So Very Hard to See!

So Very is the Stampin' Up! set that I used here... but in this photo the words are very hard to see! I did end up going over the words with a marker in a slightly darker shade than it stamped out with the "Really Rust" stamp pad... and then this baby card was ready for another teacher who is expecting a baby! Yippee!

Funky New Baby Card

I wanted to make a yellow (bright yellow!) card to match a gift bag I was using for a new baby present. I took a look at my Stampin' Up! color wheel and it gave the above suggestions. I wasn't sure about it at first, but then thought it turned out kind of funky and, dare I say, hip! (?)
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I am now loving incorporating patterned papers with my stamping... something that had been out of my comfort zone. How do you think I did? :-)

Baby Card # 2

We had to make 28 cards (14 each of 2 styles) for the card swap I mentioned in the previous post. This is my other selection made for a "new baby boy" card.

Here's a little sumthin'...

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Hi! Hopefully I am black to this blog for a while!

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My husband has "commissioned" me to make sympathy cards for him to send to his clients (unfortunately when he gets many of his doggy and kitty patients, they are quite ill). Well, I am not starting off with one of those... but know that they are on their way!

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Rather, I am posting a photo of a card I made for a card swap I participated in. The category I got was "baby boy." So, what do you think?

Scallops Galore!

Here are two cards I managed to get done this morning... all Stampin' Up! supplies. I just love the new scallop edge punch! (As you will see when I post a photo of my Christmas cards after Christmas! And as you have seen in a previous post!)
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Also, I wanted to make some "new baby" cards for Hope Stampers at church. (Hope Stampers being the group I am part of at church that makes cards for those on our prayer list.) Usually I make "symapthy" and "thinking of you" cards (which are the majority of the cards we need), but thought this time I would add a couple of these kind of cards for variety.

For the New Baby

Got to give this one to our new niece! She is a sweetie!!!

Hey, Baby!

New punch used here again... with new stamps... and a new idea for me to use my color wheel to arrive at this color scheme. What do you think about the color combination? I am not sure... but I went with it anyway to make several cards like this for our church stamping group.

Here it is:

Here is the card I made using the card from my previous post as inspiration. This card is going to my sister-in-law for her baby shower. It is fun to make something geared towards a little baby girl... I do have one niece already that I get to do "girly" things for once in a while, but with having boys myself, this is still a treat.

"Green" Card

Recycled card, that is. Thank you, Sharon, for the lovely Valentine you sent! I turned around and used it to make this "Welcome New Baby" card for my stamping group at church. The front of the card made for a lovely background and I added the stamped part on top. Again... simple.

Miscellaneous

Here again is my favorite "thank you" stamp... used with a basic background in black and matching gold embossing. (I thought that the backgorund ended up looking a bit like a leopard print!)







Here is that ol' zebra print back again (used it here, too... and then I went to look for more of this paper at the store and couldn't find any! Just goes to show you to buy at least 4 sheets of the stuff the first time! :-) Anyway... this was somewhat successfully adapted from an idea I got out of a magazine (maybe it was Scrapbooks etc.??? I don't remember.)












This is another pocket card (the one I give Jaimie, my Stampin' Up! demonstrator, credit for HERE)... for a brand new baby of a friend. If you click this photo to get a closer view of the card, you can see how I used beads on the flap of the card for some detail.