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Thursday, April 12, 2012

New Baby!

Hi there!

My sister just recently had her second child.  Another girl!  I'm a very proud uncle even though I haven't met her yet.  I won't be able to meet her until Christmas unless I get home before then.  With the price of airplane tickets, it's not looking likely.  We shall see.  Anyway, I made my sister a Congratulations card.  Check out the details below.

The card is 5"x7".  I took a piece of pastel purple Recollections cardstock and trimmed it to be 10"x7".  I used my Martha Stewart score board and scored it at the 5" mark.  The yellow frame came from Recollections paper and the Elegant Edges cartridge.  I cut it at 4.5".  I cut the baby from the Baby Steps cartridge at 4" and pieced everything together.  I used a "congratulations" stamp sentiment from My Pink Stamper and the back of the card had a "Made Just For You By:" stamp sentiment from My Creative Time.  I pop-dotted the flower and cheeks of the baby to add dimension.  I also took a fine-tip marker and drew "stitching" on the frame of the card.  I thought this one turned out really well!!  I always forget to add stitching as it adds that little extra umph to it.  :)




To be honest with you all, before I had used the pop dots I figured it needed something.  Not remembering I had "cat eye's" ink pads, I tried to use a large ink pad to shade the borders of the baby.  This didn't turn out so well so I tried to fix it and brushed the ink pad over the baby in general.  To be honest when I lifted the ink pad, I got really scared!  I hope you aren't as scared as I was.  This also made me chuckle and I wanted to show you a picture of something I COULD NOT send my sister.  A while back there was a company that asked to send in a picture of your craft projects gone bad.  This would have been one of them!  Eeeek!  


Then I turned it over to try again and it just got worse!  See for yourself.  Oy vey!  


Anyway, that's the new baby card I made a couple days ago.  I hope you enjoyed it!

Craft on,
Ian

6 comments:

  1. That is a really cute card and loved that you showed us the oops!

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    1. Thanks so much! I do want to be honest and show that mistakes happen. Really, really, really bad mistakes. haha. :)

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  2. I think your card is adorable. I love her little cheeks...they are just to cute and I totally enjoyed your story of the "little booboo! Kathie

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    1. Thanks! :) Glad you were able to enjoy the booboo. haha. Thanks for joining, Kathie!

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  3. Great card Ian - its always good to see other peoples little mishaps. Makes us know we are not alone LOL.

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    1. Thank you so much, Karon! I like to show my mistakes when I can because we are all real people and mistakes do happen. :) Thanks for joining!!

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