Category — design

Editing photos of my new cards. It’s amazing how a lens can make cards look so pretty.

The shop should be updated soon!

With round one of Declan’s first birthday celebrations behind me I am feeling pretty good! The family party went well and I will have all of the pictures from it tomorrow! Today I wanted to share the invitations I created. This first party was a family party which meant I was only sending out about ten invitations. This allowed me to be a little more creative and include the candle on the outside, with the entire thing going inside a bubble mailer.

If you follow the Pinterest board I created for Declan’s birthday you saw all of the Noah’s ark pins. I really wanted to go in that direction but just didn’t have the time. Instead I focused on the colors green, blue and yellow, party hats and crepe paper. Since Christmas was less than a month ago I let guests know that they didn’t need to bring a gift, but that if they did to bring a favorite book or movie.

I am very pleased with how they came out!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

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Now that all of your shopping is done (wait, it isn’t? you better get on that) it’s time to wrap! I made this tag download last year and hope you will find it useful!!

I attribute all of my craftiness to my mom. She was always creating things. Whether sewing us dresses, painting bird houses, making wreathes, sewing halloween costumes, drawing summer calendars… whatever it was she hand made it. I am proud to say that she has recently started her own line of cross stitch patterns and kits! My parents camp. A lot. So my mom has turned her love for camping and her love for creating into a business. Please check out her etsy store! These patterns and kits are perfect as stocking stuffers for the crafty camper in your life! She is adding new ones every week (a Yosemite one is in the works!) so be sure to check back.

And speaking of etsy stores, stop by mine and pick up a set of vintage fabric cards! Perfect for a Thanksgiving Hostess thank you note.

I am loving the chevron stripes and chalkboard wall in this nursery! (I showed this to Bryan and we both agreed the marriage wouldn’t last if we tried to paint that wall. One stripe was enough for us! ha)

I’m thinking of getting a few of these prints for the nursery…

(buy them here, via here)

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(buy here, via here)

Happy Monday! Thank you for all of the encouragement and sweet words about my shop! I won’t be quitting my day job anytime soon, but it is just fun to do what I love by spending time being creative and crafty. Saturday we drove down to San Elijo State Park to visit my parents who were camping for the weekend. I asked my mom to pick a number to choose a winner and she thought long and hard before saying 23! I am happy to say that Jessica Lynn of Penned and Pretty will be receiving a set of cards!

And here are a few shots of Declan and I at the beach! Even though we live 5 minutes from the beach this was his first time touching sand or the water! He seemed to enjoy  it.

(Can I just say how nerve racking it is to be doing this? Putting myself out there for sure…)

My etsy shop is now open! I am in love with these cards. Flat cards sewn with a few of my favorite fabrics, some vintage some not. I am a firm believer in paper mail and blank cards are the way to go. They are perfect for that last minute thank you or happy birthday.

To celebrate, I am giving away a set of three 3.5 x 5 cards with vintage paisley fabric (below). Just visit my shop, then come back and leave a comment saying what you would use the cards for!

Contest will end Friday at midnight, so leave a comment now! Ah!!!