Sugar and spice

Today I’ve got the first part of a big project I am doing up, a baby book for a colleague at work who is expecting her first little girl.  This is taking a lot longer than I thought to complete so to motivate me I am going to post up the only bit that is finished so far, the cover.

To make up my baby book I’ve used a Tim Holtz Collection Folio, the large size, and gone to town with the decorating of it.  To do up the front cover I have followed the layout sketch at Feeling Sketchy and got inky and powdery with all sorts of good things.  I started with Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Picket Fence and then sprinkled on some Fran-tage.  On the layout I used modelling paste and a stencil for my butterflies and added some Distress Ink into the modelling paste as well as some more embossing powders over the top.  I also did the same with the textured background that is only just visible under the papers.

With all my various effects on the cover I am also entering this in the current Craft Hoarders Anonymous challenge.  There are copious amounts of flowers all over the cover, as expected for little girl’s book, so I am also entering this in the current challenge at Paper Crafting Journey.

I swapped out the black elastic closure for some pink elastic.  I was going to put a word band or some letter charms on the elastic but the cover is way too busy as it is.  Notice that border, looks pretty good, doesn’t it?  Well it had better for the work that went into it, let’s just say these Collection Folios are made thick and tough and it was also too big to go through my Grand Calibur so I traced and cut round my Sizzix die and then used various sized hole punches for the lacy edge.

Opening up the folio you get two flaps top and bottom and I decorated the outside of these with some chippie words, these I painted up and sprinkled with Fran-tage also.  The large heart buttons have been in my stash for ever as have the tulle flowers, I think they were from Webster’s Pages.

I’ve tried to tie things together with matching elements so I’ve got some of the same Organza Pearl Pink on the inside of these flaps.  The top one is missing the pocket, I have no idea where I’ve put the packet, it’s got to be somewhere in my craft room!  It’s meant to be for the hospital name card from the baby’s crib.  The bottom one is ready to go with a pocket for the baby’s wrist tag.

There’s also a flap on the right side and I’ve used the same Organza Pearl Pink on the outside with some buttons from Jesse James.  On the inside I have the same lace as the top and bottom flaps and some chippies and more of the Jesse James buttons and flowers to tie in with the other flaps too.

You’ve got to have space in a baby book for all the vital statistics from the birth and I’ve put that on the inside left cover using a piece of vellum over some lovely shimmering cardstock with some more flowers and another piece of lace.

The back inside cover I’ve done up as the last page looking back over baby’s first year with some journaling cards ready to go.  I’ve tied this in with the flaps using the same lace and roses too.

Stay tuned for the inside pages, hopefully in the next day or two, I need to get this finished before baby arrives!

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Ochre, Aged Scarlett, Aged Silver, Shabby Pink & Shabby White

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder ~ Starburst Candy Rose

Pebbles Chalk ~ Pink

Pink Mica

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Forgotten Scraps ~ Party Banner

Magenta Stencils ~ Nature Elements

Memory Box Stencil ~ Texture Mesh

Sizzix Thinlits ~ Scallop Border

Embellishments

BoBunny Jewels ~ Frosting (coloured with RV34 Various Inks)

Dusty Attic ~ Safety Pins

Kaisercraft Paper Blooms ~ Dusty Pink

I Am Roses ~ Mulberry Paper Roses Variegated Pink and Pink

Jesse James Dress It Up Buttons ~ Baby Girl

Kaisercraft Pearl Strip ~ Pink Champagne

Kaisercraft Sparklets ~ Hearts

Metal Charms from stash ~ Hearts & Umbrellas

Petaloo Darjeeling ~ Wild Mini Blossoms Pink

Scrap FX Chipboard ~ Hospital Name Band & Mini Pins

Tulle Flowers

WOW Chipboard ~ As Cute As A Button & Precious

Inks & Paints etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst ~ Cheshire Cat Cherry

Liquid Pearls ~ Copper Pearl

Teresa Collins Basically Essential ~ Modelling Paste

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Shaded Lilac, Tea Dye & Worn Lipstick

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Picket Fence

Twinkling H2O ~ Just Peachy

Papers

Authentique Classique Pretty ~ Life Cards

Carta Bella Baby Mine ~ Baby Floral, Baby Girl Dots

Pion Design Fairytale of Spring ~ Hope

Pion Design Sweet Baby ~ Pink Baby Blanket

Ribbons & Trims etc

Green Tara Trim ~ Organza Pearl Pink

Live & Love Crafts Lace ~ Adélaïde, Pearl Lace with Beads & Pastello Pink

Challenges

Craft Hoarders Anonymous #10 ~ Spray It! Ink It! Paint It! Smear It! Emboss It!

Feeling Sketchy ~ Layout Sketch #92

Paper Crafting Journey ~ Flower Power!

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Sometimes a cowgirl has to do what a cowboy can’t

This is sadly my last card as a guest DT for the Outlawz Sketch challenge and it features the fab image, Barn Brat, from this month’s sponsor, The Stamping Chef.

Here’s the awesome sketch for this week.

Notice anything?  Yep, I changed it right up and made a circle card.  That’s what I love about sketches, they are really just a starting point for your creativity and you can change them up how ever you want.  So I decided to get out my Nesties and make a fun circle card, which meant I had to also swap out the rectangle element for an oval.  Wish I had a larger oval but the only set I have larger are ornate and I wanted just a plain one.

The fun wavy elements reminded me so much of rick rack that I just had to use some for them and a spritz of Smooch made my plain white rick rack a lovely cow brown.  With that sheriff’s badge on her hat I had to use some star embellies on this, wish I had enough yellow stars but I only had five so I mixed them up with some blue ones as a neat way to hide the ends of the rick rack.  The current theme at My Sheri Crafts calls for a star on your project so with my six I am also linking up my card there.

Seeing as this is featuring a Stamping Chef image I am also entering their weekly challenge where the theme is always anything goes.  I’ve coloured the fun image with, what else, but my Copics.  As they are my favourite colouring medium I’m also linking my card at the current Corrosive challenge.

I’ve had a blast being part of the awesome DT at the Outlawz Sketch for this month, thanks ladies for having me as a guest.  I will definitely be back entering the weekly challenges next week and hope you’ll come join the fun too. 

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E31

Lips R24, R29

Hair Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17

Outfit B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, E70, E71, E74, E77, RV99, V91, V93, V95, Y23, Y26, Y28

Bucking Bronco E23, E25, E27, E29, E30, E31, E33, E35, E70, E71, E74, E77, R000, R00, W1, W3, W5, W6

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Classic Ovals & Grand Circles

Embellishments

Freckled Fawn ~ Acrylic Shapes

Inks & Paints etc

Smooch Spritz Log Cabin

Spica ~ Gold & Silver

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Fired Brick & Victorian Velvet

Wink of Stella ~ Clear

Papers

Bazzill Dotted Swiss ~ Sandbox

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Victorian Velvet

Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman ~ Haberdasher

Ribbons & Trims etc

The Paper Studio ~ Rick Rack White (coloured with Smooch Spritz Log Cabin)

Stamps

The Stamping Chef ~ Barn Brat

Challenges

Corrosive Challenge #202 ~ Color Me Happy
My Sheri Crafts #136 ~ A Star is Born

The Stamping Chef #35 ~ Anything Goes

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If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be…

The Baby Teen Scene collection has been released at Simply B Stamps and this card features the cute Nap Time Miller from the collection.

To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch over at Seems a Little Sketchy.  For a change I didn’t resize to fit my usual 6x6 card instead I resized to be a DL size as that’s the current theme at My Time to Craft.  We won’t talk about the sheet of cardstock I messed up in printing my logo on the back, it’s tricky working with a card that’s a rectangle, you’ve got to get things placed just right and I didn’t set my printer properly.  Starting with an 8x8.25 piece of card means no second go at the one sheet like a 6x6 but I think the size worked well for the image and the sketch.

I found the plaid paper in my Graphic 45 stash; it reminds me of a blanket so worked perfectly for this image.  I wanted to keep things fairly simple as this is a boy card so went for textures and all shades of blue.  I swapped out the plain oval element for the scalloped Nestie to give more of a cloud impression, a bit of Fran-tage on the outline added to the effect.  The puffy sticker from Freckled Fawn was a serendipitous find in my stash, the right colour and the perfect sentiment.

As this card is for a boy and features a die cut I’ve got both themes covered for the current Ladybug Crafts’ challenge so I’m also entering it there.

To see more of these awesome images, head on over to the SBS blog and check out what the rest of the DT have done with them.  You can also see more of my projects featuring Blankie Chris at this post, Rockin’ Baby Christian over here and Rubber Ducky Jude at this post.  Oh, and stay tuned to see what I’ve done with the awesome girls in this collection because you knew there had to be equally cute girlie images!

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Hair E08, E18, E93, E95, Y14

Outfit BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09

Teddy Bear E21, E23, E25, E27, E30, E31, E33, E35, E93, E95, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby Blue

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Big Scalloped Ovals

Embellishments

Freckled Fawn ~ Button Stickers & Puffy Sentiment Sticker

Turquoise Gem from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Faded Jeans

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Broken China

Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman ~ Cultured Reserve

Graphic 45 French Country ~ Patterns & Solids

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Nap Time Miller

Challenges

Ladybug Crafts ~ Something for the boys and/or use your dies

My Time to Craft #251 ~ ‘DL It!’

Seems a Little Sketchy #67

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