It's a Girl!!

Hi everyone.  Today I made a card for my nephew and niece-in-law to celebrate the birth of their daughter Ava.  I love this sweet digi image from Pink Gem Designs.  I just googled baby digital images and when this one came up, I knew I had to have it.  But, it was a challenge to paper piece as the line drawing is very thin so there wasn't much wiggle room (those who paper piece regularly will know what I mean). I also had a tough time getting the stars and hearts to hang straight, as you can see ... looks like I had a few drinks before attaching them to the card :)  But sadly, no, it's just my lopsided-self.

I used the sketch from this week's challenge at Inkspirational - Sketch Challenge #9 (see below).  When I saw the sketch I knew it would work perfectly with this image.  Hope you like.

Here's the sketch:

Stamps:  Baby Girl Sleeping Teddy (Pink Gem Designs); Baby (Heidi Grace)
Paper:  White, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Pink Pirouette Polka-dot DP, So Saffron Polka-dot DP (SU!); pink gingham (unknown)
Ink:  Soft Suede, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue (SU!)
Accessories & Tools:  sponge, Stamp-a-ma-jig, paper piercing tool, mat, Pale Pink and Pale Yellow twine (The Twinery), glue, glue dots, adhesives, and dimensionals

I paper pieced the sleeping teddy image and mounted it onto a square that I had sponged with Bashful Blue ink in a cloud pattern (hard to see in photo).  I popped up the teddy and also the square of clouds to give the card lots of dimension.


Here's a close-up of the sleeping teddy:

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My Hello Doily card was picked as one of the Top 5 for the CASE challenge at Inkspirational.  Thanks to Mynnette and her team for picking my card!!