Last Monday I shared a Big Brother card for MANday Monday, and today i am sharing the card that i made for R’s little brother, Samuel – the new arrival!
The family came into work last week and I literally squealed with excitement. Little Samuel was so teeny tiny that he hardly looked real. Good news is that he is out of hospital (which is great news, seeing as he arrived 7 weeks early). Its clear to see that the whole family were delighted.
I know the over sized bow is a bit girly, but i think i pulled it off! I just love the way it gives lots of dimension to the card, and reminds me of a present – after all aren’t babies the most precious gift we can ever have?
Welcome to the world little one.
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A huge shout out to our dearest friend Caelia. The big 3- 0! Happy Birthday Girl!
I had lots of fun with this card, and used mainly scraps which always makes me feel super happy because it feels like more of an achievement. lol. I creased lines on some blue paper and folded it into a fan to make the cupcake wrapper, and as soon as i had done it i realised that i have a die that does all the hard work for me, whooooopsie. Such a silly billy! Never mind!
I trimmed the front panel by an inch or so and put some blue paper on the section behind. I love the way it peeps out. And see that blue stripy edge – lovely jubbly wash tape. hmmmmm. ♥
I wanted colour, whimsy, and of course some sweetness for my sweet Caelia. The cupcake top was cut free hand and i used worn lipstick distress ink on the edges with a blending tool. The cherry on top is actually a big brad from my stash. It looks really cool! yummy.
Happy Birthday Caeli. xx
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Hey there,
One of our clients at work sometimes brings his little boy, Reuben, into the office and he is the cutest little thing ever! A few weeks back, the family were blessed with another little baby boy which meant that R became a big brother. I made a card for baby Samuel (which I will share soon) but today I wanted to show you a sweet and simple card which I made as a Congratulations card for a wee dude.
When I was looking at my papers from WRMK 72 & Sunny collection I noticed that the animal patterned paper had both a big turtle and a little turtle so i wanted to cut these out and use on this card to depict a big brother and little brother. It helped that they were really cute turtles too!
To contrast with the green i choose a red paper from the Echo Park Dots and Stripes paper. I LOVE this pad, cannot get enough of it!! {note to self to buy more}.
The most time consuming part of this card was making the greeting. I didn’t have a stamp that said exactly what i wanted to say so i used alpha stamps to make the greeting. For the ‘You’re a big brother’ bit, i made it span the whole width of the card and the white strip coordinates nicely with the white space at the top of the card. Next I hunted through a zillion stamps to find one that said Congratulations, but i didn’t like any of the typography / fonts that were on my stamps so i simply stamped this part letter by letter as well. This time I made the greeting narrower, used a square punch to chop the ends into a flag shape and used pop dots to add dimension.
This is one of my favourite cards just now. Love it!
Thanks for stopping by for another MAN-day Monday. See you next Monday for some more inspiration on making cards for the boys in our lives.
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