Welcome Baby Card

Hello and welcome!  Today I've got a baby card to share with you, as I thought the bunnies in the Garden of Hope collection were sweet enough to use in a baby card.

 Paper Rose Studio Supplies:  29458 Garden of Hope E 12x12 Paper, Layered Pinwheel Lace Border Metal Cutting Die 20973, All Occasions Sentiments A5 12pc Sentiment Sheets 22339 .

To create this card, I did some ink blending on the card front, using a light blue ink and just leaving little white areas for clouds. I fussy cut out the bunny and the flowers from the Garden of Hope papers.  Where there was white cardstock showing around the stems, I lightly ink blended some Catherine Pooler ink in Eucalyptus around the stems.  I glued the flowers down to the ink blended background, and popped the center flower bud on foam tape before adhering it.  

I die cut the Pinwheel border from white cardstock twice, and glued these together for dimension, using a spray glue.  I used the same Eucalyptus ink to colour a piece of white cardstock to put behind this border, as it helped disguise the fact that the flowers didn't quite reach the bottom. I glued all this in place at the bottom, and then popped the bunny up on foam tape and adhered him in place.  Finally, I used the same ink to make a mat for the sentiment and then glued it in place over the border.

Thank you for joining me today and I hope you're having a great day!

Penguin Baby Card

Hi there! I have a cute little penguin card to share today. I have to confess, I really struggle to make clean and simple cards.  But I wanted this card to be sweetly simple, so I reined myself in when making this one. I had thoughts of adding glimmer paste, sequins, maybe an action wobbler etc, but I kept to my original idea of a CAS card. And I’m so glad I did because I actually love how this card turned out and how the penguin is the focus of the card.  Plus, it was a super fast and easy card to make! I used the Penguin with a Heart stamp set from Gerda Steiner Designs for this one.

I started by ink blending some Distress Oxide inks in Worn Lipstick and Kitsch Flamingo through a heart stencil (I used the “Love Splash” stencil from A Colorful Life Designs) in the lower right corner of my card front. I coloured the penguin with copic markers (N6, N4, R39, R29, R35, Y19, C1, and C0), and then cut him out and popped him up on foam tape for some dimension.  Although I made this card into a baby card, it could so easily be a thank you card, birthday card, or sending hugs just by changing the sentiment. This particular sentiment is from Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Background stamp set. 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you’re having a great day!