Mother and Baby GIrl

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image Mother and Baby Girl  by Conie Fong which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in as a digi and in rubber.

This card is for a friend of mine who is just about to have a baby girl in the next week or so.  She is keeping very quite about what she and her hubby are going to call their baby daughter so I couldn't add the name to the card lol.

To begin with I coloured the image with Promarkers

Using the colours I have chosen I am trying to have a vintage feel to this card but the mum to be is far from girly or vintage.  She does wear a lot of fawn colours so I am hoping with all the lace etc I am adding to the card she will still like it.  Maybe I can call it funky vintage lol.

To make the frame for her I used the die cArt decorative Oval Frames and then attached white lace behind the frame which I ruffled.  A couple of flourishes were cut using Crafty Ann -Flourish-5.  All these sections were airbrushed with Warm Brown 5, 4 and 3 Promarkers.

For the card base I used brown paper and then pink card which I embossed with a Tattered Lace embossing folder. Some rather special lace was added along the bottom. Next onto the digi, with her
coloured I then fussy cut her.   Some lace I had which was the perfect colour was placed at the back of part of the frame and then up to the top left edge of the card.  I made some roses from hand made paper using the Spellbinder die Bitty-Blossoms-6 and then added a pram charm, baby girl ribbon bow and some pearl strands.  Liquid Pearls were added along the bottom of the Mums dress to hide the join where it meets the frame and to balance the out I also added some Liquid Pearls to the lace edges of her dress and the babies dress.

 The inside of the card was finished of with some design paper I had floating around and the writing area created with die Sizzix - 657914 which I then air-brushed with my warm brown Promarker.  The flourishes on the front were a bit big for what I wanted so I had trimmed them down, no point in wasting anything so I placed them on the inside :) :) :) .

Ingredients:-

• Image - Mother and Baby Girl  by Conie Fong
• Colouring Medium - Promarkes and chalk (chalk was used for the flowers)
• Dies -  cArt decorative Oval Frames, Crafty Ann -Flourish-5 and Spellbinder die Bitty-Blossoms-6 
• From my Stash - lace, charm, peel off sticker sentiment, peals sprays and ribbon

I am entering into the following challenges:-

• Card Mania - M, 3E - (June) Metal Embellishment
• Craft-Dee BowZ - M, E3, project must have bow - (June) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow 
• Get Creative Challenges - 2W, 3E - (Week 1) Flowers
• 613 Avenue Create - W - #130 Anything Goes with option, Use a pearl and/or a rose
• Addicted to Stamps - 2W, must use stamp- #107 Bingo (W2 of 2) (LACE, FLOWERS, PEARLS)
• Dragonfly Dreams - M –  June -  Special Occasions
• Robyn`s Fetish - W - #270 Add Lace
• Open-Minded Challenges 2W,3E (W2)vintage
• A Vintage Journey - M First Friday of M (Vintage)- June - Celebrations
• Craft for the Craic - M, 5E (First Friday of the month) - June - The Big Occasion
• Simply Create Too - 2W - No.88 - (W2 of 2) - Old, Vintage, Shabby Chic
• Card Mania (M, P1, E3) # 69 Use Metal Embelishments
• Creatalicious Challenges (M,P15) #76 Ribbon & Pearls
• Emerald Faeries Challenge (M,P1,E3,SIO)   #68 Pearls & Lace
• Ladybug Crafts (M,P1,3E) Use Your Dies
• SLS Lines Challenge (M, P12, SIO,E2) #10 Use Die Cuts or Punches
• The Vintage Challenge (P1/15,E3) #104 Flowers (Vintage Style ONLY)
• Whimsy Inspiration -Monthly 3rd Wed posting, 3E, SIO  - #84 Use Ribbon, Lace or Twine

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a happy crafting time ahead of you :) xx