A Selection of Baby Cards

Today I am sharing a selection of baby Cards. These cards were made for a our great nephew, his partner and the grandparents and great grandparents.

The  personalized layer of this card  was created on the P.C.  I chose a blue text to match the ribbon and my colouring of the image. 

 For the second card I used a stampin' up stamp called two by two. It's a retired stamp now but it's too cute not to use. The background paper I created on the p.c.  The die I used to frame the image is a Spellbinder die from the Elegant Ovals set.

 On this card I used the same  background paper and stamp as above but this time I just changed the shape of the card and omitted the punched lace and ribbon.

 Another Stampin' up stamp,  this is a more recent stamp,  it's  bigger than  Two by Two  above, but it's just as cute.

 For the great grandson card, I used the rabbit from  the stampin' up set called Fable Tales.
I used Copic markers to colour the image. The sentiments on these cards I created on the p.c.

 The image on the card below is a digital image.  This bear is just so cute I had to use it on this card for the grandmother.   I used a retired stampin' up embossing folder to emboss the background.

 Below is a photo of the backing paper I created on the pc,  it looks quite difficult to create but it was surprisingly easy. It took a little time to do but worth the effort.  I don't have any fancy programs on my pc to do this. I am not tech savvy,  I do not have any  special knowledge on creating backing papers. I was just playing around to see what I could do.
I used office publisher's  basic shapes to create the hearts and a stretched out text box to create  a thick stripe and a thin stripe,  then I copied and pasted the two stripes over and over again until I had covered the area. For the spotty bar I created a thin text bar filled the box with a row of very large full stops in white. Then I filled the box with blue. I didn't worry about making everything line up perfectly as I would be trimming it back to fit the card.
I used the rest of the sheet to  type up some sentiments in the same colours.

Circle Circus Rattle

I was going though some boxes of cards I made a few years ago  and came across a card where I had made a babies rattle using the retired Circle Circus stamp set. I was  quite impressed with the way it came out when done in blue, Unfortunately, when I did the same card again in pink it looked dreadful.

 So my mission last week was to produce another baby rattle card in pink on a completely different background. 

This card doesn't photograph very well, so I should mention that the colour card stock and dsp I used is blushing bride. 

A little wild baby card.

Today's post was inspired by  a card made by Dawn Griffiths.  Dawn used the Christmas tag set for her card.
 I don't have that set,  so I used a similar style set called  "A little wild".
The animals in the set have a back and a front on the same stamp.
The idea is you stamp the image colour in both sides, die cut the image with the coordinating die then fold  it in half  add some ribbon or cord to complete the cute tag.
The tab for threading the ribbon/cord through is not wanted on this project so I cut it off.

 I  mounted my gingham paper onto a piece of mossy meadow card and die cut a circle through both layers.

I laid the topper on the base card in the position and drew around the inside of the aperture to give me a a guide for my smaller circle die.
Then I die cut the circle out of my base card.
Cutting  this hole slightly smaller creates the white frame inside the gingham aperture on the front of the card. Glue the top layers in position.
The lion tag was folded in half.
 Adhesive was  added to the inside of the tag and then squeezed together at the top, leaving the bottom edge open about 1/2 an  inch, so the feet of the lion can be stuck to the bottom of the aperture on the front of the card,  and the lions bottom is stuck to the inside of the aperture.

Emelia's Card

A box card to congratulate a couple on the birth of their new daughter.

Lots of Blushing Bride balloons in this one. I also included a few white balloons with the relevant facts on.                                                                                                                                              The lace die is a signature die from Joanna Sheene.                                                                                                                                      I used the balloon punch from Stampin' Up.    I like this punch as it punches two different size balloons at once.                                                                                                                                             I think the alphabet die I used is an X cut  die.                                    

Baby Dungarees Card

I found the template for this card on the Trimcraft website. I printed off the template, but it was very small, to enlarge it to the size I wanted,  I had to cut the template sheet into pieces and enlarge all the pieces individually.  Not having access to an A3 printer, I had to print the back and front of this template  off on to two pieces of card.

Then  join the front and back pieces together at the shoulders to create this card.

 On the website it was made from papers with  cute baby designs printed on it. I didn't have any printed papers suitable for this card, so I used the Bundle of love stamp set from S.U to create my own baby paper for this card.

I used a textured card stock that resembled  a fine needle cord fabric. I have to say,  I was surprised at well the stamps printed on textured card stock.




Once I had covered the card stock with stamped images,  I  coloured each image
using Copic markers and  S.U
markers.

 Unfortunately some of the inks bled  a little, but I don't think the bleeding is bad enough to ruin the overall effect,  so I went a head and completed the card.

I lined the inside back of the cars with some pretty checked paper to correspond with the colours on the front.

A Couple of Baby Cards

I found some time to play this week and created this card for a  pregnant friend.
Her new baby is due any day now, so I thought I'd be prepared for the arrival.

I used the  retired "Two by Two" stamp for the image and coloured it with Copic markers.

I used S.U s  Blushing Bride DSP for the background.

I enjoyed making this card, so I made it again. This time I made my own background paper for this one.It turned out a little darker than I wanted, but it still works.

If you want to know how I made my background paper, take a look at the tutorial a 8 posts below.
The ink colours  I used this time are, Pool Party and Lost Lagoon.

Embossed Pram Baby Card

 I seem to have lost my mojo lately and Hubby needed a  baby card for tomorrow.

Rather than let him down I dug out a card I made about 10 years ago and re-made it in different colours.

The overall size of this card is 8" X 8" so it is quite large but as there are going to be a few people signing it,  it needs to be a little bigger than usual.

The wheels I made by punching out a large daisy in silver card twice and sticking the flowers onto a punched circle that is slightly smaller than the daisy. Note..   I punched the circles from the same cardstock I used for the background.
Then trimming off the tips of the petals to the edge of the circle.

I punched two more silver circles larger still and adhered the smaller inner wheel on top.
The flowers were made using a smaller daisy punch  inking the tips of the petals and the sticking on on top of another and adding a small blue gem stone.

The background paper is from the Subtles DSP stack from Stampin up,  the colour I used  is soft sky.
The heart lace  was made using a Martha Stewart Border Punch.

The pram I cut from  white pearlized card and embossed.

Here's hope my mojo comes back soon...... need to be making new stuff, not going backwards in time.

Bye Baby Bunting.....

This card was made using one of the new punches available next month when the new catalogue is launched.I had tested out my punch on several  pieces of scrap card and then thought what can I do with these without using too much of my good card stock. This is the result.
There is a stamp set I believe that goes with this punch. I don't own that, so I just stamped the word baby on my bunting.
It punches the scalloped and the straight edge pennant at the same time.

Baby card

For this I stamped an A4 sheet of card stock using the animal stories stamp set and the greeting stamp small wonder with pretty in pink ink, bashful blue ink and summer sun ink.

I then cut it down to 5 3/4" x 4" and stuck it to the front of my white base card . I stamped the giraffe in summer sun and mounted it onto pretty in pink card stock then mounted it again on bashful blue card stock. added a blue bow and small flat back pearls in the corners.

I will use the rest of my stamped sheet for other baby cards.

Baby Card

This one is alot more involved and all products used are from stampin up.

I first punched 5 scalloped squares in bashful blue card stock and four white squares I stamped the squares using two stamps from the circle circus stamp set and daubed the edges with bashful blue ink.

On a square of bashful blue card. I then worked out where I wanted to put my faux stitching and pricked through the card and drew in the stitches.

Then mounted the scalloped squares in the grid formed by the faux stitching.

I punched strips of white paper and ran it through the ribbler to form the lace. Then glued it to the back of the blue card and mounted the whole thing onto my bashful blue card stock.

The rattle .....I used the handle from something sweet stamp set and stamped it on white card stock in versamark ink. I then stamped the large floral circle stamp from the circle circus stamp set at the top of the handle and embossed it with silver embossing powder. Cut it out and dauded the edges with bashful blue ink added a blue bow and a greeting.