This card I'm sharing today I made for my newest great-grandson, Jackson Wade, who arrived on Thursday, February 22, the day after my oldest granddaughter's birthday! I'm so excited! Not only that, we have another great-grand baby due in late August. No word yet on the gender but I personally am hoping for a girl to help balance out the ratio of (too many) males to (not enough) females in my grands and great-grands. :-D I do love making masculine cards but that may be primarily because I have so many males in the family compared to the sprinkling of females.
This adorable sleeping baby image is clip art from - oh, my gosh, I've forgotten. I'll edit this post when I track down the company. When I bought the set of images, I saved it into a folder called "Babies" instead of making a new folder with the company name on it so it'll be a search of long deleted emails to figure out who made it.
The original color of it was too bright a blue for what I wanted (more on the pastel side) so I printed it in very light, gray scale, then colored it with Sanjoki markers and water color pencils, blended with gamsol. I cut the image with a QuicKutz die, then found two pieces of blue paper in the scrap basket. I used those for the background, added the image and sentiment (cut with an Avery Elle die) and called it finished. A CAS design but with geometric patterned dp instead of white space. To my mind, geometrics make for great masculine cards.
3 comments:
Super sweet baby and and such a precious image. Thanks for sharing at the Double D, Patterned Paper Challenge.
OMG! This is super cute card. Thanks for playing with us at Penny's Challenge.
What a delightful image, love you printed in greyscale and coloured it. Must try that sometime? Congratulations, on a new baby boy. As for a smattering of gender. My dad was one of 11 boys! He had 4 boys and a girl, the boys all had girls. The girls had more girls than boys. I wonder if it's a pattern? So I know about making male cards too. :)
Hope you had a good weekend. x
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