I remembered seeing this beautiful card on Splitcoast a long time ago and always wanted to try something similar. Since my friend and his wife are going to have a baby any day now, I decided today would be as good a time as ever! I’m going out on a limb and guessing it’s a boy, even though they haven’t found out the gender, because the baby is weighing in at about 8.5 lbs. so far.
I purposely left out a sentiment because I haven’t decided yet whether to use the SAB Congrats set or the Warm Words stamp set.
Onto the details: I stamped the ducks, from Goody Goody Gumdrops in Black Staz-on on Whisper White. Then, using my Watercolor Crayons and Watercolor Pen, I colored them in. With a 7/8″ square punch, I popped them out and layered them onto a 1 1/4″ square of Close to Cocoa card stock. On the back of each, I placed 2 dimensionals, one on the top and one on the bottom.
The panel behind the ducks is So Saffron layered onto Old Olive card stock. I paper pierced the Old Olive and ran the white gel pen over it to look like stitching. Then, I took a piece of natural rope twine (from the last Holiday Mini) and placed it across the So Saffron card stock. Peeling off the backing from the dimensionals, I then adhered them to the So Saffron card stock. The space between the two dimensionals acts as a channel for the rope to sit in nicely.
The Old Olive/Saffron panel is adhered with dimensionals to a strip of Striped Kraft card stock, from Taste of Textiles collection. I added two Jumbo Eyelets to the striped kraft, and ran the rope twine through them, adhering the ends to the back with a bit of snail. Then, I used dimensionals to adhere that layer to the base, which is Baja Breeze card stock.
When I decide which sentiment to use, it will most likely go above or below the ducks onto the Old Olive card stock.
