John's grand-daughter Hettie.

Our friends John and Jean came over on Saturday night, but they arrived a little late as John's daughter gave birth to a baby girl just as they were were due to set off to see us on Sunday night.

They took a detour via the hospital, then joined us for a Chinese take-away, then Jean and I

ventured into the craft room, leaving the men watching the golf on TV.

I had promised Jean some crafting, so she asked if she could make a baby card for baby Hattie

(John had said baby was to be called Hattie).

Here's Jean's card based on the blue version that is featured on an earlier blog of mine.

Colour used is Pretty in Pink.

Stampset used is Bundle of Love

Baby details printed on computer then cut with Word Window Punch.

After the card was finished John and Jean received various texts congratulating

them on the birth of grand-daughter HETTIE!! He had got the name wrong - so I quickly printed a new name plate and we stuck it on top of the old one.  She will never know!!!

More Altered Art Dictionary pages

Three more pages that I have done today, as a distraction from the monotony of

 mass producing swaps for the Stampin' Up Convention that I fly out to on Thursday!!

Yacht

Pram

Tree

I do seem to have acquired an addiction to these little treasures too!

Congratulations Carol!

Here's the card that I have put in the post today for my good friend, fellow golfer and crafter, Carol -

 to congratulate her on the birth of her grandson on 23rd July.

Yes I know it's a bit late, but I have been busy - what's new??

I have shamelessly cased this from my sister-in-law Chris

Stamp set Bundle of Love

Card stock Bashful Blue, Whisper White and Marina Mist.

Papers - Nursery Nest DSP.

If you see this today Carol - Congratulations!!

Welcome baby!

My Wednesday Craft Class Ladies asked if they could do baby cards this week and here is one of the designs that I came up with.
This is particularly useful if you need to do a card in advance and don't know the sex of the baby.
It uses both of the "Baby" stamp-sets in the current Catalogue - Little Additions and Bundle of Love.
I randomly stamped the various items in random colours from the Subtles collection of colours, plus Crumb Cake and Wisteria Wonder.
I inked the Baby Tees wheel in So Saffron and rollered it onto So Saffron Card then cut out the Babygrow. Coloured the star in with So Saffron marker, then added Dazzling diamond on the hearts on both the babygrow and bibs.

Bundle of Love

Here is another card that I made when I went up to Julies training day lasy month. The stampset is "Bundle of love" and this set will get a lot of use this year - two of my neices are expecting babies November/December and a friend's daughter is also expecting a baby at about the same time! S'exciting! Can you see the new border punch that I've used??