A BIG card for a baby shower

A few weeks back we had a baby shower for one of my friends at work. We needed to make a BIG card so that everyone could sign it. I hummed and hawed over how to make a big card, seeing as the biggest piece of paper I had was 12x12.

So I decided to attach 2 81/2 x 11 pieces of cardstock together with a wide piece of cardstock. I don't offhand remember the dimensions of it, but you can see it. It's the chocolate chip piece on the top.

The background of the card is rolled using the Nursery Letters Wheel using Pretty in Pink ink. I love how cute this card is. I really liked working in the larger format.

Products used: All Stampin' Up
Stamp sets: Nursery Necessities, Nursery Letters Wheel, Well Scripted
Card stock: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Stampin' Dimensionals, Pretty in Pink Striped grosgrain ribbon, sponge daubers, paper snips, Sale-a-bration Scallop Trim Border Punch.


Cheers,

Embossing in the family...........

I was messing around with my "All in the family" stamp set again today. I was inspired again by Kristina Werner on her blog. She featured a technique for dry embossing a frame on a card with out any fancy tools. For those of you who don't know what dry embossing is, here is a definition:

Dry Embossing or Relief Embossing: Achieving a raised image on paper by placing the paper over a stencil, and rubbing with a stylus.

This technique results in giving texture to your card or project.

Here is a link to Stampin' Up's dry embossing tutorial using their "Classy Brass" templates. And here is another link to a tutorial at Split Coast Stampers. The card I featured yesterday included dry embossing using embossing dies and a die cutting machine (Big Shot) However as I mentioned before, Kristina's tutorial uses no fancy tools, just card stock, a cutting mat, craft/exacto knife and a stylus.

Here is the card I created. As I totally suck at taking pictures of my cards, you can barely make out the embossed frame, but if you click on the link to Kristina's blog, you can get a much better idea about what it looks like. I assure you it looks much much better in person. I decided to make this card for a boy, but he could have been coloured in pink just as easily, but yesterday I did a girl card.

Products used:
Stampin' Up "All in the Family" stamp set
Stampin' Up "So Very" (Retired)
Stampin' Up Card stock- Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery
Stampin' Up Ink- Basic Grey, Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink
Accessories- Stampin' Up blender pens, Stamp-a-ma-jig.

Tomorrow I will feature another card using a different Dry Embossing technique.

Cheers,