Cricut Cardz Challenge #43

Here's my entry for this weeks challenge over at Cricut Cardz Challenge. "Challenge #43, make a card for a new baby using any cartridges you'd like, and the colors green, orange, yellow and white ONLY." Let me tell you, these color challenges really make you think.  Orange is not a color I think of for a newborn.  But thanks to Nanna's Nursery Stack I found some papers that worked together.  The Welcome Baby is cut from Lyrical Letters.  I think that is my favorite font cartridge.  It is delicate but there are so many extra images.  The baby buggy is from Cricut Sampler, although I think it is a cut from New Arrival also.  I added lots of bling from my stash.  The off white clouds are from Spare Parts (I think) and are "threaded" with strips of green paper.  The yellow background paper is from another stack of baby prints, but I lost the cover so I don't know which one.  It's probably DCWV papers from last year.

Hope you like it.  Please leave a comment if you have the time.  Thanks Sue

Does anyone even use baby buggies anymore?  All I see are strollers.

Onesie Card

"It's Hip Not To Be Square" over at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'em Challenge .

This shaped card is created using the onsie cut on Cricut Sampler Cartridge.  I welded two together to make a card for this challenge.  The Welcome Baby is a cut from  Cricut Holiday Cakes.  The papers are from DCWV Nursery stack.  The button brads are from Eyelet Outlet & Brads.

Thanks for stopping by.  Leave a comment if you have a chance.

Sue

Front of the card -  the bear is from Joys of the Season.

Inside of Card.

So, this is the diaper cake...

I created this diaper cake for a baby shower this Saturday.  I've seen many of them on the web, but have never tried to make one before.  I will post some urls of blogs I visited to get inspiration at the bottom of this post.  My sweet, sweet son took before and after pictures for me to post.  So, here goes.  

This is a picture of the plain cake:

Now, here it is iced with the Cricut:

   The paper is from DCWV Stack 7 and Recollections white card stock.  The flowers are from Prima and the silver cord is plastic canvas cording from DMC.   There's my stork I posted a few days ago.  The white "icing" pattern is from StoryBook.  It is one of the border cuts.  I welded two together and made them 4 1/4 inches by 11 1/2 inches long.  They are glued on 4 inch strips of blue paper before I wrapped the layers.

I hope you like it.  Please leave a comment if you have time.    Thanks for taking a peek.

URLs for inspiration on the diaper cake:
http://neverfullpricescrapbooking.blogspot.com/2010/04/diaper-cake.html

http://littlepinkdollhouse.blogspot.com/2009/08/diaper-cake-tutorial.html

Have a great day
Sue

Baby Shower Stork

I made this stork for an upcoming baby shower.  It will be part of the top of a diaper cake I am making.  I don't have a camera yet, so I scanned the image.  Hope it is all right.

I used Recollection papers, fall yellow, baby blue, parchment.  The cuts are from Cricut Holiday Cakes page 41.  Mine is 8 inches tall and I had to turn it sideways to cut on my Baby Bug.  I used the stork, the plain shadow and plain shadow shift cuts.   I cut the plain shadow three times from white card stock and glued them together.  I cut the baby blanket off the stork  (yellow card stock).

I used Cuttlebug folders tiny bubbles for bird legs only, argyle for baby blanket, and swiss dots for stork's wing - using chalks to highlight the embossing.   The eye and nostril are free handed with gel pen.

I hope you like it.  If you can, please leave a comment.

Sue