Hi Everyone. Happy Saturday night.
Very quick post for you all tonight, as I know that many of you will be very busy with 4th July preparations.
Tonight's card was created for the Paper Players challenge. The challenge this week is a theme challenge. The theme? Make a baby card.
Pop along to see the other design team creations.
Corie's fabulously creative welcome baby card
LeAnne's adorable baby girl card
Lesley's adorable baby boy card
Marlene's creative baby girl card – Marlene is the Guest Designer for July
Then… it's over to you. We would really love to see what you create. All you need to do is upload a new baby themed creation to your blog – or public site – so that we can pop along and check it out. You have until midnight on Friday to upload your creation. A winner – the headliner – and 3 "cut aboves" will be announced by Lesley on Sunday. I hope you play along with us.
I have made several baby cards in the last couple of weeks, so thought that I would change things up a little and create a baby shower invitation card. I wanted to create a card using a reasonably sophisticated color palette, with clean and simple lines. I took the Tiffany box idea and turned it into the shower card.
I used the Baby Bundle (120576) set and some retired Sweet Slumber DSP. At this point – all the DSP I own is retired, whilst I wait for the arrival of the new papers:-)
Here's my take on the challenge for this week.
With this card, I really had to do the inside as well.
You can see that I tied the inside and the outside together using the same colors, and similar elements on the left hand panel. However, I used different stamps for the inside panel than I did on the outside. However, because they are all baby elements, the panels work together.
The color scheme of Riding Hood Red, Daffodil Delight and Baja Breeze works really well with the Sweet Slumber DSP.
Card recipe:
- Card stock: Riding Hood Red, Daffodil Delight, Baja Breeze
- Inks: Riding Hood Red, Versamark
- Stamps: Baby Bundle (120576)
- Papers: Sweet Slumber (retired SU DSP)
- Sentiment: retired rub-on
Card instructions:
- Cut Riding Hood Red card stock to A2 horizontal
- Cut Daffodil Delight 3" square
- Cut sheet of DSP 2 7/8" square
- Wrap Daffodil Delight ribbon around the DSP and tie a bow. Then adhere to Daffodil Delight using dimensionals
- Stamp left panel of card with elements from the baby set in versamark.
- Place sentiment and adhere "parcel" to card front.
- For the inside, stamp elements down the left hand panel, stamp sentiment – or details, tie a piece of ribbon and adhere the inside panels.
Baby invites can be very detailed, or very simple, it really depends on your taste – and the number of invitees 🙂 A simple invite, showcasing a parcel, can be changed up for multiple uses. For a female birthday invite, a tiffany blue card stock piece and a beautiful piece of white satin ribbon would be a great alternative.
On a personal note: I want to leave you with a pic from pickings at the Farmer's Market today…. the baskets were overflowing with wonderful, freshly picked vegetables. Just gorgeous.
Every week our baskets are commented on. I am so pleased that we invested in these fabulous market gathering baskets. Seriously, they make the veges look even better.
I have to tell you that the Red Bib lettuce is crisp and buttery and just yummy. The heirloom tomatoes are on the bottom of the basket in the middle. All you can see are the sungolds and baby tomatoes. The Walla Walla onions are amazing. I wait with baited breath every year for the start of the Walla Walla season. We will be sorry when Asparagus season is over.. and we only probably have about another week for the asparagus. What you can't see are the freshly harvested baby potatoes. Oh… we had those for dinner tonight. Boiled for about 10 minutes, sprinkled with Maldon salt, a little pepper and a little goat's butter. Oh – heaven. There is nothing like freshly harvested baby potatoes. They still taste earthy and buttery and just fabulous.
I know that these may seem totally mainstream to many of you, but here in Minnesota, the winters are long and it takes a while for Mother Nature to start producing her natural bounties. My favorite discovery – heirloom tomatoes. I'd never heard of them until we started frequenting the market. Oh boy…. cultivated tomatoes never tasted as good as Heirlooms..
As always, prayers for Trish, Germaine, T, Pri, Arthur, Missy and Rach. I hope you all have a fabulous week. Don't forget to play along with the Paper Players – we'd really love to see your baby themed creations.
Hugs
Jaydee
12 Responses
Cute card! I love the retired paper! Yummy looking veggies, by the way!
Adorable card! Beautiful veggies & baskets! Love those baskets-they are huge! I love baskets! You can use them just about for anything! Thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures!
Prayers for ALL my cyber friends! Hope everyone has a safe & wonderful 4th of July!
Love the card (so cute!), the baskets, the veggies and the GREEN grass! We have not had as much rain as you and ours is not that green!
Have a happy 4th!
Hi Jaydee,
This is the perfect baby invite! Love how you used the images down one side of the card! So cute!
Smiles,
Lesley
Hi Jaydee, lovely colours in the card box, and I love your veggie baskets and the veggies too!When we lived in Houston, I bought so many longerberger baskets, I just love having baskets for different uses! Thank you for sharing your photos too!
Missy, so nice to know your story about your name, I think mums always win!! I miss my mom so much, I was 7 when she passed away, not a day goes by I don’t think of her!
I am doing so much better today and hoping it will continue to be so, thank you to all of you my cyber friends for all the prayers! and wishing all a Happy 4th of July! Trish, prayers and hugs to you, hope all is well with you! Bye for now! Hugs always! G
Very cute card! Like that DP.
Your veggies – and baskets – are winners. Looks pretty tasty. We’ve just now started getting tomatos from our garden. For some reason they are VERY late this year. We’re keeping our fingers crossed they make a bunch.
Lynn
Cute invite, and the veggies look great. I am growing some heirlooms myself this year, got the seedlings at the farmer’s market. CAN’T wait to tase them!
Jaydee, this is such a fantastic invitation. I love all the colors!!
Big hugs and smiles,
Corie
Cute baby invite with a nice touch of the new ribbon. Just perfect addition. And the many baskets of veggies, they look so yummy and inviting. Wish I can get some of that here too.
Really cute Invite, and colorful DSP. Like everything about it. I spend waaaaaaaay to much time on other sites when you post the links, and then I forget to come back and post to your site. Lol. I do love that you post the links though. Beautiful baskets, filled with goodies, makes my mouth water. Since I have been sick, all I have wanted are fresh veggies and cold, cold fruit. We have our garden planted, but not doing very well this year. Our little yellow tomatoe’s are producing, but not much flavor, first time ever that this has happened. Must be the strange weather. I hope our big reds do better. Pulled some carrotts, small but tastey, mmmmm.
Good Wishes and Prayers to everyone needing or just wanting them. I appreciate the ones coming my way.
Cyber hugs, Trish in Wisconsin
This card is great…I love the color combination, and the fact that you added the background with different stamps. I have to make a baby card this evening and I’ll have to keep this in mind. Oh, and the veggies look delicious. Nothing like fresh fruits and veggies.
I see you are enjoying those beautiful Longaberger baskets that you purchased from me!
Thanks! The pixs are beautiful with the veggies!