Baby Blue Onesies (Baby Tees)

Hi Everyone.  Happy Monday evening.  I hope you all had a fabulous weekend.

Tonight's card uses the Baby Tees jumbo wheel.  I am loving this wheel!  The challenge at Palspaperarts this week was to create a KISS (keep it simple, sweetie) masculine card.   Well, I couldn't resist doing yet another baby card.

I saw a card on the blog of one of our regular blog visitors where one of the onesies had been cut into a tag.  I know I made a comment, and I know that I loved it and filed away the idea…. what I can't remember is WHO this talented person was… so, if you recognize the onesie being used as a tag, please can you let me know so that I can give credit.

Here's my clean and simple baby boy card.  Oh, Rach!  It's not Baja Breeze…it's Marina Mist.  I know you will be proud of me using a different blue 🙂

Card recipe:

• Card stock:  Marina Mist, Whisper White
• Inks:  Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler (for the heart on the onesie tag), Craft Whisper White
• Accessories:  Marina Mist grosgrain ribbon, Subtles buttons collection, Onesies Jumbo wheel, white embossing powder
• Tools:  Wheel guide, heat gun, versamark, paper snips, mini glue dots

Card instructions:

• Cut Marina Mist to A2 (11 x 4.25).  Score and fold at the 5 1/2" mark – fold at the top
• Ink up Onesie wheel in Craft Whisper White ink and run across the bottom of the card base
• Cover with white embossing powder and heat set
• Ink up wheel with Marina Mist and run across Whisper White – just far enough that you have the onesie that you want to color.  Cut out onesie and color using your favorite markers.
• Wrap ribbon around card and tie.  Add onesie tag and then add button

That's it.  you are done! It was a very quick and easy card.  Couple of tips:

• When embossing, prepare the card stock with an anti-static cloth.  I use a swiffer cloth.  I cut them up into pieces and put them in a drawer underneath my embossing powders so that I always have them on hand.
• When you heat emboss, heat from both the back and the of the surface.  This helps to stop the paper bending a little when it gets too hot.  It also seems to keep the embossed image looking shinier. 
• After you have finished embossing, you can clean up the stray bits of embossing powder with TACK CLOTH.  You can get tack cloth at your favorite hardware store.  It's brilliant for picking up messes and stray bits of embossing powder.
• I always keep a very fine paint brush for removing any embossing powder that has gone a little astray.  I can carefully take it off the card stock before heat setting it
• If you are wrapping a present to go with this card – you could always cut out a gift tag using the onesie and use it on the outside of the gift

On a personal note:  Lou and I had a great weekend and it was topped off last night by a visit from Brenda, Cherie and Bethany.  I met Brenda through Stampin' Up!.  I found her on line and saw that she was doing classes.  I signed up for a couple and I am so glad I did.  Not only did I renew my love of stamping – I found a marvelous friend.  Then, if that wasn't enough, Brenda introduced me to her daughter, Bethany!  What a gift they both are to me.  And, if that wasn't enough…. (mmmm… this is beginning to sound like one of those late night infomercials… and… if you phone within the next 10 minutes, we will send you another friend! :-)…) but seriously, Brenda introduced me to Cherie.  It is always an amazing time when I can spend the evening with the three of them.  I am incredibly blessed to call them all my friends. 

Lou, loves looking after us and making sure we are happy whilst we spend a little girl time.  Love you, Lou!  Last night we spent some time on the deck – baking in the heat I might add – but hey, that's what you do for friends, right?  Brenda loves the heat – I hate the heat.  Brenda conversely hates the cold – I love the cold… so our house is always about 20 degrees too cold for Brenda!  So, we started the night off in the heat on the deck and came inside so that I could finally cool down!  But it was gorgeous sitting out there.  Trish, we all talked about we are ready for you to come and play with us when you are finally feeling up to it.

All in all, it was a great weekend.  I got to spend time with my darling hubby, time with my dear friends and time in my stamp room!

In case any of you are interested, little Charlie is still with us.  He is just the sweetest thing.  He'll never be a big cat and he's not the prettiest of cats – but he is absolutely adorable.  He chitters and chatters and talks to you and is so grateful that you bring him food.  No-one has come forward and said they lost him and we really think that he was dumped.  So, he's still with us for a little while.

Prayers for Trish, Germaine, John and Sue, T (who is apparently starting to feel better!), Pri, Missy's family, Arthur and Hugo.

I hope you all have a fabulous Tuesday and you all know that I appreciate you stopping by to visit my little area of the stamping blogosphere.

Hugs

Jayde