Sweet Lil Guy

I'm back... already! As I said in yesterday's post, I've been playing with side step cards. This baby card for a coworker is based on the dresser side-step card that I've seen on a number of blogs in the past year.

Ok, I know I made it, but isn't it totally sweet! This is a new stamp I got from The Greeting Farm in a Build-a-Onesie clear stamp set which is adorable. And versatile with all the add-ons to change out the image on the onesie. I got both the boy and the girl set in a recent sale.

I used a Spellbinder Nestie to cut out the bottom of the dresser. It's kind of utilitarian since I don't have some of the fancier labels, but it's for a boy, so it works. Copper brads on some simple rectangular cuts for drawer pulls and some distress inks to age it a bit and voila! =) I used Copics for coloring the onesie and I free-handed a bib around the Lil Guy stamp to hang on the top dresser, using white DMC floss for the ties. I didn't have any fabric (although thinking about it, I could have colored some felt, duh!) so I wet a blue and white polka dot paper and molded it a bit, then glued a 1/4" blue grosgrain ribbon folded over the paper edges and added a white pompom on the corner to create a blanket to hang over the bottom drawer.

The sentiment is a cheap dollar stamp from Michaels. I stamped it in baby blue chalk ink and using a large needle from my cross-stitch supplies to get the skinny bits, I covered it in Stardust Stickles which has that nice pastel sparkle. Pop dots as usual under the onesie, the sentiment and the drawers (will I ever create anything completely flat and just two-dimenstional again? LOL).

 It's hard to tell from the pictures how small this card seems, especially compared to yesterday's birthday card. That card started as an 8-1/2x11" while this one began at 5-1/2x8-1/2". The finished baby card looks like a miniature in comparison. =) Why does everything look so much cuter when it's small like that?

Challenges for my li'l blue baby card...

A Gem of A Challenge is on challenge #35, monochromatic (baby blue!) + not Christmas + a sentiment

There doesn't seem to be an entry limit on Lollipop Crafts (and no prize this week so I think it's ok), so this is another one for #58 Anything Goes.

And Creative Inspirations challenge #139 is the color challenge of blue-grey-white this week.

So there you have it... two cards in two days. Scary, huh? Well, back to the craftroom for me! See you soon!

Happy Crafting,
Christy