The current challenge at the addictedtoCAS site is Family. Here’s the banner:

This seemed like a great time to pull out my new stamp set, Zoo Babies. I also decided to use some of the Fresh Prints DSP stack (currently a great value on the closeout list at $2.79) and took my colour choices from there.

The colours on this DSP are coastal cabana, crumb cake and whisper white (also real red but not on this piece) so I stamped the giraffes in the crumb cake and the sentiment in coastal cabana both on whisper white. I cropped the whisper white to give a decent border of the dsp which is only 1/8 inch smaller than the base of whisper white.

For some reason, I like to use the alphabet embossing folder on baby cards. Maybe I think that the alphabet will somehow sink into the baby’s mind. I’m not sure. But it is fun to dry emboss the flap of the envelope with it.