Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Congrats Paul & Melissa


Well I must say I have been on  a role this weekend! I really found my mojo. I managed to finish 2 birthday cards for upcoming birthday parties, 2 Congrats your Pregnant Cards, 2 Welcome Baby Cards, and 1 more Birthday or Thank You card that just needs to be glued together. It is a long weekend here in Canada so my weekend isn't even over yet! The cards will all be up on my blog as I even already have my post programmed to go! What progress!

Onto the card....

Our close friends Paul and Melissa are having a baby in April. I have mentioned them in previous posts as I making them a baby album for the baby's first year. I wanted to mail them a card and up to now I haven't had the chance to get one done. The inspiration for the layout of this card came from my friend Donna's Blog. See her card here. I made a few changes to it but if you look hard you can still see the original layout she had. I add some buttons and a bow so that  it fit in with the theme over at the Paper Players Blog challenge this week. Their challenge was "Buttons, Bows and Babies".


You will notice a pattern in my cards over the next while as I have been using papers out of the NEW mini paper stack "Print Poetry" from Stampin' Up. The paper pack measures 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 so the papers are PERFECT for card making. I must admit I wasn't sure about the patterns and colours but now that I have been playing with them I LOVE them!


One of the other things I did on this card was to fold my Seem Binding Ribbon in half and glue it together. I found that it was to wide for this card but I really like how the colour went so I really wanted to use it. At first thought about cutting it in half but I didn't like how it frayed. So then I folded it and glue it together with my tape gun. I love how it looks!


Supplies used in the Card:
(* items are from Stampin' Up)

Print in Poetry DS Paper Stack *
Crumb Cake Cardstock *
Midnight Muze Cardstock *
Very Vanilla Cardstock *
Midnight Muze Ink *
Crumb Cake Seem Binding Ribbon *
Designer Fawcette Buttons *
Linen Thread *
One in a Million Stamp Set *
Occasional Quotes Stamp Set * (Retired)
Fancy Flexible Phrases * (Retired)
Stamping Bella Stamp
Momento Ink
Copic Markers

4 comments:

  1. Great card. Love the patterned papers and I love the folded over ribbon.

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  2. What a cute card! Love the expecting Mom, and the use of patterned paper inside and out. Thanks so much for joining us this week at The Paper Players, Jennifer!

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  3. Adorable. Great card and I know your friends are going to love it. So glad you joined the Paper Players this week
    Jaydee

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