Blushing Baby CI#05

Welcome back to Colour INKspiration. You may be starting here with me or maybe you've come from Nikki Spencer. Another delightful colour combination from Colour Inkspiration for challenge #05, pretty pastels this time. We are a group of Aussie and NZ Stampin' Up!® demonstrators, creating samples based on Pinterest inspired colour swatches. There is a Facebook group for Stampin' Up!® enthusiasts who would like to share their paper craft projects using the colour combinations. You don't need a blog, and you don't need to be a demonstrator. This colour selection is so soft and sweet, it said "baby" to me.

To retain that softness, I stamped in Stampin' Up!® Archival Ink in Basic Grey. Made With Love provided all of the pictorial stamps, while an embossing folder Celebrations Duo TIEF and a photopolymer stamp set, Happy Celebrations, were the source of the words. With a little ink from the stamp pads and an Aqua Painter, it was easy to colour these cute animals.

It might be difficult to see, but the Embossing Folder impresses 'Happy' into the card, and to emphasise this, I watercoloured with Blushing Bride in the letters. Because this will be for a baby girl, there are some pink blossoms scattered around and some lovely, soft, white ribbon.

Next stop on this blog is Tricia Raineri, you'll be amazed at her gorgeous wedding card box!

Cheers, Rachel

Bonjour Beautiful - Babies & Children - CTC85

Sunday evening and it is time to blog hop with the Crew from CASE-ing The Catty. We are CASE-ing Babies and Kids pages 56-65. Even though my 'kids' are all grown up now, I've been blessed with six gorgeous grandchildren, who seem to love the cards I make them. I probably should be embarrassed to admit that I have nearly every stamp set from this section on my shelves, and quite a few retired sets too, but I need them all so I can ring the changes with these cards. I've been sorting over the last couple of weeks and boxed retired sets that I still 'need' in categories - kids, wedding, Christmas so far. I'm going through and stamping images onto plain PL cards and clipping them together on a ring from Officeworks, so I can refer to the stamp set that has a particular sentiment, image etc.

I've been quite liberal with my CASE this week. I adore No Bones About It and was tempted to make the shaker card on page 64, but it seemed a bit too easy to just straight-out-copy. I kept on flipping through the pages and voila! the answer was a shaker card using Made With Love, Happy Happenings and a tiny flower from Swirly Bird. I adore the InColors this year, every single one of them and I'm sure I've NEVER been able to say that, right at the beginning. Flirty Flamingo pairs beautifully with Watermelon Wonder and Blushing Bride. I love the sweet onesies in Made With Love and Something For Baby and they cut out so neatly with those matching dies.

I CASE-d Page 64 of Catalogue

I do like this dinosaur shaker card too, using the new embossing folder Seaside.

Now, I have only just begun making shaker cards, but boy, am I enjoying it, or what? I used the Lots Of Labels Framelits to cut the window, but any die that comes in graduated sizes works well. The No Bones About It card, has a textured top layer, but I decided to keep it clean and simple. I'd thought about stamping on it too, but in the end, held back. This photo has the card laid down so you can see the sequins, which are retired now. They were the Incolors which were retired 2 years ago (?) I think, but the soft colours suit this card too.

I think 'Bonjour Beautiful' is lovely for a baby girl, and the Happy Happenings set also includes this matching 'Welcome to the World'. Don't you think that's too cute? So, like I said, I really stretched things with my CASE this week at CASE-ing The Catty. Now let's pop on over to  Judy May and see what she has made this week.

Cheers, Rachel

Would you like to join the challenge and CASE the Babies & Children section of the catty? You can link your post here

Happy Easter!!!

I do hope you are enjoying your Easter break, and finding time to connect with family and friends, maybe a little crafting. I had the greatest intentions to make Easter gift bags for my guests over Easter, but had to concede defeat when I'd only made and decorated three by Thursday. There were many more pressing tasks at hand. Time to implement PLAN B.

Thank goodness I remembered a Twisty Treats Kit which was part of SALE-A-Bration a couple of years ago. I nearly gave them away at Christmas time, I'm glad I didn't.

They came with two tags, a striped one and a hexaganol one with an Island Indigo border printed on it, which I've stamped using the Made With Love stamp set (bunny & bird) and the Happy Easter from Circle Of Spring. The kit even came with paper-covered wire ties, so it took about 15 minutes to stamp the tags, another 45 minutes or so to assemble the tags, fill the bags and tie them up. At least there is a sweet treat to hand out on Sunday afternoon to my grandchildren! Don't forget, CASE-ing The Catty is blog-hopping again in 20 hours, so I will see you again with another post.

Enjoy!

Rachel