Hi Everyone. Happy Saturday!
It's the fabulously talented Harriet's turn to host our challenge at Addicted to CAS this week and she has this as our code word:
I thought about doing a love card and using the "baby" a little differently, but in the end went more traditional and, instead of making one baby card, I made two! One blue and one pink!
I don't have a lot of baby stamps, but luckily have Little Additions in My Digital Studio. So, I opened up MDS and went to work to capture the image of the blocks. I then colored each block separately and printed them out. I went back in and added the sentiment and printed that separately, being careful to trim it as centered when I put the card stock in my cutter.
I took the sentiment layer and ran it through my Big Shot with a Lil Inkers stiched die. I really love these dies - they add a little detail around the edge which helps to frame the card and add a little interest.
I fussy cut around each of the blocks and mounted them onto the card base using double sided tape. I used a metal ruler and my craft pad to ensure that I had the blocks lined up straight on the card - and in the middle! I find that the more CAS my cards, the more essential it becomes to ensure that things are lined up - oh! and that my work surface is completely clean so that you don't get stray ink in the middle of all that wonderful white space. Don't ask me how many times I have finished a project, turned it over to press down an element, only to find that I now have wonderful ink smears in the middle of the white space!
Anyway, here's my card for the challenge:
I love the blues together and the fact that the blocks are individual and each is raised from the card base. This is a card that would easily go through the post.
Then, I had to create a sentiment for the inside. I've used this sentiment on baby cards before and just love it.
We hope that you will join us this week. Our winner will digi stamps from our fabulous sponsor:
We also have a new guest designer joining us for March. Karen is a very talented antipodean stamper. You can check out Karen's blog
here.
As usual, the fabulous design team have out-done themselves and there are so many wonderful inspirations for you. Please stop by their blogs and leave them a little love
On a personal note:
Well, I had an unexpected trip to Vegas for business last weekend. It's been so long since I have had to go out of my home office on business, that Lou and I had to rush around last Saturday to buy me a couple of things to wear in an "office" environment. Oh! and it meant that I had to get up every morning and put on makeup and do my hair! Generally all I do in the morning is wash my face, brush my teeth and put on moisturizer. I then run a brush quickly through my hair and throw it on top of my head with a clip! Not so this week. :-)
The anticipated resource actions happened yesterday and today. I managed to avoid being on "the list" again. Thanks to all of you who were sending good wishes and prayers my way. They seem to have worked :-) However, thousands of my colleagues - some of them friends and workmates - were not so lucky. Please keep them in your prayers tonight. They are certainly on mine. One of my friends who was part of the last action in July 2013 is still without a job. It's always tough when good people find themselves in a situation over which they have no control and leaving any job when it is not on your own terms, is particularly tough.
In Vegas the temps were in the 70s and I got home on Wednesday night to find that the temps were back in the -20s! I really felt it when I got back. :-) Our local weather station reported that we were having the deepest freeze many had seen, which is causing water pipes to burst in lots of areas around the cities. One municipal worker said that this is the deepest freeze he has ever seen. In areas it is up to 8' deep. That is really deep for us. I hope our little groundhog is nice and warm and safe in her hibernation!
I am SO ready for Spring. REALLY ready for Spring! :-)
As always, thank you to all of you for your visits - and your comments. Warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.
Hugs
Jaydee
Card recipe - all ingredients Stampin' Up!
- Stamps: Little Additions (My Digitial Studio)
- Card stock: Baja Breeze. Whisper White
- Tools: My Digital Studio. Lil Inker Stitched Frames die. Double sided foam tape.
