Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Baby Card

Our friend Gisela asked for a baby card welcoming "Salma" into the world and requested purple with butterflies. I scrolled around some the SCS Gallery to get a little inspiration and came upon THIS card by Theresa Momber. I just thought it was gorgeous and I loved her layers of stamps so I wanted to recreate something similar.

This is what I came up with!
I used the cattail and small butterfly stamps from Papertrey Inks "With Sympathy" set and the large butterfly comes from 7 Gypsies Notting Hill set. I used Dusty Concord distress ink for the main panel and sponged all around. I added the scrolls with Memento Grape Jelly. I stamped the small butterflies with Memento Lavender so they stayed in the background a little more.

The large butterfly was stamped with Grape Jelly and colored in with prisma pencils and cut out. I colored in the body with a black jelly embossing pen and also used the clear jelly embossing pen on the cattails so they had a little interest.

Lastly, I stamped out her name with a Recollections letter set in Grape Jelly

Above is a close-up of the butterfly. It's raised up just a little because this card is being mailed to Switzerland - so Gisela wanted a flat card.

Finally - below is the inside of the card. I mimicked the scrolls from the outside of the card on the inside and added a PTI butterfly on the inside.

Thanks for taking a peek today! I was away on vacation last week - so I'm looking forward to crafting this week!

Maria

9 comments:

Theresa Momber said...

Oooh, fabulous job on this! Love the purples!

liannallama said...

oh, it's so pretty and I'm sure they will love this!

Unknown said...

Very cute, love the purple and green!

jimlynn said...

Just beautiful! This will be something to cherish!

Gina Lindsay said...

How sweet, I love the personalized baby card, what a keepsake!

Pat (mspfd) said...

This is a gorgeous card. Your colors and design really are lovely.

Dori Shelton said...

So gorgeous!! I love the colors and the softness of it.

Jacqueline (Scraps of Life) said...

This card is so beautiful! I love the butterflies, and the swirl border is gorgeous! A really fabulous card!

Irena said...

Gorgeous card, I like the colors and the butterfly :)

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