Baby Card

Happy New Year!!!  As a New Year's gift, I've got a sneak peek of a new set from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company, which is being released later this month.  It's called Oh, Baby; and I actually made this card for two challenges this week.  Teapot Tuesday on Splitcoaststampers today is celebrating the birth of twins -- fraternal twins (a boy and a girl) -- grandchildren to a fellow TeaPotter Marilyn (APandi).  We were asked to make a card for the parents of the twins.  Here's mine ~

I used some DP from a huge stack of patterned paper I bought at Wal-Mart several years ago.  I thought a gatefold card would work for twins -- blue on one side and pink on the other.  I stamped and cut out the bathing bear and popped it up on some embossed bubble paper and then added the two rubber ducks at the bottom.  It's hard to see on the bubble background, but I brushed some pearlescent chalk across the bubbles.

I found a website called Verses4Cards, which has many verses you can add to the inside of your cards.  The owner of the site states that you can use his verses on your personal cards (under certain conditions).  I found a verse which was suitable for twins.  I hope you can read it.

The row of rubber ducks actually has six images in it, but I masked off two of them because I thought four would fit better.

As I stated at the beginning of this post, my card was made for two challenges.  The CCEE Stampers challenge this week is also to make a baby card.  As I have very few calls for baby cards, I am using the same card for this challenge.  If you'd like to play along with us, link your card to the bottom of the CCEE Blog post using Mr. Linky.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Oh, Baby

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Snow Storm Smooth, Precious Pink, Blue Skies; Walmart DP

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Copic markers, Ribbon, Tiny Bubbles embossing folder, Pebbles pearlescent chalks, Pop dots

Teapot Tuesday and Blog Win!

I recently visited a blog hop sponsored by Our Daily Bread Designs for their February release -- mainly because I wanted to see what the design team did with the ocean stamp, which I thought was outstanding. I figured I might as well throw my hat in the ring, so to speak, and commented on all the blogs -- maybe I'd win something. Well, what do you know -- I won the whole release, all three sets. Doing the happy dance here!!! 

This week's Teapot Tuesday destination is South Carolina, where Robin, another teapotter, lives. Her husband recently died suddenly. If you'd like more information, here's the link to this week's tea party. Cindy related that Robin would one day like to have a condo on the beach, so I thought my newly-acquired ocean stamp would be perfect. Maybe this would be what she might see while sitting in her condo.

I don't know if you can drive on the beach in South Carolina, but here in Florida (particularly in Daytona Beach) cars drive up and down the beach all the time. That is Robin's yellow Mustang there on the sand!