Baby Dino Gift set.....

WARNING: LOTS OF PHOTOS!!!!

Hello and Happy Monday Everyone! Sorry I've been

MIA lately... I've been so busy with work & Life! 

I was working on some projects to... 

and there just weren't enough 

hours in the day did get stuff done! :o) 

So I had to let somethings suffer... 

I thought I would post something today to show

you what I've been working on... One of my

really sweet, good friends was pregnant....

Baby #8 for her! All I can say is WOW to that! :o)

Any who.... She said it was her last baby and knew

it was a baby girl... That's when I stepped in with

an idea.... A couple of weeks ago I got 3 brand

new lite cartridges.... that I showed you.... Well

one of those cartridges was my inspiration 

for what I'm about to show you!

This is the card I created for her!

As soon as I saw the (DINO PLAY) Cartridge

and looked at this image.... I knew what I

wanted to do! I know a Dino for a girl???

Hey.... Why not? Right? :o)

The design from my card was inspired by

my wonderful blogging friend AMY!

She sent me a fabulous "Thank You"

card awhile back and I LOVED IT!!!

I had to add an action wobble, just to 

make it more fun! I used my Imagine to

flood fill the rosette and parts of

the baby dino....

Since this ended up being a heavy card...

I add support by put CS on both

sides on the inside.....

Then I had another idea!! I found this really

nice wood crate out in my storage unit...

and though... hummmm.... I could

totally decorate this and put her gifts inside....

Sooo.... I took some time painting it.... Trying

to make it match the paper I was gonna use....

Forgot that I bought this 12 x 24 paper pad by

K & Co. a looong time ago.... So glad I

still had it... :o) I used Scotch Quick Dry

Adhesive to attach the paper to the wood...

Then I thought it could use a little sanding

so it would blend together better....

Now comes the part where I added all

kinds of CUTE Baby Dino's and

Rosettes.... Used different baby

stamp sentiments as well.....

This is side 1....

On both ends I wanted some type

of scenery to group it all together...

So I designed this while at work one day....

Good thing the "Boss" didn't see me.... LOL

(Both ends are exactly the same)

This is the other side of the box...

with more CUTE Baby Dino's and

rosettes..... I added bows and wiggly

eyes to all the dino's.....

Here is the final product!!! I went a little

"BABY" crazy... so not everything fit in

the box.... So of course I made some

more Dino's.... this time in bigger sizes....

On these,  I added gems, just to

fancy them up a little bit more....

Here' s a close up of the other package....

This project took me some time to

do... but was sooo worth it!

I LOVE how everything turned out and

so did my girlfriend!!!! Which made me 

thrilled to no end! I'm also happy to report that

Saturday night, she gave birth to a GORGEOUS

7lb. Baby girl... I live down the street from our

hospital and she gave me a call, so I went to go

meet my newest little friend! She's sooooo

stinkin' CUTE!!!! :o)

Anyway... thanks so much for stopping by!

Have an AWESOME DAY!!!

Theresa