#236 Crafty Sprouts New Release Blog Hop! Grumpy Card and Baby Boy Card

****Big Announcement HERE**** Guess what everyone I found out I'm having a baby GIRL and I am soooooo excited I can't stop smiling and I feel like the first time I ever went to Disneyland when I was a kid LOL! Yesterday was one of my most happiest days in my life you have no idea! I feel so blessed that God has blessed me with a little boy and now a baby GIRL!!! Our family is complete!! I can't wait until she comes in April!

Ok now onto the hop, I just had to keep my lovely followers up to date on my pregnancy status LOL!

Hi everyone!! Good morning and welcome to the much anticipated Crafty Sprouts Stamps New Release blog hop, hosted by Erika AKA Crafty Sprouts! If you are here from Kristi's Blog then you are in the right spot! Erika has come up with some FABULOUS new awesome stamps the our DT is going nuts over LOL!! Believe me you will not be dissapointed you will LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Them all!!

The first set that we will be previewing is called "SMILE ON" it's a stamp set with some very smiley and happy thoughts!

When I first saw this sentiment "A Smile A Day Keeps The Grumpies away" I automatically thought of Grumpy from Snow White.... isn't he so cute!?! I've always liked Grumpy and thought he was so serious and so funny haha! I wanted to make this card unisex in case any of my friends are going through a tough time, or in case my hubby is being a little grumpy himself haha!

I stamped the background stamp with Market Street "grid" stamp, and added a border with my Fiskars punch and some yellow buttons, I really wanted this card to be bright and cheery! I also added pop dots underneath Grumpy. I used the Happily Ever After Cricut cartridge for the die cut.

A close up of this awesome stamp and the entire "Smile On" stamp set. You can Pre-Order it HERE!!!

Now for my 2nd sneak peek "ROCK THAT BABY BUMP" I made this card for one of my oldest friends Regina, I've known her since 2003 and both of our hubby's used to work together in the Marine Corps. and we made a pregnancy pact last year LOL (so true!) well, guess what.... we are both pregnant at the same time Omg!!! She is due 3 weeks before me and she is having a little boy!

For this card I used 2 layers of Kraft paper and embossed one with the large dots embossing folder with my Cuttlebug and did some inking with Antique Linen Distress ink. I got the booties from my New Arrival Cricut Cartridge and added some brown ribbon bows and blue buttons. The eyelet lace I used here I got at Wamart for like $1 and it's actually white! I sprayed the lace with blue Glimmer Mist, the color is "Cornflower" and it's one of the "Chalkboard" Glimmer Mist inks. I LOVE the way the ribbon came out, because it looks like jeans, and plus now I can make and lace into ANY color yay!!!

I love this Bootie Call sentiment haha!! Hey that's how we get babies in the first place from "Bootie Calls" from our hubby's or boyfriends LOL!!!!!!! My friend will get a kick out of this one! Here is the close up of the "ROCK THAT BABY BUMP" below, and you can Pre-Order it HERE

A special thanks to Erika, you are so amazing and talented and I am so happy to be on a DT with such talented sweet DT sisters! Love you guys! 

I hope you all have enjoyed my baby stories and a little history LOL! And of course the New Releases!! be sure to stop by tomorrow for the other 2 releases by CRAFTY SPROUTS STAMPS!!

NEXT STOP is GLORIA

#171 Sweet Pea Baby Card

***Click HERE for the I love the 80's Blog Hop still going on now!***

Hello everyone I hope you all are having an awesome Halloween weekend celebration!! Here's a baby card I made for a baby girl for My Pink Stamper's color challenge, she wants us to make a card in 30 minutes using pink, green and purple. I tried to stick to it as much as possible by using purple patterned paper, pink ribbon and the cute Sweet Pea is from New Arrival I stamped the face with PKS and added stickles, I inked, embossed and stamped the sentiment on the ticket which is from Carousel Lite cart. I was so shocked that I made this card in only 20 minutes yep I had it all planned out LOL! I have so  many suprises  to show and tell you guys all about. Hmmm will anyone be on the blogs tommorow? I hope you have a great day and have a very Happy Halloween! Be sure to check out the I Love the 80's Blog Hop going on right here on my blog Post #170!

#132 Cuter than Most Layout for Practical scrappers

I made this layout for Practical Scrapper's their challenge this week is to make something with white core cardstock. I made this cute and funny layout of my son's baby butt, yep I said it a layout of butt LOL!!! I found the perfect stamp that says "Cuter Than Most"...meaning his baby booty! I censored it with scrap paper for the internet. The large heart border is from Wall decor and More, the baby is from New Arrival I stamped the face with Peachy Keen Stamps, the scallop circle is from Sugar and Spice...you can find that cut also on Accent Essentials. I embossed the heart border inside and out with my cuttlebug, then I sanded down to expose the white core cardstock of the blue paper. I did my journaling in a circle around the baby and added a heart brad to the baby and elephant brads to the heart border, I also did a little faux stitching at the bottom and added some blue buttons and a little sticker that says "Diaper Duty".

#75 1st Bath LO (For Throwback Thursday Challenge)

For Emma's challenge this week she wants us to use NA, I actually created this LO months ago and I haven't posted yet so I decided to submit it to Creative Time for Me  . I censored my son with a duck and I embossed the tub and inked it.  The bubbles, bath, baby, and duck are from NA. The title is from PF and the orange ticket is from FF. I stamped the sentiment and the small duck on top and I used some blue acyrlic paint to "splash" on the page.

#27 Easter chicks card

I made this very simple Easter card for my mom. I used NA for the actual card and the chicks with the bow ties from the Easter cart.

#2 Fun Fold Baby Album

For this fun mini album I cut the base in blackout with blue paper, then with baby patterned paper in regular mode from the Fabulous Finds cartridge. I've been wanting to do something fun with this cartridge especially since I got it on ebay for $17 bucks! I tried to use up a lot of my unused, forgotten stickers. I also used the New Arrival cartridge for the crawling baby, booties and the "It's a Boy". I cut a cereal box to make the chipboard baby booties!