Preparing for our new addition!

Hello,

While some people may have been using the long weekend to relax Colin and myself have been busy moving furniture (well Colin has) and putting furniture together for our first baby which is due in September! We have a two bedroom house, one of which was used for our crafting/hobby room, which we have now had to give up and change into our bedroom. Poor Colin is exhausted from moving alot of things around, it is quite frustrating not being able to help him, but he would tell me off if I did. Colin's Mum, Anita, was kind enough to spoil us with all the big items for the nursery so we were busting to set it all up, plus my nesting instinct is setting in and I want to get things organised. I am quite happy now, just need to sort out where were are going to store all of our crafting goodies! But we will get there.

Black and White

With the Just Add Ink team setting a colour challenge of black and white, I decided that they would be ideal colours for a birthday card for a friend. Having no real idea what I was going to do, I sat down with a piece of white card and a piece of black card and came with with a card rather quickly. I utilised one of the Big Shot embossing folders and the torn frame technique that my upline Sharnee demonstrated at the Stampin' Up Convention in May. I am quite happy with the end product. Some time it is good to go back to basics!

Baby Shower

Hello,

I had the pleasure of attending a friend's baby shower on Saturday afternoon, so of course I had to make a card to go with the gift. I used this weeks layout challenge from Inkspirations for the inspiration for my card. Here is the layout challenge:



I knew that I wanted to use some patterned paper in the background so I decided on which paper to use first then picked some colours to go with it. I didn't want the card to be over the top baby, as that is not me or my friend. I was quite happy with what I came up with.

Embellish Challenge

I had a birthday card to make for a very special friend and the colours for this Embellish Challenge reminded me of her.




Here is my card:









Again I have utilised some of the techniques from Convention, even some by Shelli herself!

Just Add Ink Colour Challenge

With my Grandma's Birthday coming up I needed to make her a card and decided to utilise the colours from this weeks Just Add Ink Colour Challenge. The colours are:



Here is my card:






I was able to utilise a few techniques that we saw demonstrated at the Stampin Up Convention, including tying the perfect bow and bleaching.

Alice turns 2!

Our lovely God Daughter, Alice recently turned 2 and of course there was a celebration in honour of this event. I thought I would utilise the Inkspirations Colour Challenge as an inspiration for the card for little Alice. Here are the colours:



Here is the card I made, I used a technique that was shown at the Stampin Up Convention, double cut butterfly by the lovely Kirsty (hopefully there will be more about convention later).



Kirsty also showed us a gorgeous butterfly banner, which I just had to make for Alice.






Of course there was cake to be had and then fun on her present from her mum, a trampoline. Needless to say Alice was exhausted after all that birthday fun and I am told she was that tired, she took herself off for a nap!




Andrea with her beautiful daughter Alice.



Tim and Alice go in for some birthday cake.



Action shot of Alice on the trampoline.

JAI 66 - Just add a Flower

I've finally managed to complete and post a challenge before the cut off time. I have been doing challenges each week but haven't found the time to post them to the internet. This week my lovely husband has made sure I get something posted.

Just Add Ink's Just Add A Flower challenge was a perfect opportunity for me to make a mothers day card for my grand mother.

Along with doing this challenge both my husband and I have been busy making swaps for the Stampin' Up convention next week. We are both attending and are looking forward to the whole experience. We hope to see you there. :)