More Baby Card Eye Candy

Here's another photo of the happiest mail day ever! The cards in the front are ones Sandy (Sankada) did~

Since I am having a baby card vacation, lol, there isn't as much to show you!

Well, you didn't really believe that, did you? lol, I am not sure I will ever be able to stop making baby cards! It's just that with the volume pressure off for a few weeks, I can just play around a little!

I really like the new pastel papers from Papertrey~ they will be my go to papers for a while, I'm sure!! I used the carriage image from Bitty Baby Blessings, and a piece of polka dotted paper from the 8 x 8 Polka Dot Parade. Colored with Prisma markers and tiny buttons for the wheels. Sentiment is from Baby Button Bits. Plum Pudding Double Stitched ribbon with a tiny piece of Spring Moss twill tied into the knot. Brads are from my stash, teeny tiny ones! They are a bit brighter than Spring Moss, but work ok here.

Enjoy!

Oh Happy Mail!

I love to barter; I love to pass things on I can't use, or just get things I want without using money, lol!! About a month ago I made tow trades, one to Nerina, and one to Sandy (Sankada on PTI's forum). Now, I knew I would be getting baby cards in the mail from each, but who'da thought I would get all in one day?!? Over 30 incredibly gorgeous baby cards. Wow!!

Here are two incredible cards from Nerina; you would not believe them in real life- She used Sweet Blush with kraft paper, one on Stamper's Select and one on Vintage Cream. Stamps are from Papertrey and Waltzingmouse. Did I say incredible?!?

I just had to case a bit- here are my two. I did a baby card as well, but wanted to show you these. Nerina did some sewing on her cards, but I had the stitches stamp from Waltzingmouse, and used that. In retrospect, the stitches are a bit more country than the rest of the card, but that's ok. The Birthday card is Aqua Mist, the Thank You is Sweet Blush. My butterfly punch is a bit different than Nerina's, mine is a Martha Stewart one.

Aren't they pretty??

Sweet Baby Blush

I know you are thinking- Beth, what's come over you? There are incredible announcements and challenges over on Papertrey, and you are making...baby cards?? Lol, yes, the work must go on!

I just love putting glitter on embossed images; this time I used a glue pen on Sweet Blush that was embossed with a Sizzix folder, then poured clear glitter on- makes for quite a glittery card!

I can't use a lot of glitter on the cards, and it has to be anchored very well. Don't want to risk a mom opening a card with a wee babe in her arms, and having any glitter fall into the eyes or nose of said wee babe- that could be a disaster! This amount, though, worked well. I used a light pink and new leaf green color of Art Glitter; it's very fine and came off of the rest of the card very well. Added a tiny paper pieced heart from a printed Papertrey paper, tied on a Sweet Blush ribbon, and there she was! A Sweet Baby Blush card!

As you read this I am lying on a beach chair on the beach with my laptop and sipping mint...oh wait, no I'm not! I'm in the cabin in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the snow and cold and tossing logs on the fire...

Ahh, well, time away is time away, and life is so good to me! Enjoy the rest of the Papertrey release, and I 'll see you at the party Sunday night!

Papertrey and CPS Challenge

Saturday's Challenge over at Papertrey was to participate in the CPS sketch this week. Ok, says I, I will!! Thing is, it takes me so long to make a card; this one took me 2 days to finish, lol. Well, work and life sure do get in the way!!

Paper is Pure Poppy and Stamper's Select. I am trying tonight to load the camera right into the laptop, see what programs I have there to fix color- then go sit in the car and upload on the wireless signal floating around out there. I am preparing to go to the cabin this week, and contemplate packing all of my PTI supplies to be able to finish out the challenges, so I need to check the photo editing and uploading. At the moment, the Pure Poppy looks too pink, so I may give up on this idea. I'd rather post nothing than post something that looks wonky.

I stamped dots from Polka Dot Basics in white SU Craft on Pure Poppy, the punched the edges. The border punch is Fiskars, the ribbons are PTI Pure Poppy Twill and their new silk. The white satin is from Michael's. The button is from the Pure Poppy stash, I was sad I could not find a little heart in there!

I put the hugs & kisses border from Simple Valentine along the outer edges of the base card, and rounded the edges of the second layer with the small SU corner rounder.

Let me know if you see it as Pure Poppy- I am going to try and download the Kodak program in here, too!

Another Papertrey Challenge!!

Are you all having fun everyday with the Papertrey news and challenges? Even if I decide not to play, I must say it is all fun! Yesterday for the first time I heard Nichole's voice, and today I saw her in video. I can call her up, too, tonight if I want to, lol lol lol.

I slept some of the day after work, but then went right up and started working on an embossed resist card. Lol, not as easy as Nichole made it look- it's definitely best when you use a stamp with a large positive area. I had a terrible event where I brayered on Lemon Tart ink, then went to color over it with Prisma markers, and ruined 2 markers before I realized what was happening. Darn! The thicker ink 'sealed' the tips of the markers. Darn again!!

The valentine is made with Heart Prints smaller hearts, stamped with Versamark on top of Simple Valentine papers, then clear embossed. I used Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst and Pure Poppy to ink around. Layers are Pure Poppy and Lavender Moon.

The sentiment is also from Heart Prints, I cut Day off and moved it away from Valentine's a bit to even up the spacing with Happy- make sense??

Had to finish off the inside, of course!

I'm looking forward to news tomorrow- not sure if there will be Nestabilities, or punches, or ways to cut shapes with a Cricut. The latter may leave me out, but I know others will be happy, and that is good! I like doing things by hand, involving machines in my card making just isn't for me right now-

Becky Oehlers Image

So, if you are like me, you know all about Papertrey's Third Anniversary Celebration; I don't need to tell you about it! A couple of days ago there was a challenge issued to download images from the newly announced Stamp Designer Team and create a project from them. Lol, I am not fond of sitting and fiddling in front of a computer, but I did get one image downloaded and printed; Becky's little house, found here. Now, the contest is long over, but I still wanted to finish the card~ and I did!

If you enlarge the photo, I think the true pastel colors will get better. I used the new pink shimmer paper as the background cs, lemon tart as the first layer, and printed the image on Stampers select. then I copied Becky's quilt lawn by cutting and gluing squares to copy paper, and printing the image(s) onto the copy paper. Cut out the lawn and glued it on- halfway done!

I took the sun, house and balloon and colored them with Prisma's and Copics to match the 'quilted' lawn, then popped them upon dimensionals. I covered the clouds with Flower Soft Polar White. The sentiment is from Baby Button Bits, I cut off the 'bee' portion of the sentiment...gasp...!! It's ok to cut things off, because it is really easy to slip it back together if you want to print it together again.

I did not find this terribly enjoyable to do, but it helped solidify my feelings about digital images- I like to stamp!

But I love all things Papertrey; I love the monthly release buildups, and I especially love the anniversary celebrations!

Wash Day

While the DD was in the hospital with the baby, DGD was here and wanted to make a card. I told her to choose a sticker; I had a Martha Stewart paper pad open on the table. Wow! I had her choose some ribbon, and a card was born. When she was done, I did one for myself, lol!

'BaBy' is from Papertrey's Mega Mixed Messages stamped in Versafine Onyx Black. The ribbon is from Michael's, and is meant to be ruffled by pulling the center string part, but I generally just leave it to 'puff' with glue dots.

Now for the funny baby photo of the week- prepare to laugh when you enlarge the picture: here The DD's BFF's baby...