It's A Baby.......Shower!!!!

Good day everyone. Well my good friends Shannon and Cesar are expecting a baby in early May. I am so excited for them I can hardly contain myself. Of course I had to throw her a baby shower and of course I had to do the invitations for the shower. So I got the inspiration for these invitations by checking out the Resources page on Splitcoast Stampers. This is the Double Diagonal Pocket card (http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/diagonal_double_pocket_card/)

I thought it was so cute and easy and would be perfect. The colors are taken straight from the nursery design and you would not believe how close the striped paper matches the valance over the window! What a lucky find! They don't know the sex of the baby so I decided to match the nursery colors. The paper is all Bazzil cardstock. The green is Irish Eyes Bazzil Dots and the Yellow is Buttercup (or Buttercream). I forgot to save the tab label across the bottom of the patter paper, but I purchased it at Achievers as well as the baby stamp and welcome little one stamps. The ribbon is from American Crafts and I formatted and printed all the text in Word on the computer and printed multiple copies at one time. I did 25 invites. At least I remembered to do one for the baby book and one for my album!!!!! I have done two other custom invite type orders and both times did exactly the number needed and forgot to save one for me!!!! Oh I almost forgot. Shannon called me and said she would like for people to help build the baby library and so the little red tag has the registry information on one side and on the other has text to read "Please bring a new or gently used Children's book for the baby in English or Spanish. You will be entered into a raffle for a prize." The raffle is sponsored by Shannon so I don't know what the prize will be, but I think this is a great way to promote reading and family time. I am all for it!

I am sooooo excited, I can't wait to be an Auntie again!!! (Well not really, an auntie, but close enough) Congratulations to the happy couple and I'll see you at the shower!