Twins

My daughter asked me to make a card for her to give to a co-worker whose wife just presented him with twins -- a boy and a girl.  I thought Karen Burniston's Fancy Label Accordion would be perfect because you can have several canvases on which to create.

The front label welcomes the babies, and the next two are decorated for each baby individually.

I was fortunate enough to have the same new baby patterned paper in both pink and blue, so that's what I used for the frames.  I decorated the centers with some baby-themed ephemera that I have had in my stash for a long time.

 

I hope her co-worker likes this card.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge -- Wedding or Baby

It's time again for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.  This month we had a choice -- Wedding or Baby.  As I had made a wedding card for last month's challenge, I decided to make a baby card this month.  I used one of my favorite dies, the Landscape  Rectangle Accordion.

I also used some of the Baby Charms and the word Welcome.

A decorating trick I like to use with this particular die -- using one of the Border Blends sets on the first and third panel rather than layering a piece of pattern paper on them.  On the center panel I did use  patterned paper and placed one of the dies from the Label Charm Pop-Up, stamped with the sentiment.  In case you couldn't tell from the color choice, the sentiment says, "It's a Girl."

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Be sure to check out the challenge cards made by the rest of the team.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge -- Congrats

The Karen Burniston Designer Challenge for May is CONGRATS!   It could be graduation or any other congratulations card.  I must admit that I'm rather fond of the Woven Basket Pop-Up die from the latest KB release.  I think it's my favorite; and when Karen did the video on how to make it a double-wide basket, I was hopelessly addicted.  My congrats card would be for a new baby girl, not that I know of anyone having a baby -- girl or otherwise.

I had so much fun making this card.  In addition to the Woven Basket Pop-Up, I also used dies from the Baby Charms, Spring Animals, Explosion Pop-Up, Word Set 8 - Congrats, and Ovals - Crosshatch.

Many of the charm dies were attached with strips of clear acetate.  That helped give some height to the card.

As you can see, I decided I didn't want a monochromatic look to my basket card, so I added a bit of yellow in the form of the balloons, some of the flowers and the little rubber ducky.

And I just had to tuck that cute bunny from the Spring Animals in there among the flowers.

Now I'll just have to wait until someone I know has a baby girl!