Yes, it’s true. Baby Bear is retiring (141859). You are only guaranteed that he will be available until Friday but he will truly be gone on June 4 – as will lot of others. Click the shop now button and check out the retiring items. The clearance rack has some great bargains too. If you spend $50 in product, I’ll send you 14 free tutorials.
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I decided to leave my stamped Moon Baby image left over from yesterday to dry overnight so that I could be certain it was really dry and ready for the aquapainter. Of course, I’ve now made two baby cards for girls and I found out this morning that one of the babies on the way is a boy. Good to have extra cards on hand, right?
I started by lightly outlining the image with the pacific point pencil to make the image pop but then decided on a blue sky. I was initially going to get darker towards the edges but I liked the watercolour effect with looks of different texture after the first round of colour and left it. I used the daffodil delight pencil for the moon and the star, calypso coral for the face and hand and then melon mambo for the clothing. It’s amazing what a bit of water can do for the colour!
I added a little border (just 1/8 inch larger all round) and used fast fuse to ensure my slightly damp watercolour paper holds fast. There are quite a few baby sentiments in the Moon Baby set but I wanted a longer less deep sentiment, if that makes sense. It was originally a surprise to me that not only do you need a sentiment to say the right thing, it needs to be in a typeface which matches your card AND it needs to be the right shape. At least, that’s how I justify buying more and more stamp sets with sentiments! Baby Bear had the perfect size and shape and meaning for my sentiment. Yesterday, I used daffodil delight as a base because that was the colour of the watercolor pencil. Today I used so saffron – I think I like this better. Which do you prefer?
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I’m sure that it’s fairly clear by now, but just in case it’s not – I love the new watercolor pencils. And one of the stamp sets that really was made for them is Day at the Beach. Okay, actually there are a lot of stamp sets but today I’m focusing on Day at the Beach. I’ve been a bit slack with my welcome cards – one of my former colleagues joined us at work last week and he hasn’t received his card yet. In my defence, working six days each week is messing with my brain. I am so grateful that I have carding as relaxation, it really helps. So here’s the card that I just made for Ed.
It’s vaguely CASEd from the Occasions catalogue. Well the idea of multiple suns on yellow was the thing that struck me. So here we have first the sentiment in delightful dijon from Baby Bear and then the lovely suns stamped in crushed curry on so saffron. Yes, there are a lot of yellows and to ensure that I included them all ( I think I have), I used the daffodil delight watercolor pencil on the edge of the sun and an aquapainter to spread the color a little. I really like the suns on the diagonal – it’s very eye pleasing. No mats seemed to work nor a different colored card base so I kept it simple with a so saffron base.
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Here’s another Christmas card using a non-Christmassy stamp set – this time, Baby Bear along with the Jolly Hat builder punch to add the Christmas to the card. Technically, the hat is a little small for the bear, but it was too adorable not to do it.
The bear is stamped in soft suede first for the most detailed layer and then crumb cake for the next detailed and crumb cake stamped off for the least detailed layer. I like to do it backwards so that it’s easy to see the darker layer for lining up purposes. The final piece of stamping came from Christmas Pines, a set that I love but have only recently started to use – fortunately it’s carrying over. Do you ever do that? Buy something that you love and it just sits on your desk amidst all the other sets and it gets ignored for a while?
I punched out the hat in real red and whisper white and added the festive touch to my bear! What do you think?
I just noticed that today is the deadline to guarantee Christmas delivery.
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As it’s Thursday, there’s a new challenge on the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge blog – which is why this post is later than usual. It’s timed to coincide with the challenge blog. Today it’s a colour challenge and to make this card I combined two sets, the hostess set Love you Lots and Baby Bear.
Here’s the colour banner which inspired my card.
I was a little worried about this combination – as I’ve mentioned before, I’m not overly fond of brown and to make it worse, when I made this card, I hadn’t yet made peace with flirty flamingo. So it was with some trepidation that I sat down to see what was going to happen. I started with a piece of watercolour paper thinking about doing a sunset with trees and started happily using my aquapainter to add sweet sugarplum and flirty flamingo. It looked really good. I’m not sure where the idea of the elephant came from – other than it was on my desk – but I decided to stamp her in chocolate chip and I loved the look. I also stamped her again on the whisper white card. I then snipped her out – cutting off her tail – and then glued my piece of watercolour paper right over the top. I added a little more sweet sugarplum in the shaded areas for contrast and a wash of more chocolate chip for some ground. The sentiment comes from the set Baby Bear and it’s also stamped in chocolate chip.
There was something missing and I looked around my table for a little something. I was actually at a day crop and didn’t have all my supplies, but I did have my new punch, the blossom builder. Perfect. I punched out a piece of flirty flamingo and put it on a foam mat. I then used the handle of my scoring tool to press down on the centre to make the edges pop up. A rhinestone in the centre and my baby elephant had her bling.
For the envelope, I stamped the elephant again and left her plain. So it coordinates but doesn’t give away everything about the card ahead of time.
I hope that you’ll pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team have created and to have a go yourself. You don’t need a blog to enter, any public gallery will do or even Facebook.
