February 6, 2010 by lydia
Christmas is over, but it’s never a bad time to gift parents with an ornament for their newborn babe.
I created this ornament for Ruby before the holidays to celebrate her first Christmas and simply fell in love with it.
I love the delicate design, the wire detail, and embellishment with the glass beads and texture.
It was a fun ornament to make and will be a precious keepsake for years to come.
You can purchase one of these through my etsy site. With your preference of pale blue or pale pink and personalization of name and year, it’s a special gift to give to new parents!
Tags: personalized, christmas, custom, baby, ornament, year, carriage, Baby's First Christmas, First Christmas
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January 23, 2010 by lydia
I’m so excited to be entering a few designs into the Cool Mom Pick’s Valentine’s Day Design Contest! A friend of mine forwarded the Valentine Day contest to me and I couldn’t resist creating a cute, color-your-own-card for kids! Really…. Valentine’s Day EQUALS massive amounts of hearts AND adding hearts to ANYTHING just makes things happy, don’t you think?
Cool Mom’s blog is teaming up with Etsy.com and throwing this contest. The winner has their work posted on Etsy’s site for others to purchase and 100% of all the profits will go towards the Children’s Heart Foundation. Such a great way to use our creative talents for an awesome cause!
No matter if my artwork gets chosen or not, I absolutely LOVED, LOVED creating these designs! I think I may have found a new venture…creating coloring books. How FUN would that be?!?
I plan to post these cards, black & white and color, on my Etsy site in the next couple of days for purchasing. I’ve ordered bright red envelopes to go along with them! I will let you know as soon as they are UP!
So, without rambling on and on,… I’ll get to the good stuff!
“love bugs”
“bee mine”
“you are my cupcake…”
You’re only allowed to add up to 3 designs. The above designs: “lovebugs”, “bee mine”, and “cupcake” are the ones I’m choosing to enter, but here’s another one I did. After many votes, “my valentine” was the design that was omitted, but I do still think it’s pretty cute too!
“my valentine”
So adorable and SO fun!
Tags: bee mine, card, cool mom picks, cupcake, design, lacy heart, love bugs, my valentine, valentine, valentine's day
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January 21, 2010 by lydia
Ruby has acquired another potential suitor. He’s a dutchmen. He is a Nederlander. His name is Joshua. Isn’t he handsome??
They’ve become quite the pair,..learning how to grow together, Ruby is always behind Joshua, who is 4 months her senior. She watches him stand, and decides to follow his lead, learning to stand a few days later. He learns how to walk and she decides to copy him, after seeing him take his newly aquired steps. It’s so precious seeing those two together.
(photo by Ruud)
(photo by Ruud)
They totally know eachother now,… Joshua is constantly pointing to Ruby when he sees her. *Love* So sweet.
He had a birthday this past November and Ruby *asked* me to make him a very special gift. You didn’t know Ruby can talk yet? Oh, yes she can,…she gave me the specifics on his gift and everything.
A star ornament, because he’s a star in her book. And, he didn’t have many ornaments to put on his Christmas tree, since they were all in the Netherlands, afterall.
And stationery,… for Joshua to write letters to his family in Holland.
So sweet,…a cute little gift for a cute little boy!
Tags: baby, blue, boy, christmas, joshua, ornament, personalize, red, star, stationery, white
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January 19, 2010 by lydia
I’ve recently added some new stationery pieces to my Etsy site! Check them out!
Pink and Paisely. Customization can be added…
A thank you greeting…
Polka Dot and Daisy Personalized notecard,…your name of choice can be added.
Baby Carriage Notecard.
These stationery sets include 12 cards and envelopes tied together with a ribbon and presented in an organza gift bag. Cards are 4 Bar (3 1/2 x 5 size), with coordinating white envelope.
The design and custom text on these cards is hand drawn by me, scanned, and then printed for production. Colors can be altered and names can be added for personalization!
Cute, cute, cute and so fun!!
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January 14, 2010 by lydia
I love the unique and creative ideas people come up with when throwing a party and then their request for an invitation that goes along with the celebration. It’s fun designing an invitation that goes against the grain of your typical, run of the mill, invite. Something unique, something cute, and something festive. Oh, so fun!
A friend of mine emailed me with a request for a festive, non traditional, bridal shower invitation. The request was for a “Mexican and Margarita” design. How cute, I thought. I immediately began thinking of somberos and limes,… how would I incorporate a Mexican themed invitation, yet still make it seem wedding-ish?
A margarita glass, complete with salt along the rim of the cup, and limes mixed with a lacy napkin and a string of pearls. Mexican and margaritas mixed with a touch of wedding flair equals, mission accomplished.
At my friends request, I created a matching registry card to go along with the invitation. I couldn’t get enough of those little lime slices. Such a fun little touch.
This invite was so much fun to create. Thank you, Natalie, for the wonderful and FUN opportunity to create such a unique invite!
Tags: bridal, lace, Lime, margaritas, mexican, mexican and margaritas, pearls, shower, theme, wedding
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