Welcome, Little One

 

Happy Wednesday Peeps!!!

Over at Stamps, Ink Paper the challenge this week is Something for Baby

This was perfect timing for me, I needed to get stared on a planned surprise for a lady I work with who is welcoming her first grand baby in a couple of months. What a better way to start but a card, to set the whole theme and color choices for the surprise.

I only have a couple of baby themed stamp sets and this bunny is my favorite.

It comes from the retired A New Little Someone.

I love to color it and make a "vintage" looking stuffed rabbit.

I used my water brush and ink pads. I used chocolate chip, flirty flamingo and lovely lipstick.

 

I stamped the bow again and cut out to add with a mini dimensional.

I matted the image with Crumb Cake card stock.

The base of the card is Crumb Cake as well.

I then used a layer of white and the DSP is from the All My Love pack, perfect for a baby girl.

 

The sentiment is from the Nursery Necessities stamp set.

I finished up with a wine bow and a few rhinestones.

Thanks for stopping by!  

Vicki

 

 

Thank You Baby Cards

Happy Friday Peeps!!

I spent the afternoon yesterday making a bunch of thank you cards.

We will soon be welcoming our first grand baby into the world and my daughter was in need of some thank you cards.

I wanted to keep them fairly simple and this is what I came up with.

I wasn't really sure when I sat down at my desk what I was going to do, I had forgot about this retired baby set called A New Little Someone, but when I pulled it out I decided it would be perfect.

I stamped the bunny with some Brown Memento ink and colored in the the bow, feet pads and ears using my copic markers

The base of the card is Strawberry Slush card stock.

The sentiment is from the new Rose Garden stamp set.

I embossed the bottom portion of the card using the perfect dots EF.

I then added a strip of gold foil paper across the bottom of the image panel. I used some sticky tape to attach it.

These are flat with no embellishments for easy mailing but I think they are effective. 

Hope you like them, thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

Easter Wishes

Happy Thursday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made combining the Sketch Challenge and Color Challenge on SplitCoast.

The dessert option on the color challenge was to make an Easter card. I decided to pull out an old but favorite set called "A New Little Someone" and use the bunny for an Easter card.

I stamped the bunny onto some rustic white card stock and colored qith my aqua painter and ink pads. I used Sahara Sand, So Saffron and Baja Breeze all on the main image. The bunny was colored with the Sahara Sand and then I used So Saffron on the bow and pads and inside the ears a bit.

I then used some Baja around the outer edge of the Bunny.

The main image is matted with So Saffron and then the angled piece behind that is Sahara Sand card stock.

The DSP is from the Sweet sorbet pack.

The sentiment comes from the Abundant Hope stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Vicki

Baby Girl Congratulations

Happy Monday Peeps!!

Today I have a cute baby card to share. If you remember a while back I said that my BFF's daughter was expecting her first baby and was about to find out the sex.

 I had created a couple of baby cards in anticipation of the announcement. 

Well,  they found out that "It's a Girl"!!

Yay!! That is what they were hoping for, so happy for them and for my friend, her first grandchild.

And I must say, happy for me, cos I get to be a "Great Aunt"!!

Anyway,  on to the card, I pulled out a fave retired set. This is called "A New Little Someone".

Such a sweet little bunny. I also used some retired DSP and some soon to retired card stock. Regal Rose will soon be gone, This is one of the colors I hate to see go.

The sentiment is from the single stamp called "Two by Two. I masked off the image and just used the sentiment. I also have a few other goodies in the works for the baby's arrival so I hope to show you those later.

That is all from me today, if you stopped by looking for my Merry Monday card, Lesley is sick with the flu and has postponed this week. We will be back next Monday tho, so don't forget to come by then!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

OCC....Inspiration Challenge

Happy Saturday Peeps!!! 

It is time for another Our Creative Corner Challenge. 
This week our hostess with the mostest is Lori Rider and she has a fun inspiration challenge for us.

Her is the challenge in her own words:

Please choose at least two elements from the photo and describe how they inspired your card or project.

 Optional: since this is a baby shower dessert table, make something with a baby theme!

Isn't that photo scrumptious?

 I was inspired to use the colors in the piece, I choose, very vanilla, calypso coral, pool party and soft suede and I used some of the Everyday Enchantment  DSP. I was in need of a baby card so this was a great inspiration to get it done. 

The bunny on here is from a retired Stampin Up set called  "A New Little Someone", I stamped the bunny onto some very vanilla card stock with black stazon. I colored the bunny in with soft suede, pool party and calypso coral. The intended receiver of this card is adopting a baby boy so I wanted to make sure this card said "Boy" more than girl, so I colored the bunnies bow and feet pads with the pool party and added just a bit of coral on the inside of the ears and on his cheeks.

I also took inspiration from the photo to put my bunny inside a circle to mimic all the circular elements in the photo, the cakes, the bowls and glasses. I brought in a bit of bling with silver brads on the top corners of the card and mini silver brads on the sentiment piece. 

The sentiment is from the "Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set and I used my word window punch and modern label to make the sentiment tag.

I added some very vanilla satin ribbon across the bottom as well.

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog 

to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun challenge.

I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do, don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

SSSC111....Easter Wishes

GOOD MORNING PEEPS!!! It's Sunday which means it is time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Sample

This is the fabulous sketch Karen has for us this week;




As you can see I flipped the sketch! I wanted to use this cute little bunny from a retired Stampin Up stamp set. It is called "A New Little Someone" and I just got it. I know it is a baby set but that bunny is so cute and can totally be used for Easter. As you guys know I love to watercolor and I have been playing around alot the last few months with water coloring on regular card stock. It really is a nice look and not hard to achieve just be careful to not over saturate the paper or it will become a big ol' mess. I colored this cute little bunny with soft suede, pretty in pink and rose red ink and my aqua painter. The sentiment comes from the All Holidays stamp set and the DS paper I used is from the Lap of Luxury paper pack. I added some pretty in pink satin ribbon and a few basic pearls.





I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week, I would love to see what you come up with, create a card or scrapbook page with this sketch and then go to Karen's blog and link up your project for all of us to see.


OK, let's see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Sketch Team has in store for us this week:

Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Dana-Dana's House of Cards


Well, thank you for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki