More is More

This card is for my friend Sue (jsbrooketrout on SCS) who just had a sweet little baby girl. 🙂  Traditional baby cards are not really my thing.  I know most people love making them, but I don’t have many stamp sets that lend themselves to it.  So I usually make more non-traditional baby cards….like this one.

This is another one-layer card using Paper Trey’s white cardstock and Text Boxed stamp set.  The image was stamped repeatedly in Versamagic Chalk ink – rotating between Pixie Dust and Pink Petunia.  Then the word “joy” was stamped in all the lighter pink boxes with the darker pink ink.  Pretty darned simple, huh?  Once I had that done I struggled a bit with what to do without covering up to much of the pattern I had created.  I decided to cut some sliders and flowers from white coasters with my Cuttlebug.  Next I dyed them with the chalk ink by dabbing the pads directly on my coaster pieces.  Then I just played around with several combos of sliders, coaster flowers and Primas until I came up with this – rectangle slider, chipboard flower, 2 Primas, pink rhinestone flower brad.  Just a little white satin ribbon and it was done!

The inside sentiment is from SU’s God’s Blessings and reads “A baby is a gift from heaven above – bringing down joy to earth, filling hearts full of love.”  I thought that was so perfect to go with the “joy” on the front of the card!  So do you think this works for a baby card??

I’m actually needing another baby card besides this one and am debating if I want to just make another one similar to this or try for something more traditionally baby-looking.  Hmmmm…we’ll have to see what strikes me next time I sit down at my stamp table.

I so wanted to do the Sketch Challenge at SCS today, but just didn’t get to it.  I have some ideas floating around so maybe I’ll get to it later this week.  Gosh I’ve got to start blogging earlier in the evening.  I had all sort of stuff to talk about, but now I’m too tired to be coherent.  LOL!  Good night and thanks for stopping by.