Hi everyone, today I am sharing a card that I made ages ago for my nephew & his partner's first baby girl. As they live interstate, I had to wait until I had heard from them that it had arrived before I shared it here & on my blog.
The main image is by Docrafts - Forever Friends and is from some years ago - around 2008. I don't know what it's called as it just has a number on the side. I stamped the image onto Ranger Watercolour cardstock using Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and coloured it using Faber-Castell + Lyra watercolour pencils and a #2 round paintbrush. I paper-pieced the nappy by stamping the image again onto a scrap of pink gingham designer paper. I went around the edges with a black Copic multiliner to hide any white edges then glued that on top of the stamped image. I added a little bit of shading around the edges of the nappy with a pink Tombow marker. I inked up just the paw again and restamped, coloured it and cut it out then popped it up on a 1mm dimensional.
The sentiment is by Impression Obsession - Sentiments 1 WP16 clear set - which I bought years ago but is still readily available.
I added a pink Kaisercraft enamel heart then added Kindyglitz Crystalina glitter glue to it as well as to the tag on the nappy. All the circles and scalloped circles were diecut using Lifestyle Nesting Circle/Scalloped Circle dies. The lacy circle is a die by Nellie Snellen Multiframes Doily Flower MFD020 and the main panel is up on dimensionals.
The dry embossing was done with a Cuttlebug Jamara 5" x 7" embossing folder & my Big Shot. I trimmed the panel underneath the image to 1/8" using my Perfect Layers Tools.
I felt like I should add some more embellishments like flowers or rhinestones or ribbon or twine or ? but I had my usual "embellishment brain freeze" and thought that if I let the card sit on my desk overnight surrounded by all the pink embellies that I got out, the fog would clear and I would know what to add....but nope, I just couldn't think of what to add and gave up - and then spent over 30 minutes putting away all the stuff I got out...sigh.....oh well....