New Baby cards

 One of my friends recently became a Grammy for the first time.   So I thought I'd make her a card and one for her son and daughter-in-law.

First up the card I made for Pearl, my friend

I die cut the Vintage Stroller from Couture Creations from dark blue and light blue card and added some silver sequins and dot.  I did some google searching and found the sentiments.  Printed them and added to them to the soft blue background.  Loved how it turned out. 

And for Jared and Sophie, the new parents

Such a sweet image.  This is a digital image from Mo's Digital Pencil called "Hush"  I printed the image and then die cut with a Spellbinders Oval.  I used some watercolour pencils to colour it.  Little Teddy has lots of lovely dark hair so did that.  I used my computer to print the sentiment. The font I used is Yessy.  Die cut a Bow with a Poppy Stamps die.   I must admit I love this digital image and have used it a lot over the years for new baby cards.    

Introducing Grace Georgina Turley

Our beautiful Granddaughter has finally arrived... 11 days overdue on 10th May 2019 at 1.59am, weighting in at 8lbs 1oz (3.69kg) 

Mum, Dad and Grace 

 Proud Nanny with Grace

 Pop, Nanny and Grace

Happy Baby Grace

As Erin had to have a C-section, they spend the day and night at the hospital and today moved to the Birthing Centre in Warkworth (about 30 mins north of our place) to have a rest before going home in a few days.  We are heading up tomorrow morning to visit and cuddle again. 

Here's the card I made to celebrate her birth 

And then late afternoon got a panic message from my son... he hadn't got a Mother's Day card for Erin and asked me to make her one for tomorrow.  Lovely that Grace arrived in time to celebrate Mother's Day.  

A sweet little card for Grace to give to her new Mummy.  Inside it says "it doesn't get any better than this" 

Thanks for stopping by today.  One proud Nanny signing off

Altenew Zentangle class - Homework Day 1

I'm taking the latest Altenew Academy class - Zentangle for Cardmakers.  It's shaping up to be a great class led by Amber Davis.  Lesson one was about getting a feel for adding lines to an image.  This is called aura, a fundamental technique for zentangling.  It is just to get us comfortable drawing on our stamped images. 

Amber used a stamp set called Frilled Petals... which I don't have so I pulled out my Botanical Garden

 

As you can see, it already has some lines on some of the stamps.  I used the flower on the stem.

 

I used the design that Amber used... a masked off rectangle.  I did some additional lines... on my stem and added the two buds.  Need practice on getting  two lines closer together.  I used my pen (Faber Castell Pitt pen) to outline the masked off area.  This set doesn't have any shading layers so added some colour with my Prismacolor pencils.  I added the sentiment from Adore You set across the bottom of the stems.  Trimmed the panel a bit and added with some fun foam to  white base.  

I've watched lesson two and am about to watch lesson three and hopefully tomorrow some time to try out the techniques. 

Just a quick picture of what I spend my afternoon doing.... 

 Nappy (Diaper) cake.

Wrapped in cellophane

Next Saturday there is a Baby Shower for my son's partner - Erin.  She has less than 10 weeks to go till due date.   Very exciting times.... and yes she knows she is having a Girl... hence all the pink!

Thanks for stopping by today.

 

Welcome to the World - Archer James....

I'm excited  to announce the birth of  our grandson - Archer James Dunning  - arrived Wed 20th April, weighting in at 3.03kgs (6lb 11oz) and 50cm long... Just a tiny dot... and he is just adorable....Can you tell I'm a proud Nana? 

It's going to be three more weeks till I can get to cuddle this cutie... can't wait.   Congratulations to Emma and Andrew..  We love you. 

And we just love this photo...  Our family and Andrew's are avid Rugby fans...

Getting introduced to the rugby earlier on!