Sweet Baby Snuggles

This post is all about sharing the 3-part photo shoot with my niece, Gracelyn. I was lucky enough to be able to stay at my sisters' house when we went to Atlanta for Imaging, USA, and able to squeeze in some photos of little Gracelyn while I was there. So, of course, I have to share!

This was probably my favorite of the session:

Gracelyn had just woken up from her nap, and the window light was just lovely!

We got a few more in the lovely light, as Beth got her dressed and changed:

Then I went out and looked for the light  and best areas to photograph while Mama fed baby-"big brother" Hoss was my model:

We were able to get a precious few photos outside of Mom, Dad, and baby together:

 She was more interested in Hoss than me, though!

We only stayed outside for a very short time, as it was getting cold and dark very quickly. We came back in, I set the boppy pillow and a soft blanket up on the dining room table , turned her until I could see the light in her eyes, and put daddy to work making her giggle:

Mommy took her soon after, and I captured them by the tree:

She was starting to get a bit fussy at this point, so I stopped trying to photograph her, and just held her so her mama could eat.

I did get a few more of her the morning we left, and a couple of them are my favorite-this first one especially!

I love this expression!

Welcome, Little One!

Today, the card I am sharing is for someone special! We are throwing a "card shower" for a member of our Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Design Team. Tamara is having her sweet baby boy today! Welcome to the world, baby boy Bennett!(I think his name will be Brett). We are all so excited for you, Tamara, and we all wish you love and luck!
I used a digistamp from the Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Babies And Bows Collection, and the Shabby Houndstooth digipaper, and I used a sketch from Sketch Saturday. The buttons are from Jenni Bowlin Studios, the star is foam, and it's from American Crafts, I used a Martha Stewart scallop punch, and the Cuttlebug Houndstooth Embossing Folder.
The challenges that I am entering this card into are:

Bee-crafty- Anything goes with a Digi
Ce's Challenges-Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenges- Masculine card
Annabelle Stamps- Say it with a bow
A Crafty Little Place- Anything goes
Cupcake Crafts-Let's get digital
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges-Anything goes
Lexi's Creations- Emboss it
Sketch Saturday-sketch
Stampin For The Weekend-Anything goes
My Sheri Crafts- Baby week
Challenge Up Your Life- Celebrations

Thank you for stopping by our baby shower! Now check out the other DT members' cards or projects for Tamara!

Here are the girls participating:

http://shestamps.blogspot.com/
http://www.desertdesignsstudios.com/blog/
http://zippycrafts.blogspot.com/
http://myfenceposts2.blogspot.com/
http://stampitscrapitshareit.blogspot.com/
http://createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/
http://cindi-hookedoncrafts.blogspot.com/
http://artfulxpressions.net/
http://karin-withaniforpaper.blogspot.com/
http://blissfulplace.blogspot.com/
http://rhondagale.blogspot.com/
http://1cardcreator.blogspot.com/
http://want2scrap.blogspot.com/

July LO's 11 and 12

Well, since I took Lora's challenge at the beginning of the month, I have been trying to get as many pages done as possible for the month of July. This is LO #11 and 12 for the month (which is really good for me- I am a SLOOOW, messy scrapper! I have to get every thing out to do one page- I don't know why. But it looks like a tornado hit the living room every time I scrap. I have to run around cleaning up before DH gets home. I based these layouts on some sketches that I missed from 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. the "Sweet and Sassy" layout is based on Week 1 Sketch, and the Glam Goddess LO is from Week 13's Sketch. Of course, I used my Cricut! On "Sweet and Sassy, the title is from Graphically Speaking, the border is one of Paulo's fab borders, and a scalloped border (not sure where I got it) cut out using SCAL. The rocking horse is from Joys Of the Season, and I attached ric-rac for the mane and added Stickles to give it the look I wanted.

The flowers are a combination of Primas and flowers from The Paper Studio, and are attached with Brads by Making Memories. The Patterned Cardstock is Nana's Nursery Girls Stack.

For the Glam Goddess page, I used the title svg from Tamara's blog, another scalloped svg file I had, paper/cardstock from Glitz Designs (Hot Mama collection), Wasau paper, Glitter Stack by DCWV, and a scrap piece of iridescent vellum to go under the title. I added Primas that I inked with a silver Martha Stewart inkpad, and attached with a Making Memories Glitter brad.

Little Duckie (July LO #4)

This Lo covered more than one challenge for me. My first challenge was to do as many layouts as possible in July for the challenge on Lora (the scrapbooklady's blog) This should also qualify for a bonus entry in her contest, because I used the duckie border from her bathtime cut file collection. This layout is also my entry for the June/July cutter file challenge over at Chris Durnan's blog, because I used the circle mat from the collection. And the challenge at 2peas for "BasicGrey Addicts of the World,Unite" was to use something from the the Dawson, Lilykate, or Porcelain Collections. The papers are all from the Porcelain line.