I don't make many baby cards anymore...

 Almost all my grandchildren have reached their teenage years, and I don't think there's much chance of more babies in our family--not until there are some great grandchildren, that is. So in the meantime, when I do make baby cards, I donate them to the thrift store to be sold there. Here are a couple I made recently:

I had some cute baby-patterned cardstock, and used that for my card bases. I also had some premade fancy framed sentiments. I wasn't able to use the original sentiments, so I simply cut a strip of cardstock, stamped my own sentiment, and then popped it up with foam tape on top of the original sentiment.

As you can see in the photo above, I also inked around the edges of the frame for a little added dimension.

My little bear was cut with a die and then the open spaces in the die were embossed with an embossing tool and colored with a deep gold ink and a finger dauber.

Since my sentiment panel was already popped up on foam tape, my bear was glued directly to this panel.

I have just one set of baby stamps, and this was one from that set.  I think it's a great sentiment, though.

I tried to coordinate my bear and sentiment frame colors with the colors in the patterned cardstock. Since it contains a lot of pastel hues, it was pretty easy to find something to match.

Here you can see that I used the same sentiment on the inside of this card as I had used on the front of the first card. I bought this stamp set years ago from Cardz TV.

We've been having some perfect summer weather, for a change, so I've managed to get all the annuals planted and the lawn mowed for the first time this year. We've had very little rain lately, so I need to be diligent about keeping it all watered.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl