Baby, Baby

It's still sunny here in Scotland, so looks like summer is going to last a little longer.

It's been quite an unexciting week, with plans made and dropped several times.  We will get a wee trip along the coast & fit in a visit to one of the local cafe's for a spot of fish & chips - eventually!
Freshly Made Sketches Challenge

I had some papers with a diagonal lace pattern which came with a Joanna Sheen papercraft kit so decided to use that as a guide for the design.  The embellishment is a rose die which came from The Works.  I ran the die twice, once in lilac card stock and the second in white which had been coloured with Distress Inks.  When I cut out the white card stock I used a folded sheet of kitchen towel behind it and that gave an embossed, slightly puffy look to the cut out.  I took some Mod Podge and sealed the kitchen towel on the back to keep it all together and once it was dry I used a satin varnish used for decopatch over the top.

I have been working on some baby cards for my friend's card collection, I had a couple of things stamped out waiting for a card to go on so I decided to use the FMS sketch to make one of them.  This one for a baby girl uses the Woodware "Huge Baby" word stamp set along with the tiny crown stamp from another of the Woodware baby sets "Cutie Pie Vest".  I had been going to add "Little Princess" to the sentiments on the card but decided against it.






I did, however, use the "Little Prince" on the "Cutie Pie Vest" baby boy card that made.  I made a Distress Ink background and then used more Distress Ink to colour the vest to help lift it up from the background.  The "Congratulations" die comes from a small Dovecraft set, I used a clear embossing powder to give it a glossy finish.

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A Little Bird Told Me

It's Sunday, the sun is shining (in between the showers) and our garden is starting to bloom! I've had my fingers crossed since January after I took loppers to my dwarf James Grieve apple tree for the first time since I got it as a Birthday present around12 years ago. I'm pleased to say that it is now covered in gorgeous pink blossom so it's looking good for a nice crop this year! 

 

I picked up a "Quick Cards" magazine earlier in the week, I don't often buy magazines but it had a rather nice "Moonbeam Meadow" Stamp Set by Crafter's Companion as a "free gift".  The new set of Promarker Pens I bought as an almost, not quite, nearly, early, Birthday present to myself arrived yesterday so it was practice time!

 

Last night I stamped out some of the "Moonbeam Meadow" designs and set about colouring them, when I was finished I played about with some ideas to use for the  Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #186 

 

As this challenge is based on a sketch  containing a diagonal I was drawn to the design of on a sheet from one of my Trimcraft 6x6 paper pads, Spring in Bloom, which has the main pattern concentrated into the right hand corner. The paper was put into the trimmer at cut on the diagonal and then separated to elongate it to fit a rectangular card shape and to create an inner strip for embellishment.

  

 

 

 The edges of the diagonal were decorated with promarker coloured strips cut using the dot/dash edge die from Spellbinders Borderabilities "A2 Bracket Borders One" set with matching DS satin ribbon (photo shows it darker). The central strip was coloured with Promarker to match one of the pink colours on the background paper. The little flowers and pearls were also colour matched to those on the background paper. The circles  used for the Little Bird topper came from my "might come in handy at some point" box and are the inners left over from cutting out some Joy Craft Floral and Celtic Circles!

 

Cardstock:

Image - Super Smooth White

Trimcraft - Spring in Bloom
PayPer Box - Gold Pearlised

 
Dies:
Spellbinders - Borderabilities A2 Bracket Borders One
Joy Craft - Circle

Stamps:
Crafter's Companion - Moonbeam Meadow

Ink:
Versacolour - Sepia
Letraset Promarkers - Crimson, Dusky Rose, Rose Pink, Pastel Blue, Blue Pearl, Leaf Green, Grass