I Brake for Baby Buggies

Hi, Braker Fans. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time to show you my DT project for I Brake for Stamps. As many of you know I love the craft of paper engineering. So I created a shaped card for a baby girl in the shape of a dress. I saw a cute baby dress on the web and knew I had to create something like it. So here it is…

I hand drew one half of the dress and cut it on a fold to create a uniform shape and that became my template. Then I used the template for the front of the dress as well as creating my card with it. I added the lace, pearls and flowers for lots of texure.

I used a cute baby buggy stamp from the IBFS store called “Baby Buggy” for the inside of my card. It’s available in rubber or digi stamp form.

Supplies:

Stamps - I Brake for Stamps; Hero Arts

Cardstock – Bazzill

Pearls/Gems – Hero Arts; Stamp Simply

Punches/Dies – Marvy Uchida Flower

Lace – Martha Stewart

Thread - DMC

You can get this stamp at I Brake for Stamps online store. Use my coupon code SAVE10CATHY for 10% off your purchase. 

Hugz,

It's A Girl

Hello Friends and Happy Memorial Day!

I spent my whole Sunday afternoon setting up my new PC and WOW is it fast! I love new technology. However, sometimes the tech vendors change things so much you have to relearn stuff. I majored in Computer Science but there's always new hardware, software, etc. to learn and that takes time. OK, I'll get off the soapbox for a while.

Our Challenge at Craft Your Passion is up and this week our theme is "Baby, Oh Baby" with optional stitching. Pattie's Creations is our sponsor and she has given us some sweet digis to play with. Check out my DT sisters on the Challenge blog for some adorable inspiration.

My card doesn't have stitching but I did use a needle and thread to gather the tulle for my little girl's dress. I paper pieced the dress from some cute DCWV Designer Papers in my scrap stash. I added pearl ribbon to the midriff trim and a flower from WOC. My ribbon is American Crafts and I used dimensionals for the dress. All on bright white cardstock makes the perfect "Welcome Baby" card.

This is my last DT project for Craft Your Passion and it has been a lot of fun. Jenn, our awesome leader and my DT sisters are sweet as can be not to mention very creative. Now I'll get a chance to participate in the Challenges.

I hope you have a wonderful Memorial Day and a great week.

Hugz,

Hi, Friends. I hope you had a good weekend. It was pretty quiet out here on the ranch. We’ve had some nice January thaw weather with several days in the 50s & 60s. And now we could see some snow on Tuesday. It’s ever changing here along the front range.

Craft Your Passion has a new challenge up and we would love for you to join us. This one was a tough challenge for me because I had a hard time deciding on which color combo I was going to use with my image.

Ok, so I had to use pink on my “Welcome Baby” card because DH and I became Grandparents again. Our oldest son, Tony and his darling wife, Angie had their second daughter on December 30 (also Angie’s birthday). Her name is Alexandria and she is healthy and adorable.

Her big sister, Allie is making good friends with her already.

I decided to use the left column, Pink, Black/Gray and Yellow. Here is my interpretation of the color combo. Not sure I like the yellow & pink cherry blossoms but this card looks so much better in person than in the photos.

My cute Zebra image is from Limited Runs who is our sponsor this week and there are loads of awesome digi stamps to choose from. So I hope you join us for the challenge. Can’t wait to see what you create.

Thanks for stopping by…I’ll have another fun Valentine’s Day project for you tomorrow so head back over and see what I’ve created.

Hugz,