Penny Black: Bundle of joy - baby girls are so sweet!

Hi blogging friends  

It  feels like forever since I last posted.  It all started when I dropped a Spellbinders die down the back of my chest of drawers which holds most of my craft stuff.....nuts.......which meant I had to move my plastic boxes which contain more craft stuff off the top of the chest of drawers so I could move the drawers away from the wall....and then I thought I should have a tidy-up while I was at it......yadda yadda yadda.....and before I knew it, a week had gone by before I finally retrieved my die!  But, my craft room looks so much neater and I was able to get together a nice pile of crafting magazines which I put in the magazine swap box at my local library.  I was so pleased that after I dropped the magazines off and went into the library for a browse, by the time I came out, most of the magazines had already been snapped up by a very happy little group of ladies

Anyway - onto my card........  I made this CAS (Clean and Simple) card for our family's Osteopath and his partner who have just become a parents for the first time to a little girl (obviously).  He and his partner had a bit of rough time with the pregnancy and the baby came very early and is still in hospital in a humidicrib.  The baby is doing very well but they are not allowed to hold the baby yet and had to go home without the baby!  I can't imagine how that must feel - to go home without the baby - but they are keeping busy buying baby things and setting up the baby's room as they had virtually nothing ready:

The gorgeous embossing on the pink cardstock was done with one of my fav folders by K Kingdom.  I coloured the image with OMS and Prismacolor + Derwent Coloursoft pencils and added some Kindyglitz Crystalina to the teddy's bow and the nappy pin on the hedgie.  I cut out the image and popped it up on 1mm doublesided foam squares. 

The tag is a fabby new die and clear stamp set by My Favorite Things.  The set comes with several sets of dies apart from the tag itself including the baby growsuit which I have used on my tag.  There is also a variety of sentiments and other images in the stamp set.  Love it!  The dies use the same sandwich in your Cuttlebug as for Spellbinder dies.  I added a strip of pink rhinestones underneath the sentiment.

Once I tied on the ribbon, I glued part of the tag to the ribbon so it would stay in the right place then glued a heart-shaped button to the bow centre.  Here is a little close-up peek:

This card fits the following Challenge:

Splitcoaststampers - Ways to use it WT325 - Dying for Diecuts - where you have to show them your diecuts.  Of course, I used my new tag die set.

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by   

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Penny Black - Bundle of Joy 30-043 clear set, My Favorite things Notched Tag clear stamp set

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo black

Accessories:  Cuttlebug, K Kingdom KEM117 Flowers and Dots embossing folder, My Favorite Things Die-namics Notched Tag die set, pink gingham ribbon, pink heart button (Spotlight), Kindyglitz Crystalina, Basic Grey bling-it rhinestones, Odourless Mineral Spirits (OMS), Derwent Coloursoft pencils, Prismacolor pencils, paper stumps, 1mm double-sided foam squares, Cardstock:  pink, KW Doggett Knight white, American Crafts kraft

Punches:  Stampin' Up corner