Turtle Twins Baby Shower Guest Book

I appologize for the yellow tinted pictures. I'm working on getting some new lighting down in the new studio (aka basement).

This is my first turtle twin baby shower guest book. The baby shower colors were blue, gray, and green. double cute!

Rock'n Monkey Guest Book

 

This is one rock'n monkey!

I almost wanted to give him the guitar to go with his theme.

Definately going to be one rock'n baby shower.

Polka Dot Monkey

Today's book feature is a custom order that I completed last week. The shower is themed with dark browns and polka dots. I just happened to have a piece of this polka dot cover paper. Isn't it too cute?

I think there is one more sheet of this cover stock in my stash.

Inside are blank white card stock pages for attaching advice cards.

I'm spending the day today with family, I hope you all have a great Sunday!

Vintage Baby Shower Guest Book

This is a vintage style baby shower advice book that I created for a shower a few weeks ago. I love the pink and blue hues of this fantasic book!

Pink Zebra Baby Shower Guest Book

After creating the blue zebra print baby shower book, I had a request for pink. I added a sweet little flower to the zebra to give it a femine touch.

The zebra print paper comes from CTMH's collection called "Roxie".

The Baby Survival Guide

I can't remember if I showed this book to you all or not. If I did, forgive me, but these dual monkeys are just too cute! And what better for having twins, then a book of survival tips for the parents!

Zebra Baby Shower Guest Book Album

What a handsome little zebra! I love this! I used a cut of designer paper from CTMH's Roxie Collection and a die cut zebra thanks to my cricut to create this custom baby shower guest book album.

The inside pages are lagoon.

 

Congrats Melissa and Jorge on the newest member of your family!!

It's A Girl Baby Shower Guest Book

I've been working up a new design based on a special request for a custom order. Using the Art Philosophy Cartridge and some sweet little girl colors I've put together this baby girl shower guest book album.

What I really like about this cover design is that the colors can easily be swapped out in pink. It's hard to see by the second photo, but each page is design for a sweet message and a signature line at the bottom. I've still got to stitch this book together, and I'm thinking perhaps pink for the binding twine.

What do you think?

Getting Back to Books

I'm sorry for the silence here this past week as I've been battling the flu, ran off to a book conference, and returned with a horrible cold that blocked my sinuses and made it difficult to breathe let alone think most days.

But not even that could stop me from making some really awesome books this week for all of you. I've had a lot of custom orders requests over at the shop, please keep them coming. I love custom orders!!

I've also been busy making re-visions to a novel and finishing up the first draft of another, which you can find out about more over on my author site.

I've been even playing with the idea of illustrating my own children's book using my paper craft skills. I've been creating some cute pictures with paper and die cuts lately, and one night at 3 am the story flowed through my mind. I guess that is what happens at 3 am when you can't sleep becuase your sinuses are so stuffed up you can't breath. :)

Anyway, these week we're getting back to book. That's what I love and what I do best. I'm still a Close To My Heart Consultant and you can find the link on the sidebar of my blog, it will no longer be at the bottom of my posts. I'm also happy to announce that I've signed on with 3 Bugs In A Rug and will carry their cute papers in my studio for book cover options as well. I've been using a lot of their striped papers lately for baby shower and birthday book designs and am happy to say that I can make a book design more than once now that I can buy wholesale from them. :)

This week I have a lot of great new designed books to share with you. Most of them are custom orders from the shop, and I'm currently working out some matching invitation designs to add in with the thank you cards I've been making too.

If you missed my open house on February 3rd, and didn't have  a chance to visit my new studio, then stayed tuned and I'll be posting photos next week. In the mean time, I'd love to hear what you all have been up to while I was gone. Did it snow? We sure got some!

Baby Advice Card Album

 This year I've challenged myself to create some new designesd books. Something out of the box that starts the trend instead of me casing other styles. This is another another album, only unlike my tag albums this one holds advice cards.

 This particle baby advice card album holds 42 cards or the cards can be swapped for 3" x 4.5" photos.
I tied it up with shoe lace binding instead of the traditional stab stitch binding I've been using.  I'm thinking about trying this in a coptic binding too and adding more pages.

Isn't this a neat way to keep all those advice cards together?

Baby Shower Advice Cards

 One of my husband's cousins are expecting a new baby in the first weeks of March. Since alot of the family members live at different distances, I created this advice cards using the Zoology Stamp Set.

Each card will be slipped in with invitations, that way the card can be sent back filled with advice if the guest can't attend the baby shower.  I used some beige marblized paper from my stack, but thinking these would also look cute on some colonial white with distressed edges too!

Of course, I'm working on the album to slip all these awesome cards in at the baby shower for the new mom to look back on later and hand down when the baby gets older!

MrsChadT

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Baby Advice Book

Just the right color combo of gold and grey. I customized this inspiring little book into an autograph style baby advice book. Inside the pages are shand stamped with plenty of room for guest to write tons of advice for the new mother. It's so sweet, don't you think?

I'm thrilled with overall design of this book.