Baby Shower Invites

Here's a baby shower invite I created.

What you need:
Baby Diaper template (this link takes you to the website where I got the template, below is a direct link to the PDF)
Pencil
Printer with paper/computer to print template
Ribbon (2 colors of your choice)
Ink colors of your choice
Card stock with design
Blank colored card stock
White card stock
Adhesive
Scissors
Scoring tool
Ruler
Cutter
Glue Dots
Invitation stamp (or you can print something on the card stock)
Thank you stamp

How to:
Since I created a gender neutral card, I went with green and yellow for the theme.

1. Download the baby diaper template (PDF) here and print out one. Cut it out and trace onto white card stock. Use the scoring tool to score card stock where you should fold (dotted lines on template). To do this I kept my printed sheet over top and lined my ruler up with the templates score marks. You can also find where the "corners" are and score a straight line down and across.

2. Once you're done scoring, cut out the diaper. Fold on score lines and adhere so that the flaps stay down. Only adhere flaps (3 pieces). DO NOT adhere to base

3. Cut down various card stock for main invitation. I cut my yellow waffle paper to 4" square, the green polka dot paper to 3.5" square and the main invitation paper to 3" square. Round corners on the base paper (largest card stock).

4. Stamp your invitation information if you didn't print it on the card stock. Adhere all three of the papers to create a layered effect.

5. Tie your two ribbon colors into a bow and attach to front of diaper using a Glue Dot.
6. Insert invitation and voila! You're done.

 Optional Thank You for the mom-to-be. Since I had some leftover scraps and ribbon, I created this Thank You for the mom-to-be to send to those who come and bring a gift.

Christmas sayings stamps

1st stamp: May the true spirit of Christmas fill your heart with peace, your home with love.
2nd stamp: and the Angel said unto them I bring you good tidings of great joy!

 May your Christmas be warm with love, blessed with joy and bright with promises.

 Luke 2:7-11, 13-14

Top stamp: May the miracle of Christmas fill your heart with joy.
Left stamp: May all the joys of the season be yours in abundance.
Right stamp: Joy to the world the Lord has come!

Walking Program Update 1

Well, we took just over a week off. We were going to walk on June 28, but we got a thunderstorm, which kept us from doing our walk. Friday and Saturday we did a lot of yard work, including cutting branches from our tree...a lot of hard work, so we felt that was good enough for our exercise. We were really sore. Then Sunday we got a bad storm which knocked out neighbors tree down...it rested against our tree, roof and gutters...so, we had another day of cutting tree limbs. All this previous week was extremely hot, so we didn't walk. Saturday morning, when we were still in the heat wave, we went for our first walk, again, for the first time in over a week (unfortunately we didn't know it was going to cool off in the evening, otherwise we would've held off on walking until it was cooler). Today we did our walk again...back on track with walking. We agreed that next week, Sunday, we would add one minute of running to our routine. Although, our town carnival starts this week Wednesday, so we will walk two miles round trip there, plus the walking at the carnival...and we'll do the same thing next Sunday (we go for the fireworks, okay, and the funnel cake too). :) this will be a food week for getting more active and back on track.