Easter Blooms and Butterflies!

Hello

and

Happy Easter to everyone!

I know it's a bit early to wish everyone a 

"Happy Easter"

but I wanted this blog post done before the

busy Easter weekend hits.

All the cards were mailed out and I hope they made it to

their destinations,

so with no further do here is this years

"Easter Blooms and Butterflies"

Easter card.

 Sentiment from Stampin'Up! set "Heaven Blessed"

and

Girl with Easter basket is also from a Stampin'Up! set

called ""Easter Blooms".

 All flowers are punches.

 The flower and butterfly back panel is a Momenta die.

 The green frame around the Easter girls was cut with Cricut

cartridge "Lacy Labels".

Aww, pretty spring blooms and butterflies.

Well I hope you liked my little Easter card

and I hope you will come back for another visit!

Thanks for stopping by!

Wishing you and your family

a blessed Easter!

Diana

Everything Baby...

...Baby Julia that is!

Hello

and happy weekend to y'all!

As some of you know ,

we were expecting our first Grand baby in March,

however Miss Julia had different plans

and made her appearance a bit early,

she was borne Feb. 27th,

 LOL,

I guess she was in a hurry to join our family.

So this Meemaw had to pick up pace 

to get all those started baby projects done.

Sorry, lot's of pictures again.

 The next 4 pictures were made from fabric

a friend gave to me and since I'm not a quilter,

I leave that to people who know what they are doing,

I decided to turn them into pictures.

The fabric was printed with 4 indefinite squares

which was perfect for this project.

I cut all panels to size and used spray adhesive

to fuse them onto white card stock. 

 Miss Julia's nursery has an Owl theme

 so the print on the fabric

worked absolutely perfect

and they look so adorable.

 This was an extra panel which I did not use for our 

nursery but gave away as a gift.

 And then Meemaw had another idea...

 ... spelling out her name in individual letter frames.

 Each letter was cut with the Cricut machine and glued onto 

pattern paper.

Letters are in dark purple and for the background I picked

different pink patterned paper.

 I added some burlap flowers and pretty ribbon 

to some of the frames.

 What do you think?

And last but not least,

I finally finished her Star Blanket.

 I absolutely love this pattern and the finished blanket 

makes a beautiful gift for any baby shower.

 Baby Star Blanket Pattern.

Thanks for making it to the end of this long post.

Being a Meemaw is very exiting!!!

Well, since I'm caught up on all the baby projects now

 I better start working on my Easter blog post.

Thanks for stopping by,

have a wonderful weekend

and I hope I will see you for my next post

"Easter flowers and butterflyes"!

Diana

Bright Birthday Wishes!

Hello

and

Happy Weekend to y'all!

I apologize in advance,

this post is a bit picture heavy,

SORRY! 

As always I had a hart time picking 

which pictures to post,

so they all ended up on the blog, LoL.

Anyway, I was in a bit of a pickle last week,

realizing while turning the page of my 

monthly birthday calendar,

I almost forgot a birthday in the first week of March.

I hate when I do this,

but with a bit of luck and

one of my favorite go to knitting projects

I got the gift done just in time! 

"Fallmaschenloop" or I call it "Summer Shawl" in progress.

The pattern is quick and easy, a day or 2...

 ... and you end up with a soft and light weight shawl you can 

wear well into the summer.

Sorry, the PATTERN is in German. 

 I used Loops & Threads yarn,

 Elegance in color Jewel.

But any yarn will do, 

it really depends on your preferences. 

 Of course I had to fancy up the gift.

Bow made with my bow-maker.

 And the matching gift bag in

different shades of yellow...

 ... for a 

"Bright Birthday Wish".

I used the same Spellbinder dies as in the

"Everything Purple" gift bag.

I'm getting a bit hooked on making my own gift bags,

not a bad thing so, since I'm using most of my

scraps and odds and ends I have laying around on them.

I know all the tones of saved bits and pieces of

paper and ribbon were good

for something one day!

Are you a paper/ribbon hoarder too?

Thanks for stopping in,

I hope I got you inspired to create something 

with your bits and pieces,

maybe a "Gift Bag"?

Have a wonderful creative weekend!

Diana