A baby is a little bit of heaven

School starts today - it's one of those days when it hits you your baby is growing.  I haven't made baby cards in a while but I had to with this beautiful Welcome Little One Collection.  I masked off the heart and the flourish from the top and bottom so that it would fit in the Flourished Oval Frame better.

I also trimmed the flourish off the star to keep it not so busy.  (I realize now that my Flourished Frame is backwards but this design is simple enough it works either way in case you're wondering!)  The paper is from some scrap paper WAY BACK when I was scrapbooking pages for my kids' baby books.  Lol!  I believe it was DCWV though.

Thanks for looking and if you're in the United States, I hope your kids are off to a great start at school!

Flourished Night Sky Metal dies

Welcome Little One Collection clear stamps

Flourished Oval Frame - die

Blog Hop! Welcome Little One & Scrapbook Adhesive Products

Welcome to our final day of blog hopping with Scrapbook Adhesives!  Hasn't it been wonderful?  A round of applause for all the designers and the creative ways the adhesives have been used!

Pockets.  I love pockets. Especially square pockets.  When I saw Scrapbook Adhesives had these Keepsake Envelopes I knew they had to be mine.

So here is my project.  It became much more involved than what was originally in my head because things didn't fit together as perfectly as they had in my imagination. All the heads of hair in our house didn't look anything like baby hair, soooo....I raided my supply of baby hair for this project.  Wow, I've forgotten how fine it was!  Hold on tightly!

Supply list:
Quietfire Design Rubber stamps: Welcome Little One
Scrapbook Adhesives: Keepsake Envelopes, Crafty Foam Tape, E-Z Runner Permanent Strips
Paper Shaping Tools & Piercing Mat
Spellbinders: Labels Ten , A2 Bracket Borders One, Adorning Squares, Lacey Squares, Whimsy, Grand Calibur
Tsukineko VersaMagic Sea Breeze, Aegean Blue
Pearls
Cardstock: Staples 67# Cream, American Crafts Powder
Martha Stewart rocking horse stickers
Daisy Kingdom Button
Stamp positioner
Ink Blending Tool

The pocket "elements": Lacey Square and Adorning Square diecuts, Keepsake Envelope and "treasure".

Instructions:

1. Cut Powder blue cardstock 12" x 6-1/4" and fold in half to make a 6-1/4" x 6 card.
2. Using the appropriately sized dies to fit the 2x2" envelopes, cut three Adorning Squares from cream cardstock for behind the envelopes and three Lacey Squares from blue cardstock to fit inside the envelopes.
3. Cut one rectangle 6-3/4" x 5-1/2" from blue cardstock and one rectangle of the same size from cream.  Die cut Bracket Border along the 5-1/2" side of both colours. Layer and adhere the cream and blue border diecut as shown and trim to  6-1/2" using E-Z Runner Permanent Strips.  Round corner of cream border diecut.
4. Stamp sentiments using VersaMagic ink and diecut with Labels Ten.
5. Diecut butterfly and spiral flower from Whimsy die set.  Sponge edges with Sea Breeze ink and bend butterfly wings upward. Add pearls to butterfly as shown and use Crafty Foam Tape to adhere to top edge of Labels Ten.  Use Paper Shaping Tools to shape and roll spiral flower and adhere to bottom of Labels Ten.  Add pearl to center of flower and each side of the flower.
6. Adhere "treasures" (baby hair, button and sticker) on blue Lacey Square die cuts and put one in each Keepsake Envelope. Remove release paper from back of each envelope and adhere to Adorning Square die cuts.
7. Cut one piece of cream cardstock to 5-3/4" square and use E-Z Runner Permanent strips to attach it to the card front with edge aligned to opening edge of card. Adhere panel with diecut borders on top with cream edge extending beyond the edge of the card front.
8. Use Crafty Foam Tape to adhere Keepsake Envelopes down left edge of card as shown.  Use two layers of Crafty Foam Tape to adhere Labels Ten to the card front as shown.
9. Add pearls to the flap on each Keepsake Envelope.

Here is another, much less complicated card!

Supplies:
Quietfire Design: If Nothing Ever Changed, Butterflies/Dragonflies
Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Foam Butterflies, 3D Black Foam Squares (on Quietfire Site)
Gold Flakes
Tsukineko Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate, VersaMark
American Crafts Dark Kraft Cardstock
Core'dinations dark brown cardstock
Corner Chomper

Instructions:

1. Cut brown cardstock to 8-1/2" x 4-1/4" and fold in half to make a square card. Cut Kraft cardstock panel slightly smaller than card front and round the corners.
2. Use VersaMark to stamp the large butterfly.  Use Pearlescent Chocolate to stamp the sentiment.
3. Remove the release paper from one side of 3D Foam Butterfly and press variegated gold flakes onto adhesive. Run around the edge of the shape with a coloured marker to cover white edges. Remove the release paper from the bottom of the butterfly and adhere near sentiment.
4. Use Crafty Foam Tape to attach the panel to the card front.

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