Another baby card

Happy Sunday everyone. Hope you have a nice day planned. I have a day at my desk , some of it making samples for an upcoming demo in February and some of it work! Never mind! Yesterday I had a day of indulgence as I went to the Creative Stitch and Craft Show at Sandon Park with a friend. Topped up with some essentials like double sided tape and card for matting and a few treats too, some new stamps I didn't know I needed but I did (you know the feeling) and a couple of Memory Box dies I had been hankering after. Too much temptation and not enough money as always, but I suppose learning some restraint is good for the soul!

Anyway here is my card for today! Another baby card which couldn't be more different from my last! This one much simpler and I was so pleased with it I made two! The first one a blue version was made to celebrate the arrival of my lovely crafty friend Lesley's grandson Charlie. I haven't met her daughter Jenna and her husband, but we all like to celebrate the joys of our lives with each other so I wanted to send them a card.

I stamped this Sugar Nellie Little Cotton Rabbit image onto watercolour paper. Now I know I often mention my love of rabbits and it was while I was surfing for rabbit related blogs I came across the blog of Julie Williams, the most talented knitter you can imagine. Julie knits these most perfect cotton rabbits and I can only dream of getting my mitts on one, because they are in such incredible demand she has to set up a lottery to choose the people who can buy them. So I have to satisfy my yearnings with a peek at Julie's lovely blog from time to time which you can find here! Julie knits as a way to unwind a little (if you will pardon the pun) from the pressures of being mum to a little boy with autism. She also supplies hand knitted gorgeousness to a number of shops. So I was delighted to find Sugar Nellie had made some of Julie's little rabbits into rubber stamps. Sadly I think these may now have been retired.

Anyway back to the card. I coloured the image with Coloursoft pencils and then cut it out and mounted it onto a kraft card blank. I added a sentiment from an unknown stamp, which I bought unmounted from E Bay. However, I think I have since see a Hero Arts version which is very similar. It is an image of a vintage pram and these are just the words from it. Obviously, the version I made for Charlie's arrival was in blue, while this was shades of pink.

Elaine x