A Baby Girl!

Hello friends,

I am glad to be back in blog land again after the hustle and bustle of the festive season. I enjoyed  spending time with friends and family, reading and doing holiday things so much that there wasn’t any time left for crafting during the past two weeks. Everything is back to normal here and  I still have one week for myself before going back to work (happy me!). Hope you all had a wonderful time too and that the new year will be filled with joy, love and laughter for you and your loved ones. Today is also time for a new challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow and the theme for this week’s challenge is Celebrate Something New. We want you to create vintage or shabby chic cards that reflect either the New Year or perhaps a new home, or new job, or new baby. I decided to make a card for a new baby. I used a Cottage Cutz die  for the carousel and embellished the card in the shabby style.  The sentiment was computer generated and framed in a Sizzix Framelits die cut – a new addition to my crafting stuff.

I submitted my card in the following challenges:

• Cards Galore January Challenge (ends 01/31) – Anything Goes
• Really Reasonable Ribbon’s Ramblings RRR#63 (ends 01/12) – My “New Toys” and Ribbon (Sizzix Framelits “Fancy Oval Frame” die and flower lace)
• Unique Crafters January Challenge  (ends 01/31)  – New Beginnings
• Craft Us Crazy Challenge #34 (ends 01/10) – Something New and/or Inspiration Photo (Inspiration: Buttons on Photo)
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge #36 (ends 01/16) – New Beginnings
• Cute Card Thursday Challenge #250  (ends 01/10) – Something New (New Baby)
• In The Pink Challenge  #10 (ends 01/10) – Pink and Pearly
• MilkCoffee Challenge (ends 01/16) – New Beginnings
• Totally Gorjuss Challenge (ends 01/12) – Anything Goes with Ribbon
• Crafty Calendar Challenge (ends 02/02) – “What’s New?!” (New Baby)
• My Time To Craft Challenge #203 (ends 01/12) – ‘All About The New!’ (New Baby)
• 365 Cards Challenge Day 1 (ends 01/07) – New Beginnings
• CCEE Stampers CCEE#1301 (ends 01/10) – Baby Card
• Let’s Craft and Create Challenge #60 (ends 01/08) – Buttons

The carousel

A close-up of the sentiment

A peep at the inside

Project details:

• Cream card-stock
• Prima designer paper “Tea-Thyme” and First Edition “Spring Feast”
• Cottage Cutz die “Carousel Silhouette”
• Sizzix Framelits die “Fancy Oval Frame”
• Computer generated sentiment
• Paper roses
• Hug Snug seam binding “Cream”
• Lace
• Buttons
• Pearls
• Tim Holtz distress ink “Victorian Velvet”

Thanks for visiting today and  also for your continued visits, lovely comments and care about me the past year.  You help me keep my crafting dreams alive and sharing my ideas on my blog. Have a wonderful day!

Regards from South Africa,

Amelia