Baby Cards For Southwest General Hospital

 I have been making baby cards for Southwest General Hospital.  All of the stamps I used are from Colorado Craft Company.

I experimented with different types of designer series paper.

This first card was made with strips of retired SU paper cut into 1/4" strips and laid out like a herringbone pattern.  I added images with dimensionals so they'd stand out a bit from the background. What you might now be able to see is that I put this through the Cute Crochet 3D embossing folder to make it look like a quilt.

This is a great way to use up scraps of designer series paper!

This second card is one of my favorites because I used a designer series paper that is NOT baby paper. For this card I used my blending brush and balmy blue to make clouds.  I used a die to cut out grass, then used the negative space to color in the grass. I moved this to make several rows of grass for the bear to sit on.

Instead of stamping the sentiment on a plain piece of white paper, I inked clouds on it then added my sentiment. 

On this next card, I lightly brushed blue ink onto the image card stock. Then I stamped and colored the images.  The stars were colored with a yellow Wink of Stella brush. The bear was colored with Copic markers.  To highlight, I added navy ink around the image and sentiment panels.  Again, I used designer paper that is not baby paper and I think it looks great!  The flowers mimic the stars on the image panel.

The next image was colored with Copic markers and Yellow Wink of Stella.  I liked this stamp set since it used animals like these mice instead of  the cute typical animals for baby cards.

The inside sentiments are:  What a precious baby you are.

Do you know how love you are?

The last cards were colored with Copic Markers. On two of them I used our new Plaid designer series paper. I played around with using both sides of the paper together. I like how well the both look together.  Again, none of these papers are typical baby papers. I also try to make cards that can be used for either a boy or girl baby. That makes it easier for the people using the cards.

I hope I've given you some ideas to use for your card making. Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings,

Sue