Wednesday, 6 January 2010

New, blue beginnings!

Just before Christmas I was lucky enough to win a free Hero Arts digital kit from Caardvarks. I have always really enjoyed making baby cards so decided to pick 'Special Delivery' as my prize.
The current challenge over at The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge is 'New beginnings' and Cupcake Challenge #72 is to make a baby card, so this was my chance to get downloading!
I haven't made a little boy baby card for a very long time as most of my friends have daughters. I thought it would make a nice change to create a card to welcome a little boy. The lovely Lucy has just posted Challenge #3 over at her blog. Her challenge theme is to make a 'Monochromatic' card, so I thought that I would work in the gorgeous shades of blue from the Bazzil basics range.

The digital kit has a selection of cute images that will be familiar to Hero Arts fans as most have already been available in rubber. I have the woodblock version of this little onesie, but was really excited to be able to enlarge it to fill the centre of a Nesties circle. The flowers are punched with a very old daisy punch. This little punch was one of the very first tools that I ever bought, and it was fun to use it once again! The sentiment was printed on my PC, and the little heart coloured with a mixture of Diamond Stickles and Distress ink. A little work with my white gel pen pulled everything together.

I promise not to make too many Nesties cards, but they really are so much fun!

25 comments:

CinnamonSally said...

Love your card Jo great colour and the white pen really finishes it off. I like making baby cards as well and those nesties are addictive, aren't they!!!

Sanne said...

Great baby card Jo - perfect for a little boy!

donna mikasa said...

Well, I'm partial to circular Nestie cards myself and this one is a cutie!
Congrats on your win...hope to see more digi hybrid cards!

Linda Brun said...

Cute little babycard Jo - and you rock with your nestie card ;-).
Hope you manage to keep warm in the cold weather you have. I can see on telly that you are having heavy snow. Here it's to cold for snow, -12C
Hugs

Pop's Cards said...

AWWWWW i love this its is so cute, making me feel broody lol, gorgeous hun, big hugs Pops x

Victoria said...

it's gorgeous Jo! Make as many nesties cards as you like, I enjoy looking. What a sweet image - good choice!
Victoria
xx

Lenas kort said...

Love this baby boy card :-)

The Crafty Den said...

What a cute nesties card. I love the image and the colour scheme is gorgeous. Thanks for joining us at cupcake craft challenge this week. Hugs, Denise x

Lucy Abrams said...

This is such a sweet baby card - so happy you entered it into my challenge. Hope you're not too snowed in down there. :)

Abounding Treasures said...

This card is adorable!

I'm not that familiar with Nesties yet so could you please tell me how large your circle is?

Thanks!

Suzanne C said...

Lovely monochromatic card! Love the little onsie! So cute.

Danni said...

This is just adorable!

Alice said...

this is super cute!! love it!!

Tiffany Ervin said...

Oh, how cute! I love the placement of it over the scallop circle card, another favorite shape of mine for cards too!

Vanessa said...

So cute! I love what you did with the digi kit and the nestie cards are adorable!

Hugs,
Vanessa

Vicky said...

Love your nestie cards, and this is a real stunner! Keep them coming. :)xx

Jill said...

Love your hybrid card with the sparkling heart! Fabulous!

Nicky said...

Hi - love your nestie cards and this one is just as stunning keep them coming xx

Cathy said...

Gorgeous card.
Thank you for joining in the SCSC this week.
Cathy xx

Helen said...

Sweet card!
Thanks for joining us at the SCSC!
Helen x

debby4000 said...

Gorgeous baby card, sweet image and colours.
luv
Debby

Beth aka BR-T said...

This card is so sweet DJ just seeing a little onesie makes my heart melt. Beth

Liza said...

Such a cute baby card. Thanks for joining us at CCC.

Liza x

Lynne in NI said...

Awww, what a cutie and just perfect in the blue colours too!
Hope you're enjoying your weekend Jo and staying warm!
:D

Donna said...

Beautiful baby card for our challenge at Cupcake this week, thanks for playing along with us :) Donna x