Thursday, 6 March 2014

New Year, New Baby

The first card of 2014 was a baby card.  This was an order and, although the baby was born at the beginning of December, the card wasn't required until the start of the New Year.  This suited me fine as there wasn't much spare time to make one amongst the Christmas and birthday cards needing to be made and once those are finished all crafting stash in the dining area gets banished to the garage over the festivities.  



As well as using lemon and blue card stock patterned papers from the Cuddly Buddly download A Patchwork of Papers Blue and papers and elements from the Forever Friends Collector's Edition CDs were used.  Yellow and Blue stitching were added around the layered card and papers to add an extra frame.  The sentiment on the front was created on the computer and punched and layered using Stampin' up's plain and scalloped oval punches.


Behind the front of the Z fold card details about the baby's arrival were printed from the computer and then die cut and layered using Spellbinders Labels 10 dies.  The little duck elements and backing layers were punched out using Stampin' up's one inch circle punch.


A lined section for the sender's message was created on the computer using the full stop key and this was also die cut and layered using a Spellbinders Labels 10.  On the opposite side a verse printed from the computer was framed and layered using Spellbinders plain circle dies.

Embellishments used on this card were yellow brads, lemon grosgrain ribbon and blue self adhesive pearls.  Large and small corners and buttons cut using Quickutz dies were also added.

I've recently just cased this card for the arrival of a grand-nephew but I'll share that one in another post along with photos of Joe and his big brother and sister.

Thanks for reading today
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12 comments:

  1. brenda6 March 2014 at 04:16

    Gorgeous card Liz, blue and yellow make a perfect colour palette.

    B x

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  2. Marilyn6 March 2014 at 06:37

    Fabulous card, just gorgeous!

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  3. Darlene 6 March 2014 at 10:23

    What a fabulous and sweet creation! Thanks so much for joining us at The Sisterhood’s ‘ONE FOR THE BOYS’ challenge and please come back again soon!
    Darlene
    one of the 'Sistahs'
    The Sisterhood of Crafters
    DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS

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  4. Paula6 March 2014 at 15:41

    Hiya hun, Sorry you're having trouble getting in touch with me - try e-mailing me again cheeky_monkey_24@hotmail.com

    Hugs Paula @ Paulaholifieldcrafts

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  5. Craftin Suzie (Susan Wykes)7 March 2014 at 01:29

    Hi Liz this is a fab little boy baby card. Susan xx

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  6. coops10 March 2014 at 06:14

    wow so stunning liz.fabulous card shape and i love your lemon and blue colours and sweet ff bear ;D

    xx coops xx

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  7. Cards By MI10 March 2014 at 10:12

    Adorable! I need to try that fold. Stunning! Thanks for playing with us over at the Paper Shelter this week.
    Love n hugs
    Marie

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  8. Rebecca Hoy10 March 2014 at 14:40

    Gorgeous card. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Ribbons this week. Rebecca x

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  9. Gram's Treasures10 March 2014 at 16:14

    Wonderful colours and card design, and that image is adorable! Thank you for sharing your lovely creation with us at paper Crafting Journey.
    Joyce xx

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  10. paper fun10 March 2014 at 21:18

    This card is adorable. Such a precious theme throughout. I love all the attention to detail that you put in it.

    Thanks so much for joining in our button and bow challenge at Alphabet Challenge Blog.

    Mari

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  11. Bianca13 March 2014 at 13:28

    What a sweet and lovely Baby card! It looks like lots of work! Thank you for joining us at Fairy Tale Challenge! xx Bianca

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  12. Fliss16 March 2014 at 08:12

    This is gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing it with us at Make My Monday.
    Fliss x

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