Baby Card for Little Lily

Good Morning everyone,

I am early today with my post as I have a tonne of things to do and not enough hours within the day to do them!

Here is a card for a friend of mine who had her daughter Lily Beth last week. I bought a gorgeous doll at the markets yesterday. If you look at the doll she is smiling and then when you turn her dress inside out, there she is again but not happy. What a cool idea. Must have taken the creator ages coz it was really fiddly, so I definitely got myself a bargain!

All these soft colours are in direct contrast to the cards presented in the last few days!

Stamps: SU Baby Firsts, Hero Arts Wording Inks: StazOn Black Card: Bazzill Other: Ribbon Unknown, Kiwi H2O

I Am Back!

Materials

Stamps:Hero ArtsE3742 Baby Bib

Cardstock: Bazzill

Inks: StazOn Timber Brown

Other: Prisma Pencils 1016 Pink Rose, 914 Cream, Odourless Mineral Solvent, Paper Stumps, Pink Brads, White Cord, Feet Embellishment, DCWV Text Prints - The Paper Stack, Magenta Pink Gingham, Kaiser Blushed P257 Devotion, Glitter Glue, Paper Piercer and Template

Well firstly, apologies for my absence. I have been fighting pneumonia. Not back to normal yet, but at least I am no longer in bed all day!

I owe a baby card to one young couple in our area who had their baby girl at the end of last month, so I thought that the baby one had to be first in my long line of things I have to make as of yesterday! I just had the dad in question come to the house, but no way was he getting the card before I scanned it in!

I have owned this little bib for yonks but have not used it. I am not really into baby cards as a rule. Though, it seems everyone around me is having babies, making me do them more often in the last twelve months than I have in the last 10 years!

Can't promise anything, but I DO hope to slowly get back into the swing of things over the next week.

Baby Baby Baby

Materials:

Stamps:Stampendous Clear Stamps Sassy Silhouettes ssc065

Inks: Colourbox Rose Coral, StazOn Opaque Butter Cream, StazOn Opaque Baby Blue

Cardstock:Bazzill Flamingo, Stonewash and Sunbeam, Yes White

Other:Stampin Up tag punch, square punch

In my thoughts for what to try and achieve this year was the (most likely, self defeating) idea that I would not accumulate tonnes of scrap card. I could open a shop (another one) with the amount of scrap paper I generate!

Hence, this card. Whilst I had all the stuff out to do the Andy Warhol one that I originally wanted to do, I made this one with some of the scraps. The disc was going to free hang but had to attach with a tiny bit of DST coz I needed it to stay as much on the yellow card as possible. On the yellow, it took up the coral colour perfectly. On the blue...and as you can see...on the white the disc really looks very pink.

I thoroughly enjoyed my "me" day yesterday!!! I am plotting if I could get away with two in a row right at this moment....But know hubby already asked me about going to town. Anyone would think we liked the place....three times in one week. Yuck!

Catch ya!

Andy Warhol Baby

Materials:
Stamps:Stampendous Clear Stamps Sassy Silhouettes ssc065
Inks: Colourbox Rose Coral, StazOn Opaque Butter Cream, StazOn Opaque Baby Blue
Cardstock:Bazzill Flamingo, Stonewash and Sunbeam, Yes White
Other:Stampin Up tag punch, square punch

Good morning people on a very heavy rainy day. No walk for me this morning, so have to resort to the exercise bike. You can see I am working up to that idea being on here instead! ROFL! Exercise bikes are cruel!

Here is a little simple Andy Warhol style baby card. I distressed the yellow layer using my fingernail. Methinks, one card a day using the fingernail tech is all, as the finger gets a bit sore!

A comment on the StazOn Butter Cream inkpad. It is divine on acetate as it stamps a really rich cream! Very yummy. As you can see here, it stamps quite yellow on white matt card! So I am thinking, I have two for the price of one. The Opaque series in StazOn are a very interesting set of inkpads! The Flamingo cardstock IRL matches the the Rose Coral inkpad. It just doesn't scan the right colour.

Oh Baby Not Again!

Materials:

Stamps: Stampin Up Baby Firsts, Stamps by Judith Square, Unknown Wording

Inks: StazOn Black

Cardstock: Bazzill

Other: H2Os Blue Ice,Indian Copper, Gold Dust, Golden Opal, Blue Grosgrain, Bazzill Brads, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Stamp Positioner, PostIt Notes

Afternoon all,

Just a simple little one today. Well the concept was simple...the doing was more a pain in the butt! No way could I simply stamp six squares onto the white. No, oh no! I had to rule it all up first so I had a chance of getting it somewhere near even! Of course, the very first square I stamped came out with a big blob in the middle of it. Bugger! That meant tearing up the ruled card. Out came the scissors and I gave that stamp a haircut on the spot. Back to ruling up another piece of card. I had planned on a lighter Cuttlebugged piece but the colouring of the babies dictated I change my mind pretty smartly! I distressed the bottom edge of the green by rolling the edge slightly. I have decided I need a few more baby related stamps. I am now officially over the Stampin Up set I DO own (straight after I make my quilted one I want to do)! Don't quite remember why I bought that set in the first place. Ok going out to dinner in a little while, so I suppose I ought to see if there are sets of clothing we can wear (the fairies having visited and polished off the washing and ironing! ) Dream on, girl!!!!!!!

Baby Card

Materials:

Stamps: Stampin Up Baby Firsts, Fern Gully Wording, Unknown Baby Bottle

Cardstock: Bazzill, Prisma

Inks: StaZon Black, Colourbox Chalk Orchid Pastel

Other: H2Os Cherry Sorbet, Pearl Ex Duo Blue/Green, Flamingo Pink, Rectangle Nestabilities, Pink Grosgrain Ribbon, White Gesso

Hey people,

Since I had to make a couple of boy baby cards, I thought now would be a really good time to make just a few to have in reserve, so here is a little girl one. I thought I would try the baby theme with one of the Pearlised Gesso backgrounds I made back in July, just to see if an arty background would go with the decidedly very cutesy Stampin Up stamps. I have seen a card similar to this a while back, though I do not now remember who made it, but I have changed lots of the elements to come up with my version. What do you think?

Baby Blues

Materials:

Stamps: SU Baby Firsts, Hero Arts B3835 It's A Boy, Hero Arts C1121 Congratulations

Card: Bazzill, Spectrum, Die Cuts with a View Glitter Paper

Other: Nestabilities Circles (Plain and Scalloped), DSFT, Unknown Footprint Ribbon White Gel Pen, Crystal Glitter Glue (for the bubbles)

H2O's -Dreamsicle, Fairy Plum, Egyptian Gold, Oyster, Tahitian Blue

Heaven forbid. I made a baby card. For those who know me well, I do not make very many of these! But a good friend of ours had a baby boy last night, so really I just had to. No more excuses. I have to make another for yet another bub ...But I am already a week late for that one (and am ready to blame the postal system...lol....not really!),so a few more days will not hurt! Nestabilities are such a great aid to card making. I don't know what I would do without them now when making the conventional style of card.