Priscilla's Papercrafts: Moon Baby

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Wonderful Weekend, Part II

I told you about my wonderful weekend (here), but only the first day...Yes, there is more! After surprising my sister for her birthday, we spent Sunday celebrating the coming of her first grandchild! My niece is expecting her son in May; I figured there would be a baby shower and I wouldn't be able to get there (we're 400 miles apart), but when we started planning my sister's surprise birthday party, I asked my niece if there was any way to get her baby shower happening on the same weekend. (Selfish of me?)

Her sister jumped into high gear (with my sister grumbling and wondering why this had to happen on THIS particular weekend--she was SO clueless!), and a lovely baby shower was planned for Sunday. How fun to be able to participate; I got to see my own daughter and grandkids, we "showered" at a lovely tea house in Old Town Pasadena, and I got to enjoy watching my sister celebrating her daughter and grandson-to-be. A lovely time had by all...

My card:

I love Moon Baby! I figured I didn't need another baby stamp when this came out, but the moment I saw it, something clicked, and I had to have it. I've now used it several times, and am feeling like it's a "keeper" of a set.

Look at that baby! So cute!

I stamped him on Whisper White card stock, colored him with Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen and carefully snipped him out. The umbrella was stamped on the Bermuda Bay print from the Brights Paper Stack, and paper-pieced on the cut-out umbrella.

The clouds are from Weather Together, and were cut with the matching framelits, Umbrella Weather.

My card base is a piece of Bermuda Bay, cut 5" x 10", and folded in half. There's a slim border of Whisper White, and then a layer of the Bermuda Bay DSP. I had first adhered the Bermuda Bay to a piece of Whisper White and cut out the circle, using the Layering Circles Framelits--I wanted to "lift" the Bermuda Bay layer with Dimensionals, and the extra layer of white gave it enough heft to do so without it sagging in the middle.

The sentiment (two pieces) fit perfectly into a die from the Popcorn Box Framelits dies. They were stamped in Bermuda Bay ink and cut out with the dies.

And of course, a matching envelope is imperative:

and oh-so-easy with the Envelope Punch Board! This is a "must have" when you are making your own custom-sized cards! A coordinating piece of DSP from the Brights Paper Stack made the perfect carrier for my cute card.

Shower done, we headed for home...a long journey but one with happy memories of a wonderful weekend!

Products used are listed here; click on the photo to be taken to my online store:

Product List

Moon Baby Wood-Mount Stamp Set

[143082]

$28.00

Moon Baby Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143085]

$20.00

Weather Together Photopolymer Stamp Set

[141543]

$21.00

Weather Together Photopolymer Bundle

[142319]

$41.25

Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad

[131171]

$6.50

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad

[131179]

$6.50

Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[131197]

$8.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

[140272]

$7.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[100730]

$9.00

Brights Designer Series Paper Stack

[138434]

$22.00

Big Shot

[143263]

$110.00

Umbrella Weather Framelits Dies

[141479]

$25.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

[141705]

$35.00

Popcorn Box Thinlits Dies

[141473]

$33.00

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

$16.00

Blender Pens

[102845]

$10.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.00

Paper Snips Scissors

[103579]

$10.00

Envelope Punch Board

[133774]

$20.00

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Moon Baby

Although most of my baby-card-making days are over, I still like to have a good baby stamp set. And when I saw Moon Baby in the Occasions Catalog, I knew this was one I could have some fun with. Look:

Isn't that precious?

While at my dentist's office the other day, I heard that my dentist has just become a grandfather. After I left, I was in the Starbucks drive-through, and this card just popped into my head.

Had. To. Create. It.

I started by stamping the moon-baby image with Black Archival ink. Then I colored this little sweetie with Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen. And I snipped it all out.

Using the Layering Circles framelits and my Big Shot, I cut a circle in the Soft Sky cardstock and backed it with a piece of Window Sheet. The baby was then adhered to the cut-out area using Multipurpose Glue.

Clouds (from Weather Together) were stamped with Smoky Slate ink--some directly on the card front and some on Whisper White; these were cut using the Umbrella Weather framelits. The stars are from the Moon Baby set, stamped in Smoky Slate on So Saffron paper and hand snipped, and I added Wink of Stella to the moon and stars.

Adhesive Foam Strips were added to the back, creating a shaker card, and the opening was filled with punched stars cut with the Confetti Stars Border Punch.

And inside: