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I make! Baby shower card edition

My friend had a baby shower recently.  I was invited to go.  I had never been to a baby shower before.  I knew presents are involved and that it’s generally related to babies.  Other than that, I was kind of at a loss.  But, no matter!  Even with such sketchy knowledge, I made her a card anyway!

Um...I forgot to take a picture of it. And no, that's not what I wrote on the clouds.

So, it kind of looked like that.  I didn’t do a concept sketch beforehand so I doodled out what it ended up looking like after I gave it to her (and realized I didn’t take a picture of it).  I used mainly the Create a Critter cartridge from my Cricut to make the card.  I ended up welding some clouds together to make bigger ones and I found a flat bottomed cloud in Craft Room (I think).  Too bad you can’t see the actual card.  I was rather amused by it.  I made it from a bluish 6″x12″ piece of cardstock folded in offset thirds.  The front flap was trimmed so that there was more cloudy rufflies on the leftmost edge.

Anyway, true to form, I had a theme.  I decided my friend’s baby will need stimulation.  So I bought him basically all the toys on the registry.  Toys are important.  Now then, it’s a baby shower, so I think there is…rain?  Maybe a lot?  Enough to make a puddle?  And there are a bunch of toys for him.  So maybe it’s raining toys?  The giraffe is there because I like them.  And it fit better than the elephant, which also was kind of a theme for the shower.  And monkeys.  But I didn’t make any monkeys.  Anyway, there were a lot of booties, baby singlets, rubber duckies, and t-rexes raining down.  Because…these are obviously things that would rain down during a baby shower.  So obvious.

Swap: Dog treat edition

I recently participated in a swap in which you traded recipes for dog treats with three other people.  But, the recipe had to be presented on a decorated card.  Here’s what I sent out.

I punched little bones into the side of the card (you can see the postcards I had the in background peeking through) and then doodled over the rest of the card.  The dog saying hi is from Cricut (Paper Pups).

To continue with the theme, I wrote little notes on dog shaped cards that I cut from miscellaneous pieces of scrapbooking paper.  This…ended up being a bit of a problem.  I had to use my larger scraps and one of them was from this project.  You see, with the sickly green background and skulls and crossbones, you might think that I was sending a recipe for poison.  That’s…totally not true.  My dogs are very fond of these biscuits.  They always know when I’m going to make them and you can’t push them out of the kitchen.  Yaris will even go and wait next to the oven while they’re baking.  You can make them for people too.  Just add more honey.

Anyway, I carried my dog theme out all the way to the envelope with dog stickers and Up themed stamps with Dug and Mr. Frederickson featured front and center.

I am thorough.

I’ll update the post with the recipe later as I’m currently gallivanting about in Indiana and I don’t have access to the file. Or you can try making out those decorated cards. I actually sent along non-decorated cards to my swap partners too since the decorated cards were so…decorated.