What to write in a baby card for a coworker
Distress Ink and Watercolor Baby Card
hello everybody this is sheri at dj's
hundred at blogspot com and you know if
you watch my previous video when i was
showing you some of the new products
from close to my heart that I was super
excited that they added this set of
watercolors to their product lineup I
love this set of watercolors it has 36
vibrant colors and I took them with my
family when we went camping and I think
my husband and son went on a hike and my
daughter was reading or napping or maybe
they were already napping I don't know
but I got them out and I played with
them so we are going to jump in now this
tutorial is not going I'm going to put
together card we're not going to really
work with the watercolors because like I
said I already did my image while I was
camping let me show you what else we're
going to be using though so from I have
this old welcome baby stamp set from
inkadinkado haven't even put my stamps
together yet but it's super fun for
babies now close to my heart has some
great ones that have just come out but I
don't have any of those new ones yet so
I pulled out this old fun stamp set and
I the one that I'm using for this time
is this kind of patchwork teddy bear
because I think he's super cute this is
a card for a baby boy that some a
co-worker co-worker I'm introduced to
his family and I'm so excited for he and
his wife their sweet little couple and
so I wanted to make this card for them
now I took a piece of white daisy
cardstock I've already prepped it it's
cut at eight and a half inches wide
scored at four and a quarter and then
it's five and a half inches and this
card is going to open just like that now
I've already also taken a piece from the
enchantment cardstock pack now this is
an old card set pack that I've had for a
long time and so some of the colors may
have changed I haven't familiarized
myself with the new colors as well as I
should have but this may not
the exact blue that's in the current one
I can't tell you for sure but what I did
is I cut this and I cut it at five and
three eighths by four and then eight so
that there's just barely a white border
around it and so now we're going to jump
into the next part this is the super fun
part not only did I take my watercolors
camping but I also took quite a few of
my distress inks and I played and I
played with different backgrounds and
blended them and this is one of the
backgrounds that I did and I can't even
remember what colors that i use and
unfortunately i didn't write it down if
I were to guess I would say that this is
probably the mustard yellow and I think
that this may be salty ocean blended
together and then the green kind of
forms when you blend those colors
together which I thought was super cute
for this card that I'm making now I've
trimmed this down to where it's four
inches wide by five and a quarter inches
tall and that's going to go over our
blue base but first I want to do some
stamping so I pulled out this fun stamp
set from balloon wishes and it has a
little banner at the bottom that says
special delivery there it also has one
that says welcome baby but i decided
that i wanted to do special delivery and
so i'm going to pull out my versafine
ink just because i like the way that
this works on dark backgrounds which
obviously i am dealing with a very
vibrant but but somewhat dark background
here and i don't want to lose my
stamping in and i just think that this
first to find ain't does a really good
job this is in onyx black i'm just going
to kind of Center it on the bottom let's
push this up so you can see it just
center by eyeball the best that I can
and go straight down and list straight
up and you can see what i mean by what a
nice fine line that that versafine makes
when you're dealing with such a dark
background you want to have that stark
contrast
so now comes the fun part this isn't the
fun part but I took my spell binders and
this is one of the larger oval die
shapes and I cut it and then the other
side is my image isn't he's super cute
and super fun I used um a couple
different shades of green i believe i
use yellow and blue and colored him up
now i am not an expert color when it
comes to using I don't do a lot of
blending and stuff I haven't really
learned how to do that yet maybe someday
I'll get there but in the meantime I
still think that I can make really cute
cards just by coloring and learning to
blend as I go so this was kind of a
practice piece but first I'm going to
grab this piece of ribbon this is from
three girl jam and I found it as a scrap
I honestly can't remember what color it
is one of you through girl jammers could
probably help remind me what color it is
I believe it may be like ribbon candy or
something like that because it's got
green and kind of a little bit of pink
in there but I'm really not positive but
what I'm going to do is I'm going to
start I'm going to just make a fun
little bow on the side this is kind of a
busy card I think it's going to turn out
really cute and let's see I think I want
to kind of turn my bow to the side a
little bit like that now I'm going to
let it have some play in it because I'm
going to adjust it to fit where I want
on my car now this card is not going in
the mouth so I am not worried about bulk
at all and i think i like it just like
that once i get it all take down i'll
play with my bow a little bit better so
let's go ahead and put
our image down on our card front lots of
adhesive because I'm going over that
ribbon I'm going to Center it the best
that I can with my bow still being in
place and put that down just like that
I'm not fun it's great for a baby now
let's come back over here you can see
some of my mess ups on the back and
again this is watercolor paper and I
believe this is just some water paper
that i had just from Joanne's or
somewhere buying a big pad of it I don't
believe that i use the distress card
stock on this one I could be wrong and
then we are going to just kind of Center
that the best that we can like so and
you see that blue just gives it that
little bit of edging to kind of make it
pop now we'll play with our bow for real
now that we have everything spec down I
can make a better bow just like that
there we go and I'm going to come back
with my little scissors and trim it off
just like so there we have just a super
cute fun card for a baby boy I think my
friends will like it so be sure and head
over to close to my heart and check out
these great watercolors and that fun
stamp set that is so versatile I
anticipate that I'll be using it a lot
especially since I have quite a few baby
cards to make over the next few months
so thanks so much for stopping by today
and remember take some time to enjoy the
little things have a great day bye
