Baby Love

Hello and welcome! Today I'm popping in to share a card made recently for a lovely friend to welcome her gorgeous little boy!
 Such a happy time and so wonderful to be able to celebrate his arrival with a special card :-)

 

This lovely background may just remind of the one in this card made for last week's Just add Ink"s sketch challenge and that is because it uses the same Distress Inks. This card was my first play with them - new baby, new technique - goes together rather well don't you think ;-)

What seems to me to be the key is to use Water colour paper and then the inks blend better and the water droplets show up a little better but they are quite small here ( first try so was a little shy with it) it might be easier to see in the next photo. I also flicked on some clear Wink of Stella - which gives some silver sparkle to go with the Sparkly jump suit. I have indeed fallen for these lovely inks - they make creating backgrounds very quick and easy!

The square was cut from the panel and then the "love" and tie were cut from the same panel before being layered onto layers of white card stock to give some height and help things stay secure in the mail too.

Card stock: Whisper White (Thick and standard), Basic Black, Water color paper, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter Paper
Inks: Versamark
Stamps: Sunshine Sayings, Made With Love
Accessories: Big Shot, Sunshine Wishes thinlits, Baby's First Framelits, Clear Wink of Stella

Non SU: Distress Inks: Salty Ocean, Cracked Pistachio, Mermaid Lagoon, Blueprint sketch
Sequins - Crystal Reflections SSS (these seem to go with the ink colours :-))

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you are enjoying the pre Christmas rush - today I'm catching with a some lovely friends for coffee before getting back to the Post Office with overseas mail for posting and then back to the craft room to make some more as time seems to be moving very quickly this year don't you think?

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan

Baby Sunshine

Hello and welcome! It is the last weekend of the Winter school holidays and today was the first sunny day we have seen for a while. The park where we regularly walk was full of life - children on the playground and parents bringing picnic lunches - and dogs rolling in the mud...yes, Sally too  - all glad to see sunshine!

Today's card is made for some lovely friends visiting from NZ who are expecting their first baby. It was such a delight to catch up especially as it has been quite a few years since the last time.
And it seemed the perfect time to look at putting these two stamp sets together :-) I was inspired by the cards in the Catalogue using the Sunshine Sayings set and so this is a rather rare CASE. I kept the general idea but changed colours and added layers and water colouring and of course the cute little Onesie :-)
 The heart and "love" are both die cut out of water colour paper and the latter was coloured using an Aquapainter before both received the almost magical Wink of Stella sparkle. For the little Onesie, I coloured the stripes using a Blender Pen.

And the water colouring theme is repeated on the inside.

(Hint: Stamp your words in Black Archival Ink before you start unless you have time to let it dry...otherwise they will still run with the water :-))

Card stock: Crumb Cake, Mint Macaron, Water Color Paper, Whisper White
Inks: So Saffron, Mint Macaron, Momento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Sunshine Sayings, Made With Love
Accessories: Big Shot, Sunshine Wishes Thinlits, Baby's First Framelits, Metallic Sequins Assortment, Subtles Enamel Shapes, Aquapainter, Blender Pen, Wink of Stella

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you are enjoying your weekend :-)

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan

Happy New Baby JAI #312

Hello and welcome! This week has gone really fast...Already we are half way through May and whilst we can certainly tell the sun is lower in the sky it still has a little more warmth in it than we expect for this time of year. Not that we could ever complain about that :-)

And it's time for a new fun challenge at Just Add Ink. This week Patrice has put together a really soft and beautiful colour combo for us all to use. Our talented team have all created gorgeous cards to inspire you so I hope you can take a moment to pop on over and take a look.

Here are the colours:

And here is my card:

This baby card is for some lovely friends who have just welcomed their second beautiful boy. 

And yes, there is a new sneak peek of the new Swirly Scribble dies! These will be available to order June 1st and I can see they are going to be so useful already! Here, 3 are layered on top of each other to make a frame around the water coloured deer. 

The little deer is stamped in Versamark and Pacific Point and then embossed with Clear EP so I could colour it using an Aqua Painter and some Marina Mist and Bermuda Bay inks. The sentiment is white embossed and layered over the top. And the fourth colour you can see in the DSP and Twine - to get the Mint twine, I simply unraveled some of the Mint Macaron and Black Combo Bakers Twine.

Of course, a box was needed to go with the gift - and btw Pumpkin Patch gift cards don't expire - so is really handy if the recipient has plenty of new baby boy clothes already ;-)

To create the box I used the same DSP as on the card and found on Pinterest, a square shaped box by Michelle Long. I adjusted the measurements as I needed a larger size - 11cm square. I will come back during the week with a tutorial.

Here it is closed - I used a vellum belly band just like Michelle did - using the Scallop Tag Topper punch on both ends of the vellum  trip and tied it together using the Mint Macaron lace ribbon. Then it just needed a little tag :-)

Another little "deer" and a few touches of silver, sparkle, vellum and pearls :-)

Card stock: Mint Macaron, Pacific Point, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer, Water Colour Paper, Vellum

Designer Series Paper: Silver Fancy Foil Vellum, Birthday Bouquet 

Inks: Versamark, Pacific Point, Bermuda Bay, Marina Mist

Stamps: Made With Love, Hello (Saleabration)

Accessories: Big Shot, Swirly Scribbles Thinlits, Envelope Punch Board, Triple Banner Punch, Scalloped Tag Topper Punch, Aqua Painter, Basic Pearls, Mint Macaron Lace Trim, Silver Sequin Trim, White EP, Clear EP

Non SU: Stitched Circle Dies - Simon Says Stamps, White tissue paper- $2 Store.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can take a moment to pop over to Just Add Ink and see the wonderful creations from the rest of the team and I look forward to seeing what you will create with these gorgeous colours this week.

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan

Baby Love PCCCSC #169

Well this week is going so fast and it's been a week of firsts - the All Blacks became the only Team to ever win the rugby World Cup back to back, and Michelle Payne also created history yesterday by being the first woman ever to win the Melbourne Cup (Horserace that stops the nation) ! If we were going for three firsts I guess we are still waiting but Sally the Lab is making a pretty good recovery  from her knee surgery last week - walking mainly on all 4 legs already and keen for longer than the 5-10 min outings she is currently allowed so that is great too.

And being Wednesday it is also time for a new sketch at The Paper Craft Crew! The Team have created a great variety of cards to inspire you so I hope you can take a moment and pop on over to see.

Here is the sketch:

And here is my card:

And the first thing you might notice is the lovely wooden J tag - a birthday gift from a very lovely friend that you will be seeing more of :-)
I did leave out the element to the side from the sketch as the DSP here is quite busy and I changed the bow to be some ribbon behind this row of stars that were created using the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits's accessories. There is some Lost Lagoon ribbon added underneath for some softness :-)
Whilst this DSP is retired this is for some lovely friends who have just announced they are expecting baby boy number 2 and these colours are what they have used to decorate their nursery so I couldn't resist using it.

Card stock: Soft Sky, Whisper White, Hello Honey, Sahara Sand
Designer Series Paper: Sweet Dreams (Retired)
Inks: Lost Lagoon, Hello Honey
Stamps: Made With Love
Accessories: Big Shot, Baby's First's Framelits, Mini Treat Bag Framelits, Lost Lagoon ribbon
Non SU: Stitched Rectangle Dynamics Dies (MFT), Stitched Circles Dynamic Dies (MFT)

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can take a moment to stop by the Paper Craft Crew and see all the fabulous cards the Team have made to inspire you and I look forward to seeing what you will create with this sketch too!

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan