All posts for the month July, 2011

{waiting for baby…}

by on July 30, 2011
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Every night I go to bed think­ing, maybe tomor­row the baby will be here… The last cou­ple of days of the preg­nancy have to be the worst, I am not a patient per­son and it seems all we are doing is wait wait wait…

Here is how we have been keep­ing our­selves busy — set­ting up and pho­tograph­ing the baby room. This was Baby N’s favorite mobile… I love how col­or­ful it is!

My pho­tog­ra­phy isn’t bad, but I have SO much to learn. I know  how I want my pho­tos to look, but I need to learn how to change my camera’s set­tings to achieve the effect I want… I will prob­a­bly get back into pho­tog­ra­phy once the new baby is here– new­born pho­tog­ra­phy is so much fun, tod­dler pho­tog­ra­phy is just the oppo­site coz its impos­si­ble to get them to sit still!

While wait­ing for the baby to arrive, I got my quilt all fin­ished and it is so very pretty. I can’t share it here with you yet, you will have to wait for that, but I will give you a hint of what it looks like,

I worked at a fran­tic speed to get this quilt done. I was up in the mid­dle of the night at my sewing machine quite a few nights, and one night I actu­ally thought I would sew myself into labor. My mom was very sweet and kept me com­pany while I was up late. Since I had bought way too much fab­ric for the quilt, we used the left­overs to make a cute new­born baby dress. I used this pat­tern from Made by RAE (love her blog!) and cut the fab­ric, my mom hand stitched most of it, and I added the flouncy lace in the bot­tom. We both love how pretty the dress turned out to be! We are now think­ing of mak­ing the tod­dler ver­sion of the dress for the big sis­ter :)

Now we go back to wait­ing for the baby to arrive… Will keep you guys updated!

 

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Posted by Smitha on July 30, 2011

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2011/07/waiting-for-baby/

{you are a sweetheart}

by on July 29, 2011
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Two cards to share with you today. This weeks CASual fri­days chal­lenge (Cre­ate a 4 x 9 card and keep it Clean And Simple!) was too good to resist, so I made not one but two cards.

Here is the first card, “you are a sweetheart”

Very clean and straight lines with a hint of scal­lop and lit­tle machine stitch­ing here. The rib­bon flow­ers were fun to make. I adhered them onto the card using glue dots. EAsy peasy. I used these Play date Cafe col­ors for this card and kept it really simple.

The sec­ond card, is a “happy birth­day” card. I cut out 1 inch squares from var­i­ous col­ors of felt and sewed them onto a pat­terned paper. For the card, I added some tex­ture in the form of white squares. Rounded the cor­ners and added a bor­der punch to the bottom.

For this card, I used the color inspi­ra­tion from this  Tues­day Trig­ger from the  Moxie Fab World,

Quick pregnancy/baby update. Baby is now over­due by 2 days. Am so huge and uncom­fort­able, can­not wait to have this baby!! Mean­while, I have all this unplanned free time, so I make cards :)

Sup­plies used:

“you are a sweetheart”
Card­stock, gold paper: The paper company
Pat­terned paper: My minds eye
Rib­bon: Amer­i­can Crafts
Brads:Making mem­o­ries
Sen­ti­ment: Crys­tal Wilk­er­son (www.jessicasprague.com)
scal­lop scis­sors: Fiskars
 
“happy birth­day”
Card­stock: The paper company
Pat­terned paper: Colorbok
Sen­ti­ment: In the mak­ing (www.jessicasprague.com)
Felt: Cre­atol­ogy
Tex­tur­izer, bor­der punch: Fiskars
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Posted by Smitha on July 29, 2011

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{maternity portraits}

by on July 25, 2011
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Are you guys on pin­ter­est? I am totally addicted to pin­ter­est, and in the mid­dle of the night, when I really should be in bed, you will find me fran­ti­cally pin­ning stuff away! I have this board full of mater­nity and new­born pho­tog­ra­phy that I have pinned over the months; each and every one of them are so beau­ti­ful and inspiring.

With the baby offi­cially due in two days, we finally got around to tak­ing some mater­nity por­traits of mine. The pho­tog­ra­pher is none other than my tal­ented dar­ling hus­band. Have I told you how amaz­ing he is? I kind of for­get that, with the day to day rut of life, but every now and then he does some­thing to remind me what a bril­liant artist he is!! This has to be my absolute favorite pho­to­graph of myself, ever!

I ini­tially had ideas about hav­ing Baby N, me and the baby belly in all the pho­tographs. But my lit­tle tod­dler had other ideas and was busy play­ing all around us and barely had time to pose for the cam­era. Tod­dler pho­tog­ra­phy requires SO much of patience. But we did man­age to get one or two good photos,

This one cracks me up, every­time I see it. We are in the mid­dle of sum­mer and she wanted to wear a win­ter hat and later brought out a scarf too!!

But she did take two min­utes to come and give the new baby a big kiss and hug :)

And this photo is for my mom, who keeps say­ing I don’t really have a huge baby belly! Really?

The past week has gone by pretty fast. I keep get­ting con­trac­tions every now and then, but no sign of the baby yet. I basi­cally have been try­ing every trick to try and get into labor nat­u­rally– go for long walks (which did not really help at all, I just go really tired and my feet hurt real bad!), eat spicy food, eat pineap­ple, eat cumin, eat sesame seeds– my poor tummy. Bot­tom line, the baby is going to come when its good and ready. I should just enjoy the time I have here and get some sleep…

 

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Posted by Smitha on July 25, 2011

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{paper and felt flowers-tutorial}

by on July 18, 2011
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Today, I have  some paper and felt flower tuto­ri­als to share with you. You can see my step by step instruc­tions for these on the Fiskars web­site here.

There are eight flow­ers in all,

You can use these flow­ers in so many ways! Here I made a rib­bon head­band for my lit­tle girl Nidhi. Love the hot pink!

You will also be see­ing these flow­ers in many of my future projects– on scrap­book­ing lay­outs and cards.

I am knee deep (lit­er­ally!) in my quilt. Have fin­ished sewing my front and am now pin­ning and bast­ing the lay­ers. Am think­ing of doing both a hand and machine quilt on this one. Lets see how much time I get to fin­ish it, the baby could be here any­day… This baby is offi­cially due in 9 days now :)

Thats it from me today. Hope you have a happy Monday!

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Posted by Smitha on July 18, 2011

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2011/07/paper-and-felt-flowers-tutorial/

{just like that}

by on July 14, 2011
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Time to share some dig­i­tal good­ness today. This is a lay­out of mine that appeared in this Cre­at­ing Keep­sakes: Scrap­book­ing tips and tricks: Fab­u­lous Flow­ers edi­tion,

As seen in Cre­at­ing Keep­sakes’ 2011 Tips & Tricks: Fab­u­lous Flow­ers.  Copy­right Cre­ative Crafts Group. 
Pub­lished with prior per­mis­sion from the publisher. 
 

I have said this many times, that I am not a flower per­son. Atleast 6 months ago, I wasn’t. I like clean lines and bold col­ors in my scrap­book­ing lay­outs. To soften things I like to add stitch­ing. But cou­ple of months ago, I tried my hand at lay­er­ing some paper flow­ers together and I loved the result. And then I bought some felt flow­ers from Michaels and they have inspired me and made me a flower addict. I like explor­ing felt flow­ers so much now that I have a flower tuto­r­ial to share with you all next week.

For this dig­i­tal lay­out, I used flow­ers as my embell­ish­ments, but I used close ups of the flow­ers and cre­atively cropped them as my accents. This was a very sim­ple lay­out– a quick one too, and I love the orange color here– bright and bold!

I have been feel­ing this burst of energy of late and today I started a humungous project. I started a new quilt for the baby. I have been feel­ing enor­mously guilty that I have not made any­thing hand­made for the sec­ond baby. So with two weeks left to my due date, I am start­ing my quilt. This will be the third quilt I have ever made, and it is a pretty sim­ple design. I bought all my fab­rics, have sketched out my pat­tern (its not a sim­ple block pat­tern.. it involves a bit of math to cut each piece!) and tonite I ironed all the washed fab­rics ( I so dis­like iron­ing– but it had to be done)

Here is a peek at the fab­rics I plan to use for this quilt (I don’t think I will be using dark brown fab­ric though)– wish me luck!!

Sup­plies used:
 
Soft­ware: Adobe Pho­to­shop CS5
 
Papers, alpha, jour­nal­ing strips and sta­ples: Crys­tal Wilkerson
 
Jour­nal­ing font: Palatino Linotype

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Posted by Smitha on July 14, 2011

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