Scrapping Essentials Designer Pack - Baby Girl - Card #3

This is the final card from the Baby Cards pack from Scrapping Essentials. You can find the other Baby Girl cards here and here, and the three Baby Boy cards I made from the same pack are here, here and here.



I had this idea in mind with the baby boy pack but ran out of ribbon before attempting it. I started in the middle with the widest strip of baby words vellum, and then added the two vellum pieces above and below. I used my tucking behind trick to adhere the vellum, with lots of sticky tape on the back side to hold it in place.
I positioned the vellum so that I got all of the words from the entire strip on the card front.
I also mounted it on foam tape as it was a bit bumpy from all the tape and ribbon ends... I think it would have to be taken out of and put back in an envelope very carefully ;)

Size of card: 4 1/2" square

Supplies:
Card/paper - Bazzill cardstock, Vellum A4 Patterned - Baby Words
Extra - Pink footprint ribbon
Tools - Fiskars paper trimmer, Helmar glue runner, sticky tape, foam tape

Well that's it from the Baby Cards pack - I hope you've enjoyed seeing them all!

Don't forget that if you're in Australia, or if you buy stamping/scrapping products from Australia, have a look at Scrapping Essentials - their Kaisercraft patterned paper stocks alone have me swooning!

Scrapping Essentials Designer Pack - Baby Girl - Card #2

This is the second Baby Girl card made with the Baby cards pack from Scrapping Essentials. You can see the first Baby Girl card here, and the three Baby Boy cards I made from the same pack are here, here and here.

This card is my personal favourite of the bunch:



I added the little knot of ribbon as an afterthought as I made it close on the heels of the first Baby Girl card I posted (here) and looking at both of them side-by-side thought they looked a little too similar, so I knotted up a scrap of the ribbon from the pack and adhered it to this one using a bit of glue from my glue runner on the back side of the knot.

Size of card: 4" square

Supplies:
Card/paper - Bazzill cardstock, Vellum A4 Patterned - Baby Words
Extra - Pink footprint ribbon
Tools - Fiskars paper trimmer, Helmar glue runner

Thanks for looking! Tomorrow I'll post the final baby card from this pack.

Scrapping Essentials Designer Pack - Baby Girl - Card #1

As promised, the next lot of cards I will be showing you are baby girl cards from the baby cards pack from Scrapping Essentials.

I did the smart thing this time and photographed the materials before I started cutting them up -



The baby girl part of the pack included 1 yard of pink footprint ribbon, 1 sheet of pink bazzill, one sheet of white bazzill, sheet of "Baby Words" vellum (also used for the baby boy cards) and 2 pink hand eyelets.

The following card shows a creative way of using eyelets (or brads, if you've got 'em!)



The card opens in a sideways motion. Here's one of it standing up 'closed' -



Click on the images above to see them closer up, and a bit more clearly.

Size of card: 10cm square (not quite 4")

Supplies:
Card/paper - Bazzill cardstock, Vellum A4 Patterned - Baby Words
Extra - Pink hand eyelet
Tools - Fiskars paper trimmer, Sticky tape, Provo Craft Silent Setter

Thanks for looking! I hope you are enjoying your weekend :)

Designer pack - Baby Boy - Card #3

This is the third (and final) card I made with the Baby Boy pack from Scrapping Essentials. You can see the other cards I made with the pack here and here.



Vellum Tip No. 3: Photographing vellum is kinda tricky because it's transluscent. It depends on the vellum though, and the image printed on it. As the vellum I'm using for these baby cards is clear with pastel writing I found it quite difficult to photograph, and this card was the worst.
The solution I found worked the best was simply adjusting the brightness (when using the P - Program setting on my camera) to make it neutral (0). It was way too dark to begin with but it allowed me to capture the subtle text. The off-white backdrop also helped - I was able to lighten the image quite dramatically using my photo editing software without the card disappearing into the background.

Once again, I tucked in the edges of the vellum, adhering them down using sticky tape on the backside of the white layer. I really ought to get some vellum tape - it would allow for so many more possibilities.

Size of card: A5 folded in half

Supplies:
Card/paper - Bazzill cardstock, Vellum A4 Patterned - Baby Words
Tools - Fiskars paper trimmer, Helmar tape runner, Sticky tape

I hope you've enjoyed these cards, and perhaps found some inspiration. Next up are baby girl cards from the same designer pack.

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Happy Birthday

Don't you just love it when a picture of a card in your head comes together perfectly in reality, without a hitch? Well that's exactly what happened with the card in this post!



I knew I wanted to use kraft to go for this week's CAS-Tastic Wednesday Challenge and somehow unconsciously I made it similar to the sketch for this week from Card Positioning Systems. I'm too late for the CAS-tastic challenge, unfortunately. Inspiration didn't hit until yesterday afternoon.

I adhered the ribbon by running my tape running along the length of it on a scrap piece of paper and tucked the edges behind the white layer. The antennae of the butterfly was drawn on the white layer with pencil first and then with my black Artline pen. I popped the butterfly up with foam tape to give it some dimension.

Size of card: 4" square

Supplies:
Card/paper - 300gsm recycled brown card, Quill white cardstock
Stamp - "Winged Friends" DigiKit by Hero Arts, Hero Arts "Classic Sentiments"
Ink - Printer, Versacolor "Pinecone"
Extra - American Crafts Ribbon
Tools - Fiskars paper trimmer, Helmar tape runner, Cre8tive spring scissors, Black Artline pen

Challenges: CWC011 / CPS175 / Moxie Fab World: Classy and Elegant

Designer pack - Baby Boy - Card #2

This is the second Baby Boy card I made for Scrapping Essentials with the Baby Cards pack. See the first card in yesterday's post here.



Vellum Rule No. 2: Always cut with a sharp blade! (Unless you're after a distressed look...) I made a couple of boo boos because I was using the blunter side of my Fiskars trimmer blade (I always, for some reason, cut from right to left and this causes me to wear out one side of the blade much, much faster than the other - If I take off the cutting blade to score I always have to do a practice cut when I pop it back in to find out which side is the sharpest!)

I haven't adhered the vellum down with the eyelet hands - good lord no. They just *look* like they're holding onto it. I cut more from each side of the vellum words than I needed and folded the excess behind the white layer, sticking it down with sticky tape on the back. I only got 2 eyelet hands in the pack for the boy cards so I had to be extra careful not to blow it! Thankfully the card-making gods were smiling down at me that day ;)

To get the corners of the white layer slightly rounded I used my Fiskars scallop scissors which I never use to scallop with. They are very small scallops which make very cute rounded corners.

Size of card: A5 folded in half

Supplies:
Card/paper - Bazzill cardstock, Vellum A4 Patterned - Baby Words
Extra - Blue hand eyelets
Tools - Fiskars paper trimmer, Helmar tape runner, Sticky tape, Provo Craft silent setter, Fiskars scallop scissors

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