Small Little Thank You Cards

Ultimately, as the baby shower for my co-worker approached, I couldn't help but think that she might need a set of Thank You cards for the plethora of gifts that she gave.  I threw these together one evening.  I used my MISTI tool to stamp each card in exactly the same location, stamping all 20 cards in a matter of minutes after I figured out where to place the stamp.  I cut the stars from patterned paper I had used to spruce up the photo album (check out the project here).  Using a small piece to ribbon to bind them, this was my second part of the gift.

I ended up decorating a plain kraft colored gift bag to hold all the goodies.  That's more of the leftovers from the mini-album kit.  I have plenty left that, should I need another baby shower card soon, I can probably make several more cards.  It was so fun to bless the mom-to-be with all these wonderful touches. I think she enjoyed each and have even seen a thank you card out and about in the workplace.

I've held the new mister already as well.  He came not soon after I made these goodies and I consider any my effort repaid in kind getting to smell the sweet smell of newborn baby and feel his soft skin.  Wishing you the same opportunities soon!

Hello Baby Shower Card

Another baby shower card to go with my mini-albums.  This one was also made from the scraps left behind in the mini-album kit.  I did purchase a 6 x 6 paper pad of the Simple Stories Hello Baby.  That is where the background patterned paper and the multi colored striped patterned paper came from.  However the rest of the embellishments were all leftover from the kit.

Simple in design, quick to put together onto a cream pre-made card base, yet very adorable and perfect for the occasion.  The mom-to-be was simply thrilled with both card and gift.  I was thrilled she liked it!

I linked up to the following challenges:

City Crafter Challenge Week #269 - You Are My Sunshine  Come join the fun with your yellow inspired product.  Hurry the challenge ends soon!

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #191 - Anything Goes Family  Always inspiring what the ladies are up to over at the Word Art Challenge blog.  Come join the fun!

Hello Baby First Year Mini-album

I promised to get these photos edited and posted.  I got most of the way there this weekend and then, poof, activities took over and I didn't finish.  So, I quickly wrapped this up this morning to post before heading to work.  I purchased a kit (gasp!) for this album from Embellish It.  I actually made two of these bad boys because I had two baby showers right in a row and because I thought the book was adorable.  The kit is made using Simple Stories Hello Baby products.  The kit is still available here.  The thing I just love about Embellish It's kits is that the instructions are simple, the pages go together in a snap and you have lots of bits leftover.   I hope you have a cup of coffee (or iced tea - summer has arrived in full!) as this is a picture heavy post.

Plastic sleeves are present throughout the book and offer the opportunity to capture pictures during each month of baby's first year.  There are two clear picture sleeves on the right side, one month on top of the second month page.  Each come with tickers to place on the outside of the sleeve to indicate the month.

I simply adore this little mini-page within the album- a flag motif for holding pictures created layer upon layer of interest in the album.  I can't wait to see photos in these books!

This and the following page look the same but note how the clear plastic photo sleeve is oriented.

With this back of the album look - clean and simple - the book is done. I added the ribbon on the rings for effect.  Likely the mom will get sick of the nuisance of them and remove them before long.  However, they do make the book pretty for packaging and I have so many ribbons some needed to leave the house...

As far as the book assembly, I spent a good 2-3 hours removing each embellishment from the packaging and inking the edges in Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  Some required fussy cutting.  I then spent another 3-4 hours putting the book together.  I took a fair bit of care because I've screwed these kinds of kits up before cutting the wrong way, etc.  It could probably been done in less time.  The inking wasn't strictly required as the edges looked good with a nice clean white as well.  You could easily get this together in 4-5 hours if needed.  A great gift and both mom's have already let me know they have pictures to include in the books.

Thanks for taking this long look with me.  Check out Embellish It!  They have lots of goods and never fail to deliver on quality.

Baby Shower Card

Just popping in on the Fourth of July to wish you all a very happy celebration of the birth of the USA.  I made this simple baby shower card from the scraps/leftovers after completing a mini-album as a gift.  I'll share this a little later as I'm still editing photos.  Here, I simply used leftovers of Simple Stories Hello Baby paper pad.  The patterned paper is from the paper pad and the sentiment tag is also cut from one piece in the paper pad.  This card was for a boy baby who had already arrived (surprise!!!) before the baby shower.  Simple and sweet - just like the entire collection.  There are both boy and girl elements in the paper pad, but the best part is the most of the pad works in either boy and girl, though if you are looking for girly baby stuff, this is not your collection.

A little twine and some epoxy elements and this card made itself.

Wishing you and yours a safe celebration.