Lots of new cards! :)

I'm trying to "hand-make" all of the cards I need for card-giving occasions.  Here are a couple:

I made this card for a friend recovering from surgery.  I hope it brightened her day!

I made this "bee - lated" birthday card for our six year old nephew.  I thought it was cute to have the card's message inside the gift box that the monkey is standing in front of.

This is an anniversary card.  I made it for my husband to commemorate our fifth wedding anniversary.  The inside message is quoted from Emily Bronte, "still the one...whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same".

I've also been working on the invitations for my sister's engagement party.  I think they came out great!

I am currently working on some awards for my friend's business and some diaper cake centerpieces for a former co-worker's baby shower.  Stay tuned for more pics!!!

Finished Name Tags

I finally finished the baby dedication nametags.  I think they turned out really cute!

New Designs!

I'm so excited!!  I have been so busy with Escamilla Designs projects!  A lot has been going on at home, too with the babies and their daily changes.  I'm so lucky to be staying at home with them (and enjoying every minute of that!!) and to be getting all of these job orders (which is also allowing me to stay at home with my boys!).

Soooo.....I've been busy working on a large housewarming invitation order.  I had a lot of fun making them!  Here's a picture of my samples that I showed to my client.  (I should have taken a picture of the finished product before I boxed them up.)

Now that I've finished with the housewarming invites, I'm working on name tags for a baby dedication.  I think that's a cute way of honoring the baby's relatives and the important people in her life.  Here are some of the samples that I showed my client.  These name tags are 2 x 3 and have a bar pin on the back.  They can also be used as place cards, or business/calling cards.  Wouldn't it be great to have a stack of them to hand out to the parent of your child's classmate when making a playdate?? 

More to come later!  After I finish this order, I'm going to start on engagement party invites, baby shower invites, and some award certificates.  Can't wait to post more pics!!

Washcloth "Lollipop" Bouquet

One of my good friends is about to have her baby any day now.  We are so excited because our boys will have a new playmate.  Since her baby's arrival is right around the corner, I was thinking about what I wanted to bring to the hospital when we go to visit them.  When I had my boys, friends and family brought flowers, plants, balloons, etc.  When we got home, I did not have the time or energy to water the plants I received, so I decided that I did want to bring a bouquet, but this bouquet was going to be made out of something my friend could use (and didn't have to water ;)...WASHCLOTHS! 

Yesterday, after we got home from another friend's baby dedication, I got to work.  (Daddy was home so he could watch the babies for a little while.)  I rolled washcloths into "flowers" and secured them with pearl-studded floral pins.  I covered the "flowers" with lollipop wrappers, inserted a lollipop stick and tied them with a ribbon.  Each flower lollipop is embellished with a charm (blue pacifiers, bottles, rattles, onesie charms, rubber ducks, etc.) and was placed in a terra cotta pot tied with a cute "It's a BOY" ribbon.  Of course, I had to take a pic and send it to my mom to see if I had gone overboard with the cutsie stuff.  We brainstormed a couple of things to add not necessarily change.  I think I will paint the pot next time.  Check back for more pics!

Handmade Cards & Neutral Diaper Cake

I love making cards whether it be a thank you card, holiday card, birthday card, etc.  As much as I like looking at cards in the stationary section at Target or perusing the thousands of cards at Hallmark, I think a handmade card is so much more personal and shows the recipient that you really care.  While the babies were napping today, I finished up another diaper cake for a friend's shower in a couple of weeks and created a card to attach to the cake.  She is choosing to be surprised with the sex of her baby, so I made a gender neutral cake and a card to match.  For the card, I chose an embossed green polka dot cardstock and an aqua colored cardstock.  The yellow chipboard "b" (represents "b" is for baby) is accented with an off-white bow.

"b" is for baby

More Save the Dates

Here are a couple more save the date examples:

Same colors and materials, but this time I used a floral printed paper.

Same colors and materials, but I added a monogrammed square for the couple's last name.  I hand stamped the "g".

Save the Dates

Well, it's official!!  I'm making the invites and such for Becky and Diego's wedding!  Yesterday, after Auntie Laura left :( , the babies and I spent some time in my scrapbooking "studio".  For the first time they were entertained by their ocean activity mat.  Brady loved watching himself in the mirror and Matty loved the flashing lights and sounds.  While they played, I got to work on some save the date examples for the soon-to-be Kohn-Garcias. 

Becky and Diego have chosen black, white, and purple as their colors, so I've chosen to use black cardstock as the base and black and cream paisley paper for the next "layer".  I also used cream cardstock.  The event information is printed on vellum.  The vellum was attached using purple ribbon.

This save the date also has a hand-stamped calendar on the cream cardstock.

Hopefully, the babies will cooperate and I'll be able to do some more layouts this afternoon.  We may have to wait for daddy to get home since I've had to type this using one hand ;)