Rox, Your gallery is amazing. You are one talented stamper. I actually felt a bit intimidated going through and looking at everything. I chose this card to case:
I really like the colors and layout, so I tried to keep those the same except I switched out Close to Cocoa for Black. I just got this Eight Great Greetings set and when I was looking at the images, I wondered about using the cute bunny for a Baby's card, but was momentarily stymied by the easter eggs. So this, my first card with this set, is an out of the box idea. I just think he looks like the classic response to "How big is baby?". "So Big!" I used a marker to ink up the stamp and omitted the string of eggs and then drew in the rest of the clothes. (Pretty easy, even for a drawing challenged individaul such as myself)
I colored the image with Prisma colored pencils. I got really stuck on trying to figure out what to use for embellishments in the corner of the image where Rox has her shells. I went with Alphabet blocks.
To make these I punched out a 1/2" square. I cut a 3/8" square with my paper cutter and used that to trace the front of the block and then I just drew in diagonal lines and clipped off the excess to create the 3-D look. I stamped the letters with the Rough Alphabet set and used colored pencils to color them in. SU never had any Taken wih Teal buttons, so I used a couple of Sharpie Markers on a cream button. Greeting is computer generated.
The machine stitching on the card was the biggest out of my comfort zone challenge. And I only had a small strip of the DSP, so I had to piece it together.
Date: Sunday, May 31, 2009 GMT Views: 645
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Registered: March 13, 2008 Location: Southern CT by the Seashore Posts: 650
Sun, May 31, 2009 @ 11:00 AM
This card turned out *great*! I love that you were able to make this stamp more versatile by omitting the eggs. The little abc blocks turned out great too- overall a really fun design- TFS!
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Registered: May 31, 2008 Location: Seattle Posts: 14509
Sun, May 31, 2009 @ 1:25 PM
How cute is this?!!!! Your stitching is a great accessory!
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Registered: March 11, 2008 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 39766
Sun, May 31, 2009 @ 3:06 PM
What a darling baby card. Love the coloring of your image. Great stitching. Wonderful card. TFS :0)
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