Big News Baby!

Happy Monday! How about them Bronco's? They totally eeked one out! 

The kids are off school today and I am going to be a busy bee in my craft room until hair appointment time!

As many of you know I am a very active in the kids school and serve on our accountability committee. Recently one of our other committee members had a baby girl and I of course was asked to make a card for this amazing event!

The sketch for this weeks Freshly Made Sketches was the perfect layout!

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Obviously It is a girl! What girl doesn't like pink? 

The card base starts off with a lovely base of Blushing Bride! I think that this years Occasions Catalog caters to my fond addiction to this color. I then used some of the Birthday Bouquet DSP that I hadn't used yet! I took a quick little layer of Blushing Bride to matte my Whisper White. I stamped the the sentiment from the set "Big News" in Blushing Bride ink on to the Whisper White. To achieve the shape on the top right I wrapped some linen thread across the top with a linen thread bow! I added a cute little flower from our retired Artisan Embellishment Kit! Freshly made and rusticly cute!

Thanks for taking a look today! Have a great week!

Must Have Coffee...

Happy Friday!!! Who needs coffee??? I know I do! This week has been a blur and the weekend isn't going to be much different! Kids have a church activity tomorrow and mommy is going to be glued to the TV to see who the Broncos will play next weekend!

So my rush of creativity has continued and today I am going to participate in my first ever Freshly Made Sketches challenge (you can click the link below to get more details)! My card is a little bit of old mixed with the new! I know you are going to like it!

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My card started with a fun base of Calypso Coral. I am absolutely addicted to the Corrugated Paper in the Annual Catalog! I attached my Very Vanilla layer to the Corrugated Paper. The Very Vanilla was stamped using the new Timeless Textures stamp set with the retired Baked Brown Sugar ink. That is how I made my cute little coffee rings, I then stamped the coffee cup from Perfect Blend onto the DSP (it is from my retired stash) and then Very Vanilla card stock. I fussy cut the cup out of the Very Vanilla Card and cut the belly band out of the one I stamped onto to the DSP. Then I adhered the belly band onto the cup with my 2 way glue pen and attached it to the card using Stampin' Dimensionals. The strips at the top of the sketch were made using the Corrugated Paper. I rounded the corners on these with my Envelope Punch Board. I wrapped the Calypso Coral Seam Binding Ribbon around to add some color. The sentiment is also from the Perfect Blend. I used the 1 3/8" Circle to punch this sentiment out. Then I simply sponged around the edges, attached this with a Dimensional and popped on a couple of the enamel dots from the Holiday....

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a great weekend!!