PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Baby Cards and the Very Best of Pinterest Pin

One of my VERY best friends just became a grandma to her second grandson, so I made this card to congratulate her:

Here was my inspiration:

Original Pin HERE

These cards use the label punch from SU.

....and another dear friend moved to a new

house in Arkansas, set up a wonderful shop

in his garage and is also having surgery soon...

so here's the card I made him:

It's a variation of a card-in-box and this

was my inspiration:

Original Pin HERE

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Walk Down Memory Lane and the Very Best of Pinterest Pins

My coworker brought in a huge box of handmade cards to show me. To my surprise, it contained every card I had ever given her over the last 10+ years! I went through the whole box and found a few of my all-time favorites to photograph and remember:

...and here are two cards that I made recently from

some clever Pinterest punch art cards:

FROM THESE PINS:

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Easter Cards and the Very Best of Pinterest Pins

Easter in March snuck up on me! Here is a quick and easy Easter card:

...and my slew of Easter Cards pinned recently

that made me very happy:

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pins HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

....and here is a card I got to make thanks to a new

stamp set I got from a very generous TIFFANY:

(Leaf Die = Leaf Filled Flourish from Die-namics

and ordered from mftstamps.com HERE)

She gave me the Papertrey sentiment set called 

THINK BIG FAVORITES #16 shown below:

See this set on Papertrey's site HERE

Inside view using SU's retired set called Garden Collage

I also found another card below on Pinterest that uses this new set from Tiff plus 3 additional Papertrey sets called Rosie Posey and Rosie Posie Step 2 stamp sets on this page HERE plus the set below:

Boutique Borders:

Birthday Mini Stamp Set

Original Pin HERE

See this set on Papertrey's site HERE

I wish all photopolymer sets stamped like Papertrey's stamps.

They have the best clear stamps on the market IMHO!

Thank you, Tiff, for making me 

do a super BIG happy dance with your gift!

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Baby Cards Galore!

I needed to send out baby cards this week and found loads of inspiration on Pinterest! Here are the ones that caught my eye:

Click HERE for Original Pin and a TEMPLATE HERE


Click HERE for the Original Pin

I really liked this one above for a baby boy card and searched for the template, but the creator said she just cut and cut and pretty soon she landed with this idea! Wow! That is talent!...so I set out to create a template of my own...a little while later...this is what I had using a 5"x 6" piece of paper:

I made up my card and realized it needed a bit more pizzazz, so I added a shirt, some buttons, rounded some corners and ended up with this card:

Hello Baby Sentiment: SU Teeny Tiny Wishes

Inside View
Sentiment from Curvy Verses by SU
(The giraffe was purchased as a single
stamp years and years ago! Perhaps Hero Arts?)

For a baby girl card, I made this one using my circle thinlet from Stampin' Up:

Inside View

I cased the sweet little lamb from my talented friend, Rina, who made them for her daughter's baby shower favors --- each little lamb was attached to a bottle of nail polish - the perfect gift for each guest! For my last baby girl card below, I used the lamb again for the inside. This card is going to my wonderful friend, Linda, who just became a grandma to Anabelle:

The lamb head is a 3/4" punch. the ears are a 1/2" punch cut in half and the legs are made from the SU Word Window punch cut in half. The eyes are mini adhesive gems.

While I was searching for baby card ideas on Pinterest, I found tons of clever ideas for gifts and baby shower centerpieces:

Click HERE for the Original Pin

Click HERE for the Original Pin

Click HERE for Original Pin

...finally...what a fantastic idea for baby and wedding showers:

Click HERE for Original Pin

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: For the Week Ending 8/1/2014

Here are some of my favs that I pinned to my CARDS: MUST MAKE board last week:

Another use for my Nesties Labels sets!
Original Pin HERE

Great way to use up scraps!

Original Pin HERE


Original Pin HERE

I just made up a version of this quilt card:

INSIDE VIEW

SENTIMENT: Wishing You by Verve

DIE CUTS: Spellbinders Captivating Squares
My friend Katie used these dies on a
card that I saw...then I HAD to buy them!
Here's Katie's lovely card:

All quilt cards remind me of the treasured quilts my Grandma Lucy made me throughout my childhood that were filled with loads of love! To make the quilt cards above, cut 1" squares for each color as follows: 4 of solid colored card stock, 4 of medium-weight patterned DSP and 8 of vanilla card stock. Cut all but 4 of the vanilla squares on the diagonal. (The 4 uncut squares go in the corners.) I used a glue stick and a piece of computer paper and attached each quilt piece starting with the center pattern. It helped to start out with a 4 x 4" piece of computer paper scored every inch in all directions. After all pieces were attached, I let everything dry, trimmed all four sides and ran this final piece through my Cuttlebug using an embossing folder. 

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS:Baby Card and More

My college roommate Linda was in town and she needed a baby card for her daughter's shower. We checked on Pinterest and picked this card to case:

Click HERE for Original Pin

...and here's the card she made:

I also wanted to send some blank note cards for a family friend who just moved to an assisted living apartment. She says that it's hard to ask others to get note cards and stamps for them...so now I have a wonderful excuse for making up a set of cards with stamped envelopes every couple of weeks for this dear friend who was like a second mother to me growing up! I saw this card on Pinterest:

 Click on the photo or click HERE for the original pin

I kept it simple and modified this card to quickly create these cards with my SU thinlet die: