Let's Play Babycakes on the Paper Trail!

The Babycakes paper from Close to my Heart is a baby themed paper but it's more than that.  If you hop through the Paper Trail Blog, you'll see lots to inspire you using this versatile paper.  If you're coming from Amy's blog, you have already seen some beautiful artwork.  I don't know of anyone having a baby in the next month or so but I do have lots of birthdays coming so I decided to create two birthday cards.  One combines and coordinates with Laughing Lola.  Who'd have thought that!?!?  The other I used washi tape to make the ruffle along the punch balloons.  Both cards were from Make it From Your Heart, Vol 2, by Close to My Heart.

Close to My Heart Supplies:

Babycakes Paper Pack

Laughing Lola Paper Pack

Washi Wonder Stamp Set

Holiday Tags Stamp Set

Perfect Fit Frames Stamp Set

Perfect Fit Birthday Stamp Set

Lagoon Houndstooth Washi Tape

Lagoon Ink

Black Ink

Lagoon Cardstock

Laughing Lola Cardstock

Buttercup Cardstock

Aqua Dots

Shoot me questions about the materials or products I used and hop on down the trail to Lynne's blog! 

1,2,3 Craft!

It's the middle of the month again which means a challenge by Tracey!  We are welcoming Darly to our little hop this month.  I managed to get my card done in about 20 minutes so it's very quick.  Tracey's challenge was to use the Originals pattern called To the Point.  I rotated my card to show versatility as well a highlighted the You are My Happy September special from Close to My Heart.  The special is actually three stamp sets in one:  cute alphabet, seasonal images, and great quotes.

 You can other creative uses for the To the Point pattern on Betsy's blog.  See you next month!

Paper Trail is Laughing Lola

If you came here from Linda's blog, you know that Laughing Lola, one of the new papers from Close to My Heart, if lots of fun!  It's almost Halloween!  Here are photos of "The Little Girls" from last year.  Yeah, two aren't so little but ALL are darlingly cute.  This is not your traditional Halloween layout but since the girls are getting older and more sophisticated in their costumes, Laughing Lola is perfect!  I used lots of "bling", added Sky to the color mix, and cut the photo strip from Close To My Heart's Cricut Artiste cartridge.  Don't you love the paisleys!  Hop over to Betsy's blog  for more inspiration!

Close to My Heart Supplies

G1065 Laughing Lola Workshop On the Go

C1556 Paisley Perfect stamp set

Z1745 Sparkles Black Flourishes

Z1790 Cricut Artiste Collection

4451 Archival Black Exclusive Inks pad

X5757  Gypsy Cardstock

X5761  Sky Cardstock

Z1770 Pink Glitz Glitter Gel