Sweet Pea Baby Card

 

Hello!

Last Friday I placed my order with The Greetery and their release, New Beginnings.

Monday my order was in the mailbox! Bravo, Betsy!

My first card with this new release is a baby card. I'm so happy to see the

addition of cards for babies included in the line. I for one was in need of

some fresh product.

Hello Sweet Pea is going in my stash of baby cards, which has 0 cards 

at the moment, and I can't wait to do more with this release!

Nestled in a pea pod, and then in a wreath, the sleeping pea is just the cutest!

All die cuts cut from white cardstock,  and inked. 

The Greetery

Sweet Pea die, Baby Face Sentiments, Spring Meadow Background stamp, 

Rustic Wreath Stamp and die.

Celebrating a new baby with a friend

 

Greetings friends. I wanted to share a project I made for a friend, Birgit Norton.

Birgit recently welcomed a grandson into her family.

I began with a paper collection I've had for a long time, and went with

those colors. Lawn Fawn's Ducklings and box die were the perfect fit.

One of the paper panels was this print set of blocks, which I cut up to decorate the sides and back.

I think I used every image in the stamp set for this project! Especially the bubbles!

The sweet box is designed to fold flat for mailing,  and fits. perfectly into a A2

size envelope.

Joyous congratulations Birgit and family!

Card Concept Challenge: Wee One

 

Hi there! It's time for a new challenge at the Card Concept, and we celebrating with

this photo inspiration:

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The colors against purest white was the first thing that hit me, and then followed

by 'it's a baby's room! I haven't done a baby card in awhile so I was looking forward

to creating a card with a celebration baby theme.

For my Clean and Layered, I used the Greetery's Postage Stamp die, and cut it 

from PTI's Hawaiian Shores cardstock. To celebrate baby, I chose the balloons

from the Greetery's Balloon Bouquet, and used the colors in the photo. 

baby fox is a Flora & Fauna image from their Bohemian Forest Animals

collection. While there's no fox in the inspiration photo, there are 2 stylized 

owl pictures, and my little foxy came closest to the style of those owls.

Now it's your turn. What inspires you?

Play along  and don't forget to mention a style (use ours or make one up of your own),

and don't forget to post our inspiration photo on your blog. 

Happy stamping! (or die cutting, painting, copic coloring... well you get the idea!)

 

Card Concept Challenge: Woodland Nursery

Hello, and welcome to my blog! I'm featuring some inspiration today for The

Card Concept. Here's the photo:

Sweet, isn't it? I took the 4 squares as my starting point, and the darling

animals for my baby card. I'm calling it Clean and Layered, with a 

touch of Graphic for the squares.

The adorable animals are Flora & Fauna's Bohemian Woodland Animals, Copic

colored and popped up on a corner cropped square die from Concord & 9th. 

Sentiment: PTI: Worth The Wait.

Our challenges are 2 weeks long, and we love seeing how the inspiration

inspires your creations!

Happy Crafting!

Owl Cherish Our Friendship: The Card Concept

Hi and welcome! The Card Concept has a new challenge for you:

 'Owl Cherish Our Friendship'.

How was I inspired? The square shape of the pillows, fabric patterns, and of course,

those darling owls! 

I needed a card for a friend who announced her pregnancy recently, 

and chose the whimsical owl from Papertrey's Polka Dot Parade #11.

I love the term 'glowing' for an expectant mother, and created the word with 

Concord & 9th's Perfectly Penned stamp set, which has the script letters

 to create the word.

Gave my mom to be owl a sprinkle of glitter to 'show the glow'.

Then I went over the word with silver Wink of Stella.

Stitched squares: Lawn Fawn's Scallop Box Card Pop-Ups.

Background PTI's Polka Dot stencil & Aqua Mist Ink.

The Challenge runs for 2 weeks, plenty of time to play!

We love seeing which of the styles you use to create your card.

My card style? Layers, lots of them. And a bit of Mixed Media too.

Our styles are explained here:

The Styles Defined

Oh yes, you can use one of our style suggestions, combine a couple, or use one of your own!

Happy Creating!

Waltzingmouse April PJ Party: Old Pajamas

Challenge 3 at WM's PJ Party is to use 'Old Pajamas'. 

And a 'coordinating Spellbinders'.

I have the Opera tags, which coordinate with 

their Christmas stamps. Just a die cut alone is still beautiful.

Together with a die cut cradle from Little Darlings,

a tiny tag from the Opera set, and some ombre seam binding,

my 'Old Pajama' card is done!

Getting under the wire,

...Welcome to our April PJ Party

Paper Sweeties January Release Party!

It's release day at Paper Sweeties! 

Today you can order the darling sets you've seen here and

on my teammates' blogs!

I've done 2 cards for you today, one for a girl baby, and one for a boy.

My baby girl card features the adorable giraffe from Bouncing Baby.

This set gives you some words and sentences to put just the right

sentiment on your card or tag!

Paper Sweeties Cotton Candy twine & sequins

Using the same layout, and boy colors, I created a baby boy card.

Blueberry twine and sequins this time.

I love having cards ready for the next 'baby's here' announcement!

If you missed any of the designer's blogs for this release, I have their links here:

Annette Witherspoon
Char Cundy

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jill Norwood 

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Larissa Heskett
Lysa Rohrer 
Mackie Robertson 

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala
Mynnette Kitchen

Nancy Penir

New Products & Links:

What's New 

Bouncing Baby
Bundle of Joy

Sweet Cuts - Bundle of Joy

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Paper Sweeties January Release Countdown!

Day 2 of the Paper Sweeties January Release, and we're one day closer 

to being able to purchase the new 'Baby' stamps and dies!

Today my card features a clothesline set from Bundle of Joy.

Stamped once on the card front, and die cut and stamped twice more to announce

a Baby Boy!

Behind the card is a matching envelope. 

So quick and easy with the matching dies!

Hope you'll come back tomorrow for more of this month's Baby Release!

Annette Witherspoon
Char Cundy

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jill Norwood 

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Larissa Heskett
Lysa Rohrer 
Mackie Robertson 

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala
Mynnette Kitchen

Nancy Penir

Paper Sweeties January Release Sneak Peeks!

Hi all! And welcome to Paper Sweeties January Release Sneak Peek!

Let's get right to it!

It's all about babies this month!

Everything you need for a baby card, tag, or decoration can be found in 

this month's stamp sets and dies!

But more about that tomorrow.

Don't forget to come back for another look.

Meanwhile, did you see all the great examples from my teamies?

Annette Witherspoon
Char Cundy

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jill Norwood 

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Larissa Heskett 
Lysa Rohrer 
Mackie Robertson 

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala
Mynnette Kitchen

Nancy Penir

The Card Concept #13

Create a Baby Themed card is the challenge this week at The Card Concept Challenge Blog.

Love the Rattled stamp and die set from PTI.

 Stitched rectangle die set from Lil Inkers.

PTI card stocks including Shimmer Silver & Pearl

Wet Cement ink (sentiment) from Hero Arts

The detail on the rattle is an embossing powder from Lindy's Stamp Gang 

called Geranium Coral Blush. Tried to capture the iridescence of the 

baby pink, so soft and pretty!

Style? Gotta go with Classy and Elegant!

Challenge #13 - Oh Baby!