A Handmade Card For A Newborn Baby

I am thrilled today to show you the card I made to welcome my first grandson into the world.  In case you missed it, I shared Atticus' birth story from a grandmother's perspective in yesterday's post.

My daughter decorated Atticus' nursery with some cute animal photos, one of them being an elephant picture, so I decided to use my "Adorable Elephants" set from MFT. to make Atticus' card.   I don't normally buy new stamps anymore, because I have such a huge supply already, and frankly, most new stamps are just remakes of the old ones.  But every now and then a new stamp set pulls at my heart strings and I just have to have it.  This set has the cutest elephant images in it, and I love how versatile it is as well.  The sentiments that come with the set are birthday, thank you, or accomplishment related, but I ended up using it as a baby card by adding a sentiment from another old set.

I stamped the image on a separate piece of card stock and colored it in with Copic markers.  Then I fussy cut it using a pair of scissors.  The stamp set comes with an optional die cut set, but that cost $26.99.  Uh, no thank you.  A pair of scissors works just fine.  Why do those dies have to cost so much?  

I also stamped and fussy cut the butterflies that came with the set.  The white ovals were cut with a Cuttlebug machine and Spellbinders dies.  Everything was adhered to the white ovals.  The elephant I popped up on dimensionals.

I think the sentiment is from an old Stamping' Up set.  I cut a banner tag and leaves with MFT dies, and then adhered the sentiment over those.  I know hardly anyone uses Prima flowers anymore, but I still have a ton left in my stash, so I added that too.  I thought the blue polka dots in the flower went so well with the blue butterflies.

For the background I chose some pretty glitter paper from an old DCWV stack.  Everything was then adhered to a white card stock base.

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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