ITS A BOY

The blogger gremlins have been at work and I have not been able to post on my blog  for the last two days!!!. I finally finished the baby card for my husbands work colleague on Tuesday night, I have been planning this one for weeks, it took me ages to find the perfect image and not knowing whether it was a boy or girl made that a bit more difficult; the surprise is now over and its a beautiful baby boy.I've went for a quite simple, clean look and I'm pleasantly pleased with the final outcome. I found a cute digi stamp from Digi Darla designs which I thought would be prefect for either a boy or a girl and I coloured it with my promarkers in soft colours with lots of blues and greens. I used my stash for everything other than the building blocks charm and the digi stamp that I bought specifically for this card. The backing card I bought when I first started card making and never got round to using it, it is a very heavy card stock so I choose not to layer it as I think it would have been too much; the pastel blue and green colour way with the button detail made it just perfect for pulling my idea together. I  kept the inside simple with the same stamp resized which I left uncoloured.

 'Its a boy '

 'close up of the baby animals'

'inside of card'

I used the following to make my card

• white card blank
• Kanban card - 'blue buttons'card ( had for ages in stash) 
• Digi Darla Designs stamp- balloon baby animals-coloured with promarkers
• white and blue grossgrain ribbon for bows
• blue and green buttons
• charm- baby blocks

I also got my sister in laws 50th card finished ,I went for a clean and simple design again ,if I get the time before work I will post that too. There will be no card making this weekend as we got tickets for the special Olympics on Sunday, which I'm excited about; we are going to the main stadium for the athletics. I'm also looking forward to seeing the site as it looks fab on the TV, so hopefully next week I will have some photos to post. .Tomorrow we take all  my daughter's belongs back to Canterbury for uni ,she is not going back until next weekend as she has plans for next week so we get the fun job of taking everything and unpacking for her tomorrow. She will go down on the train on her own next weekend and we are at the surprise 50th party so can't take her and everything then... I think she got the easier job, but that's what parents are for,and she does appreciate it, so we will be away all weekend and next too

Challenges I would like to enter this week are-

Eureka stamps challenge 3-anything goes 

Fashionista Challenge #6- card for a child 

Forever Friends–Fortnightly Challenge #43-Anything goes

Challenges 4 Everybody-Challenge# 1 -Anything Goes

The Corrosive challenge blog- challenge# 156- Cute as a Button

Great Impressions -‘A Walk on the Wild Side’ (anything with animals)  3rd entry

One Stitch at a Time – Challenge #128 - Must use a Digi

Crafty Mess Challenge #16- -Animals with a blue theme

Totally Gorjuss -Challenge#146-Baby Baby

I love Promarkers-challenge #132- anything goes 
Stampavie and More-challenge#175-animals