happily ever after

For the bride to be.......
I did this canvas for my niece who wanted to give one of my canvases to her future sister-in-law as a shower gift. I call this "happily ever after". The dress is made from the actual shower invitation paper, the letters are also cut from the invitation and I also included the groom's name...just because he is an important part of this celebration to!!!
This was a fun canvas, it was girlie and pink and flowery, I tried to make it as personal as possible, working with the bridal shower invite.

Merry Christmas!

We would just like to take the time to wish all of our wonderful friends of Baby Bud Designs a blessed and very Merry Christmas!

Our Etsy Shop will be on vacation starting today but will re-open for business as usual on December 27th!

Thank you for all of your wonderful support and inspiration through 2010. Looking forward to a very crafty 2011!

From the entire Baby Bud Team!

A new little Christmas Bud!

Happy Monday everyone! We're very excited to share a brand new little addition to our Baby Bud family!!!

Meet Noelle!

She's got her Christmas outfit on and ready to do some celebrating!!! How cute!!! I love her shoes!

MARY ANNE (Artist)

SILKE

MARGIE

CALYPSO

MARIA

LIS

GIOVANA

LISA

Fantastic creations! Gets you in the mood for the holidays doesn't it?
She is available starting today on the ETSY shop so be sure to swing by and check her out!

Glam it up over at CDAC

Just wanted to let you all know that Baby Bud Designs is hosting the current Embellishment Challenge over at CDAC!

The theme is 'Glam it up with Glitter'!

Here's a card our Lady Bud Lis made using Teenie Lady Bug. She is the freebie for the challenge, so make sure you head over and pick her up and play along!

For all the details click HERE!

Don't forget our current challenge here at Baby Buds is still going on until the 24th of November!!! Lots of time to play!!!

Friday Freebie AND Challenge #2!!!

Welcome to another Friday Freebie here at Baby Bud Designs!!!!

Today's freebie is 'Woof Doggie'

Make sure you click and save on him today and spread the word so you can all play along with us for our second challenge!!!

ALSO, today marks the start of a brand new challenge!

AND, as a very special thankyou to all of the people who played along, Mary Anne has decided to release a 2nd freebie for you today!!!

Here's Snowdrop:

Now on to the challenge:

SCALLOPS, BUTTONS AND BLING!!!

The only rule we ask is that you use a BABY BUD IMAGE!!!

To kick off our first challenge ever we wanted to offer our huge prize package to as many people as possible so we had some different rules. But from now on, we wanna see those Baby Buds! We will always have our freebie giveaway on the same day as our challenge so everyone should be able to play along. We are also members of CDAC (Crafters Digital Art Centre) where you can access some of our other freebies as well.

You have a whole month to play along again for our second challenge, the deadline for your cards and projects will be on November 24th at 12:00 noon E.S.T. The winner will be announced on November 25th 2010!!!

The Prize???? 2 digi images of your choice from our Etsy Store and a card kit full of goodies!!!

So now lets check out some inspiration from our wonderful design team, there's lots of scallops buttons and bling goin' on....I love it!!!

LIS
LISA
GIOVANA
MARGIE

CALYPSO
JENNIFER


SILKE


MARIA

AND, as a special treat here's a little sneek peek of our November image 'Noelle'.

She won't be available until November 8th!

This card was created by the artiste herself Mary Anne!!!

We can't wait to see what you create for us this time! Just click on the little blue frog to link up your card or project!

Remember, if you want to be eligible for the prize, be sure to use a BABY BUD IMAGE!!!

and the winner is........

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

34

Timestamp: 2010-10-28 12:25:48 UTC

Congratulations!!!

NATALIYA

Thank you so much for playing along with us on our very first challenge!

Please email us no later than October 30th (or another random winner will be selected) and we will get your prize to you asap!

email: babybuddesigns(at)gmail(dot)com

Also a big huge thank you to all of you who played along wtih us! We were really blown away by all of the participants and the wonderful talent out there!

Please check back tomorrow for the FRIDAY FREEBIE and ALSO the start of a brand new challenge!!!

Hello out there!

I just wanted to post some wonderful cards that our Lady Buds have been busy working on lately!!! Check 'em out!!!

MARGIE

JENNIFER

MARIA

LIS

SILKE

LISA

ELLIE

GIOVANA

CALYPSO

WOW, what amazingly creative cards Ladies!!!

Just a little reminder that there's only just over a week left to enter our current challenge! You can enter your challenge card HERE for your chance to win a great little prize package! The deadline is Wednesday Oct 27, and the random winner will be announced here on the blog on Thursday Oct 28th! THEN on Friday Oct 29th we will be posting our Friday Freebie, and a brand new challenge will begin! So fun! So be sure to pop back and play along!!!! And a big huge Thank You to all of those who have already played along with us!

Have a great day!

THE VERY FIRST BABY BUD CHALLENGE!!!

Today is very exciting as it marks our very first Challenge at Baby Bud Designs!!!!It also falls on our Friday Freebie so everyone should be able to play along! Here are the details:

The challenge begins today (September 24th, 2010) and will close on October 27th at Midnight EST. So that means you have a whole month to play along!!!

The theme for our first challenge is

FALL/HALLOWEEN!

You can make up any card or project using fall colours, halloween cuties etc, as long as it falls in one of the two categories!

You can enter as many times as you like!

We would love to see you use a Baby Bud Design Image for your projects, feel free to grab the freebie today from the post below!

One random winner will be selected to win a rather sweet little prize package for the first ever Baby Bud Challenge!!! Here's the prize:

2 digi images of their choice from the Etsy Store!

2 rubber Baby Bud Stamps

a card kit packed full of amazing goodies!!!

The winner will be announced on Thursday October 28, 2010!

All you have to do is click on the cute little blue frog at the end of this post to link up your creation!!!

Here are some amazing samples from our wonderful LADY BUDS:

GIOVANA

using Autumn

ELLIE

using Autumn

MARGIE

using Autumn

CALYPSO

using Autumn

KRISTA

using Autumn, Fairy Orlagh & Lady Baby Bug

MARIA
using Autumn

JENNIFER

using Autumn

SILKE

using Autumn

MARY ANNE

using Fairy Orlagh

LISA V
using Autumn
LIS
using Autumn
WOW, what amazing cards from all of the Lady Buds!!! Hows that for some mojo?

So, all you have to do to play along is create something with the theme Fall or Halloween and link it up with little blue froggy below, for your chance to win a fabby prize!!!! We can't wait to see what you come up with!!!!

Have fun! & Have a great day!

Friday Freebie!

The freebie is now closed!

FAIRY ORLAGH

A little tidbit: The name 'Orlagh' (pronounced 'Orla') is an Irish-Gaelic-Celtic name meaning 'Golden Queen'!

Here is a wonderful sample from Lady Bud Lis:

and how cute is this one from Lady Bud Jennifer?:

For those of you just joining us, on the last Friday of each month we will be giving away a free digital image! So mark the day on your calendar and swing by for your freebie!

Please note that the freebie will only be available to grab on the actual Friday (that's today!!!) So don't miss out!

Also, today marks the start of a brand new Challenge with the Baby Buds! The first challenge will go live today at 7:00 a.m. E.S.T.

(hint hint, Orlagh's all dressed up like a Fairy for some Halloween fun....)

So make sure you check back at 7 am to see the details for our very first challenge!

Enjoy!

Introducing the 'Lady Buds' Design Team!!!

Happy Tuesday!!! Today is very exciting for the Baby Buds 'cause we've got a brand new Design Team to introduce you to!

We'd like to thank everyone for their applications! We were overwhelmed with the response and had a great time looking at all the different blogs.

We'd like to introduce you to our Term 1 'Lady Buds'!

We have a second group of 'Lady Buds' lined up for Term 2 starting in January.

So please welcome our new designers, they are all so very extremely talented and bring many different styles and ideas to our team! We couldn't be happier!!!

THE LADY BUDS ARE:

CALYPSO

ELLIE

GIOVANA

JENNIFER

LISA (AKA PURPLE LISA)
MARGIE

MARIA

SILKE
AND OF COURSE YOU ALREADY KNOW:

LISA V

SHERI

KRISTA

We're going to leave you with this sweet little card that Purple Lisa made using Kira for this very occasion!!! How ADORABLE! Thanks Lisa!

Stay tuned, we are having a new release coming soon and our monthly challenges will start on Sepbember 24th!!!