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Finally Zoo Babies for a girl

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I’ve been making baby cards for a boy a lot this month; I was producing a number so that Julia had a reasonable selection – and the next time that anyone needs one, I’ll be ready. Unless the baby is a girl, that is. So I decided to make a pink card, just to be prepared. And the Zoo Babies set was still on my desk so out it came again.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies

The three rhinos are slightly too big to fit on a standard sized card, so I cut a piece of very vanilla at 5.5″ wide. This meant that I could add a quarter inch border on the base card and be able to make an envelope out of a sheet of regular 8.5″ by 11″ card stock, essential since I don’t have blushing bride in 12 by 12. I used a ruler and pencil to draw a line to help me line up the rhinos which I then stamped in blushing bride. I added the toucan stamped in perfect plum and used the same ink for the sentiment which is from the Bravo set. I mounted the very vanilla on a base of blushing bride.

I then took another piece of blushing bride and cut it to a 8.5″ square which enabled me to make the matching envelope sized to fit a 4.5″ by 6″ card. Whilst I still have my stamps inked up, I added the little toucan to the front of the envelope as well.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies blushing bride envelope

There, now I’m prepared for any births.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

More Zoo Babies

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I’ve really fallen for the collection of baby animals in the Stampin’ Up! Zoo Babies set; it’s been sitting unused on my shelf of (ever expanding) stamp sets for a while and now it appears to be like chocolate chip cookies. You can’t stop at just one. Which may possibly be why at my last class I sent most of the cookies that I had made home with my friend Jacquie. They are her favourite after all.

When I realised that I didn’t have any baby cards in my stash, I started to make a few so that Julia could have a choice. This one could also be for a kid’s birthday.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies and Alphabet Press TIEF

The hippo is stamped in sahara sand on very vanilla card stock and yes, that’s pear pizzazz AGAIN for the toucan. I really like the combo of very vanilla, pear pizzazz and sahara sand together. I cut out the two animals using the circles collection and the big shot and then cut the next largest circle in pear pizzazz. I used the tombow mono glue to glue the two circles together.

I then took a piece of sahara sand card stock and ran it through the texture boutique in the Alphabet Press folder. I’m really happy that I got this machine, it is so handy not having to change the bigshot base between cutting and embossing. It will also be useful in classes since we can emboss using either machine.

I wanted the textured background to really stand out and so I attached the circles in the corner; I attached them with stampin’ dimensionals, it adds interest and makes it easy to attach on the textured surface. It gives a totally different look being in the bottom left as opposed to the bottom right – here’s an example from a couple of weeks ago where I put the focal point on the right. I then mounted this onto a sahara sand base and lined the envelope in the sahara sand shade from the backgrounds DSP.

 

Son of Zoo Babies

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Well, not really son of Zoo Babies but it does feel like a rather long running action movie! Maybe it should be The Return of Zoo Babies! Anyway, I was having so much fun making baby boy cards for Julia to select from when she returns from St Lucia that I had to make another. This one sort of reminds me of the Jungle Book and the elephants all walking in single file. Imagine that there are far more of them.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies

They didn’t fit on a standard card (the front elephant’s trunk was – dare I say it? – truncated) so I stamped the three elephants in marina mist on a larger piece of whisper white and cut it down after the stamping. A ruler really is your best friend here – I drew a pencil line across the card so that I could line up my elephants  – using the stamp-a-ma-jig here of course. The congratulations also comes from the Zoo Babies set. I mounted the whisper white on a piece of marina mist sized to give a 1/8 inch border all around.

This odd sized card meant that I could pull out the envelope punch board, a tool that I don’t use enough. It’s so much fun to make your own envelope and it really impresses people too. And it’s so easy. It’s almost like baking a cake – people are so impressed and think that you took hours and hours when in fact it’s the task of a few minutes.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Zoo Babies for a baby card

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My friend Julia told me that she needs a baby card for a coworker who has just had a boy. Of course, I don’t have any in my stash – this surprised me, I have so many cards in various boxes that I’d have thought I could cover any situation! But no. So here’s one of a few that I made, hopefully one of them will fit the bill.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies

I stamped the elephant from the Stampin’ Up! Zoo Babies set in marina mist on whisper white card stock and added the sentiment underneath. It’s from the same stamp set in case you were wondering. I then cut out my stamped images with one of the circles collection framelits. I stamped another elephant on whisper white and snipped around his ear and then popped this up on a little piece of stampin’ dimensionals (a good time to use a piece from the edge of the dimensionals) for some added interest.

I ran a piece of marina mist through the texture boutique in the Alphabet Press embossing folder – so far, I only seem to use this folder for baby cards, I’ll have to issue myself a challenge to use it for something else! I originally intended to mat the embossed card with something else, possibly white, but it drew attention away from the elephant. So I just mounted it on the marina mist card base.

I lined the envelope flap with the Backgrounds DSP in marina mist –  I cut a 6″ by 2.25″ piece and trimmed it with my paper snips after I glued it on.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Addicted to family and CAS

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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.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies

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.