IO Challenge- Oh Baby

Greetings everyone.  Today's challenge is all about baby cards.  I decided to use one of the new mini pattern stamps (ginham) to show you how you can change the ink color to create a girl or boy baby card.  Because you are using stamps instead of patterned paper, you can change the colors to fit the occasion...pink, blue, green, yellow, etc...

Here is the second card:

The nice thing about the mini patterns is that they are a small enough scale that they pair well with metal dies.  I first stamped the gingham onto white cardstock with light pink and light blue ink.  I then stamped it again onto white cardstock with dark pink and dark blue ink.  I cut out onsies from the dark gingham pattern and then layered my cards.

Items used:
Mini Pattern 1 3163-LG
DIE428 Baby Set
Baby E20017

Need more baby inspiration?  Be sure to visit the other designers

Anna Wight
Daniela Dobson
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett

Baby Card

Welcome to Day 2 of the Impression Obsession 2014 Spring Die Hop!

We have some beautiful new dies share AND Gift Certificates to give away each day!!!

The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day pay us a visit here and then head over and see our fabulous IO Design Team’s projects with our new dies on their blogs (only one comment per blog per day please). The more blogs you visit each day… the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!!!

Every day (Tuesday, March 25th – Thursday, March 27th) one of the blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Thursday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week. 

So….if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!

Both Thursday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Friday.

If you have any questions please email Jeanne.

All of the new dies you'll be seeing on the hop are available NOW!

www.iostamps.com

Today’s hop list:

Anna Wight

Daniela Dobson

Dina Kowal

Ellen Taylor

Jeanne Streiff

Jenny Gropp

Kittie Caracciolo

Laura Fulcher - you are here

Vicki Garrett

For my card today, I decided to once again coordinate stamps with dies.  This time I used images from the Clothesline clear set (CL539) and coordinated them with the Clothesline die set (DIE146-Z).  The stamp and die sets come with a ton of clothes items, but I decided to make a baby card and focus on the onsie.

I wanted to make a generic baby card and decided to go gender-neutral with colors.  I did learn that it is very hard to color a onsie with yellows and not have it look like a baby had an "accident" in it.  Therefore, I stuck to green.  Live and learn!

The clothespins are part of the die set and are a bit fiddly to glue down.  However, they really finish the card, and the die cuts seven clothespins at once so you don't have to keep running the die through a machine.  To finish the card, I stamped the background with the Gingham Cover a Card (CC006) and added some yellow rhinestones.