one little baby

 hello lovely stampers!

I'm joining in today with the sketch challenge at CAS colours & sketches #495 drawn by the talented Cécile. 

I wanted to do a baby card for my cousin who is expecting in the new year as I realised I haven't any baby cards! who knew? The giraffe from Gummiapan was die cut from kraft, and layered on a couple of hexagons from Hero Arts Infinity Hexagon die set. One was cut from kraft and embossed with Kaisercraft Mountains embossing folder. The other was die cut from inked card, embossed by hand using the Fiskars Hearts texture plate and popped up on foam squares. The sentiment stamp from Gummiapan was inked directly onto the card panel. Such a cute sentiment!

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merry Christmas

 hello lovely stampers!

Today I started on Christmas cards which is certainly not something I usually do ahead of time, but I'm trying to be a bit organised this year! I'm playing along with the card concept who have an inspiration pic that certainly doesn't say Christmas at first glance, but I've always liked the pairing of a Christmas theme with non traditional colours.

 For my cas card, I was inspired by the colours. I began by stamping and clear heat embossing the sentiment. Using hero arts infinity squares, I die cut 3 squares. 1 was stamped with red dots, one was die cut to make a frame and the last was embossed using the Filigree texture plate. The trees were die cut using Sizzix Arctic Bear then ink blended using distress oxide inks.

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