baby boy cards for a friend

 

I have a coworker who is having a baby boy and I thought it would be helpful to make some thank you cards she could use so i dug up some stamps and dies I have in my baby stash to make these simple thank you cards.

One above was using a memory box baby carriage die from a long time ago. My boys are now in college- that's how old - but I love the look of the die so much I always kept it  for just this purpose. 

the scallop around it is from Stampin Up Scalloped Contours die and the sentiment from Stampin Up (reitred ) All for Baby stampset. layer it on a base of thick white cardstock embossed with a cloud embossing folder (although hard to see here) 

This simple little card uses a thick white cardstock as base, a layer or a white cardstock stamped with the giraffe from Stampin Up (retired) Zoo Babies stampset and the sentiment from Celebrate Baby set. a run of gold tape around the edge to add a bit of sparkle.

I do clean out my supplies every once in a while but I do buy these things because I love them and find that I go back to it time after time if I love it enough so there is a stash of some things I just won't part with. .... If I just had the space to keep it all!

Zoo Babies - make your own DSP

 This was such a straightforward idea of making your own DSP using the variety of animals and different ink colors using the Zoo Babies, I just love it.  I took Pistaschio Pudding base card, embossed with Striped embossing folder.   I stamped a piece of whisper white with the animals in Pistaschio pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe, So Saffron, and Pool Party and bordered it with scalloped ribbon punched from Crisp Cantaloupe CS split in half. I stamped the lion in Baked Brown sugar on white and stamped sentiment in pool party punched it out with scalloped circle punch and lined it with a larger circle and mounted with Dimensionals.  Added a Very vintage button  tied with calypso coral Baker's twine and mounted that with a dimensional too.  I chose these colors to make it good for boy or girl but you can change up the color to make it for either sex.

Enjoy.   Lynda

Things you need to make this card you need

Paper:     Whisper white  CS               100730            $8.50 (40 sheets)

                Pistaschio Pudding CS         131294         $6.95 (24 sheets)  

   Crisp Cantaloupe CS            131298           $6.95 (24 sheets)  

   Baked Brown Sugar CS        131296            $6.95 (24 sheets) 

Stamps:  Zoo Babies   130453  Wood  $27.95             130456 Clear    $19.95 

Ink:       Baked Brown Sugar   131174

            Pool Party                   126982

Pistaschio Pudding         131177 

 Crisp Cantaloupe       131176       

So Saffron                   126957   

Tools:  2 1/2 Circle punch  120906    $16.95

           1 3/4 Scallop Circle  Punch     119854    $16.95

           Dotted Sacllop Ribbon Border punch  119275  $15.95
           Stripes Embossing folder      126128    $7.95

            Dimensionals      104430            $3.95 (300 dots)

Accents:  Very Vintage Designer Button  129327 $5.95  (24 buttons/ 3 designs)

               calypso coral Bakers twine   125573   $2.95 (25 yards) 

You can buy any and all of what you need at http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/lyndalee

Oh, whale case

I cased this card from the Stampin Up website January 2nd. They changed the look of the website and I had some mixed feelings about it at the beginning but I like it.  My only thing is that it is pinned from somewhere and I could not find out from the picture who originally made the card.
I changed up the color and added the sentiment and the hears but I think it is sweet.  Take a white cardstock, slight smaller than the base card.  Diecut the large oval as shown using the Oval framelets.  Emboss with the Needlepoint border embossing folder as shown.  Stamp the waves on the base cardstock with pool party -using stamp off technique to get various shades.  I used a post it on the right side to make sure it was not going to show when the top cardstock was mounted.   Stamp the whale and diecut with the Happy Whale clearlit.  Stamp the sentiment and the hearts with pool party and mount using dimensionals.  Mount the whale and add the tiniest pearl for the eye.  Easy peasy card.  Credits to Stampin Up for posting such a cute card and credits to original creator!

Lynda

Baby Bundle bib variations

 I have gotten a few requests for baby cards but since I often don't know whether it is for a boy or girl, I like to give people options.  So when I was coming up with this card, I chose yellow (of course) as a neutral to play off the pink or the blue colors. 
Super easy and people seemed to really like it at my make and take.

Take So Saffron base card.  Take a whisper white CS and stamp congratulations on it from Friendly phrases.  Punch out the white circle ( 1 3/8) from the part that will be hidden behind the colored squares. Stamp the duck from Baby bundle on the bottom of the circle. Color the duck with so saffron watercolor crayon directly onto the paper.  color the beak with pumpkin marker.  Take either the Pink pirouette or Bashful blue and punch the little scallop circle from the part that will be hidden.  

 Layer the stamped white circle onto the colored scallop. Then using 3/4 inch cicle punch, cut out what would be neck of the bib.  Used a paper piercer to make 2 little holes ( I tried a whole bunch of ribbons and threads, and none of it worked.  This gave the Impression of the a tie without actually having a tie, and it was even more simple!)

Use dimensionals to attach the bib.  Layer the So Saffron DSP onto your color choice cardstock then use dimenstionals again to raise the colored cardstock on top of the whisper white.

details of the bib.  So simple, so super easy and still so CUTE!

I thought it would be really cute gift to make a bunch of these with Thanks so much stamped on it from Every Wishes Simply Sent with the similar font style  to give to an expected mother so she would have a bunch of cute thank you's she can send out for the gifts whe may have gotten. 

Tie it with a sweet color coordinated ribbon and easy peasy cards that I am sure she will appreciate!

Bun in the Oven

I was at a local scrapbook store and found this oven stamp from Art Gone W*ld and thought it would be perfect for a someone who is expecting a baby- unfortunately they did not have the coordinating oven mitt and content inside stampset so I had to make do. I used base whisper white CS and used real red . I stamped the oven on the red and then cut what would be the inside to make a recessed window- see technique here http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/recessedwindow/ I then took a basic grey cardstock and drew in the back of the oven and the racks using a black pen and mounted the bread (from comfort food set- SU retired) I stamped on white cardstock and colored in and mounted with dimensionals. I stamped another oven in white, cut out the oven door- around the top and sides and scored the bottom to allow it to open and mounted it on the red CS. I did stamp the oven mitt and colored it in but should have put the hanging tab on the left instead of center but oh well- too late. I then hand wrote the sentiment and pierced the margins to add a little more interest.

Inside is a sentiment from Occasional Quotes(hostess set) and a gift card. I stamped a few images from Clear Art st*mp company to add some baking accoutrements and voila! a fun little play on word card for someone expecting.

Lynda

Fox and Friends

Stampin' Up has these really adorable wall decorations called Decor Elements that are vinyl, applied to the walls and then can be peeled off with no damage to the walls.

The images that came with matching alphabets were so darling I was really tempted to get them to decorate the boys' rooms. Then they came out with a stamp set to match in the new mini and I just ADORE them!

The monkey is just so darn cute. This is a template for a monochromatic card that Tami my upline had come up with and I used a variation on that to make a bunch of different cards and this is one of them.

Stamp an image ( here the monkey from Fox and Friends but any small- ish image will work) on the very vanilla CS, punch it out with 1 3/8 circle punch, layer with vanilla TEXTURED CS 1 1/2 inch square then another with 2" square vanilla- Easy to make a strip of 2" cardstock and snip off every 2 inches to make a whole bunch of squares to have to make a stack of these with varying images and sentiments.

Tie striped ribbon around a folded very vanilla base card and use dimensionals to attach the squares. Stamp a sentiment in coordinating color and easy peasy card that looks very pretty.

I thought this would be cute card for a new mom or baby so I was looking for some charms in my stash to dangle from the ribbon and saw the banana stamp from sock monkey stamp set so I stamped it on Shr*nky Dink with stazon then shrunk it with my heat gun thne colored it in with my Cop*cs (alcohol based marker- but it will work with regular markers and colored pencils before you shrink as well- although shrinking does concentrate the colors so test it out). I used some wire to make a jump ring to hook through some fibers of the ribbon so make sure you punch a hole in the shrinky D*nk BEFORE you shrink it and make it big since it will shrink too.

Lynda

Martha Stewart Elephant Punch Card

I have thing about Martha Stewart. No matter what people said I was one of those people who always kinda liked her. I've been subscribing to her magazine since its inception and I even DVR her show every day infomercialling her craft products. When I saw this elephant punch I HAD to HAVE it. I just thought it was so sweet. I dreamed about doing colorblocking with it and I thought it turned out very sweet. I just grabbed 5 colors from the soft & subtle group of colors.

Take barely banana CS base. punch out 1 1/4 inch squares from pretty in pink, almost amethyst, bliss blue and certainly celery and punch out an elephant with the same colors. Cuttle bug the squares with the polka dot embossing folder. ( I tried to polka dot the banana CS but it was just too much and this seemed prettier.) Stamp baby image from Punches Three- (hostess set) in celery and lilac and dimensional mount over olive polytwill ribbon .