The Paper Girls Challenge #197 Florals

Hello Lovelies!

It's challenge time over at The Paper Girls and Challenge #197 is Florals.  What a lovely theme, isn't it?  My lovely friend and fellow Newbie to PGCB Lori is hosting it!

I was disappointed that I didn't get to make a project in time for challenge #196 which was Babies, so I combined both for this one!

I love to fussy cut and when I see a paper with large florals, my scissors are just itching to get into my hands.  Maggie Holmes papers are perfect for this and my layout has both fussy cut flowers and flowers from the die cut pack.

I also cut apart the floral chevron called L'il Bit Lovely.  I picked the ones I wanted, inked them and lightly tacked them to the page before stitching them down.

This paper along with the chipboard sheet from Maggie Holmes Shine collection were the driving force behind this layout.  

The photo was matted with my usual messy stack from the scrap box (yay! 🎉🎉🎉)

I used the "Bloom & Grow" along with additional thickets for the titles and also added the deer and some hearts from the sheet which to that point remained untouched.  

I was awfully pleased with the dent I made, but as you know, all chipboard made by American Crafts needs extra adhesive and Glue Dots in various sizes are my jam.  I'm not saying it's a bad thing actually, because I do like to move my embellies around a bit before I commit. 

There were other pieces from various collections (mostly Maggie Holmes). a sweet doily, gold mist and gems and enamel dots.  In hindsight perhaps I went too far with the gems, but more is more, right?

My journaling is below and pretty simple, but I liked how it flows into the title as the last line.

 Bloom & Grow Little One

Before I sign off, I thought I'd leave you with a few photos of the infamous photobombing NewCraftyCat!

I hope you visit the link to The Paper Girls and have a go at the challenge yourself!
 
Love, and fabulous florals

Arty Divas Design Team Project 25 February

Hi Lovelies!

Today is Challenge 16 at Arty Divas.  This is a FORTNIGHTLY "anything goes" (any type of project and any theme) challenge with a design team who makes projects showcasing the sponsor who often offers PRIZES!

This week's sponsor is LeAnn's World
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This challenge requited us to use pre-coloured images which is not something which comes easily to me.

I opted to use the baby in the critter onesie and my slightly snarky mood led me to make a baby card with a difference,  It's not for everyone, but most of my friends would get a giggle from it.

Just to make life interesting, my printer ran out of toner, so NotPinkCraftyHubster came to my rescue and printed at work for me.

The bear suit gave me the idea of a jungle print background, so when I went through my papers, I used the background from Shimelle's Field Trip collection and fussy cut the toucans and flowers from her Box of Crayons collection.

If you know me, you know hoe challenging it is to use birds on anything!  

 
I had the perfect sentiment from Hero Arts and then I sprinkled gokd mist, added my images on pop dots then Micro Glue Dots were perfect to add tiny black sequins (which like they might be navy.) to the flower centres.  

Welcome To The Jungle Baby Card

Another simple one for me. but I'm not unhappy with it!

Love and creative cardmaking

Cards for a New Baby Girl Part II

Saturday - It's Baby Day!

While waiting for news I made my card.  I wanted to try something new (there's a surprise!) so I was tossing up between an exploding box or a folding box/pop up.  I decided on the latter since it looks nicer when it's on display.  It also looks deceptively ordinary in its' flat, folded state.

Choosing the patterned papers was not such an easy feat.  The Lullaby DSP from the last annual catalogue co-ordinates really well with the Best Year Ever DSP from last Sale-a-Bration but I wanted to mix it up a little more especially with something that had some cute images.  I came across Hello World by Websters Pages and many of the colours were a good fit and it brought in a few others for variety and plenty of images too.

The down side is that most of the colours were the recently retired In-Colours, but I still had plenty on hand and Strawberry Slush was chosen as the card base.

The hot air balloons and bunting reminded me of the Celebrate Today stamp set and dies so I decided to use one of these balloons as the feature image and fussy cut onesies and smaller balloons from the patterned paper.

A strip of paper and the bow builder punch added a finishing touch

I was also desperate to combine two words ("Totes" and "Adorbs") from the Slang Gang stamp set by Paper Smooches and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.

The panel on the back of the card gives plenty of room for a lovely long message.

That's it for cards, but I made a "baby bouquet" again so I'll post pics of that in the coming days.  I have a major craftermath to take care of after several days of frenzied crafting, but after that I'm keen to get back to working on the series I started preparing in late september!

Here's a little animation of the card folded and then open.

Stampin' Up! Supplies:

Big Shot	Magnetic Platform	Stampin' Trimmer	Paper Snips
Bone Folder	Bow Builder Punch	Whisper White A4 Cardstock	Tear & Tape Adhesive
Snail Permanent Adhesive	Stampin' Dimensionals	Fine-Tip Glue Pen	Celebrate Today Photopolymer Bundle
Coastal Cabana Thick Baker's Twine

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Cards For a New Baby Girl Part I

On Friday, the arrival of our new niece was only 24 hours away so my sister Helz and I had congratulatory cards to make.

Hels picked this baby mobile card on pinterest made by Tilly McLeod.  Please visit her blog and check our her amazing crafts.  Thanks for the inspiration, Tilly!

Helz wanted a colour scheme of mint green, pale purple and light grey.  Mint Macaron, Wisteria Wonder and Smoky Slate were perfect.

"Do Stampin' Up! alliterate EVERYTHING?" asks Helz.  Blushing furiously I had to answer in the affirmative.  It's one thing I'm not hugely fond of I have to admit.

Helz wanted to use Copic markers again and picked the animals from a couple of Mama Elephant stamp sets.  She went with a 5x7 inch card to make sure she had enough room and did a great job.

Meanwhile I made a card for our parents to give.  The weather was miserable and I was lacking inspiration so I turned to Pinterest.  I knew I wanted to do a square card but that's it.  I found this card by Stasia Sloma.  The animal print onesies are so on trend and the new mum loves animal print so it was perfect!  Please visit her blog.  Thank you so much for the inspiration, Stasia!

I used the leopard print since it was a smaller scale for the onesies from the Go Wild DSP pad and a couple of different pinks from a couple of different Dear Lizzy collections and some neutral patterns from My Mind's Eye.  I'm not totally happy with the card to be honest and I think Stasia did a much better job with hers.  I love the pearl detail she used!

I might try the design again some time and see if I'm happier with it.

The photos aren't great, but evening was upon us, light was fading fast and we needed to finish!

Stay tuned for more new baby cards and crafts coming up over the next few days!


Stampin' Up! Products Used: 

Big Shot	Magnetic Platform	Little Letters Thinlits Die	Hello You Thinlits Dies
Baby's First Framelits Dies	Smoky Slate A4 Cardstock	Wisteria Wonder A4 Cardstock	Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock
Whisper White A4 Cardstock	2015-2017 In Color 12" X 12" Cardstock	Go Wild Designer Series Paper Stack	Curvy Corner Trio Punch
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad	Stampin' Trimmer	Snail Permanent Adhesive	Fine-Tip Glue Pen
Stampin' Dimensionals	Bone Folder

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