Sneak Peek: Baby Bundle and Occasional Quotes

Hi Everyone.  Happy Saturday.

Tonight's card is a sneak peek for you – as is tomorrow's card:-)   I was looking for a really cute little baby set and had even considered buying a non-SU set that I had seen.  Lo and behold, in the new 2010-2011 catty is the cutest set.  It's called Baby Bundle.

I made two cards with it today and will share them both with you over the next week.  Tonight's took me out of my comfort zone!

I really wanted to make a diaper – or as my English friends would say – a nappy.  It took me a little while to get it done… much cutting and scoring of paper.  In the end though, I got the template right and managed to use many of the little stamps in the set and get the effect I was looking for.  One of our colleagues is expecting their first baby in about 2 weeks and we are hoping it's a little boy.  If not, then I will remake the card with girlie colors!

Here's the first view of the card.

I bet you are all wondering why I chose spotted paper for the diaper?  All will be revealed in a second.  Did you notice the new ribbon?  Yep, that is ribbon from the new catty.  The Congratulations stamp is from the Baby Bundle set – as are the little booties you can see hanging from the button.

I stamped the booties onto a Whisper White card stock scrap and then colored them in with my Marina Mist marker.   Talking about that… can you see that the blue card stock is different, too.  Yep.  That is Marina Mist – and the green…. well – that's one of the new In Colors – Pear Pizzazz.  It is my favorite green.  It's a little darker than Certainly Celery and less yellow.  So a little more saturated.  I am loving the Marina Mist.

So…. back to why the spotted paper.

Yep, the baby carriage has spots on it!  So, I colored the dots on the pram(baby carriage) to match the paper.  I used Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz and Riding Hood Red markers to color the dots, the wheels, hubcaps and heart.

The baby is a separate stamp.  I used my stamp-a-majig to place the baby in the spot I wanted him and colored his top with Marina Mist.   Did I tell you already I was in love with Marina Mist 🙂

I used my Versamark to stamp the other images around the baby – bottles, rubber ducks, hearts, rattles… it seems to be that babies always come with a lot of accoutrement – and I wanted the card to reflect that.  Also, the images are really cute!

Here's a view of the pull out

The "hello baby" is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set.

Of course, I had to put something on the inside.  Luckily, the new catty comes with the choice of a level 3 Hostess Set which is absolutely amazing – Occasional Quotes.  The quotes are perfect for inside – and even outside cards. 

The inside sentiment for this card is a quote from Carl Sandburg:  "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on".  Isn't that cool!

What a pity I didn't press down with as much force on the bottom of the stamp as I had with the rest of it… if I had then maybe Mr Sandburg's name wouldn't look as though it was printed in Going Grey!!

Trish – I knew you would want to look inside!  I got to spend some quality time with Brenda and Cherie again today – twice in two days.  That's pretty amazing.  We were talking about you Trish – about how brave you are and how beautiful you are.  I know how hard it is to lose your hair.  It was the one thing that my brother commented on and lamented.  He was blessed with a full head of thick hair right up until he started chemo and it really bothered him – really bothered him when it started to fall out.  You know what…. he looked even more handsome afterward and we got to really see his deep brown eyes and the shape of his face.  Trish, you are such a beautiful person that there is no way that your beauty isn't going to be shining  through like the sun after a rain shower.  Hang in there my friend, keep your eye on the end goal and go buy some gorgeous hats and …..remember to look in the mirror with your buzz cut and tell yourself that this is temporary and that you are indeed still a beautiful woman.  As Missy said – you are our hero.

Tomorrow is the start of the Paper Players challenges.  Tomorrow's challenge is a theme challenge.  Lesley will be updating her blog sometime around lunch time Eastern Standard Time.  So, check out the Paper Player's inspiration cards tomorrow and please……. won't you play along?  We are really hoping you will.  Here's the website link Paper Players – we really look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Brenda is having a card drive for the troops at her stamp camp tomorrow.  Brenda – thank you… you know that those cards will make so many people happy.  The rest of you – and I know that many of you are participating :-)  thank you!!!! – You have until the end of June to get your cards to me for hugsandhope and/or operation write home.  I promise you, if you are the lucky winner of the $100 SU shopping spree – you will find lots of things to buy from the new catty!

I love this new Baby Bundle set and the Occasional Quotes.  I can't wait to play around with more of the sets that I got.  UPDATED:  I realized that I had forgotten to put a link to the template that I found for the diaper.  I adjusted the size, adjusted the middle portion and made it much wider and I also made it longer to create a tuckover at the top.  But this was the best template I found.  You can find it at this link.

I hope you all have a fabulous Sunday, filled with love, laughter and moments of beauty.  Cherie… you'd better say confession for the June bug tomorrow…..  

Hugs to you all

Jaydee