and I hope you all have a great day.

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Cut It Out Monday - Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Themed Birthday Party Door Sign

     Hello everyone. How's is your summer going so far? Today is our first week of summer vacation. So far its going alright. I have a friend coming over to craft with me today. I am so looking forward to that. My cold is finally gone which is great and my kids are getting their chores done with out have to be asked 20 times. So all in all a great start to the vacation as well as the week.

     Today's project is for my best friend Ashley. Her middle child is turning 2 and her youngest is turning 1 this summer. Now even though they have different birthday days (in fact one is in late June and the other is early August) she decide to have a joint party in July for both the kids. So I am helping her by making the party decorations for the party.

     They are having a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themed party. She asked for a sign to hang on the front door. After she showed me what she wanted I was happy to make. I download a font to my computer to use for the lettering and then just cut everything out. Once it was all put together I add a lot of clear wink of Stella to give it some shine. The size of everything is at least 11.5 wide. I wanted them as big as I could get them.

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