It's a GIRL

Today, I am going to share a couple of things I made as a baby gift for a neighbor and friend.  One thing I always like to do as a gift for a baby shower is to create thank you cards for the family to send after the shower.  It has always been well received so in addition to a gift containing our favorite baby books I am making thank you cards.  Here is a look at the thank you card.  I am IN LOVE with it.

I created this card with ALL Pinkfresh Studio products.

Favorite Things Sentiments press plate and accompanying dies

Ornate Trellis press plate

Nothing but the Best stamp set, stencils and die.

Essentials: Diagonal stitched rectangles die

Pinkfresh inks: Ballet Slipper, Cherry Blossom, Sage and Eucalyptus

Spellbinders black BetterPress ink

I started by stamping the floral image in Versamark on Linen Vellum from my massive amount of hoarded cardstock.  Then I ink blended over the stencils to create this soft image. I concentrated the ink in the center to create some subtle shading.  I die cut the image and set it aside while I worked on the background.  The background was created by using the Ornate Trellis press plate with Ballet Slipper ink.  It was my first time using the BetterPress system.  That was fun and really creates a nice image.  I then used the Favorite Things Sentiment - thank you with the BetterPress system and finished by die cutting the image. The last step before putting everything together was to die cut the background with the largest die in the Diagonal stitched rectangles set.

I finished creating this card by using foam adhesive to the back of the background and placing this on a white card base.  Next up liquid glue to the back of the vellum floral image and finally creating a slightly thicker sentiment by adding another layer to the back.

GORGEOUS card in my opinion!  I do absolutely love it.

Closer look at the card

 And finally, my card to the lucky couple.

This is my second ever slimline card and BOTH utilized Pinkfresh

products:

Essentials: Slim Stitched Scallop Rectangles die

Diamond Motif Stencil

Kaitlin Alphabet

Best Wishes stamp set, die and stencils

same inks as above

First step was to using the largest die of the slim rectangles to create my base pieces for the card.  I took a white card base and did a light ink blending just around the edges.  Then using the same colors, I stenciled an ombre of the light to dark pink and light to dark green across the inner layer created by the die.  Then to assemble the base layers I mounted the outer frame and the inner stenciled layer on foam adhesive and the inner frame is just glued directly to the card base.

I stamped the Best wishes floral images (all on one stamp) to vellum in Versamark and again heat embossed in white.  And just like the Thank You cards I ink blended using the stencils for soft florals.  I used the matching die to cut out the florals.  This particular die cuts the floral into four pieces.  I took those four pieces and adhered them with liquid glue across the front of the panel.  Using the alphabet set I cut the letters twice out of white cardstock and cut the shadow out of pink shimmer cardstock. All the letters were then placed on the panel with foam adhesive to create additional dimension.  This was created as a card but with the thought that it could also be framed.

What do you think?