Baby Boy Card

The card above I made as a sample card using my new baby digital 'Baby Gift Box'ID: NV-DS0028 and the sentiment is from my new word art sheet 'Baby Set 1' ID:NV_WA0019 . I found a wonderful sketch supplied by the 'Catch the Bug' crew. As yet I don't own any of the dies or a cutting machine so I used my trusty scallop scissors to make the scalloped circles. More practice is needed by me to stitch in a circle as I ended up just manually moving the needle one stitch at a time, *laughs* and it's still wigglely.

I coloured my digital first, spending the most amount of time on the hatbox itself and used 6 different copic colours to achieve that gradual shading. I used a white pen to add the little white dots onto the hatbox to create a pattern. The items inside the hatbox are very small, so I only used 2 colours on most of them. After it was dry it was then cut out, the edges shaded and pop dotted onto the card to add dimension. I brushed all the edges of the card with Aegean Blue chalk to soften the hard edges. The rest of the card was just a matter of putting it together. I also used a copic pen B95 and created a little splattering (fingernail flicked on the brush nib) in some of the areas.

The inside is very simple. I used the same paper as the front and stitched around it. The verse is from my word art sheet and the edges where also brushed with chalk.

Card Info:

Normal yellow card stock to make the base

Background paper by Paper Chic Item#1642, so pretty with candy stripes one side and white baby dots on red on the other side.

Copics: B000,B00,B21,B93,B95,B97 (hat box colours)

Pink ribbon with 2 silver threads by Celebrate

6mm Pearls (coloured with copic E95)by Vivaldi

Little teddy bear charm from Ribtex

Flowers are a no name brand, I do remember picking up the white ones in the bridle section and I coloured the center of them with a red copic marker.

VersaMagic is the chalk ink

I am entering this card in the following wonderful challenges:

Catch the Bug - Challenge Scallops

Sunday with Crissy - Challenge # 15 Stitching

Cutie Sunday -Challenge #135 Colour Combo

The Corrosive - Challenge #107 Sketch Time

My Grafico - Challenge Monthly

Southern Girls - Challenge Flowers

Simon Says - Challenge Anything Goes

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