A Frame for Clara

{ok this layout looks all nice and groovy in blogger...who knows if it'll be like that when you're reading it...sorry if it's not}

I just finished up my frame for Clara. I am so happy with the way it turned out!! I really wanted to put picts in and I may still before I give it to Stephanie, but my printer is out of my photo ink cartridge right now, so I just went ahead and finished it for now. I made the smaller picture strip for the bottom part for 3 smaller picts and the top one will hold a 5x7. I just stamped the 5x7 area so it wasn't so blank and white...same with the Hollyhock squares down below.

Here is the front...I know I said this yesterday, but I really love the DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl stack...I also got all of the matching embellies to go with it, but didn't use them. I used a ton of different products on this frame, so if there is anything that catches your eye that you are unsure of, just shoot me off an email and I"ll let you know what it was!!

Here is the back...I painted it in a glimmer white color first, then that didn't cover worth toot, so I went over it with this pretty green and then mixed the shimmery white and green again for a 3rd coat! Once it was all dry, I took one of my funky textured CTMH brush thingies and swirled it in CTMH Hollyhock ink first and then made all of the circle marks on the back of the frame and stand. I stamped a Heidi Swapp "All My Love" stamp and then added the date (CTMH Friendship alpha) and one of my personaled stamps to finish it off.

I finally had a chance to use my Shimmerz and I LOVE them {you can buy them at All That Scraps}!! Thanks Jennifer for the enabling!! Here is a close up of the letters...first I inked up some kraft colored Heidi Swapp chipboard letters with CTMH Hollyhock and then used Bubblegum Shimmerz on them. They turned out a bit darker than I had originally planned, but they still look really pretty...you can always go darker, but it's pretty tough to go lighter!! I used 2 flower shapes from a Doodlebug package of glittery alphas and just sponges CTMH Hollyhock ink on them and added a green Doodlebug glitter brad to the center.

Then I used a funky flourish shape, actually two of them to make the whole shape from Breezy Design. They are called Toppings, I used the Girls one and you can use glitter, flock or foil after you have out the rub on down....I chose pretty green glitter to go with the colors in my papers and then added some MAMBI rhinestones for fun!

I think that's all...oh, I tied some pretty white taffeta ribbon from SU and added two little bows to either side of the frame as well....so pretty and oh so girly!! Then her birthday info at the very bottom!! I hope Steph likes it!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

SFYTT~Baby Card for Bryce

Here is the matching card I made to go with Bryce's frame. I used the sketch from Jen's Sketch For You To Try. She has a fabulous sketch up, fantastic blog tarts up for grabs and Suzanne Dean is the Guest Designer for the whole month!!

I even decorated the inside too.....

And here is the set shown together....

I have mountains of laundry to get done, so I think that is my main project for today!! I hope you have a fabulous Sunday, thanks for stopping by!!

~Kelly

Baby Frame For Bryce

Hey everyone, I hope all is well where you're at!! It's late here tonight, but I just thought I would get this up here!

I finally finished the frame I was working on for Miss Plicka, Kirsten's ballet teacher. She had a baby boy back in April and thought I would make a frame for her....as I do for every wee one!! Bryce's room is done with Espresso furniture and kinda limey green walls with zoo critter bedding and such,which seems to be so popular these days. So this is what I cam up with. I really love the zoo critter paper from DCWV Nana's Kids stack, but I just got in DCWV Baby Boy Nursery Stack from 7 Kids College Fund and thought I would give this one a whirl....I really like it too! It's hard to spruce up a boy frame with doo dads, ribbons and bling, so I just used a few things. Here are better pictures of the silver metal charms and the little clear love embellie(sorry for the glare).

And here is the finished frame. I bought these funky frames from Michaels when I was down in the stated this summer for holidays and I really like them a lot more than the usual ones I find at Michaels up here...maybe next time I'll see if they have some of these ones in Calgary.

Off I go, it's almost 11:30 and I need some sleep!! Thanks for visiting me here today!

~Kelly

Matching Card for Evan

Hi there!! I hope you're having a great weekend!! I finally finished up the matching card to add to yesterday's gift set that I made for my sister to give as a baby gift. I like things all matchy matchy and this set is definitely that. I love this cute little giraffe from TAC!!

Lance is off roping this morning and the kids and I are just hanging out! I have a bunch of stuff already out it the trailer and am working on the clothes end of things now, but need to pick up some hangers and such on Monday when I go to town. I hope to have everything ready to go by Thursday and then will get groceries Friday and then leave bright and early Saturday morning!

Wishing you a wonderful Sunday! Thanks for stopping by!!

Kelly

Baby Gift Set For Evan

My sister Kristy asked me to make this set for her friend Scott and his wife Megan who recently welcomed a beautiful baby boy!

I made a name frame for him as well as a picture frame. I got both of the frames from Michaels, painted them and altered away....I love this paper from DCWV Nana's Kids and although I am now out of these 2 papers, there are lots more that I like, I just need some baby girls to come into the world!

Here is the name frame:

And here is the picture frame:

I added some fun little borders in Paint Shop, I think I like the top one better than the bottom one, but thought it makes my picts looks better!

Hope you're having a great weekend, thanks for visiting me today;-)

Kelly

Gift Set for Kieran

Wow, what a busy weekend we had!! Finally finished getting Kirsten's old bed moved into Landon's room, took down Landon's crib and then set up Kirsten's new bookcase headboard, bed,etc in her room!! It still kinda looks like a tornado went through her room, but I'll help her tidy up that another day. It was back to pre-school for Kirsten this morning as well as spring break is now over:-(

I made this card and frame for a friend of mine, Angie who recently had her first baby!! It took quite some time for her and her hubby to get pregnant, so what a blessing he is!! Well...all babies are a blessing I know, but it makes it so special for those people who can't wait to start a family but proves to be somewhat difficult:-) It was a boy...and all along they thought they were having a girl!! They found out at the ultrasound that is was a girl...but obviously they missed some pretty important parts!!LOL!! Here I was all excited because I had some some shopping for Angie's baby early and was just waiting for the news...so when I heard it was a boy, yikes...I had to start from scratch again!! Anyway I have a little outfit to go along with this set and will send it on it's way in a day or 2.

I just checked out Julee's Mojo Monday sketch and it looks pretty good...hoepfully I will get to that later this week! I also just receive my 2nd order of ribbon from Taylor and it is wonderful!! Such great quality ribbon from such a sweet gal...go check out her site, she has fabulous ribbon!!

Off I go for today, thanks for stopping by and have a super day;-)

Paper: DCWV-Nana's Kids, Cardstock from TLC

Stamps: Lion from TAC set...I forget what it's called (Wild About You...maybe) and Welcome from Warm Words-SU

Accessories: Ribbon from Taylored Expressions, Dew Drops from Jacksonbelle Embellishments