Now Look at how Adorable these are

I just wanted to share some loveliness that I received in the mail not log ago...I ordered these prolly about a month back and forgot about them til the other day.....here is my inspiration for one of my next projects....ENJOY!!!!!

if you remember, a couple weeks back I had made a diaper cake for a co-worker and his wife...here's a link if you would like to see it..... diaper cake....well our eldest daughter is having their second baby and it's a girl...wooty woot...a girl...yah!!!! Well anyways, lol, I am making her a diaper cake....and the shoes and socks are my inspiration for the cake....what do you think? Think she'll like it....I think she kind of got a little jealous with the other one I made cuz I didn't make her one for her first shower....so I need to make up for that and make her a doozy...YKWIM!!!! lol...

here are these yummy shoes...I got these from Spensor's online...along with the socks....

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I would like to ask a favor though...I am on the look-out for a digi image(s) that would fit this theme (not cupcake skull...but baby/skull...did that make sense? ....I have not been able to find any.....please please share...lol....I would love to make a matching card for her cake too.....

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well thanks again for stopping in....and any help is greatly appreciated.....I can't wait to get this finished.....I am so stoked...lol.....hugs from Charm City....

A New Baby

Happy Saturday evening peeps....I have been crazy busy trying to get this diaper cake made and been battling a cold. I guess more nursing the cold than anything. It seems like it just doesn't want to move on. BAH!!! My girlfriend and I went to a baby shower today for a co-worker and this is what I made for our gift. I kept the diaper cake simple and we ended up putting all of the gifts into a bag instead of loading down this. I really wanted the cake to shine instead of getting lost with all of the gifts loaded onto it....this is the second one I've made and I really loved how this one turned out....ENJOY!!!!!!

I know it's not a very good photo but I thought you'd like to see it anyways....I ended up using 90 baby diapers to make the 3 tiers....wrapped each one in a receiving blanket added 3 layers of ribbon premade bows and to hiide the tops of the diapers I used the bag filler stuff....the huge rhinestones is actually a plastic ring and I got those in the party section at Wal-Mart....I purchased everything here from Wal-Mart with the exception of the darker ribbon (Micheals)...oh and thoise darling little shoes I paid $1.75 for those...man was I doing the happy dance...lol...who needs expensive shoes when they are that young...lol... here's the matching card....I used an image from Mel-Jen Designs....I thought it was perfect for the musical giraffe on top of the cake....I also used tulle and the darker ribbon like I did on the cake to try and keep the desing the same....now I know this is a girl present, and I didn't realize that this was a boy giraffe, but hey, things like this happen when you get older...lol...you don't see as well....

here's the inside...crap photo again...just wanted to do a visual...I kept it very simple...

and here she is in all her glory....I just used clear celephane--2 strips and rolled and tucked and tied at the top......everyone loved it....

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well that's all I have for today....this week I need to get ready for our yearly St. Patty's Day Smash Bash we do every year....I have some new items to work with for our costumes and soo can't wait to pull it all together....DH has even added new stuff this year....I was just looking at our photos from the past 6 years...I'll have to share them...it's a true sign DH and I really are nurds....lol....so stay turned...maybe tomorrow....Hugs from Charm City....

Tiddly Inks Crackle or Diamond Glaze Challenge

This week is my last week as a Guest Designer for Tiddly Inks. I would like to say thank you to Christy and the team. You all are so amazing and extremely talented. Thank you for letting me be a part of your awesome team. But don't think I'm gone....lol....I just love the challenges and those darling images I can't stay away.....*smile*......

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This week at Tiddly Inks, the challenge is to use Diamond glaze/Crackle accent... create a card/project using diamond glaze or crackle paint as part of your technique....but it must have a Tiddly Inks image....hop over and make sure you check out the new ones in the store to.....they just keep getting better and better.......ENJOY!!!!!!!

For the card above, I used the Sleep Tight image....I have been wanting to use this image for sometime now, but just couldn't ......I colored in the image with distress inks, and totally covered over image with Diamond Glaze...I like how when you run your fingers across the image the glaze gives it texture....I also used Distress Crackle Paint -- white --- and covered a blue piece of cardstock...I watered it down abit, to make kind of like a wash, but not to thin to loose the crackle finish in the paint...did that make sense? used some Prima's, pearls, ribbon, MS branch punch and some wooden alpha scrabble tiles (EK Success)....

here's just a closer view of the crackle on top of the blue cardstock....I really wanted to soften it but that you could still see the blue behind the crackle finish...

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Well I hope that you will join us this week at Tiddly Inks....we look forward to your projects....and make sure you stop in and see what the rest of the team created...you will sure love them......Hugs from a very wet Charm City.......

Just a Quick Update

Our DD has been going back and forth to the hospital yesterday and today thinking she's going to be having the baby. She's not due until the 12th of May. They have sent her home 3 times. I feel really bad for her as she's in so much pain from the contractions. I hope that she either has the baby or that the pain will subside just so she can feel better.

On a lighter note, we just had her baby shower this past Sunday. It was really nice.

Here's a few photos of the shower I'd like to share... here's the soon to be new parents

look at this cake that one of the ladies made. She even used one of my circles that I used for the baby invitations....

here's a centerpiece I made for the tables. I made six of them total. I also made 18 roses made out of baby wash clothes.

The cards posted below are some that Ih ave made over the past few weeks.

this is my very first Magnolia stamped card. Not the best, but it's my first...

I made this using the Dreams come True Cricut cartridge...

here's a card I made playing around with T!M Holtz products...

Thanks for hanging out with me..I hope to have some good news soon on a new bouncing baby boy....

Hugs from a very sweeeet Charm City

Hellooooooooooo

It's been awhile since my last post. Things have been crazy since I lost my job a month back. I wanted to share a few things that I have worked on these past few days. Our daughter's baby shower is coming up real fast and I wanted to make a little set to put something inside it for her. I don't know what yet, but I'll find something...

If you get a chance pop on over the the Hallmark Ladybug blog and check out the easter bags that DeeDee just posted yesterday. They are awesom, cute and jsut too adorable...

here's what I have been working on...hope you like them....

I used the tags bags and boxes, paper dolls and my community cricut carts, cuttlebug embossing folders on the treeglossy accents, stickles and some distress crackle paints on the number 4 from Tim Holtz' grungeboard. You can purchase all of these in the store at Hallmark Scrapbook. Take a gander over to the store and check out all of the new things and the deals that are still going on. You totally won't be surprised.

You can click on the photos to get a better view.

here's a layout of our little one and her adopted sister (friend)...I used the grungeboard and distress crackle painted from the store. I don't know about you, but I just love this stuff. If you don't have any of this yet, you need to have this in your supplies. It's so fun and easy to add dimention to your cards or projects. You can get these in the store also...

here's a layout of a day trip we took down to the beach to help celebrate Dad's 70th birthday. I used the Sesame Street cricut cart for the crab. Used some washers that I purchased in the hardware store and aged them with some chemicals. I made a border around the layout using the MArtha Stewart doily punch and used tea dyed material through the holes that I punched out with the Bind it all machine. I also tea dyed the 2 tags and used alot of Distress inks to age the layout.

here's a card I made for a challenge over on the message board at Hallmark Scrapbook. I had asked everyone to use the border flower cut from Walk in my Garden to make a card for Mom. Hallmark Scrapbook is having a sale on Cricut carts still. Pop on over and check them out if you're looking for some new ones. Or you can pre-order the new carts that will be in later sometime.

I wanted to make a new piece of art for my studio and this was what I came up with. I was playing around with the negatives from a few cuts for the background and to make the letter "L". I used polymer clay added it to the negative to make the letter and then I used the Sizzix clear stamps to impress into the clay before I baked it. Then I used bown, black paint watered down to give it an aged look. The background I used the possitives then inked the sheet using the Distress inks, then took the sheet of negative and added the swirls Sizzix clear stamps and stamped inside the scrolls. I think it's missing something, but I just can't put my finger on what I need to add yet...

Well I hope everyone has had a great month...Hugs from Charm City

Happy Thursday

Happy Thursday Bloggers.....jsut wanted to pop in and say Hi. Thought I'd show you what I have been up to....This was just a fast little candy bar wrapper to cover this big candy bar for a Valentine's Day present. Sorry for the photo...I just couldn't get good shots today... I used my Pazzles machine with the Boxes and Bags cd to make this vase. It's a four sided one. Added some little lollipops to the inside as a little Valentine's Day gift.... I purchased my Pazzles at Hallmark Scrapbook along with other Pazzle supplies. Stop on over and check out the store right now they are having a sale... this was a pizza box that I made for our little one's teacher at school. I totally can't remember where I got this file from...please forgive me....but I printed this onto cardstock and cut it out. Added some bling-- a soft spoken sticker from Me&My Big Ideas and some ribbon and such.

this is the inside. Not much going on just some candies inside some little cupcake cups...I do need to add a piece of paper to the inside lid....

These are what our DD's baby shower cards look like. The photos don't do them justice though...sorry about that...I used the New Arrival Cricut cart--the circle feet at 3"...this was a great cut cuz' I got 2 for 1....woohooo...we all love 2 fers ....lol....

you can purchase this cart from Hallmark Scrapbook in the store...remember they are having a huge sale right now...so stop on in and say Hi.....

Thanks for looking and I hope you all have a great day...

Hugs from Charm City

GO STEELERS!!!!!!! Super Bowl here we come

lol...I just had to throw that in there...I am soo happy that they beat the Ravens in yesterday's game. Although I live here in Maryland, I still love my all time favoriet STEELERS!!! So wish them luck. Even if you're not a Steelers fan, come on show them a little "love"...my husband has lately. But I think that's only because his Cowboys didn't make it and he truly does not like the Ravens...lol...

Other than that, how's everyone been doing lately? Me, just abit busy here and trying to work on some cards and such lately. I finally was able to get some photos taken of them and thought I'd share them with you all.

These projects I made using my Pazzles machine. I've had this machine for awhile now and have put it on the back burner. I thought it was so complicated and just didn't have the time to figure it out with the holidays and my computer crashing on me. So with alittle inspiration from Jody (over at Hallmark Scrapbook) I got it out and have been playing. It's a great machine and can do so much more than the Cricut can. Although I love love love my big E, this machine might become one of my new favorites once I get to know all of the functions. Regina has made so many tutorials over at Hallmark Ladybug Blog....stop on over and check out all that she has shared with us. And while you're at it check out the rest of the Ladybugs tutorials...they have some awesom ones that they have all shared...and from there check out the store at Hallmark Scrapbook .....they are running a sale, and if you see at the top of the page, there no payment for 90 days. But you need to check into that too. So if you're interested in purchasing the Pazzles machine, this would be a great time to do it. With income tax money coming back soon and all...and it's easier than I thought

So here's what I made using the Pazzles machine and the paper piecing animals, paper piecing children and the bags and boxes cd's.

above used the paper piecing animals cd

above were made using the clipart that came with the Pazzles software. (Mouth and photo corners)

(above) this was the paper piecing children cd and the bags and boxes. It's an envie made into a box. All of the different ones that come on the cd are awesom. I can't wait to get to play even more with them. I have another project finished, but you'll have to wait til this week. Sorry..

Here's a little set above I made for the challenge on the Hallmark Scrapbook message board. We were asked to use a kitty or a doggie cut from any of the Cricut carts. Come and have some fun and play along with us. We would love to see you there.

Almost all of the papers used on the above projects I purchased them from Ustamp4Fun. They are the Stampin Up's Love kit. And let me tell you, the papers are to die for. Have you ever had so much inspiration from a set of papers before? I just couldn't stop. These papers were just talking to me....lol....not to mention, stamps and punches. I have never purchased a kit before, so this was my first. And I used my little Tim Holtz paper distresser for all of the edges of the projects. Love love that little tool...

here's a little card playing around with a digi kit that I downloaded from the internet. I am so sorry that I can't remember who's kit it is, so I can give proper credit....sorry.... I also used mica to cover the vintage image alittle.

and last but not least, here's a little card playing around with the Wild Card Cricut cart. It's such a fun one and I can't wait to play alittle more. I did a backwards stitch with some silky ribbon to outline the heart, embossed the inner heart and the card with the Cuttlebug embossing plates, crackle paint and grungeboard (number 4) and added pop dots to the backside of the inner heart to give it some heigth...

Well that's it for this posting. If you've made it this far, thanks so much for hangin out with me.... I hope that everyone has a great week ahead and remember to SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE STEELERS!!!!! YAH!!!! GO STEELERS!!!! lol...

Hugs from a very chilly Charm City

It's another Sunday

hellooooooooooooooo....sorry it's been awhile since my last post. We are in the middle of cleaning out our storage room/spare bedroom and it's taking forever. We are finding things that we forgot we even had. Or things that having been missing for sometime now. Like a Leapster that we have been wondering what happened to it. WOOHOO...those babies are expensive, and I"m so glad that it's found it's way back home where our little one can play with it again. We got hit with hurricane Hanna yesterday. Flash flooding everywhere. Not to mention the winds. They, once again tore up our tiki bar. I tell ya, we just weren't meant to have a tiki bar in our backyard. But DH will undoubtable screw it back together and try for another season.

On another note, I have been busy making things off and on here in my studio. I'll post them down below if you would like to check them out.

But my best news of this post is that our eldest daughter just told DH and I that she is going to have a baby. Can you believe that? I thought babies were over until a few years down the road. But they are due sometime in April/May. So CONGRATS to Tricia and Ryan!!!!!!!! You go girl!!!!!

Here's some other news that I have been forgetting to share. I entered some photos on HGTV site for an upcoming Christmas special this year. WEll they contacted me and want to use a project that I made. And maybe another one...how AWESOM is that...but it's only a photo thingy...not how to make it on the air or anything. But they are going to put my name and location with the photo....that's ok, I'm still syked....I don't have any dates yet as to when this will air, but I"ll post as soon as I find out when it will be on...

I have been on the look out for a Halloween costume for our little one. She's into these Goth kind of costumes. Does anyone have any web sites that you could share for costumes? I try to make her a costume or even parts of it for her every year. Thanks in advance.

Well, this is it for now. A few more weeks and I"m off to vacation. I soo can't wait...oh wait, I forgot to tell ya. That my BIL is getting married at the beach while we are there. I can't believe it either. So that will be a special time. Our little one is their flower girl to. And DH is best man. It's on the beach at 11 am. If it doesn't rain it should be a great wedding day.

I hope everyone has a great week ahead...

Here's a tutorial that I did for Hallmark Ladybug Blog.

I'm sorry for the photo. With all of the rain yesterday, I just couldn't get a better shot. I will post a better one later once I can go outside in the daylight. Hop on over there and check out the blog. It's filled to the rim with awesom tutorials from the other ladybug team members. They are just the best and most creative ladies I've had the pleasure to work with. Love ya ladybugs.

These other projects I made for challenges over on the Hallmark Scrapbook site Another great place if you haven't checked us out. Right now Jody and Brad have an awesom sale going on the Cricut cartridges. So pop on over and check out what they are offering in the store. You're sure to find something that you need. I just ordered a few of the cartridges myself. And they are just the best when it comes to sending out the orders. I normally receive my orders within a couple of days too... So check them out...

Hugs from a very calm but soggy Charm City