Sweet Baby

I've made a number of baby cards in the past few months but when I look at them, I realize they've all been for boy babies.  That stops now!  Today I'm making a baby card and it will be for a girl.  What brought this up?  Well, there's a challenge over at the Just Add Ink Challenge Blog which calls for a baby design.

This card will be a CAS design.  That means it will be clean and simple.  That isn't always that easy to achieve.  You want to create some interest with the front of your card, after all.  But, to tell the truth, too much on the front of your card doesn't necessarily make it more interesting---or better.

I began with Whisper White.  A nice, clean palette on which to create a card.  There is another challenge from which I'm taking inspiration, and that's CASology, which asks for a splatter in the design:

I'm combining the two and hope that it works out as well as I've imagined.

On the Whisper White, therefore, I've stamped the largest of the splatters from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set using my Versamark and then heat embossed it using my Silver embossing powder.  On a scrap of Whisper White I've stamped the little girl baby shoes from the Baby We've Grown stamp set and carefully cut them out.  Then I've coloured them using a combination of flesh-coloured Blendabilities and my Blushing Bride Stampin' Marker.  

I've attached the little shoes towards the lower left side of the card using Dimensionals.  Then I've stamped the "sweet Baby" sentiment from the same stamp set using my Smoky Slate ink.  I used the Blushing Bride Stampin' Marker to colour in the letters.

It's a simple card with clean lines and lots of white space.  I love it!

For more cards that are all about babies, check out the Just Add Ink Challenge Blog.

For more cards with splatters, check out CASology.