For my sweet baby to be...

In no way related to scrapbooking, but I just want to show off the baby quilt I just finished. I started with adorable Debbie Mumm and other quilting fabrics, and a rough plan. I purposely didn't wash any of them (or the cotton batting) because I wanted it to shrink after it was quilted, giving it sort of an old-fashioned handmade look that I love. I'll show you what I mean in a minute. The piecing and quilting was all done on my machine, but the binding... miles and miles of binding...


was handmade out of the same flannel that I used for the back, and then handsewn to the quilt. And I have the holes in my fingers to prove it.

Here's the quilt finished, but not washed...


And after it's washed.


I don't know if you can really see the difference, though it's very obvious when you hold it. Here's a closeup...


I don't know, maybe it's knowing this will be my last baby that's doing it, but I'm just having such a great time creating things for this little guy. I have one sweater almost finished... just need to sew the arms on, and another one about 1/2 knit. Good thing I still have another month and a half. All this other stuff is definitely cutting into my designing. Oh well, the cycles we go through, I guess. Now if only we could agree on his name!

Playful Bits and freebie

I love magnetic poetry pieces. I've had them on my fridge off and on for more than a decade, and even have a journal with a metal cover and little magnetic pieces for when inspiration strikes. So I decided to make my own digital, slightly grungy version. But the truth is, they've been in various stages of completion for months, or maybe a year. There are so many, that I just didn't want to cut them all apart, LOL. I finally bit the bullet and did it, and here you have Poetry Bits. Over 380 of them, to be exact. There are oodles and oodles of the most common words we use, and lots of prefixes and suffixes to create even more words. You can pick them up at DigitalFreebies or FaithSisters, and they're on sale at DF for just $2.80 this week, instead of the normal (and still super reasonable price of $4).


Oh, and I have a little freebie out this week at Digital Freebies. Click the preview to go grab it...


And I had a ball playing with one of my older kits: Inquisitive, a great template from Sine, and the Poetry Bits (click for all the credits)...

trying again

This is post #2 about these kits, because I'm trying a new way of publishing to my blog. The last try obviously didn't work. This one looks like it's going to be successful, YAY!

Feeling warm and springy? Or just wishing to? As part of the Digital
Freebies club kit for march, here's my New Bloom kit. Partnered with
Simple Girl Designs, you can get both kits to scrap those beautiful
spring or girly photos, for just $5. I've also created an add-on kit,
that I think I might love more than the original, if that's possible.
And a coordinating QP album, made from both of my new kits!

Click on the preview to go to the club and see/buy both mine and
Simple Girl's kits together...

For a burst of spring, even when winter's hanging on...

We had more snow this weekend. It's been the craziest winter here!
Normally we get just a dusting at best, but we were swamped with it in
December and have gotten it so many more times than normal. But today
is sunny and makes me feel vibrant and full of life. How about you?
Feeling warm and springy? Or just wishing to? As part of the Digital
Freebies club kit for march, here's my New Bloom kit. Partnered with
Simple Girl Designs, you can get both kits to scrap those beautiful
spring or girly photos, for just $5. I've also created an add-on kit,
that I think I might love more than the original, if that's possible.
And a coordinating QP album, made from both of my new kits! (click on
the image to go to them in the store)
[url=http://digitalfreebies.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=5333][IMG]http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i163/Dielledl/Scrapbooking/Dielle_NewBloom_AO_Prev.jpg[/IMG][/url]
Click on the preview to go to the club and see/buy both mine and
Simple Girl's kits together...
[url=http://digitalfreebies.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=5332][IMG]http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i163/Dielledl/Scrapbooking/Dielle_NewBloom_Prev.jpg[/IMG][/url]
[url=http://digitalfreebies.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=5340][IMG]http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i163/Dielledl/Scrapbooking/Dielle_NewBloom_QP_Prev.jpg[/IMG][/url]

And a couple of beautiful pages using the kits (click to see all the credits)...
by Cherry...
[url=http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=576532][img]http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/data/500/japanteagarden.jpg[/img][/url]
by Jenn...
[url=http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=575050][img]http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/data/500/smallfourkids.jpg[/img][/url]
by Melissa...
[url=http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=583127][img]http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/data/500/newdo12.jpg[/img][/url]
and one by me...
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