A Little Help from the Last 25 Years

Today I am showing you the Baby Shower invitation that I came up with for a close friend.  One of my closest friends is holding a baby shower for her daughter-in- law.  This will be her first grandchild and she is so excited!  She needed an invite for the shower she is hosting for her the beginning of May.

She decided she wanted an invitation that was close to the bedding that was chosen for the nursery.  So here is the card.

And here is the a pic of the bedding.  How do you think I did?

This is a strange title for a blog post but hopefully you will understand as I  continue to explain the details of this project.  The supplies that I used for this project were:

STAMP SETS:  Cuddles and Kisses

PAPER:  Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White

INK:  Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight

ACCESSORIES: Daffodil Delight Seam Binding, Scallop Edge Punch, Dimensionals, Brayer

Sold as Printworks Design Stencil Dots and Stripes

Now if you are wondering how we got that peep on the card, my friend wanted the peep look exactly like it looks on the bedding.  So she decided to enlarge the picture of the peep and she cut all of them out by hand.  I got the peep and was asked to come up with something including it.  I needed to make the stripes and originally thought of the Striped Embossing Folder.  That did not work how I had hoped.  And here is where I needed help from the past 25 years.  Believe it or not I used an item (that has long since retired ) that I found over the weekend while looking for something else.  I had even forgotten that I had this item.  Years ago Stampin' Up offered this stencil with which you could create a polka dotted or striped background.  At that time they demo'd it by sponging over the openings.  I decided I would try to brayer over it.  And it worked!  I was able to get those beautiful straight lines.  I posted a picture of this handy dandy tool right here.

I am so glad that this was one retired SU item I had kept.  I think I will hold onto this.  It might come in handy again.  Enjoy the day!

Last Pics from the Shower

This is the last day that I will torture you with pictures from the shower.   This is a diaper cake that my daughter made for her sister.  I thought it was very cute.  You can see that we got wrapped up with the rubber ducky theme.

This is a tag that I made for the prizes.  The prize for the games was a bottle of shower gel.  I saw someone else doing the "From our shower to yours" sentiment on their tag.  I thought the duck from the EASY EVENTS stamp set was perfect to stamp on the tag with that sentiment.  I used Blender Pens and Ink Pads to adhere the color to the tag.  Isn't it cute?

 These cookies were adorable!  Andria's sister-in-law made them for the shower and we used them as part of the favors.  If you look closely, you will see little ducks and onesies.  I gave her the medium sized Cello Bags that SU has and our Daffodil Delight 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon to package the cookies so they looked fantastic to give those people attending the shower.

Here is the soon to be mom, opening the gifts.  I chose this picture because I love this baby quilt that one of her husband's aunts made.  It has cute little monkeys all over it and the colors will match their nursery colors and theme perfectly.  What a wonderful gift to give!

This is a picture of all the wonderful food that we had.  Andria's mother-in-law made most of this food and she basically came up with the menu for the shower.  We had a really nice variety of food to choose from and it all was fantastic!  Check out the rubber ducky in the back corner.  He was filled with ice and held the water bottles.  






And finally I had to add these pictures of Eli who was mesmerized by how big those balloons were.  And I know he loved the rubber duck at the top of all the balloons..  These were taken when we started to clean up.  He also decided he would try to ride the rubber ducky that held the water at the shower.  

The last 2 posts, I have had trouble getting the pictures and text where I wanted it.  But today I finally figured it out.  So this post should be easier to read.

I hope you enjoyed these pics.  There were so many other things I wanted to make or stamp but my daughter reined me in.  Once I got going it was hard to stop.  But I hope she enjoyed her shower.   I know I had a blast putting it together for her.  Enjoy the day!

More Pics from Baby Shower

Here is a close up of one of the food cards  that we used.  This is a close up  of one of the candy jars at the buffet.  The food card tells everyone what type of candy is in the jar.

This is one of the centerpieces that I put together.  I saw something similar on Pinterest.  It was a cute idea and very easy to make.

This was the cake that we had for the shower.  You can see the Rubber Duck theme continued throughout the whole shower even to the cake.

I posted just a few things from the shower.  Tomorrow I will post a few more pictures.  Enjoy the day!

Baby Shower was Great!

Well the baby shower is finally over and all went well.  I can now show you some of the things I have been working on.  We had a Candy Buffet for the favors.  I made the Candy Buffet sign using the Rosette Die and Tempting Turquoise Cardstock.  The letters were made using the retired Alphabet and Daffodil Delight cardstock.  After making the rosettes, I adhered them to dowels and stuck them in bud vases I had and filled them with white rice.  I then stuck the dowels into the vases at various heights to create more interest.  The colors were various shades of turquiose and yellow.  I choose different candies that were blue and yellow.  I had Blue Gummi Bears, Dove chocolate wrapped in blue, yellow sweet tart ducks, Vanilla flavored Tootsie Rolls wrapped in blue and yellow salt water taffy.  


Of course I needed a favor box to put the candy in.   I used the Favor Box Die to create the box.  Then I used the Daffodil Striped Ribbon which is now retired around the box.  The Embellished Events stamp set to decorate the front.  I took the Rubber Duck Toy stamp and markers to color the stamp and stamped the image on the Apothecary Labels Framelits.  I placed Cello Bags into the boxes so that they could put their candy in the box to take it home.  I made 60 of them.  There were 50 people at the shower but it always better if you make extra just in case.  That is enough for today.  I will be posting more pictures tomorrow.  Enjoy the day!

Getting Ready for Baby

Most of you know that I will be a Grandma again in a few months.  So we are getting ready for this baby since it will be her first.  Of course a Baby Shower is essential and I am gearing up for it.  The first thing I need to do to get ready for this baby is to help with the Baby Shower.  So I am making the invitations.  I saw this idea on Debbie Henderson's blog.  As soon as I saw this card I knew I had to find a use for it.  I always thought I would make one for a shower card.   But when my daughter told me she was pregnant, I knew somehow I had to make this as an invitation.  Isn't it adorable?  I know it s a total CASE except I substituted the Lucky Limeade Baker's Twine instead of a button and I changed the color of the ribbon to Daffodil Delight.


The supplies that I used for this card were:


STAMP SET: Embellished Events
PAPER:  Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black
INK:  Lucky Limeade
ACCESSORIES:  1-3/4" Circle Punch, 1-1/4" Circle Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch, 1/4" Circle punch, Tasteful Trim Die, Big Shot, Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Small Oval Punch (RETIRED), Lucky Limeade Bakers Twine, 1-1/4" Daffodil Delight Ribbon (RETIRED), Dimensionals


I hope everyone enjoys the card.  It took me a little longer to put together than I originally thought but it is well worth the time.  I will have to post pictures after the shower.  I am getting excited about the shower but it is still a ways in the future.  I just needed to get started with the invitations.  I also have birth announcements to make for the newest grandson born last week and I need to start on my convention swaps.  Wow!  I guess I am going to be busy for the next few weeks!  Enjoy the day!