Cure for the Monday Blues #38 - welcome little baby

This week over on Taheerah's blog, the inspiration picture is this cute sprinkled image.  I have some card orders I'm finishing up and thought this would be perfect for some baby cards I have been requested to make.

I took a rustic white card base and a smaller 3.75 x 5 front.  I die cut a Itty Bitty Baby Blessings onesie out and added some polka dots using Fresh sugar ink.  I then stamped the sentiment from the Itty Bitty Baby Blessings stamp set in Fresh fuschia.

I die cut some white fun foam to create the dimension needed for a shaker card, added acetate and then the layer of foam.  I let it dry for a while so that the sequins don't get stuck in the corners.

My latest adhesive of choice is Tombo Mono Aqua - it is awesome and dries clear.  I still like Mono Multi but that stays tacky.  I added a variety of sequins from my stash - clear, purple and aqua as well as some sparkly white ones.

Hard to get a good photo of the sequins but you can see them a bit better above ...

This was a fun challenge - thank you to Taheerah for the inspiration pic! :)

Inspiration abounds

One of my favourite blogs to look at Kristina Werner.  She posted a card recently that totally inspired me to make this one.

 

A closer view here:

I had bought a heart punch at the Japanese dollar store (they have the coolest things there!) so I put it to use punching out hearts from my fabulous Basic Grey Offbeat paper pad.  Love these!  The papers are gorgeous ...  I then used my new Lawn Fawn greetings set.  I drew the lines freehand with a white Signo pen.  I cut a piece of the patterned paper from the pad and put it behind the main rectangle.  The dark chocolate heart covered piece was popped up with foam dots.  Colorbox Frost White Ink  ink works really well on dark cardstock so that's what I used to stamp the sentiment.  Nice to find a stark white that shows up ...

Supplies:
Paper: Staples 110lb white, Gina K dark chocolate
Stamps: Lawn Fawn's Sophie's Greetings
Ink: Signo white pen, Colorbox Frost White Ink  

Scraplifting

One of my all time favourite blogs to read is Kristina Werner's.  She is absolutely amazing!!  I used her card as inspiration for these ones that I made.  This is called CASEing or 'scraplifting.  Thanks, Kristina, for your amazing ideas!

I used my Cuttlebug with a bunch of different embossing folders before using my Martha Stewart postage punch.  Easy peasy!

Supplies:
Paper - Papertrey Ink
Tools - Cuttlebug, swirls, pops and dots, traffic jam and victorian embossing folders, Martha Stewart postage punch
Misc - foam dots, M's pink ribbon

Inspiration from around the world

Here is some of my latest inspiration via others' creations.  It's amazing how many beautiful designs are out there ...

from The Kraft Room:

Divine, aren't they?

And now, from the Bald Dragonfly:

Love the juxtaposition of colours ....

Okay, next one is Recapturing Wonders:

Fabulous composition, n'est-ce pas?