Sweet Little {butterfly} Baby

Hey sweet friends.  Just jumping onto the blog today with a baby card to share.  My friend has a friend who's a having a sweet baby girl soon and that means a baby shower is order.  Her baby's room is going to be full of butterflies and flower gardens...doesn't that sound wonderful?

I tried to capture that flower garden feel with this card.  The paper is from DCWV and the gorgeous butterfly dies are Stampin Up!  I've added some texture to them with embossing folders from Cuttlebug.

I just love this sweet sentiment from the Papertrey Ink Bitty Baby Blessings set.  There are a bunch to choose from in the set but I seem to come back to this one every time.  Thanks so much for coming by today!

Supplies:

Paper: DCWV and Georgia Pacific

Stamps: Bitty Baby Blessings

Ink: SU! and PTI

Punches: CM and SU!

Die Cut: SU!

Embossers: Cuttlebug

Ribbon: PTI

Craft Supply: embroidery floss and flower brad

{Sweet Little Baby} a challenge from Jane's Doodles

Happy new year's eve!  Last day of 2009 and let me tell you, I am sooooo ready for a brand new year full of hope and promise.  Today, a card I made that speaks to some of the hope and promise of the new year....a dear friend is having a baby and I need to stockpile a couple baby cards to be ready for her little bundle of joy.

I used Jerry Giraffe from Jane's Doodles at Squigglefly.  My sweet bloggy friend Jane has started her own line of digital stamps and Jerry stole my heart immediately!!!  Jane has issued a challenge to make something using her digital stamps and then you can be entered in her AMAZING blog candy drawing.  See all of the challenge details HERE.  Today is the last day to enter so hurry.

I printed Jerry on a piece of DP from Nana's Nursery, DCWV.  After detail cutting the image,  I gave Jerry pink cheeks, colored and glittered his spots and inked the edges of the image with chestnut roan ink from colorbox.  I wanted to soften everything with a little shabby brown ink ( I used the chestnut roan ink plus the chai and chamomile inks from Papertrey)  It gave everything a warm toasted marshmallow look.  Mmmmmm,  I can practically smell the baby powder.  Love that!  Jerry is also popped up on foam tape along with the layered heart.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you'll play along with Jane if you have creative time today.  Her new images are so sweet!  Happy new year!

Supplies:

Digital Image: Jane's Doodles at Sguigglefly

Punches: EK Success (corner rounder), Marvy Uchida (heart), and Stampin Up! (border scallop)

Paper: DCWV, Papertrey and Georgia Pacific

Stamps: Papertrey

Ink: Colorbox and Papertrey

Glitter: Stickles and Martha Stewert

Pen: Zig scroll and brush and millenium

Embosser: Cuttlebug swiss dots

Craft supply: lace trim, safety pin, craft beads

Card Patterns Sketch 26 and KWerner Color Inspiration

Whew! It's a two-fer! I haven't done that in a long time! WEll it just so happens there were tons of great challenges I wanted to do this week and hubs is out in the wilderness tonight so I am just cranking out crafty, I figured, why not? Dishes can wait. LOL! So this card came together using the colors from Kristina Werner and the sketch from Card Patterns. I ended up with some fun results.
OK, so these aren't really baby card colors but I think I made it work anyway? The vintage-y lace edge on the sketch and many other elements in the sketch meant I had room for the SIX colors in Kristina's challenge. I also had this awesome 3-D star template from Kelleigh Ratlaff (she's linked on my side bar) that I wanted to try out. My plan was to use half of the template and make a 3-D element on a card...it worked! I will SO do this again!

Check that star out! Some ink really set off the raised and recessed edges and the embossed and glittered swirls using a Papertrey stamp set (Fancy Flourishes) really give this card some tactile qualities. Adding some celery ink to the celery cardstock also added a vintage-y depth to the background and, of course, good ol swiss dots to the rescue.

OK, I think I am done posting tonight. Sorry for the onslaught of posts today but I had *deadlines*! LOL These challenges were the perfect fun for the end of a challenging but satisfying week. Y'all know what I mean, sometimes you just gotta say, "what the craft" and make something just for the joy of it. Thanks for visiting!

Papertrey Ink May Blog Hop and Moxie Fab

Happy Blog hop! This month's PTI blog hop called for the use of the trendy color yellow. No surprise this color has also shown up in this week's color challenge from Moxie Fab and Papercrafts magazine. What a happy combo.

Moxie Fab challenge link

We have friends who are expecting a little girl soon and their baby shower is this week. I also happened to be digging through the yarn drawer for my girls to practice braiding and came up with this oh so soft baby yarn and had a flash of a card that could be as snuggly soft as a baby blankie...and came up with this...

I wrapped and wrapped the yarn around the front side of the card, securing the ends with a bit of my adhesive friend and yours, FABRI-TAC. The cardstock is heavy duty Papertrey Ink Lemon Tart so it can hold up nicely to the wrapping without causing the cardstock to bow. I next stamped the "sweet little baby" sentiment from the Bitty Baby Blessing from Papertrey Ink with Always Artichoke ink from Stampin Up! on white cardstock. This is run through a sizzix machine with the Top Note die. A little Kiwi Kiss ink on the edges does the trick to define the curvy edges of this die. I adhered the top note cut to the yarn with more fabri-tac. The green cardstock colors are spring moss and ripe avocado from papertrey and they were cut using nestabilities in the sizzix machine. My favorite embossing plate from cuttlebug, the swiss dots, was used on the scalloped oval to echo the lemon tart bitty dots paper I stamped the cute Bitty Baby Blessings ducky on. I also accented the oval with the dotted oval border from Papertrey's Borders and corners Oval in Always Artichoke by Stampin up!

I love all the different textures and mediums on this card. It feels so fresh and baby soft, just like a newborn! Check out all the layers in the side shot below. The yarn background looks like a great place to take a nap don't you think?

Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate you!

Supplies:

Paper: Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: Stampin Up!

Dies: Sizzix and Nestabilities

Embossing plate: Cuttlebug

Other: ribbon