Warm and Fuzzy feelings for Baby

Today's Ways to Use It 232 was to add "fuzz" to our project. I decided to make a baby card as I am attending a baby shower this weekend hadn't made a card for my gift yet.

I pulled out Flourishes "Rock A Bye Baby" as it is the only baby set I have. (think I need to buy some more baby sets!) I knew I wanted to use Flower Soft on the baby's blanket to make it look all fuzzy. I colored the image with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits, cut out the entire image and then added the Flower Soft.

I remembered I had some fuzzy white paper that had been sent to me so I paper peiced the moon. The image is on dimensions. The design paper is from DCVW Nana's Nursery baby girl and I used Spellbinder's scalloped square to cut them out. The paper has glitter on it so I picked Shimmer White cardstock as my main card and as the piece behind the moon.

The sentiment is also stamped on Shimmer White and then punched out with SU's oval punch. I sponged pretty in pink ink on it. Layered it off the poka dotted green which is on dimensionals. I used the Bow Easy to make my bow.



I wanted a different color to put behind the card to make the colors pop more when I happened to look at the gift I had picked up for the baby and what do you know? It was almost the same colors! With the help of my 3yr old (holding up the dress), I used the outfit as the background setting. The card is actually sitting on the matching undies!

Supplies used: Flourishes - Rock a Bye Baby, pretty in pink, barely banana, shimmer white cardstock, fuzzy white cardstock, DCWV Nana's Nursery baby girl, Flower Soft, ribbon, oval punch, spellbinders, black ink, prismacolor pencils, odorless mineral spirits

A Little Miracle

No, I am not talking about the little miracle that is always talked about at Christmas time but rather about baby Francesca Maria Bucci who was born with complications. Andrea over at Crafty Engineering is offer up blog candy for those that send a RAK to the family, please see her blog for more info on the baby and how you can send a RAK. As much as I would love to win the blog candy, the motive for making the card was not for that but for the family in hopes that it brings them a small amount of comfort.

This card combines a few challenges: Try New Technique 200 (faux silk with pop), color challenge 198 (so saffron, cameo coral & orchid opulence) and Sketch challenge 208. I used Flourishes Rock-a-bye Baby set for my image and JustRite Stamper's Brayton Font for the sentiment.

I did the faux silk with pop on the moon only. I stamped on tissue paper with black soot distress ink, let it dry, crinkled up the tissue paper and then cut it to exactly fit the moon that I had stamped on white cardstock. I used Helmar V2 Vellum Adhesive to attach the tissue paper moon to the stamped image. The spray soaked through the tissue paper just a little so it made the ink look 'softer'. As I haven't tried the Vellum adhesive on anything but vellum, I wasn't sure of the results but really like how it didn't run the ink but 'soften' it a little. I paper pieced the rest of the image with Spring Flower dsp and orchid opulence cardstock for the blanket. I attached the paper/cardstock with Helmar Acid Free Glue as those pieces were just too small for double sided adhesive. The image is on dimensions ( I know.. completely forgot about using Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots instead! It was midnight when I was making this card, think my brain was asleep!)

Used an artist pen to add all my Faux Stitching and some paper piercing in the corners of the main image panel. Black Rhinestones by Kaiserscrapbook were added to the corners of the cardfront. The sentiment was stamped on vellum paper and adhered to the cardstock with Helmar's V2 Vellum Adhesive. All cardstock/dsp was attached using Helmar Quick-fix Adhesive Runner.

stamp: Flourishes - rock-a-bye Baby, JustRite Stamper's Brayton Font; paper: cameo coral, so saffron, orchid opulence, white, spring flower dsp; ink: black soot distress; accs: black rhinestones, artist pen, helmar v2 vellum adhesive, helmar acid free glue, helmar quick-fix adhesive runner

Flourishes in the house!

I finally got some Flourish stamps. Just had to use a few of them for the Limited Supply194 (acrylic stamps only) last Friday. I also added in the Color challenge192 and Ways to use it 192 (watercolor paper). The sketch comes from Beate's blog sketch challenge.

I used Certainly Celery, Not quite Navy and Basic Gray cardstock plus Watercolor cardstock. The flowers were stamped in Basic Gray and then watercolored Not quite Navy and Certainly Celery on for the sky and ground. Pulled out the distressing tool again!

The faux brads are acutally Basic Gray cardstock with cyrstal effects added on top. The cardstock is attached with glue dots.

stamps: Flourished Elements & Summer Botanicals; paper: certainly celery, not quite navy, basic gray, watercolor paper; ink: certainly celery, not quite navy, basic gray; accs: crysatl effects, distressing tool

I haven't forgotten about my blog candy. Should be up by the end of this week. :)