Baby layout!

Hi Crafty friends!  Brenda here from Friends Craftin With Friends, the design team was asked to make a project using at least one button for Sweet Sassy Diva.  I wanted to do a layout of our newest grand daughter that was born on her Papaw's birthday.  So I started off with a crude, and I mean crude sketch. Yeah, I'm no artist! lol But it was something to give me a starting point.

Then I decided to make it a double page layout and I got the idea to punch my paper using a Martha Steward around the page punch. I also used the ticket punch from SU.

So I printed my paper that I wanted to punch and started punching.  But......

....the punching didn't work out so well for me. lol  I didn't want to waste the paper that I had already printed so I trimmed off the botched punching making my paper size 10 1/4 by 10 1/4.  Punched again and only had one little boo boo this time.  I can live with that, I can always hide it with an embellishment.

So with a smaller punched paper I had to add another paper cut down to 11 x 11 inch and I printed that a solid color of green.  Layered it with my base and my top layer.  Ok that is working alright-not what I had in mind but it is working.  Next I printed and cut the images that I wanted to use from my Imagine using Nursery Tails. I also printed my pics I wanted to use too.  I played around with my images and buttons for a while.

I finally had to go with just two pics and I also didn't use all my embellishments.  Here is how the finished layout turned out. I didn't fill out all the info on our grand daughter since it was on the internet. Over all I am pretty pleased with it after all the problems I had getting going.  It isn't how I envisioned it with the sketch, but I made the most out of my mistakes and I am ok with it now.  Always try to take your mistakes and turn them into something you can use.  It is always worth a try!!

Nursery Tails Toss!

So, yesterday Suzanne shared a Gender Reveal Party Invitation with you. Today, she is sharing a second card choice with you. 

The second card is made with my Imagine and the Nursery Tails cart.

I cut the house page at 7.7 with my Gypsy to fit on my card.  

It was too wide and I didn't want to distort the picture so cut the sides to use and threw away the center piece.  I cut the girl and boy medallions at 2.5 at the same time. 

Here is the front of the card.   You can see the piece that was cut out of center 

I also added a dress, oneside, and bibs at 2 inches to the inside flaps.  

The medallions are popdotted so they can be removed.  

I added some tiny blue and pink safety pins.  For this one they are asked to wear the medallion to vote for whether they think it is a boy or a girl.  

Hope you enjoyed my cards and ideas.  I can't wait to see what the rest of the DT makes this week for the Invitation Challenge.  

Happy Easter!

Hi, this is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug.

I actually had all my Easter cards done (it's been a long winter lol), but I love this bunny from the Nursery Tails Imagine cart, so I had to make another card! He was cut @ 3, True size. I added a left over bow from the Easter 2010 cart. The butterflies were cut @ 1.5, True size. I added stickles to the body and glossy accents to the wings. The grass was also cut with the Easter cart and stretched in Design studio. The Happy Easter is leftover, so I'm not sure on the size of that. The trellis is from StoryBook, cut @ 1, also a leftover.

On the inside of the card I used the other butterfly, the bunny cut @ 1 True size and flipped. The lined paper and border were cut @ 4 True size with some green ribbon added.

Bundle of Joy!

Hello all!! This is Carissa!! My favorite cartridge right now is Nursery Tales!! I love to use pop dots on the layers!! Super easy!! I cannot wait until more Imagine cartridges are released!

My project is a card set for my neighbor. She is due to have her baby this week!! I love how everything matches! Card, envelope and tags!

Recipe:

Imagine Art Cartridge Nursery Tales

3 sheets of white cardstock

Envelope - 4 3/4 x 6 1/2

3-D Dots

Adhesive

Ribbon

Stamp: Pink by Design Scripted Year

Chestnut Roan Colorbox Chalk Ink

Scoring tool or scoreboard

The envelope was lightly taped closed just in case.

The bear is a layer from the main card image using the print only feature at 1.0

Love how it turned out!! I will definitely be doing this more often!!

For the card base start of with a piece of cardstock 9 x 6 1/4. Then score at 4 1/2.

The main image was cut at 4.0, added the layers plus another bear for the inside of the card. I didn't use the grass layer but had to print it because I wanted the clouds. The two squares are the mats for the sentiment. I used the square from the stock images and flood filled with a solid and a pattern. The light green cut at 2.5 and the light blue cut at 2.8. The tag was also cut at 4.0 and a bear layer added.

This is the background for the front of the card. Square from the stock images flood filled with pattern cut at 6.0. I trimmed it down to 6 x 4 3/8 to fit on the card.

This square is from the stock images flood filled with pattern cut at 5.0 for the inside of the card. Trimmed down to 5 x 4 to fit. I also cut a scrap of white cardstock to 4 1/2 x 3 3/4 to write your message.

Here is the inside of the card.

I used adhesive on the ribbon to attach to the front of the card and then added a piece of tape to both ends of the ribbon to keep in place.

The sentiment was stamped on the light green mat and then cut to 1 x 1 3/4. The light blue mat was cut to 1 1/4 x 2 1/8. 3D dots were used on the sentiment and the layers.

The tag for the gift bag was cut at 4.0 along with the layer of the bear. I had another piece of dark patterned cardstock and cut it out to use as a mat. Just to see how it would look. You can see both in the picture at the top of the post.

Enjoy!! Have a great week!!