Now, would you believe that this card was entirely made from supplies from the Project Life baby girl kit? Yes, indeed. Everyone I know recently has been having baby girls and so my stash of baby related papercrafting is overloaded with pink, frilly cuteness. And then suddenly a baby boy. Well, I was up to the challenge.
I started shifting through the Project Life cards, looking for any non-pink possibilities. Now, don't get me wrong, I see no problem in little boys having pink things and dolls and I certainly see nothing wrong with little girls having blue things and playing with Tonka Trunks but it's probably safest to play the gender neutral card in these situations. So...I went with the fab retro orange and brown combination.
The elephants, stars and moon are from the Simple Stories baby girl collection kit and aren't they just the cutest? I piled the elephants up on the bottom in a little family train.
Having added the elephants, there was suddenly this yellow from the baby elephant that was out of sync with the rest of the design and colour palette so I searched the Simple Stories sticker sheet for a way to bring more yellow into the card. I found the moon and added some stars to make a visual triangle. The cork cloud was a nice way of anchoring the stars and adding another texture and dimension of brown at the same time.
Finally - and I didn't take a photo of this part - I added the sentiment inside. And to my horror, as I was writing out my note to my friends, I misspelt one of the words! No! What to do, what to do? I grabbed for a package of word stickers and found a selection that not only fit with the message but even worked with the colour scheme and completely covered up my faux pas - whew!
