CTD180: Welcome Baby

I really loved the colour combo over at  The Colour Throwdown this week. Check it out:

 

It seemed to me that these colours would be perfect for a baby card. I do just happen to have a friend who is waiting to bring her little boy into this world by the first week of March. I would have to say he helped with the inspiration of this card.

Stamps: Punch Bunch, So Happy For You

Ink: Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Grey

Tools: scallop square punch, square punch

Extras: brads, grosgrain ribbon, button bouquet

I love those little duckies and what makes this stamp even better, is that in MDS I can enlarge to whatever size I want. I find that in real life the stamp is too small and the cute detail of it is lost. But in MDS, it's great!

I added some brads to the little umbrella's trim and a button on top.

I carried over the same colours into the inside of the card. What a fun colour combo this was! I never would have thought of it.

Hope you have fun finding beauty in the details today.

CCMC 188 & CCREW0212CF (no. 2)

I loved the sketch from Create with Connie and Mary this week and the idea of digging out old neglected stamps from the Splitcoast Challenge: CCREW0212CF so much that I was inspired to make another card under the same requirements. 

I have a few bits and pieces of retired cardstock. One colour I always had so much difficulty using was Apricot Appeal. I had seen a picture recently in a magazine that paired grey with a similar sherbet-like colour and thought it would make a nice colour combo for a card.

The neglected, or rather never ever used stamp in question, is from last year's Sale-a-bration. Yep, it has sat on my shelf for a whole year untouched. Terrible! Especially since it's such a pretty one.

Stamps: Punch Bunch (retired), Well Defined (retired)

Ink: Apricot Appeal, Peach Parfait, Tangerine Tango, Basic Grey, Mellow Moss

Paper: Basic Grey, Apricot Appeal, Light Grey, Naturals White cardstock, and Walk in the Park dsp

Tools: Simply Scored, , scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1" circle punch, scallop trim border punch, crop-a-dile

Extras: copper eyelet, grey taffeta ribbon

Side-view...

A little flower on the inside. For the flowers I used a mix of Apricot Appeal, Peach Parfait, and Tangerine Tango to give it some depth. I did the same with the definition on the side.

Thanks for looking. Hope you have a super day!

Punch Bunch Minis

I have a thing for mini cards. I might be because they are so quick to make, therefore I always have to make a bunch of them or cause they are so cute, but whatever it is, I just love them!

Stamps: Punch Bunch (Sale-a-bration 2011)

Ink: Pacific Point & Old Olive

Paper: Ice Cream Parlour dsp and Peach Parfait cardstock

Embellishments: Marina Mist 1/8" taffeta ribbon

Tools: Scallop square punch

I used the supplies I got during this year's Sale-a-bration. They had some really cute stuff this year, well they always do, but each year it's an exciting time. It's great because it comes after Christmas, in the doldrums of the new year, just when you need a pick me up! Prepare yourself for it, remember that it's coming, it's always extra fun because in addition to the Occasions Mini catalogue, there is a separate Sale-a-bration catalogue that comes out too where you can earn free products. More stamps and paper and embellishments...oh my!

And, as if that weren't enough, that is when they come out with the list of retired products from the current Idea Book & Catalogue (ie. the big catalogue.) Yes, the list of all the stamps you have a last chance to purchase before they are gone forever. Arghhhhhh! How to pick!? What to pick!? Told you it's an exiting time.

The paper on these mini cards was my favorite of the Sale-a-bration papers. The background colour, wasn't ivory but more like a tea-stain, a bit deeper, and gave a vintage feel to it, despite the bright colours. 

It just had that retro feel, that makes you want to change your whole decor and go all "Mad Men" on your home. It reminded me of stuff like this that you see on that show:

I love that show, course I think it's because partially this stuff is still in the recesses of my memory from when I was a kid. But then the other part is mainly this part here...

Mmm-hmm. Okay, detour over, back to cards. 

As I was, saying I love that paper, these pictures don't do it justice, it feels like a wallpaper that was once in my grandma's house. I love it so much it took me a long time to cut it, but as you can see, I finally got over that. Especially since I got it in digital form too from the Sale-a-bration catalogue, which is how I'm able to display the sheet of dsp on the blog here below, plus I can use it for digital scapbooking! yay!

Here's another little card I did ...

Sorry, I'm not trying to make you fall in love with something you can't have because it's retired. Instead, I'm sharing something I love with you and reminding you to jump on those items you see in the mini catalogues or the Sale-a-bration catalogues. So many times I don't and then I'm sorry after the fact, but this time I got it and fell in love with this paper, and even got it digitally.

To be honest I feel the same way about the Spice Cake designer series paper in the current Holiday Mini (shown below) as you can see, I used the paisley one to beautifully decorate my blog.

Contact me, if you fall in love with something and feel you can't live without it too! I want to hear all about it!!!