Baby Prints

I know you are shocked--a midweek post!  Whatever will we do with ourselves?

Several friends have had babies recently, and my standard baby gift these days is baby thank you notes.  I made a rather small set of these for a fellow Philly Inker who had a baby boy at the beginning of March.  I knew she loved this set (so do I!), and I loved this design, which I found at Carrie Sampsel's blog.  That girl is so stinkin' talented.  I got a ton of new ideas from clicking around her blog one night.

But that aside, I love this card.  I won't lie--it took a little time to cut out the frame for each of the cards, and I wasn't able to make as big a set of cards as I had hoped because of the time involved, but I'm quite happy with how they came out.  I also simplified her original design a little so that I could make more than one.

The way you make this card is to dry emboss the card base with the Perfect Polka Dots folder, then run it through the Big Shot with the heart framelit.  (This will flatten out your embossing some; if you want your embossing to stand out more, reverse these steps). Cut another heart the same size out of Calypso coral, and then very carefully trim the outside of the heart where the embossed edge is.  That will give you your frame.  Take a 4x5.25" piece Very Vanilla and adhere to the back of the front of your card, and then stamp the baby hands in the opening.  Adhere the heart frame with glue or snail.  Place sticky strip across bottom of heart and arrange about 8" of seam binding in a bunchy manner.  Stamp and punch sentiment and add flower with brad.  Use dimensionals to pop it up on the seam binding.  

Supplies:

Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Calypso Coral cardstock
Baby Prints, Just Believe stamp sets
Calypso Coral and Pear Pizzazz inks
Vintage Trinkets (brad)
Itty Bitty Punch pack (small flower)
Large Oval punch
Hearts framelits
Perfect Polka Dots emboss folder
Big Shot
Paper Snips
Pear Pizzazz seam binding
sticky strip
dimensionals