PPA & Retro Sketches for Baby Boy

Hello there! I just got home from an exhausting session of kickboxing, but I feel great! I have a feeling this activity will be a long term one... when an exercise session that's an hour long feels like 20 minutes, you know you have a winner :) Anyways, I have a couple more cards to make tonight, and it is already 10:30, yikes! Oh well, a late night on a Friday eve is not the worst thing :) Now onto the challenges! I wanted to play along with Retro Sketches (after seeing all the amazing cards entered in this challenge, I just had to play along) and with Pals Paper Arts, who had a appealing colour combination that screamed a certain theme to me:

I thought these colours were absolutely PERFECT for a baby boy card. I don't have certainly celery, so I used pear pizzazz (which we learned today is returning to the Stampin' Up! colour line-up). Here's what came out of these combined challenges:

I think it is adorable! Not too much, but not too plain :) I picked up the Little Additions stamp set a while back when Stampin' Up! had a rare stamp sale, and I am so glad I did. It is such a perfect little stamp set. I added a pear pizzazz button and some linen thread to finish the look:

Thanks for looking and remember to check back tomorrow for our new KCRR challenge!

Supplies used:
Stamp Sets: Little Additions, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Bashful Blue, Pear Pizzazz (ret), Whisper White, Polka Dots DSP, Nursery Nest DSP
Ink: Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz (ret)
Tools: Small Heart Punch, Polka Dots Embossing Folder
Accessories: Linen Thread, Button, Dimensionals

KCRR Challenge #8

Happy Friday! Burr!! It sure has dropped in temperature the last few days here in northern BC. Minus 16 Celsius the last couple mornings and minus 12 this morning :( what happened to that early spring the groundhog predicted?? Hopefully it will show up soon! Now it's time for another installment of....

The selections this week were great and super easy to work with: Pumpkin Pie and the Scallop Trim Border Punch! ... I realize that I may have used the wrong scallop border punch, but it is a scallop border none the less! Here's what I came up with using this week's selections:

My new motto: when in doubt, make a baby card! They always work out so well! I really like the simplicity of this card. The small heart on the crib says it all :)

Thanks for looking and don't forget to pop over to Charissa's blog, Snippets by Design, to see what she created using these two elements!

Supplies used:
Stamps: Little Additions
Paper: Midnight Muse, Very Vanilla, Brights Stacks
Ink: Midnight Muse
Tools: Scallop Edge Border Punch, Small Heart Punch
Accessories: Baker's Twine (CTMH)

KCRR #2: A Challenging Combo

Good morning! Time again for another installment of....

Yay! This week, random.org really threw us a curve ball... Baja breeze & baby girl... not a combo I would put together probably ever.... Anyways, after much thinking and planning, I was able to create a really cute baby girl card: 

Cute hey? Lucky for me, twitterpated DSP contains some baja breeze and I threw in a few other thing, like the banner with the bear & the clothes line to tie it all together. Funny, Charissa and I were just chatting about the polka dots embossing folder today, and I said that it is probably my most used item... and here it is again! :) Banners are so in right now, and I am loving them! They make regular appearances on my cards. The banners on this card had their tails curled up using my handy-dandy bone folder. Here is a close up of the string of banners on this card: 

Love it! Make sure you pop over to Charissa's blog to check out what she has made with this week's combo :)

Thanks for looking! :)

Supplies used:

Stamps: Little Additions

Paper: Baja Breeze, Blushing Bride (ret), Whisper White, Twitterpated DSP, 2010-2012 DSP Stacks (ret)

Accessories: Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Twitterpated Buttons (ret), Bone Folder