Iris Folding - Baby and Cat Cards

Baby Girls first birthday gift with matching fabric card - 1st birthday

Punch Art Giraffe Name Tag

This is my punch art name tag to be used this weekend at the Stampin Up Regionals in Perth, Western Australia.

The giraffe was made using the Stampin Up Owl Punch and the leaves came from the SU Bird Punch. I've made a few extras to make some cards with the spare giraffes.

Baby Dragon Punch Art

 Wow it's been a loooong time between posts! Sorry! I'm off to the Stampin Up Regionals in Perth, Western Australia this weekend and needed to make some card swaps. Being 17 weeks pregnant with my first child, I had baby on the brain. I'd seen this cute Baby Dragon idea before (sorry to the original designer as I can't remember where I saw it to credit / link etc) and thought it would be perfect. They are quite fiddly when making so many multiples like I have but I loved the outcome. I'll just have to be very selective who I swap with as I don't have as many as I'd hoped. I also decided to keep a couple as I have a couple of friend due to give birth next week!

I just sponged the background dots in coordinating inks to ensure the colours matched perfectly to the cardstock.

Products Used:
Background cardstock: Stampin Up Baja Breeze & Pretty in Pink
Patterned Card: SU Whisper White cardstock sponged with Baja Breeze or Pretty in Pink & Mellow Moss ink using daubers.
Baby Dragon: SU Wild Wasabi & Garden Green, Whisper White & Basic Black cardstock.
Punches:  All punches used were Stampin Up - Boho Blossoms, Large Oval, Extra Large Oval, 1/2" Circle, 1 3/8" Circle (used to cut out mouth then sanded sharp corners to round off), Love heart from the Bird Punch.
Extras:   Double-sided tape, SU Dimensionals (mounting block), daubers, multipurpose liquid glue, scissors, black pen, white gen pen.

Sewing - Baby Bib & Baby Burb Cloth set with matching card

How cute is this fabric? I knew it was perfect for the sewing project I had in mind. Friends have recently had a little baby boy and girl so I wanted to give a more personal pressie by making something. The only criteria - it had to be a simple project as I don't sew very much and can't read sewing patterns, and it had to be useful. I started with the baby bib, then added to the set with the baby burb cloth using the matching fabric with terry towelling on the back. There are lots of different patterns/tutorials/designs on the internet.

This matching card was made using the Stampin Up Lucky Duck stamp set and various papers in my craft stash. These 2 baby cards were inspired by LeeAnn Greff at http://flowerbug.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/02/little-duckie-punch-art.html

Above: Baby boys bib.

Above: Baby boys burb cloth.

Above: Baby girls bib and baby nappy and wipe wallet. The strap has a piece of velcro so the thickness can be adjusted depending on how many nappies are in the wallet and the thickness of the wipes case.

Hope they like them! :)

Baby Expecting cards

A friend of mine's daughters are expecting which is just sooooo exciting! The pink and black card was made a while ago. However the thought of having to be creative sent me into a slight panic. I've lost my crafty mojo but I was determined to make another one today - I was fairly happy with the result.

Expectant Mum Baby card

A work mate asked me to make a baby card which she wanted to give the expectant mother a few months before baby was born. You could also use this for a baby shower card. I have had these stickers for a while so it came together really quickly.

Baby card for Twins

I made this card today for a work mate who is having twins next month. The stamps used are from a Hero Arts unmounted stamp set which belongs to my sister. I stamped the images ages ago and finally had a reason to use them. The only Stampin Up product used was the Stampin Up Certainly Celery ribbon.

Punch art Tigerlily & Tiger

Okay, I definately bit off more than I could chew with this project. A good work friend asked me to design a baby card as her son and partner had a little girl last week. Bubby's name is 'Faith Tigerlilly' - Tiger because her son is crazy over tigers (the grrr type) and Lilly is a family name. Therefore I decided I would try to incorporate both themes ... there was my 1st mistake!

As time consuming as punch art is - I love it. It's cute and great for baby/kids cards however to make them reasonably quickly and easily - you need all the punches ... and there's mistake #2 - I don't have all the punches. So I adapted what I had and free drew shapes to create the tiger. Fiddly yet very cute I think. (The tiger design credit goes to Marie from Stamping Inspiration). Both websites credited in this post were random websites found doing a google search.

Speaking of which, after much searching for punch art lillies (and I'm talking hours), I found an online video tutorial (all credits go to Valita's Designs and Fresh Folds site). I won't explain how to make the lillies as the video is really good. After all this research, these tigerlillies are going to pop up on a few future cards! Anyway mistake #2 was repeated for the lillies as again I didn't have all the punches but made do with what I had.

Regardless of this, I'm really happy with it. Not a traditional baby card I know, but cute huh?

Ladybug nappy cake

I made this nappy cake for my sister who has just had her 2nd daughter. At the time I made this we didn't know the sex of bubby, and as red is my favourite colour, this nappy cake was created. I used Stampin Ups large circle punch and a standard hole punch, glue and double sided tape. Very easy!

I also twisted some red wire and attached some of the ladybugs onto it to give a 'jiggly' effect.

Iris Folding - Strawberries, Fish, Bumble Bee, Teddy, Baby carriage

This technique is called 'Iris Folding' and is what originally got me into card making. It's very easy but looks incredibly difficult, is extremely cost effective and a great way of using all those little bits of paper that normally hit the bin.