Baby in Blue

Who loves to cuddle a sweet little baby in a cozy blanket? I sure do! This little baby is so adorable all snuggled up in his blue blanket! I will be so sad to see this set retire. I have had so much fun stamping and coloring it.

And who can resist adding that precious little bear hat, not me!  I used my stampin blends to color all these images. I thought that the polka dots in the neutral designer series paper went well with the dots on his blanket and I used the coordinating other side to break up the card front. For the congrats greeting I glued 3 layers together so that it gave it more dimension and stood out more. The layout for this card is very simple and you can use so many different stamp sets that you have. Sorry this post is so short. Since I had skipped so many days I thought I would just share another quick card I had made today! Have a great day and enjoy!

Color Therapy

Hi Everyone! As I have said before, I love to color! There are so many ways I love to color! I find it so therapeutic. I love to stamp many images on Stampin' Up thick white cardstock with the momento ink and then color away. It is also nice because then I can take it with me to appointments or even just to sit and watch tv.  The only problem is then I have so many images that I have to make into cards. The problem would be I might color 10 of one thing and then I make lots of the same cards. So just to beware I may have lots of baby cards on my blog. I just think the babies are so cute and really fun to color! 

For this card, I wanted to use many of the other images from the stamp set. I also had an oval shaped watercolor paper that I had created a yellow watercolor wash on from another project that I did not use. I thought it would be a good background for the baby in the jumper.

Here is a close up of the coloring on the baby. One thing that I would recommend is to wait to cut the images out after you have colored them. It makes it so much easy than having lots of little pieces around, especially the little bottle that you see in the above photo. I also like that this bundle has framelits that cut the majority of the images out. Makes life so nice!  I hope you can find some time to color this week!  I know that I will and stay tuned to more baby cards!

Simply sweet

Who loves to color? I really enjoy so many ways to color my stamped images. It is so relaxing and easy to do while waiting at the doctors, while watching tv or just when I have a few minutes of free time.  I really try to color something most days. Even if it is just one image.  For the baby card above I had stamped many of the onesies from the sweet baby stamp set in momento ink. I knew that I wanted to color them but still had no idea what I was going to do with them. I like these colors together and decided to create a simple card by mounting them on small stitched squares. I stamped the greeting on whisper white cardstock and ran it through my big shot with the subtle embossing folder. I thought my card was finished however, I saw this sweet little heart from a project that I did not use.  It went perfect.  Don't you love when that happens!

Take time today to color something. I believe it will spark joy in your day!

Rainbow Stampin' Blends

I love all the ideas that I have seen recently of rainbow colors on a card, so I decided what could be cuter than a rainbow of baby onesies. The most difficult part was trying to decide which color of my stampin' blends to use. I put them all in a big row and then picked some of my favorite. (they looked so pretty all together!) I stamped a row of onesies in my momento black ink pad (ink you want to use with blends) and started to color. I wanted them to stand out a little more and so I outlined them with my smoky slate blends. Try this to really make your image pop against the white card stock. I die cut 3 of the congrats from the sunshine wishes thinlits for my greeting. I glued them all together to give them a little bit more dimension. After I assembled the entire card I was a little bummed that I did not stamp the first and last onesies a little closer to the next ones, kind of felt a little off to me. Let me know what you think. I am inspired to make another card with rainbow colors. It is so bright and cheery.  Enjoy!

Need a baby card?

Today I have made a cute and adorable little baby card. It can be given as a boy or girl card. This card I added the cute greeting "mama's boy" and so if you wanted to make it for a girl you could use another greeting from the stamp set. It was so easy to make and I love the way it turned out. Sometimes I feel like simple cards are just right.

How sweet is that little onesie? I just love how cute it came out, colored with the Stampin' blends and then I added the cute little heart from the stitched label framelits. I wanted the onesie to be the focus on this card and so I layered it with the stitched shapes framelits, and the scallop punch. For the background I used a piece of whisper white and randomly stamped the little accessories from the set with the pool party ink and then used the eyelet framelit to finish off the bottom edge. I mounted it all on the pool party cardstock that I had embossed with the sparkle embossing folder. Finished it all off mounted on a piece of thick whisper white cardstock.

I would love to know what stamp sets you like to use for baby cards? Enjoy!

Sweet Baby Boy

This little set just melts my heart. The sweet baby stamp set along with the coordinating framelits (bouncing baby framelits)  you can make this cute little blanket to swaddle your baby.  If you order the set and framelits together you receive 10% off.  The dies not only cut the shape of the blanket they also make the score lines for you. I used the neutrals (night of navy) designer series paper to make the blanket. I also like that it is double sided and so you can see both designs when folded. The rest of the card is pretty easy to follow. I used night of navy for the layer on the white base and stamped the "its a boy" in night of navy in the background. For the greeting I stamped night of navy on white and used another cute die that comes in the set as well. It makes the cute ruffle on the bottom. I just couldn't resist even though it is a boy card. The heart that I used to close the blanket is from the stitched label framelits. I have found that this framelit set goes well with the sweet baby set as well.

Here is a close up of the baby and the blanket. I water colored the little baby and the cute little bear hat.

This is a close up of the cute eyelet ruffle. I think it adds so much to the greeting and the bottle to help balance out the card.  Enjoy!

Tickled Pink

Hi Everyone! "Tickled pink for you" is such a sweet greeting to put on a card for a baby girl card. I was so excited when I saw the greeting in my fabulous flamingo stamp set! I had made a fancy, glittery baby girl card for a friend of my son and his wife and I knew this went perfect with it. Who doesn't love everything pink with a beautiful baby girl! For the first card I used the apron builder framelits to create a little bib.

 For my next card I used the new Sweet Baby stamp set and had fun with my watercolor pencils and blender pen to give this little girl a pink outfit and finish her with a cute pink bow.  I am having so much fun with this set. And then when I saw the white polka dot ribbon, I just couldn't not add that as well.

 Have you noticed in the new catalog some of the fun ideas that they have included?  I found on page 48 their suggestion is to soften the color of the cardstock to brush your whisper white ink across to create muted, subtle look. I knew I wanted to try that and so I thought this was a great time. I love the look that it gave to the melon mambo color. Softened the cardstock to create a nice background to my little baby card.

Check out the other suggestions in the new catalog, find one you would like to try and let me know how it goes.  I would love to hear about the new creations that you have found in the new Stampin' Up catalog. Have a wonderful  and safe 4th of July!

Sweet Baby

Finally, I have had some free time to create with my new goodies from the Stampin' Up new catalog! Sometimes I find that it is overwhelming when I get all kinds of new things and don't know where to begin. However, I fell in love with the new Sweet Baby set right away. The images as well as the font used for the greetings are so adorable and I always love an excuse to do some coloring. I started by stamping the images with my staz on black ink pad on shimmer paper so that I could do use my watercolor pencils and then I stamped the images on white cardstock with my memento pad so that I could do some coloring with my stampin blends. (I am so excited for the new colors to be released soon- I will let you know as soon as I find out) I find it so relaxing to color and so I took my images and sat outside enjoying the beautiful California weather and began to color. I like to cut out all my images at once and then create my card.

Aren't these images so adorable! I CASE(d) the card in the catalog for my first card, page 89. When I first saw this bundle I did not notice the cute lace trim in the framelits. I will be using that for many cards in the future!  It is so pretty! The new 6 x 6 designer series paper is also a must have!  Who can resist polka dots and stripes!  I used the neutral pack for this card because I wanted it to match the jumper for the baby. Since I have not used my watercolor pencils in a while, I decided to pull them out with my blender pen for a soft baby look.

I hope you enjoy this card! If you or anyone you know is having a baby soon let me know. I would love to send them a card. Just leave me a message and I will get back to you. If you would like to order the sweet baby bundle to receive your 10% discount let me know.  Have a beautiful day and I will share more sweet babies soon!