Twins - New baby Cards

Today I am sharing a baby card that I made for my neighbour who had two adorable little boys in July last year but with one thing and another I have not had the opportunity to share it.

As the theme for our blog challenge this month at Daisy Chains is with children/babies in mind, this seemed the ideal time to share it.

I used the Tattered Lace nested book die for the main structure of my card along with a mix of Tattered Lace and downloads new baby backing paper mixed with powder blue vellum.

For the little baby grows I used a free digi stamp download and printed it onto one of the backing papers, adding their little name labels after.  The little metallic feet embellishments were made using a punch from my stash, purchased from a charity shop.

On the opposite page I had printed a personalised message onto the vellum page.

My open book card can lay flat or on the card stand I made using the Tonic floral affections ornate easel stand die .

I also added a few embellishments from my stash to the pages in the card book

I used white centura pearl card stock for the largest book die and also for the card stand so that it all matched, finishing off with blue satin ribbon and some white flat backed pearls.

This style of card makes an ideal new baby card which can be adapted to add photos too.

I made a very similar a few weeks later, keeping it a little more CAS and adding a photo of my friend's new addition to her family.

I have also added the same embellishments to the inner pages but chose to keep the photo of this handsome chap as my focal point on the card. These little lads have really grown since writing this post, they grow up so quickly.

The rest of our design team have also been making some lovely projects this month, along with so many great crafters on our blog every month. It's always lovely to see the inspiration everyone shares. Please use the link below to take you to the blog challenge and thanks for the visit.

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Birthday Book Card

For this months blog challenge on Let's Craft and Create, I am sharing a Birthday Book card made with Dreamee products and a Tattered Lace die set for our "friend" theme.

First I printed the wood grain backing paper, double sided onto hammered card for a little more texture using The Dreamees Sweet Sunflowers cd

Die cut the larger book dies twice and then join the spined dies together using a strong pva based glue like cosmic shimmer. The smaller of the large die can be used for pages inside your book or for panels as I have used them on the top and bottom.   I've also die cut the label using peach satin board by Create & Craft.

I stamped the sweet sunflowers onto the Dreamees velour paper, which has a lovely suede feel to it, using their dinky inkies to colour them in with one of their water brushes.

This card/paper takes the ink really well, whether you stamp onto it or colour.

I then die cut the flowers and layered them up.

Velour paper

I had a small zip and decided to cover it with some cream cotton lace to give the book front a prettier look to it with the sunflowers bursting through the centre. Pinflair glue gel is a perfect glue for this sort of project.  Using the Dreamees dotty alphabet stamps for the name in the label.

Dotty Alphabet stamp set

I stamped some white tissue paper with the largest stamp in the set, which made perfect coordinating paper to wrap it in.

Using the same velour paper I stamped my puppies using the Dreamees Pretty Pets stamp set.

I included the little mouse from their Autumn Days stamp set and used my Pearlescent dinky inkies to colour them in with the water brush again.

Onto cream card I have printed a leaf and sunflower backing paper (double sided) and made a box base to fit inside the book.

Using a piece of green lacy webbing for the grass and the sunflower leaves as foilage behind and around the puppies which have been adhered with pinflair glue gel, giving great dimension.

I used red liner tape to fix the box in place into the box but a strong pva glue like cosmic shimmer would also work well.

I have also stamped the Dreamees Friendship Dish recipe stamp onto coordinating wood grain card to form the plaque for the inside of the book. The Friendship Dish stamp was one of the first stamps I bought from The Dreamees.

A little Ranger glossy accent on the puppies eyes and nose to finish them off.

I have to say I love this precious nested book die by Tattered Lace, it has so many uses.

Pop over to the Let's Craft and Create blog page and see what the rest of the design team have been making. There is a $10 gift voucher for the winner.

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