Just Us Girls #694 - CAS Week

It's CAS Week at Just Us Girls and our host Sue wants to see a baby themed card.

I don't have a need for baby cards and I only have one die that works for one.  Now that I think of it I guess I could have done something with baby critters but I don't have many of those either. 

For this card I cut the Frantic Stamper onesie from some light green cardstock, added the little duck and stamped the sentiment (unbranded) on a panel cut with a Neat and Tangled scallop die.  Can't get much cleaner and simpler than this.

The Design Team and our guest Greta have some cute baby cards for you to get inspired by.  We hope to see you in our gallery. 

Edited to add:  Design Team member of both Just Us Girls and Inkspirational encouraged me to add my onesie to their "Clothes/Closet" challenge.  Thanks, Carol. 

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The Card Concept #193a

After reading the definitions of the acceptable card styles on The Card Concept I wasn't quite sure where my card fits, if at all.  It's either clean and layered, although I have no white space, or Freestyle Collage? Anyway I love this baby card that I created for my husband's grandson and his wife who are expecting a little one this summer.

That fox from HoneyBee's Heart Hugs is so cute I couldn't resist using him on my card.  He's cut from white and inked with Altenew Dusty Rose.  The background is a stencil from Winnie and Walter that was turned 90 degrees after the first inking to make a plaid.  The sentiment was stamped on Soft Stone that was cut with a Waffle Flower dome and then embossed with a quilt folder.

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Time Out #200

This is my second post of the day.  I went to Time Out to check the deadline and it's a good thing I did because it's tomorrow but I'm not sure of what time and I don't want to miss it.  I had a special card ready and was just waiting to post it.

Meet the reason for the card.  My new great-grandson Carson James, born November 9.  Here he is with big brother Connor. 

Notice the color of his sleeper?  It was my inspiration for this card.

The onesie die is from Frantic Stamper, the heart coverplate from Honey Bee and the sentiment unmarked. This will accompany the quilt I made for him when I get to see him in person after Thanksgiving.  I can't wait to snuggle that precious bundle of joy.

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Addicted to CAS #140

Doni picked this as her code word this week.

I don't often make baby cards but I got some stamps and dies in a bundle that I bought from my friend Lynn and they came in handy for this challenge at Addicted to CAS.  I actually have two cards to show you because I wasn't thinking straight and my first card wasn't CAS.  That's important for you to remember.  This is a clean and simple challenge and your cards must reflect that. 

I'll show you what I made first so you can see how you can take a not so CAS card and make it one using the same elements.

I started with the little onesie die cut in white.  I knew I wanted to use the little elephant on the front so I went looking for some gray paper and because I wanted a gender neutral card I added yellow to the mix.  I cut a scalloped panel from each with a MFT die and then found the polka dot paper to pull it all together.  Darling card IMHO but not CAS.  Here's how I changed it.

Same color combination but this time I placed the onesie on a plain yellow background that I ran through a quilted embossing folder.  The same scallop die in gray holds a different sentiment on a white panel cut to fit inside the stitching lines.  Now I have two cards to choose from.

The Design Team has some darling baby cards to show you and we hope you'll make one and enter it in the gallery.  The winner will be awarded a $20 GC to the Happy Little Stamper store.

Fusion - Baby's Room

It's been a while since I've entered a Fusion challenge but once I saw this darling baby's room I knew I had just the right stamp to make a card.

I had to have the cute little elephants from WPlus9 and it's been a while since I've used them too.

I first inked the Smoke cs with HA Unicorn white through a SSS stencil.  PTI's Polaroid die was used for the background, embossing the center square to look like crib slats.  The elephant and balloon are colored with Zigs and popped up.

After I finished this I ran across a piece of gray cardstock flock with little white polka dots but I decided to keep with what I had.  I just need to remember that paper for a future project.

Thanks for dropping by.  Enjoy your day.

Freshly Made Sketches #258

I needed a baby card for my cousin's daughter who just had a little boy.  I used Freshly Made Sketches as my starting point.

A little quilted blanket holds the Uniko bunny, colored with DI and fussy cut. The sentiment from SSS is the only baby one I have but it worked great.

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope your week gets off to a great start.

CAS(E) This Sketch #122

I'm going to be a great grandma again and I found out Saturday that Noah is going to have a little sister.  Everyone is so excited and I decided to make a card for the happy parents.

Those darling Mama Elephant bunnies are watercolored with Spun Sugar DI.  Some PTI polka dots and my NBUS houndstooth stamp from MFT in Memento Fog make up the banners.  The sentiment is from HA.

My card is based on the challenge from CAS(E) This Sketch.

I'm way behind in reading emails, and even farther behind in my blogger reading.  Sorry if I haven't been around to comment.  I am behind in card making, too, so that will be my focus tomorrow, unless something gets in the way.

CAS a Song

This cue card for CASology conjured up a lot of songs but I couldn't figure out how to do a card out of them, so I went with an old Elvis song, Teddy Bear.

I cut the bear from Create a Critter, roughed him up a little so he would look well loved and popped him up on dimensionals.  The face is stamped with a Peachy Keen stamp and the tag and sentiment are from the Tiny Tags set from My Craft Spot.

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