Inspired by Pinterest: Foxy Baby Card

Hello and Happy Friday Friends!

Like many of you, I am sure, I love Pinterest and come across the most interesting and inspiring photos and projects through this site.  Many of my cards and projects are indeed sparked by pins, but sometimes, my favorite ideas for cards and paper crafts don't involve even a scrap of paper in their original form.

For instance, a few weeks ago I came across this picture:

A Beautiful Mess

I thought that this chair of foxy pillows might make for a good baby card, so I pulled out some of my dies and came up with this:

The fox was made by combining my boxy banner dies from Papertrey Ink with pennant and oval dies from Spellbinders.  I cut my desired shapes from patterned paper (My Mind's Eye) and pieced together the fox before tracing the shape onto a card base to make the shaped card. I added buttons and twine for the nose and eyes and the sentiment is from Waltzingmouse Stamps- Compact Sentiments.

You can check out some of what's been inspiring me lately on Pinterest by checking out my boards.

So what's your favorite non-paper inspiration for paper projects? 

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Katie 

This one is for my girls

Hello-

I have been having a cozy sort of day getting settled back into everyday life and remembering our recent vacation.  I thought I'd share a photo of the girls + Snow White at Cinderella's Royal Table.  The girls had just been Bibbidi Bobbidi'ed at the castle boutique, so they are looking a bit like extras from Toddlers and Tiaras. Check out Paige with the fabulous weave! Sophie looks so sweet in her ballerina bun and Tiana dress (which was the least itchy dress in her opinion, ergo the one we purchased). The girls were sprinkled with pixie dust by their fairy godmothers and loved every minute of it.  That is what is important, right?

And I have some words of advice that I would like to share with my girls and all the princesses of the world (and their Queen Mums)....

 via Pinterest

Have a great evening!

Katie

Pinterest Project- Celebration of the Cityscape

Hello friends!

I know it's been a little quiet on the blog front, but for good reason.  The family and I just returned from a 7 vacation at Walt Disney World in Florida.  It was, sigh, magical! I will have some photos to share on the blog soon!

As I have been getting settled in and caught up with some life stuff, I came across a very cool print that I had pinned to Pinterest a few weeks ago and decided that last night was as good as any to create a card based on this inspiration print:

via Pinterest

And using one of my newer sets from The Crafts Meow, I came up with this card:

Celebrate- City Style

On dark gray cardstock, I embossed the cityscape image from the Happy New Year set in Mustard Zing embossing powder and the fireworks in Teal embossing powder. Below the dark gray cardstock, I added a strip of light gray cardstock that I stamped with PTI's Background Basics Circles in yellow ink.  I added the sentiment from one of the Fillable Frames sets in black and accented the sentiment with a turquoise gem. I added some ribbon in Hawaiian Shores where the two colors of cardstock meet and adhere the finished panel to a card base made from the light gray cardstock.

I hope you find some inspiration in the card and print I shared today.  I will be popping by later in the week with some more fun things to share- like the release of Skipping Stones newest set- Sassy Cats and a sweet party invitation inspired by another image from Pinterest.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Katie