Showing posts with label Baby card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baby card. Show all posts

Saturday, July 8, 2017

Here's the "How To"


As promised, here are the basic instructions for the two baby cards shown in the International Highlights Top Ten Bog Hop. They really are simple, but there is a bit of fussy-cutting involved!

For the baby boy card, start with a Crumb Cake card base and add the Dapper Denim ombre Color Theory DSP cut to 4-1/8" x 5-3/8".
  1. Heat emboss the Hello Baby in white.
  2. Using the Large Letters Framelits, die cut B-O-Y from Crumb Cake and Dapper Denim cardstock. Use liquid glue to adhere the letters together, slightly offset for a shadow effect. Attach to card with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals.
  3. Die cut or punch stars from Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper and adhere with liquid glue.
  4. Stamp baby and stuffed animals on Shimmery White cardstock, color & fussy-cut baby and teddy bear, and adhere with dimensionals.


For the baby girl card, start with a Shimmery White card base. Cut the Delightful Daisy DSP to 3-3/4" x 5", wrap Very Vanilla Baker's Twine around and tie a bow. (I found it easier to adhere the DSP to a scrap of cardstock cut the same size before tying the twine.) Adhere to card base.
  1. Stamp moon/baby twice on Shimmery White. Color one baby with Blender Pens and fussy-cut baby. Die cut other baby and moon using third largest circle die in Layering Circles Framelits (it measures ~2-3/8" diameter).
  2. Use a mask to cover the sky, and sponge So Saffron to color the moon, leaving sky uncolored.
  3. Stamp greeting on sky above baby.
  4. Adhere to doily, and then attach to card with dimensionals.
  5. Adhere fussy-cut baby with dimensionals.
  6. Die cut stars from Gold Glimmer paper, attaching small one with liquid glue, and large one with a dimensional. (Note: I twisted Gold Metallic Thread together to make the cord the star is hanging from.)
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Moon Baby International Blog Highlights


Yup, I'm posting again on a day that starts with T, but I have a good reason! I've long been a lurker follower of Kylie Bertucci, an awesome Aussie SU demonstrator. This month I got up the nerve to play along with her monthly International Blog Highlights. We post a card using the current theme (this month is "baby"), and everyone asks for their friends and followers to vote for their card. The card makers with the top ten votes then get to be in an international blog hop! Cool, huh?


So, here is my card using Kylie's theme. I hope you will vote for it! To vote, CLICK THIS LINK to go to the gallery, find my card and click on it to vote. Mine is the second to last card, so scroll down when you get there and click the little heart in the upper right corner. Thanks ever so much!!!


Sadly, I rarely have occasion to make baby cards anymore. I'm at "that age", so it was fun to make something cutesy for a new baby. Maybe I'll have a chance to use it soon!


The baby and umbrella were stamped on Shimmery White, colored, and fussy-cut. Then they were stamped again on a 4" x 5-1/4" Shimmery White panel. I added the DSP and ombre ribbon, & popped the fussy-cut baby and umbrella up on dimensionals covering the stamped image. (I was too lazy to fussy-cut the umbrella handle, LOL.) After stamping the greeting, the panel was attached to the card base with dimensionals.

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Monday, May 22, 2017

A Different Baby Card


We have a lot of deer here. And by a lot, I mean we've counted thirty-two at one time in our hay field!
Smiley from Millan.Net
That mob hung around for a while, but seems to have dispersed. Now we are seeing small bachelor groups of maybe four to six. This is the time of year the does are off birthing their fawns, and it's always so exciting to spot the first fawn of the year. (Heh heh, "spot" the first fawn.) The only trouble is, while we love watching them, they are are real problem when it comes to our young orchard and garden-to-be.


There is a chicken wire fence around everything but they could hop over it without any effort, so we're looking to "discourage" them with electric fencing. Maybe a little jolt will make the green things on the other side less enticing. Now if it would just work on the darn bugs! Geez, there are a lot of bugs here! As I'm writing this, I'm enjoying the flashes of lightning bugs outside my window. They aren't garden pests, luckily!


In the Meadow is one of the stamp sets that is retiring next week. In fact, I used all kinds of retiring products here, some of which are already sold out, unfortunately. But the stamp set is still available! I thought the mama and fawn would make a great, rather unusual, baby card.

Here's the "How To"
 Image: Shimmery White 2-1/2" x 4-1/8"
 Mat: Basic Black 2-5/8" x 4-1/4"
 Mat: Shimmery White 2-7/8" x 4-1/2"
 DSP: Mint Macaron 4" x 5-1/4" (from 2015-2017 In Colors DSP Stack - RETIRED)
 Card base: Mint Macaron 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" scored & folded at 4-1/4" (STILL AVAILABLE 20% off)
  1. Adhere DSP to card base.
  2. Stamp greeting in Basic Black at bottom of image panel.
  3. Stamp deer above greeting, and then on a sticky note to cut out a mask. Mask off the deer and stamp the trees.
  4. Using an Aqua Painter, add spots of Old Olive to the trees and grass, and a light Soft Suede wash to the deer.
  5. Adhere to black mat and then to Shimmery White mat.
  6. Clip ribbon to top with a mini paper clip.
  7. Attach image to card base with Stampin' Dimensionals.
NOTE: The Mint Macaron Ribbon and DSP Stack is sold out, but the Mini Paper Clips are still available at 40% off.

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