Wilson Designs June Release Day 2!

Hey there! Day 2 of releases!  Today I have a sweet little baby face to nestle among Kim's scalloped frame stamp.

That sweet face is my "baby" (who is now EIGHT!).  I thought the sentiment in Kim's new set was perfect for a baby announcement!  Babies are surely "made with love".

The great crosstitch stamp design pairs perfectly with button embellishments.  Easy peasy!

Stay tuned in this week for inspiration every day from the DT Dolls and WD Stamps!

Wilson Designs Blog

Tammy Hobbs

Tenia Nelson

Kalyn Kepner

Natalie Dever

Rochelle Washington

and don't forget me ;)

I hope you plan on hopping along and leaving comments for all of the designers each day to up your chances of winning this cute set that releases on friday. Good luck and thanks for coming by!

Stamps: Wilson Designs
Buttons: Buttons Galore and More
Paper: Papertrey Ink
Ribbon: Buttons Galore and More
Ink: Papertrey
Punch: SU! and office hole punch

Just Us Girls #117...wild for FELT! and a lil chick beanie!

Hey peeps!  It's the final challenge of 2011 with Just Us Girls!  This week it's all about using felt on your project!  Don't you just love felt?  Memories from the earliest days of crafting are rich with felt festooned artwork.  It's fluffy, it's doesn't fray and it's meat and potatoes for lifetime crafters and beginners alike.  Wow!  Even I didn't know how much I loved felt 'til just now...lol.  So won't you pick up your felt scraps or cut into a new sheet and make something with us?

I used felt to make a tiny hangtag on this lil' chick beanie I made myself!  Woohoo!  I must admit I am pretty stoked about this project!  I am not a knitter or crochet-er of any kind but with the help of a Knifty Knitter I was able to take this little hat from conception to finished product.  Can I just say addictive??!  We actually have two new babies coming in the next few months to my extended family so I have a good excuse to make more!

Beanie love aside, the challenge is about FELT and I used this darling chick stamp from Endless Creatons Inc and black Staz on ink to stamp direct to craft felt.  A tiny snip of orange felt for the beak, black fabric paint for the eyes and stickles to add a little sparkle.  Spellbinders rectangle and scalloped rectangle nesties makes the foundation of the tag and a simple straight stitch border seals the deal on this tag. 

I wanted to make sure the recipient knows this is a one of a kind made just for them so i broke out a Stampin Up! stamp I've had for a while.

You know who else are one of a kind???? All of my treasured online friends (that's YOU, baby!) who make time in their day to stop by Paper Daydream.  It really means a lot to me to be wrapping up my third year of blogging having met so many wonderful people through the common bond of craft and creativity.  Thanks for sharing so selflessly with me over the years.  I can't wait to see what 2012 brings us!  But before we leave 2011 in our memory vaults, one last round with the talented girls from Just Us Girls!

Elise Durenberger

Pam Imholz

Kathryn Berthiaume

Lisa Kind  

Lynn Mangan

Vicki Dutcher

and a final project from our guest designer this month, Lenet Mos.  Thank you Lenet for joining us this month.  Your creations are out of this world!!!!

Ok, friends, cheers to a happy, healthy, prosperous and creative NEW YEAR!  *mwah*
Tag:
Paper: Papertrey Ink
Stamp: Endless Creations, Inc
Ink: Staz On
Glitter: Stickles
Dies: Spellbinders
Craft supplies: felt, fabric paint, jewelry thread

Beanie:
Knifty Knitter loom for infants
Three different yarns
Buttons: Buttons Galore and More
Embroidery thread

Color Cue {7}, City Crafter Challenge and Cards Challenge....{wish upon a star}

Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight.....
Hello friends!  Back with another three-fer (didn't I just say on the last post I don't try and combine challenges? Hmmmm I guess I DO combine challenges from time to time).  This week both the Cards blog and the City Crafter Challenge had a star challenge going.   Dawn at Wplus9 has a fab Color Cue going  and I needed a baby card....so perfect storm again! 


Now I love the idea of a shaped card, but many times, the shape makes it difficult for a piece to actually function as a card!  Take stars for instance.  They have 2 teeny tiny points to balance on and, if you want overhanging blingy swirls from Want 2 Scrap...well what is a crafter to do?  Hambly Clearly Heavy is your answer.  I began by cutting and folding a standard 4.25" x 5.5" card out of clearly heavy.  I then applied my star and my bling swirls.  After I knew I had the layout I wanted, I trimmed away at the clearly heavy cutting a close silhouette to the swirls and star sides, leaving the straight edge on the bottom of the card.

And then, it's all in the details...I used a stamp from Funky Flowers from Wplus9 to create a stamped pattern on my yellow cadstock star base.  I love the individual pieces of this set for creating custom patterns.  A simple safety pin adorned with seed beads in the challenge colors adds to the baby theme and scrunched seam binding gives the card an "all wrapped up" feeling.  Red thread border stitching was fun to do with my sewing machine.  I love how it pops against the yellow cardstock!

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Don't forget, if you like Bloomers from Webster's Pages, check out this post to enter to win some!  :)

Supplies:
Stamps: Wplus9, Papertrey Ink
Paper: Papertrey Ink, Hambly Studios (clearly heavy)
Ink: Stampin Up! and Papertrey Ink
Cutting tools:  Cricut and SCAL, CM and SU! punches
Bling: Want 2 Scrap
Craft Supply: Sewing machine, button, embroidery floss, seam binding, seed beads and safety pin

Sweet Little {butterfly} Baby

Hey sweet friends.  Just jumping onto the blog today with a baby card to share.  My friend has a friend who's a having a sweet baby girl soon and that means a baby shower is order.  Her baby's room is going to be full of butterflies and flower gardens...doesn't that sound wonderful?

I tried to capture that flower garden feel with this card.  The paper is from DCWV and the gorgeous butterfly dies are Stampin Up!  I've added some texture to them with embossing folders from Cuttlebug.

I just love this sweet sentiment from the Papertrey Ink Bitty Baby Blessings set.  There are a bunch to choose from in the set but I seem to come back to this one every time.  Thanks so much for coming by today!

Supplies:

Paper: DCWV and Georgia Pacific

Stamps: Bitty Baby Blessings

Ink: SU! and PTI

Punches: CM and SU!

Die Cut: SU!

Embossers: Cuttlebug

Ribbon: PTI

Craft Supply: embroidery floss and flower brad

{Sweet Little Baby} a challenge from Jane's Doodles

Happy new year's eve!  Last day of 2009 and let me tell you, I am sooooo ready for a brand new year full of hope and promise.  Today, a card I made that speaks to some of the hope and promise of the new year....a dear friend is having a baby and I need to stockpile a couple baby cards to be ready for her little bundle of joy.

I used Jerry Giraffe from Jane's Doodles at Squigglefly.  My sweet bloggy friend Jane has started her own line of digital stamps and Jerry stole my heart immediately!!!  Jane has issued a challenge to make something using her digital stamps and then you can be entered in her AMAZING blog candy drawing.  See all of the challenge details HERE.  Today is the last day to enter so hurry.

I printed Jerry on a piece of DP from Nana's Nursery, DCWV.  After detail cutting the image,  I gave Jerry pink cheeks, colored and glittered his spots and inked the edges of the image with chestnut roan ink from colorbox.  I wanted to soften everything with a little shabby brown ink ( I used the chestnut roan ink plus the chai and chamomile inks from Papertrey)  It gave everything a warm toasted marshmallow look.  Mmmmmm,  I can practically smell the baby powder.  Love that!  Jerry is also popped up on foam tape along with the layered heart.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you'll play along with Jane if you have creative time today.  Her new images are so sweet!  Happy new year!

Supplies:

Digital Image: Jane's Doodles at Sguigglefly

Punches: EK Success (corner rounder), Marvy Uchida (heart), and Stampin Up! (border scallop)

Paper: DCWV, Papertrey and Georgia Pacific

Stamps: Papertrey

Ink: Colorbox and Papertrey

Glitter: Stickles and Martha Stewert

Pen: Zig scroll and brush and millenium

Embosser: Cuttlebug swiss dots

Craft supply: lace trim, safety pin, craft beads