MFP Favorite stamp set blog hop - Bundle of Joy

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 January Blog Hop. 

 We're doing something different to start out the new year. We're looking back at all the wonderful sets released in 2014. For the next 4 days the Design Team will show you their "Favorite" sets of 2014. Please visit each blog and leave a comment. One person will be chosen to receive their choice of one of the "Favorite" Stamp Sets we have featured.

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win a "Favorite" Set of your choice! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) The winner will be announced on 

Jan. 31, 2015 on the MFP Stamp Shop blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) 

The deadline for 

commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Jan. 30, 2014

Hi I'm happy to be participating in our Favorite stamp set blog hop so for today Jan. 27th I'm featuring Bundle of Joy (2014) stamp set.  I needed to make a couple of baby brag books so this stamp set worked out great plus I used a couple of images from an older set called Oh, Baby! from 2013. Both baby brag books are the same but different in little ways just to differentiate from grandma and mom's brag book.  Look here to see other samples I made for Bundle of Joy stamp set.  Leave a comment here to be included in the drawing to win a favorite stamp set.

Let's get started!!

Here's the Design Team:

 Jane C

Pat 

Marilynn

Nancy

Bonnie 

Sue W

  Pam M

An'Jenic

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back tomorrow for more FAVORITES!!

Valentine scrapbook

By the time you read this post I should be on my way to friend's house for a fun Valentine luncheon.  I wanted to show the little 4 x 6 scrapbook I made for our hostess but since I know she checks out my blog I had to wait till the day to post pics.  I'm not a scrapper so I just thought of this as a mini book that she could add photos and journal about our day.  I stamped pages and also made pockets out of pattern paper, envelope and different Sizzix dies.  The peppermint candy image is by Hot Potatoes Fabric and Wall Stamps as well as the hearts.  I surprised myself and had fun making this mini scrapbook.  I kept it simple so my friend could add her own stamping touches to it if she wanted.  Oh yes, forgot to mention I binded it with my Bind-It-All machine.....which I had to get out of moth balls. LOL!

Baby book to be......more pages

Here are a few more pages to my baby scrapbook with punched out babies and a baby bottle.  These punch ideas come from this blog that I found a while back.  She does some fun and amazing things with punches.  The backside of the pages looked blank so I decided to add a Sizzix tag and frame dies, I figured a photo or journalling could be added there.  I kept this little scrapbook simple since it was going to someone I really don't know that well just to say hello and how are you to.  If I forgot to photograph any part of this book it's too late now because I gave it to my neighbor last night.  Hope her and her husband like it.

Baby book to be......finished!

I really like the way my baby scrapbook turned out.  I'm surprised at myself since it is mostly punched things and hardly any stamping.....me the die heart stamper!  guess the reason for this is I don't have any baby images so improvised with punches. The banner is free cut and stamped (yes, stamped! lol!) with two different sayings from Starvingartiststamps stamp set.  The first page with the information I just typed in my word program then printed out and cut to size that is why it really isn't centered but that's o.k. with me.....it's handmade. I used my bind it all to bind the book.  I'll show more pages later in the week.

Entering this in following challenge:

1.  Simon Says Stamp and Show - show anything but a card

Baby book to be......more pages

O.K. here is the last page and back cover of my baby book.  Found this saying online and thought it was just so sweet so I typed it up and computer generated it.  Then I got out my scallop oval Spellbinders Nestabilities to give it some punch.  Added another of my baby rattles and some bubbles with sequence waste to finish it off.  Should be taking pictures of the final bound book today and will show finished book latter today or this weekend. 

Baby book to be......

well, this will soon be a book.  I'm making this for a neighbor who had a baby a few months ago.  The funny think about this book to be is the only stamping so far is the welcome baby on the cover here.  Everything else is computer generated or punched!  On the cover here the punched sweet pea (don't remember where I saw it online)  is on a spirelli piece I did a while back so I'm going into my stash of things already made.  See that baby rattle?  I did that with an oval punch and a couple of circle.....so easy and fun.  I will be using bind it all machine to actually create the book.