Our wonderful and talented friend, Joanne, is hostess this week at
The Paper Players with a sweet Clean-and-Simple challenge:
I was thrilled with this challenge because it gave me another excuse to use the adorable Moon Baby
set!
This sweet little nugget just makes me smile every time I stamp with it. So sweet! The base of my card is thick Whisper White cardstock which I covered with a piece of Soft Sky embossed with the [retired] Swiss Dot folder. I associate Swiss Dot fabric with sweet baby outfits and delicate details so it was a natural choice for this card.
So you might be wondering what I did here......well, sweet Joanne is the queen of the partial die-cutting technique (where part of your stamped image goes beyond the edge of the die cut) and she inspired me to do the same with today's card.
Although I didn't use a die cut, the technique is the same. After I stamped the image on a piece of Shimmery White cardstock, I used my rotary trimmer to cut in from the sides stopping just at the moon. From there, I fussy-cut around the sweet little cherub. I really like the way it frames the image and emphasizes the direction of the moon.
I added a little doily folded in half under the main panel. You can't see it here but it's brushed with Wink of Stella--love! This is a CAS challenge so I kept the layers and embellishments to a minimum but the moon needed a little special treatment. Some looped silver thread was just the thing!
I couldn't neglect the inside and there are some other sweet stamps in this set. I colored these little guys with a mixture of watercolor pencils + blender pens and [retired] Blendabilites markers. So cute!
I know that the rest of
The Paper Players design team have some more adorable Baby creations for you--be sure to check them out! Maybe you will even play along before our challenge ends on
Friday, March 24th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by!
Sandy Mathis
