Circular baby girl card

Hello lovely people,

I spent most of yesterday doing one of my favourite activities...shopping for crafty stash!
I went to The Paper Craft Show at the National Motorcycle Museum with my Mum and came home with lots of lovely new things to play with.  I'll share some pics and my thoughts on the show in another post.

My head is now buzzing with ideas for using my new stash so while I have a play, here's a new baby card I made using LOTV products for the image and tag.

I wanted to make use of my new-ish large circle dies and do a circular base shape, but did wonder how I would make it stand up straight!
I eventually settled on cutting the bottom of the back layer off to make sure it would stand up straight; what does anyone else do?

I paper pieced the onesie as this is a great way to get a perfect match to the DPs and I still added some shading for definition.  How cute is the teeny heart print for baby girl clothes?!

I haven't used my Cricut for ages, probably because it was on the floor due to lack of space on my desk.  It now has a space to sit on my new desk so I hope I will use it a bit more.  I think lettering is one of the most useful things I can do with it and that's what I used to personalise this card.

Card recipe;

Image: Rocking horse - LOTV

DP: Vintage Spring Basics - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV

Dies: Nesting circles - Tonic Studios, Circle stax - MFT Die-namics
Lettering: cut with Cricut (Lyrical letters cartridge)
Stars: from stash, painted with white acrylic paint

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Shading on babygro: RV91/93
Horse: W00/0/1/2/3 & W5/7/9 for mane
Rockers: E41/42/43/44
Bridle: RV91/93/95
Teddy: E40/41/42/43
Ground: W00/0/1/2/3/4

I hope you all have great weekends whatever you may be getting up to...and haven't got too soggy with all this rain!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

It's a boy!

Hello lovely people,

I'm back at work and still trying to wade through all the e-mails and jobs that built up while I was on holiday :-(

On a much more pleasant note, it's time for a new challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and our theme this time is...

NAME THAT TUNE
Don't forget to tell us which song has inspired you!

We are sponsored by Stamp and Create with a fabulous prize of a $20 gift certificate :-)

The song that inspired my creation is Babe by Take That as I was a HUGE fan in my teens...and then again when I was a bit older when they re-formed!

Soooooo..it's a new baby card!

I grabbed this cute stamp in my last LOTV splurge...it was quite a big splurge so I have a few more new ones to use yet!
I always seem to be asked for lots of new baby cards though, so it was a good buy.

I love that the Maja Design papers have little strips at the bottom and I have popped a few foam pads under the middle of it to add a little dimension.

Card recipe;

Image: Rocking horse - LOTV

DP: Vintage baby - Maja Designs (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV
Dies: circle stax - MFT Die-namics

Letters: magazine freebie
Wooden star: from stash, painted with white acylic paint

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Babygro and bridle: B91/93/95/97
Horse: W00/0/1/2/3/4
Mane: W4/6/8
Teddy: E41/42/43
Rockers: E41/42/43/44
Ground: W00/0/1/2/3/4

I hope you will pop over to Top Tip Tuesday and check out the fabulously creative projects from the rest of the team plus the most wonderful tutorial from Deneen on creating a mini album :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Challenges I am entering;
Simon Says Stamp (fave technique/product = stamping and colouring with my Copics)
Moving Along With the Times (inspired by a song...as above!)
Craft your passion (anything goes)