Kiddy cards

I love this Zoo Babies stamp set. 

I used a retired border embossing folder on the edge and some washi tape just above the embossing.

The washi on the left if from Sweet Lil' Things Washi and the one on the right is from Bohemian Washi

The zebra is stamped with black archival ink, the giraffe with crushed curry and the elephant with tip top taupe.

The ribbon is Crumb Cake seam binding.

I also made these cute baby cards using a retired 'baby's first' stamp set from about 10 years ago.

On the first card I used a size A clear block to stamp the coloured blocks and on the second I made a square mask and used the largest paint brush stamp from 'work of art' to stamp the coloured through the opening in the mask.

The colours on the squares are Pear Pizzazz, Pink Pirouette, Soft Sky and So Saffron

And I used the new thick whisper white card stock on these, they make perfect single layer cards!

You can never have too many birthday cards - right?

I find I'm always running out of Bday cards. So now when I make some, I try to make multiple of the same, sometimes using a bit different colours.

I usually give stacks of cards as Xmas presents for my family, so yesterday I noticed I didn't have enough birthday cards... So assembly line, here I come :-)

The ones above use all the same colours: Crushed Curry, Pool Party and Strawberry Slush.

The stamp set is Build a  Birthday, the washi tape is Cherry on Top

One of the cards has a small piece of retired Crushed Curry chevron ribbon, to mask an ink stain, but you know what they say? mistakes are an opportunity to embellish :)

Here is another card made using the same stamp set

The colours on this are Smoky Slate, Melon Mambo, Blushing Bride, Pink Pirouette and Very Vanilla

And a little bit of Wild Wasabi card stock punched out with bird builder punch.

The sentiments on all the cards are various Finnish stamps.

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First try making a dress for an American Girl doll

Making all those dresses for my niece leaves me with all kinds of little fabric pieces. I thought maybe I could make some doll's clothes from them. 

My problem was that I wanted to make a dress for American Girl doll, but I don't have one :)

I researched the sizes online and figured I have one doll I had made 20+years ago so ai used that as my model.

I made this blue dress from 100% linen and added a floral pin, that can be removed and used on an other piece of clothing if so desired.

I gave the dress to my friend Patricia's daughter and she approved it so I guess I did okay :)

In the picture her doll is wearing the dress

If the broom fits.... RIDE IT

I love this stamp set for Halloween!

I don't like things too spooky and busy and this is just perfect!

I stamped the brooms and the greeting first with Craft Whisper White ink and dried it with a heat gun (otherwise it will take LONG to dry).

Then I stamped the same image with Soft Suede. And on purpose didn't use stamp-a-majic so that I can get them a bit offset to create a shadow.

on this one I tried really offsetting the second stamping

I placed a piece of white corrugated card stock behind the image and used linen thread to embellish the card

Fall is coming... cannot compete with the real colours

So, instead I opted on making the card in Black, White and Crumb Cake :-)

I got the inspiration for this card from Pinterest

I stamped the Lighthearted Leaves with the new Archival Basic Black ink on Crumb Cake Card stock and coloured them with chalk marker. 

As you can see in this second picture, the chalk marker can go over the edges but it still looks sharp in the actual card.

The greeting is from 'A Dozen Thoughts' stamp set.

If I had only known what I got myself into...

My beautiful niece turned 1 last week and we had already bought her a present but thought that she would really benefit from something that would have wheels (she is not yet walking but can stand up against a support)

I looked around.... Cars... Cars.... Nothing pretty or non-plastic :-(

So I went online to see if I could find something there. And I did!  A hedgehog! Cute as a button... But they only had a smaller size and I thought it to be quite expensive. So... Being handy and having s dad that is good at woodworking... I figured we could EASILY make one ourselves... Heh heh

Here is our inspiration 

So here is the process in pictures

At this point I realized I might have chewed a bit too large bite :-)

How on earth can I make this pile of fabric and bathroom rug to look like a hedgehog!!??

To me it resembled more of a beaver or water rat...

We covered the rod with plastic garden hose and made a leather sleeve from an old skirt

Final product!!!

And I have to say... It looks pretty darn good!!

And here is my darling niece riding the hedgehog... Note the cute hat I made for her too :-)