Oh Baby!

Yikes! It is nearly August and I have yet again neglected to post ANYTHING for nearly two months. Pathetic attempt at blogging. I have no excuse…other than I write the blog posts for my work so, y’know, I am doing something with my time. Stop yelling at me!

I still get asked to make cards for people from time to time and I am always happy to do so. It can be helpful to have a definite project in mind and be “limited” to that brief. Otherwise I can take hours to figure out what I want to do.

Baby cards are always fun to do. They’re generally pretty simple and have a basic theme going on. I try to avoid doing the cliched blue or pink colour scheme, but a lot of people still like that so I go with whatever is required.

My friend asked me to make a baby card for her, for her niece who was expecting a boy. I always think it’s a weird term, “expecting”. Like, I was expecting a baby boy…but I ended up with a giraffe! At any rate, she did indeed have a bouncing baby (human) boy and I was happy to create a couple of cards for my friend to choose from.

Both little bubbas are drawn on X-Press It Blending Card with a Pigma Micron Pen and coloured in using a variety of alcohol markers. The first card featured a cosy little baby with a beanie (complete with pom-pom) and a tiny nappy fastened with a safety pin. Apparently he is an amputee because there are no arms or legs….but maybe his parents were just really thorough with their nappy technique and his appendages are tucked in there too. Don’t ask me – I just work here.

I stamped out “Little Man” on a hand-drawn banner and adhered it all to a blue-and-white polka dot backing paper on white card.

The second card was a head-only baby (I had obviously dispensed with limbs AND body by this stage). A very simple card with hand-drawn images, stamped words, and the addition of a big green bow. Again mounted on polka dot paper. Voila!

My friend decided to take the first card (that was my favourite too). I hope her niece liked it.

That’s all for today. I hope to post again soon but let’s not hold out breath….I think I have already proven I’m a little slack in the posting department.

Have a delightful day – thank you for stopping by 🙂

Choose Your Own Adventure

Clearly, I am going to use this brick stencil A LOT.  It is just so effective and provides the perfect background for so many things.  It also saves me a lot of time because normally I would be faffing about looking for a suitably patterned paper to use as a background, or mixing up (and wasting) lots of different colours of paint.  Plus, the best thing about using this stencil is that the less precise you are, the more it looks like real bricks.  Yay!

I wasn’t sure what phrase or words to put on the sign, but kept coming back to “Choose your own Adventure”.  It just seemed right.  It almost looks like she is encouraging people to climb through the hole in the wall and find out what lies beyond.

I’m not quite convinced about her hand – I generally do cartoony-type hands (quite often with only four fingers) so I was going out on a limb trying to do a more realistic one.  But, hey, it’s not too bad.  I hope.  Try not to focus on it – Look away now! 🙂

Thanks, as always, for popping in x