Soon, Baby, Soon
I made this card for a co-worker, who is expecting her second child (a boy) in July. In all honesty, I was stumped by these little silhouette stamps. They are quite small -- almost too small. So I fooled around for about 3 days until I found a way to incorporate this pregnant woman into a card. I wanted a suitable sentiment, but nothing I had fit, until I saw the word "soon" and I knew I had hit the jackpot for a 9 months pregnant woman in July in DC!!! The inside text is "Hang in There!"
Supplies: Stamps: Stampendous Sassy Silhouettes and Impression Obsession Clear Set Sentiments II; Memory Box Homespun and Eggshell papers; Stampin Up cream grosgrain ribbon, blue eyelet and Bashful Blue cardstock; Marvy scallop and oval punches.
The base of the card is made with White Papertreyink cardstock -- sent to me for free, courteous of Robyn, a/k/a The Pink Stamper, and Robynstamps on Splitcoast. BTW, totally awesome paper for the base of a card. I wish I didn't have 10,000 (it seems) sheets of white cardstock already!
Robyn also sent me an amazing collection of cards -- all of which I will post soon. Isn't that sweet?
That is a lovely card.
ReplyDeleteLove this Joan!! The sentiment is perfect!!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, you managed a great way to use this tiny silhouette stamp. The "soon" and "hang in there", though, are about as perfect as it gets! I like the blue and yellow and the scalloped oval over the striped paper, too.
ReplyDeleteYou did an awesome job with this one! I so remember that feeling of being ready to pop and got so sick of people saying, "You haven't had that baby yet?!?!" Well, duh. I would have loved to get this card, with its perfect placement of the small image (you're right about those suckers being hard to work with!) and the sentiment that is so hopeful and positive.
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel with these stamps. I have this set and found that they work well if I punched small round or square holes in the card and then stamped the image on the inside of the card. The size was perfect for peeking out of the punched holes. Just another idea for you. I also used some Basic Grey file folder cards that I had bought last year. They already had round holes punched out in them and these images worked great with those. Plus they were two-sided print so there were nice patterned paper on both sides of the folder.
ReplyDeleteThat is TOO cute!!
ReplyDeleteI saw that stamp and loved it, but didn't get it yet. Really love what you did with it and the word SOON will have a special meaning for the mom to be :)
I love that you mixed clean lines with the scalloped oval. So very pretty. Your right about the silhouette stamps being so small. But you made a card using one of them and made that stamp stand out!
ReplyDeleteMary