Baby Giraffe

Hey y'all, happy Friday.  I spent the morning catching up on NCIS and working on my stitching, but I'm about to go up to my craft room again.  And in a continuation of the retired stamp showcase I seem to be running here, today's card features two retired stamp sets.

D'aww.  I wasn't thinking about it as I made the card, but I totally made this gender-neutral.  Actually my first choice for the card base was Soft Sea Foam, and then I discovered that my SSF ink pad is in desperate need of a re-inking and guess who doesn't have that ink refill?  I have the Soft Subtles refills...but from *before* the last color refresh, so no Soft Sea Foam.  Guess what's going on my next order.

Anyway, the inspo pic on the current Fusion challenge is just too sweet:

I used the sketch as well, though I flipped it so all the elements are on the right rather than the left.  I didn't want my baby giraffe looking right off the edge of the card.  Did you know that giraffes give birth standing up?  Nothing says welcome to the world like a 6-foot drop I guess!

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bundle of Joy, Bundled in Love
Ink:  Pear Pizzazz, Cinnamon Cider, Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Cinnamon Cider & So Saffron
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Cinnamon Cider, So Saffron, Thick Basic White, vellum
Accessories:  Stitched Nested Labels dies, Mini Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Bundled in Love

Happy Friday!  Welcome to this week's Friday Flashback, featuring Bundled in Love.  This is a super-cute baby set and it's also got a companion set, Bundle of Joy.  I love to use those two sets together, the moon & stars stamp from Bundle of Joy is a great lil background :)  So let's Flashback!

This was an idea for a baby shower invite for my friend Sarah (I know last week's Flashback was baby themed and featured projects for Sarah too, that is completely coincidental as I pick out stamp set names at random.  As in, for reals, I have a big plastic container full of paper slips with stamp set names on them, which my mom thought was funny and OCD).  Our friend Tiana was planning Sarah's shower before we knew she was having a boy, so we were going for bright colors but more gender-neutral.  We ended up going with something else but I thought this was cute.

Tiana loves both these stamp sets and we used them for her baby announcements for both her girls (her older daughter's announcement featured the giraffe from Bundle of Joy, these are the ones for her younger daughter).

And here's a layout from Baby Girl #2's baby book.  And here's today's brand new card!

Seems like most mamas I know are having boys right now but I wanted to use this week's Dynamic Duo so a girl baby card it is!  The bunny shows up better IRL than she looks in the picture, perhaps I should have stamped her in darker ink to make her stand out more.  And crud, looks like I missed the challenge deadline on this one.  Oh well.

I stuck like glue to the color challenge, the only other color I used at all was Very Vanilla.  The sketch is this week's awesomely fantastic Sketch Frenzy Friday challenge:

I think I wanna go make another card with this sketch because I'm kind of in love with it.

Did you notice that giant shiny new badge in the right sidebar?  I'm gonna be on the Nacho design team starting in September, woot woot!  Super excited about that :)

Y'all have a lovely weekend!  Tomorrow I'm going down to London to meet up with my pal Vicki, so yay!!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Bundled in Love
Ink:  Sahara Sand, Pink Pirouette
Paper:  Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla, retired DSP in Pink Pirouette & Sahara Sand
Accessories:  Deco Label Framelits, Pearls, Dimensionals