Creative Grace

Butterflies for Riley

It's time for another baby post!  This time, very close family friends are expecting their first baby.  My aunt hosted the baby shower and as a special surprise to the mom-to-be, ordered live butterflies that each guest was able to release (what a fun idea!).   Unfortunatelly, the shower took place while I was on the road and I was unable to attend.

Since I knew of the "butterfly" plans ahead of time, I wanted to do something special to make up for the fact that I couldn't be there in person.  I commissioned my good friend, Jenn Shurkus to make a canvas for the nursery.  The only problem, is we had no idea what the room colors were!  There was no indication of a color theme by looking at the registry as the bedding was being hand made.  The only info my aunt and I were able to get from the mom-to-be was that it had chevrons, birds, and was pink, orange, and grey - but I wanted to make sure the colors were spot on.  After a lot of sleuthing, the nice folks at The Baby Guy sent me a photo of the bedding fabric so Jenn could color match.  I love how it turned out:

I know the butterfly stressed poor Jenn out, but I think it turned out so cute :)  I especially love the touch of grey on the border.  Thanks, Jenn, for making the canvas so quickly and shipping it out to me in time for the shower!!!

I tried to match my card to the bedding too:

and had fun wrapping up the gift...  

Just wish I could have been there in person!  Best of luck to the new parents!

Sweet Surprise

Once again I'm barely meeting the deadline for this week's Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger (I can blame it on the wicked cold I've had, right?)  Regardless, I've had this idea swimming around in my head for a few days.  

The challenge was to make a card based on this inspiration photo:

I'll admit my first response was to run away (eek!) although the present is lovely, it's a little bit of a stretch for my card-making taste.  That is, until I got the notion that maybe, just maybe, I could pull off twine in place of the gingham... and wouldn't a twine handmade pom-pom bunny tail on a felt bunny be simply adorable?  With woodgrain emossing, that would work, right?

Hopefully this will be acceptalbe!  Hope you all had a lovely Easter!

Wild About You

Happy Monday everyone!  I have a cute little card to share with you today, perfect for anyone you are wild about.  

I had a lot of fun yesterday having a crafty day with some friends including a couple new ones, and this was one of the cards we made.  I certainly need to put the pause button on life and do that more often! :)

I was, of course, anticipating this card would be a fun non-red/pink valentintes card, but it certainly would work at any time of year.  Isn't that monkey adorable?

We were, of course, practicing our mad-Copic skills!  Along with cutting skills... he was a tricky one but I think he's super cute swinging down on that branch.

a•muse|studio is gearing up for their new 2012 catalogue (debuting soon!) and this adorable set (called, "The Mighty Jungle") didn't make the cut.  So if you are interested in it and others that are officially retiring, shoot me an email and I can give you the 411.