New baby cards

My cousin is expecting a baby any moment now so I got busy and made her this pink baby card (I don't know why but I am convinced she is having another girl!)  Then I figured I better make a blue one as well, usually I guess incorrectly.

I love embossing on cards and these squares were quick and easy to emboss.  I inked over them in white ink just to make them stand out a little bit more.  I rarely make cards in pastel colours, I much prefer bright colours, but I enjoyed the change and think they look very 'babyish' and appropriate for a newborn.

I followed a sketch from the Clean and Simple blog,  I've never been to their challenge website before, so I hope that my cards are considered 'clean and simple'!  I guess it refers to not having too many embellishments or lumpy bumpy things?  Anyway, I really liked the sketch, so I rotated it and used it for these cards.  I thought I may as well enter their challenge and hopefully the cards fit the bill!  This is the sketch:

The monkey is from the Create a critter cricut cartridge.
The rose is a rolled rose MFT die.
The little rocking horse dies were purchased from my LSS.
Baby stamps are 'Amy R Designs' stamps.

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Baby boy helicopter card

I made this baby boy card to have in my stash.  I prefer to use bold colours rather than pastels for boy cards, don't know why, I just love a pop of colour I guess!  I think the helicopter is rather cute.

This card is going in the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - make a project using some sort of transportation.  I used the helicopter cut from my Boys will be Boys cricut cartridge.  Love this cartridge!  Would also make a great birthday card for a young boy too.

A little bit of stitching around the edges and a couple of sentiment stamps (Amy R Designs 'baby' stamp, and Kaisercraft 'Bundle of Joy' stamp). 

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Newborn baby aeroplane card

 This card was made for the Paper Playtime challenge #83 - Gingham and a die cut.
I just love this yellow gingham paper, such a gorgeous colour for a baby card.

The aeroplane and circle were cut at 3 inches using the Boys will be Boys cricut cartridge.  This would have to be one of my most favourite cartridges ever!  So many gorgeous images for boys!  I can picture baby boy cards, birthday cards for little boys, birthday cards for big boys....so much fun!

I'm loving the primary colours for boys cards too.  I'm into anything bright and cheery at the moment.

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Stretch Your Imagination

Here's a little baby boy card I made for my best friend's beautiful baby boy who arrived the other day.  I got to have a cuddle of the gorgeous little boy and wow did I forget how little babies are when they are newborn!

I used my 'Stretch your imagination' cartridge to make the card.  I have mentioned before that it is not really a favourite cartridge of mine, but after getting out the booklet and having a good look through, I found quite a few things that I thought I could use.  I hadn't really used the 'card feature' before and there are quite a lot of cute little images for this feature.

I used the 'card' feature on the cartridge which cuts out the whole card and the pram image.  It then cuts out the scalloped piece too, which makes for a super quick and easy card!  I ran the scalloped piece through my cuttlebug with the 'swiss dots' folder and then I just added some gorgeous little footprint ribbon and a bow.  I've had the ribbon in my stash for over five years and it was one of those things that I keep in my stash because I just love it so much but didn't want to waste it! 

I think I will make a heap of these just to have hanging around, maybe in pinks and yellows as well...

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Some cards I've been working on...

I needed a couple of baby cards the other day so I made these two.  Quite simple but I still like them.  The little monkey is from Create a Critter (of course!).  I really like the textured cardstock that I used for the card base.  A little bit of stitching and inking around the squares and that was pretty much it! 

These little hippo cards were made using the Birthday Bash cartridge - there are so many options on this cartridge, I really need to sit down and read through the booklet.  I really like the sentiment, 'Hip Hippo Hooray' - I love a good pun!  If I make any more of these then I think I would use a neutral colour for the base of the card, maybe kraft or brown to make the hippo stand out a bit more.  But I do like the look of the hippo cut out in patterned paper.  Pretty cute, but best of all, very quick and very easy to make.

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Welcome Little One

Here's a little baby girl card I made using the Mojo Monday sketch.

This is the sketch:



And here is my card:

I love these pretty papers - with two little boys in my house I don't get to use a lot of pink! 
The little clothes were cut using the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge.

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It's a boy!

I made this card for my girlfriend who has just given birth to a beautiful, healthy baby boy. 
I used the CPS sketch  for the layout of the card.
The boat is cut from Paper Doll Dress Ups and the 'it's a boy' stamp is Kaisercraft.

Here is the sketch:


and here is my card (I rotated the sketch 90 degrees).

Excuse the terrible lighting in the photo.  The blues and reds in real life are really vivid, bright colours.  And yes, that is sewing that you see on my card...done by me...on a real sewing machine!!  Mum has given me her old sewing machine.  It has returned from being repaired and I am loving it!  Expect to see some sewing on most of cards from now on!  I did attempt to sew around the white circle but it was WAY more difficult to do than I imagined, so that little white circle (with it's crooked bits of sewing) has ended up in the bin.  I think I'll stick with straight lines.

We are currently sweating it out in our non-air-conditioned house.  Sigh.  Our beautiful air conditioner has chosen to stop working.  My Father-in-law always jokes that he needs to wear a jumper in my house in the middle of Summer because I love my air conditioner!  We have been a week without it and the lovely serviceman came out today to repair it, only to tell me that it will be over a week before the part can be ordered, delivered and then repaired.  So we are feeling the heat as it has been in the high 30's this week (celcius).  Today is 35 degrees celcius (95 F) and we sure are feeling it!

On a much more exciting note, I got an email yesterday to say that I have won the entire set of Cinzia Loosemore's Every{day} Life digital templates.  Woo hoo!  To say I was excited was the understatement of the year!  I got 75 digital templates which are perfect for my Project Life pages.  They are AWESOME!!  I love her templates and I love her digi kits that she makes too.  It made my day!  Her blog is here if you are interested in having a look at her things.  I will make sure to post some pages using her templates as soon as I make our next page.

 
This is what I won!  Yes, I get ALL OF THEM!! 

That's it from me today.
Thanks for looking!