Baby box card

Hi there,

I haven't added to my blog for so long but am still alive and well making cards.  I wanted to share this one as I have jumped on the bandwagon that is box cards.

Box cards are pretty cute and are good for baby cards, Christmas, anything, really.

I made this for a friend that is attending a baby shower, so I hope she likes it.

This is made from the Zoo Babies set, although the monkey is from a retired set call Fox and Friends as I liked the bigger image of the monkey.  The sentiments are from a lovely new set called Baby We've Grown.

I went to Office works to get some clear acetate sheets (you need to buy the document cover strength ones as the old overhead projector sheets are too weak.)  I then cut the acetate sheets into 1cm strips, to somewhat suspend the animals, so that when you shake it, the animals bounce around.

I will be running card in a box classes in late November

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Ness xx

Ok, One More Baby Card(s)!

This is for my friend if she has a girl.  I love the combination of crumbcake and our 'In Colour' Blushing Bride together- very soft, muted colours.  The first card was copied from the Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalogue.  I just turned it pink!  I stamped Fox and Friend images onto Very Vanilla Card stock and then stamped a letter from the Schoolbook Serif Alphabet set, then punched it out using a circle punch.

Using the same colour combinations, I then used my Punch Potpurri set to make the card below.  The set is a Hostess gift for hostesses with party sales of $300 (easy!).  It is called Punch Potpurri as each image has a matching punch.  (this had to be pointed out to me!)  If you look carefully, you can see the background band has the flower images stamped all over the card, giving it a look of patterned paper.  I punched the bird a leaves from the Two step Bird Punch.  Of course, I stuck some Stampin' Dimensionals underneath the heart and the bird to give it a lift.

Another technique I have used here, is my favourite scrapbooking thing and that is inking.  Inking is when you dab a makeup sponge (or a proper dauber) into the ink pad and scrape it past the edge of the image.  It gives a nice vintage edge to the image.  You will see I used it around the heart.

Ness

Fox and Friends

Lots of people around me are having children and it inspired me to have a play with the Fox and Friends set to start making cards in time for the all these babies' arrivals!  I have made equal pink and blue ones  to hedge my bets (let's hope it's an even spread).  As I was playing with it, I decided to make some cards for small children too.  This set also looks great in brighter colours, such as Pumkin Pie, Elegant Eggplant or Pacific Point.  This photo shows the small 'pillow' I made for a baby shower.  I thought you could put some of those personalised M&Ms in the pillow.  This could also perhaps translate into a wedding theme.