Baby Card for AW29 & PPA228

Okay, so I had just finished a card for the Around the World Stampin’ Up! color challenge. Then I looked at the PPA Sketch Challenge, and whaddayaknow, my card matches the sketch! Flipped upside down, but still. What are the odds? So I’m combining the two challenges.

Here are the colors for the Around the World Stampin’ Up! Challenge #29:

Here’s the sketch for the PPA Sketch Challenge #228:

And here’s my card:

When I started thinking about the color challenge, I first chose paper. I immediately knew I wanted to use the Real Red with polka dots with the solid Hello Honey & Crumb Cake card stocks. Then I went to my stamps. I wanted to use something I hadn’t used yet. The first stamp set I came across that met that criteria was the Bundled Baby stamp set. I thought, sure, I can do something with this in these colors.

The layout is just simple layering, with Stampin’ Dimensionals under the top two accent pieces. The sentiment is heat embossed in White on Crumb Cake card stock. The Hello Honey card stock was run through the Big Shot with the Delicate Designs embossing folder.

For the baby in the basket, I stamped the image twice with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink – once on Crumb Cake and once on Whisper White. I colored the shading on the Crumb Cake basket and cut out the entire image. Then I colored the baby and bedding on the Whisper White and cut out just that bit, which I then adhered on top of the baby on the Crumb Cake piece.

The matching crumb cake envelope is made special with a liner in the Real Red polka dot.

Here’s what I used: