Clean and Simple Birthday Card

It's Wednesday, which means we're half-way through the work week and that much closer to the weekend! Looking forward to seeing my hubby again! Yesterday, I did not have the greatest start to my day... I was late for work and realized I forgot my lunch when I got to work. Ugh. However, one highlight to my day... I was chosen as a 'Perfect Princess' at Freshly Made Sketches! To see my original post, click here.

For today's card, I decided to play along with the new Retrosketches challenge and a colour combo challenge with Colour Q. It's a fabulous clean and simple sketch this week and the colours are so soft and subtle - these two challenges worked so well together!

As a bonus, I realized as I was making the card that this would also fit perfectly with the Pink Elephant challenge this week.

 

Our challenge theme this week is to:

"Use 3 Decorative Papers & Your Favorite Embellishment"

 

I actually used 6 decorative papers in my card and one of my favourite embellishments - bakers twine. Here's how it turned out:

 

 

 

Thanks for looking! 

 

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Fabulous Phrases

Paper: Soft Suede, Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Neutrals DSP, Summer Smooches DSP, 2010-2012 In-Colour DSP, 2011-2013 In-Colour DSP, Comfort Cafe DSP

Ink: Soft Suede

Tools: Owl Builder punch

Accessories: Early Espresso Bakers Twine

Inspired By... Adorable Dresses!

Had a great start to the weekend yesterday -- we were let off work early - love days like that! I also had a very productive evening. I completed a few Z-fold Mother's Day cards and got a good start on some purse gift card holders. I decided to make the Z-fold cards in all different colours to give people some choice at the craft show. I love how they turned out!

Today is going to be another productive day – I can just feel it! In addition to some housecleaning, I hope to do a lot of papercrafting. I’d like to add to my stock of Mother’s Day cards, complete several gift card holders and get started on some masculine/Father’s Day cards. We’ll see how far I get! Tonight we plan on heading over to the Aquatic Centre. In the 2 years we’ve lived here, we have never been! Apparently they have a lazy river, a large hot tub, saunas...  It’ll be a great way to relax and beat the winter blues!

It’s time for a new inspirational photo!

It was my choice this week. I found this photo on Etsy. These adorable little girl dresses are made by Fairy Free Designs (check out their etsy shop - such cute items!).

IB #10

This photo inspired me to create a baby girl greeting card with cute little punch art dresses! Here’s how it turned out:

Adorable, right?  I used the Tab punch for the top part of the dress and scallop circle nestabilities for the skirt. I ‘pleated’ the skirt by scoring at the valley of every scallop, if that makes sense. I then added crochet ribbon and ¼” taffeta ribbon around the waist of each dress. The cute sentiment “welcome, baby” with pearls on the scallop circle complete the card.

 

Hop on over to Karly's Creations to see how this photo inspired her! 

 

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Petite Pairs
Paper: Blushing Bride, Regal Rose, Whisper White, In-Colour 2011-2013 DSP
Ink: Regal Rose
Tools: Tab punch (ret.), Scallop Circle nestabilities, Scallop Circle punch, 1-1/4” Circle punch
Accessories: Victoria Crochet ribbon, ¼” taffeta ribbon (Marina Mist and Regal Rose), Pearls (Michael’s)

So Worth the Wait

It was another fresh February day in PG yesterday! Took Keta for a walk down the forest service road near our neighbourhood - she loves to run freely! Was good for her to get some exercise and get rid of some energy. I also enjoyed getting some fresh air!

 

Today's card is created using a new sketch from Retro Sketches and a theme challenge from the Paper Players:

 

 

 

This sketch was a bit challenging at first glance, but pairing it with a theme like the one from Paper Players inspired me! Baby cards are always fun to make and I love adding buttons and bows to my cards! This is what I came up with:

 

 

I created a square 5"x5" card. I used designer paper from the Twitterpated DSP collection for the background. A piggy is stamped in Rose Red and popped up on a circle/scallop circle. Small Blushing Bride buttons are added as embellishments and I tied a small bow with Bakers twine for the piggy's ear. The sentiment "so worth the wait" completes the card. Doesn't it make an adorable card for welcoming a new baby girl? 



 

I created a matching envelope using the Twitterpated DSP.

 

Card Ingredients:

 

Stamps: Button Buddies, Word Play

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Blushing Bride, Whisper White, Twitterpated DSP

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red

Tools: Circle nestabilities, Scallop Circle nestabilities

Accessories: Twitterpated buttons (Blushing Bride), Early Espresso striped baker's twine

 

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KCRR #2 Happy New Baby Girl

Happy Friday!

Welcome to another fun challenge with Karly & Charissa's Random Recipe! This week we chose the following two random items from our long (and growing!) list of supplies/themes/techniques/colours:

Baby Girl

Baja Breeze

 

This was a challenge! For those of you who don't know, the Stampin Up colour "Baja Breeze" is a pastel blue. Usually when I think of "baby girl", I think of pink. So I had to really think about this one! I wanted to make pink the dominant colour on the card. This is what I came up with:

 

KCRR #2



 

The card base is Basic Gray and I think it goes so well with these pastel colours! I chose Baja Breeze designer paper from the Patio Party DSP and the pink striped paper is from the Nursery Nest DSP that I bought on clearance not too long ago. I stamped the baby carriage and sentiment in Basic Gray and cut it out using circles nestabilities. The edges are sponged lightly with Baja Breeze ink and I coloured in part of the baby carriage with Regal Rose marker.

 

The satin pleated ribbon and small rhinestones on the hearts embellish the card so nicely! I think my first baby girl card with Baja Breeze was a success! What do you think?

To see Karly's take on this challenge, visit her blog: Karly's Creations!

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Fast & Fun Notes (ret.)
Paper: Basic Gray, Blushing Bride, Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Gray, Baja Breeze, Regal Rose marker
Tools: Circles Nestabilities, Scallop Circles Nestabilities, 3/4" circle punch, Small Heart punch
Accessories: Blushing Bride pleated satin ribbon (ret.), rhinestones

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