Category Archives: By Theme – Baby Cards

Freshly Made Sketches #622

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Time for a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. Our fab sketch this week has been designed by the wonderfully talented Jen Mitchell. You’ll love her creations as much as I do.

When i saw this sketch, I reached straight away for the Rhino Ready Stamp Set and matching Rhino Ready Dies. I thought the images and dies I could cut, would create a cute scene for a children’s birthday card.

I added a faux watercoloured background behind the trees and grassy images. I then also added a textured background behind my main panel.

The team have created awesome cards that will no doubt inspire you. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

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Narelle

Global Design Project #410

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Had a chance to play in my craft room today and found this weeks sketch challenge at Global Design Project to enter.

Take a look at their fab sketch:

Time for a baby card to add to my stash. For my baby card I used images and dies from the Little Dreams Bundle. I coloured my images with Smoky Slate Blends and fussy cut them out. I create a lightness to my Smoky Slate Blend by using the Colour Lifter. I coloured the star with my Pool Party Blends.

The placed Coastal Cabana Cardstock behind the diecut star panels and added some die cut clouds. The sentiment I’ve added is also from the Little Dreamers Stamp Set. This sentiment was trimmed in half to give me the split sentiment.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #590

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There’s a new sketch to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the super talented Kim Singhahlsen.

Kim’s sketch had me thinking baby card for some reason.The stamp set I’ve used for my card is called Little Dreamers. These little images are the cutest and ready for colouring. I’ve coloured the images with a combination of Smoky Slate and Gray Granite Blends. The star the lion is holding has been coloured with my Pool Party Blends.

The background Basic White Cardstock has been stamped with the stars stamp and Pool Party Ink. This gives a little interest to the background.

For the strips of cardstock, I have used Pool Party, Coastal Cabana and Pretty Peacock Cardstocks. The clouds have been cut out with the matching dies to the stamp set. These dies are called Little Dreamer Dies. The moon was also cut out with these dies.

The team have created awesome projects. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

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Narelle

Global Design Project #396

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This weeks challenge at Global Design Project is a CASE The Designer Challenge.The challenge they have given us in to CASE Krista’s gorgeous card – take a look at her card:

I’ve had the Little Dreamers Stamp Set sitting unlinked for a couple of weeks. The matching dies were also sitting unused so I rectified this today with a CASE of Krista’s card. The clouds and moon dies in the Little Dreamers Dies were the starting point to my card as they were similar to her card.

The little elephant was stamped in Black Memento Ink and coloured with my Gray Granite Blends. It was then cut it out with the matching die.

The Basic Gray circle die cut has been given a little bit of interest with the 3 star stamp from the Little Dreamers Stamp Set.

Once I started layered, I felt my card needed a little more detail -because why not really? After searching through my stash, I found this tree die from the Rhino Ready Dies. This tree die was cut with Smoky Slate and Pretty Peacock Cardstocks.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #583

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It’s my turn to be sketch hostess at Freshly Made Sketches this week. As always I’ve left my sketch until the last minute and have come up with the following rushed sketch:

It’s been a while since I made a baby card, so I used this weeks sketch to create one with the Elephant Parade Stamp Set. I love these lil cutie images from the stamp set! I’ve paired them with the Brilliant Rainbow Dies and added balloons for a bit of fun.

Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what the team have created.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #572

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There’s a new sketch to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Linda Callahan.

I haven’t made a baby card in a while so I used this weeks sketch to add to my stash. The cute little bunny image is from the Easter Bunny Stamp Set.

I started with DSP for this card for once, rather than the stamp set. I wanted to use the pretty Petal Pink DSP from the Dandy Designs DSP pack. I then layered my card with the bunny that has been watercoloured with Crumb Cake and Petal Pink Inks. I fussy cut this little cutie out and adhered it to the circle punches and a leaf that was cut with the Forever Flourishing Dies.

The little flower and leaf cluster image is also from the Easter Bunny Stamp Set. I quickly watercoloured it with Melon Mambo and Granny Apple Green Inks. This arrangement was also fussy cut out.

I had a sentiment already stamped up that was sitting on my desk, so I added it to this card. Baby card complete!

The team have created awesome cards to inspire you. Head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

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Cheers

Narelle

Global Design Project #367

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I’ve joined in with the tree challenge at Global Design Project today. I love tree challenges as much as I love flower challenges!

The card I created is for my nephew and his partners’ baby shower. I created a neutral coloured card as we’re not sure if they’ve having a boy or a girl.

When I think of baby cards, I reach for my fav stamp set with the cutest images for a baby – it’s a retired set called Fable Friends.

I coloured the images up with Smoky Slate and Parakeet Party Blends. The images were fussy cut out and layered with trees cut with dies from the Majestic Mountain Dies. I added some strips of Parakeet Party and Basic Gray Cardstock to a piece of DSP from the Abigail Rose DSP. I then added a die cut circle of DSP, also from the Abigail Rose DSP.

Around these layers, I tied a bow of White Crinkled Seam Binding and added three Classic Matte Dots.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #512

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There’s a new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches for you to play along with. This week our sketch has been designed by the super talented Kim Singdahlsen.

The inspiration and starting point for this card came from the tree that Kim added to the sketch. Straight away I decided the tree die cut made with the Majestic Mountain Dies would work well. Initially I was thinking that I would make a Christmas card but decided to change it up and go with a baby card instead.

I haven’t made a baby card in ages, so I took out the Count On Me Stamp Set and coloured up this very cute bear image with Crumb Cake Blends. My Color Lifter got a real workout so that my bear ended up with a watercoloured look. The heart was coloured with the Bermuda Bay Blends. Again the heart got a workout with the Color Lifter.

Looking for DSP with matching tones to my tree and heart, I found these pieces of DSP from the Penguin Playmates DSP pack. This DSP was available for a short time during Sale-A-Bration, but is now retired. I matted both pieces with Soft Succulent Cardstock.

I added a White Crinkled Seam Binding ow and three Elegant Faceted Gems to the Basic White Cardstock. I also added some Sahara Sand Ink shading to the background with the Blending Brush.

The team at Freshly Made Sketches have created wonderful cards with this weeks sketch. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #183

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Wednesday’s bring a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  This week our sketch hostess is none other than the wonderfully talented Linda Callahan.  Have a look a her fabulous sketch:

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I don’t make a lot of baby cards so I thought it was time to add to my add.  Here’s what I created:

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The Clean Team as usual have designed fabulous inspiration for you. Head over to Freshly Made Sketches and take a look. We would love for you to join us in this challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle