Crafty As L

Our Visible Image Design Team theme this week is “Celebrate!” and there is little more celebratory than the arrival of new life.   My friend recently had a baby girl so Baby Love  was the perfect choice for my card. After cutting a panel 5¼” square, I stamped the handprints and footprints using Versafine Clair Baby Pink randomly around the panel. For the mat, I used some metallic pink foil card.   The sentiments were stamped in Versafine Onyx Black, clear heat-embossed then cut out at deliberately wonky angles.   The words were glued onto a scrap of the foil card and trimmed to leave a narrow pink edge.   If you don’t have pink foil card, any matching pink card will work. After adhering the panel to a square card blank, the sentiment was popped up on thin foam tape. This was a quick make so I made some extras for my craft fayre stall at the weekend.   For the boy version, I used Versafine Clair Arctic.   I used a block rather than a stamp posit...

Do you remember the bunny stencil I made for my Easter cards?  I wanted to challenge myself to use it again so when the need for a baby boy card arose, I thought that was the perfect opportunity to give it a try. My initial plan was for a landscape card so I cut my top layer and blended blue ink onto the stencil with my blending brushes before adding heat embossed tails. Next, after changing my mind to make the card a portrait orientation, I trimmed down the panel and layered the bunnies onto a blue mat and then a white panel, onto which I stamped the sentiment. I blended a single bunny onto the inner mat layer and onto the envelope, as I like these to match the card front. For the background, I used some gingham check DSP and added three rhinestones over the dots on the sentiment.       

  I loved making this week’s card for our friend that had her first baby recently.  I don’t have a lot of use for stamps aimed at making children’s cards but I bought the Baby Bear set as you’re never too old for a teddy bear!  This is a retired stamp set but I’ve kept mine as I really like that bear and how he comes to life with the three layers of ink.  I’ve also got a couple of handy tips on repeat stamping and extending the use of dies. This was a bigger card than usual as I wanted it to be a square Z-fold card.  I fancied a gingham style background but didn’t have anything in my stash that was pink so used the Buffalo Check background stamp and some Rococo Rose ink.  The stamp was a little small for my background so I used the Stamparatus to do some repeat stamping.  I first stamped the check background and marked an arrow on my grid paper where the edge of the stamp came to.  Next, I moved the card so that the left-hand edge of the stamped ...