Sweet Dreams for As You See It Challenges

There are lots of babies being born right around now! My facebook feed is full of them, not to mention my own new little grandson! So another baby card was a necessity and this one doubles as a design for As You See It's latest challenge! Although the challenge sketch is definitely vintage (and I should be all over that), instead I imagined a panel of Sweet Dreams Designer Series Paper and some baby images and a sentiments!

Here's Amanda's cute design sketch:

Definitely vintage, right? Who knows how my mind works??

• I really love the Sweet Dreams Designer Series Paper. I know it was themed for baby cards but the lovely patterns, textures and colours would work for many different purposes! It's so soft and dreamy looking.
• I used both the Something for Baby stamp set (with its coordinating framelits, Baby's First Framelits) and the new Little Sunshine stamp set from the Occasions Catalogue.  The ikat heart and the sentiment are from Little Sunshine, while the little rubber ducky is from Something for Baby.
• I used the Banners Framelit Dies for the sentiment and the 2" and 2 1/2" punches for the circles at the bottom right. The colours you see here are Whisper White, Soft Sky and Hello Honey.
• My nod to vintage was to use an Antique Brad to hold the little snippet of Hello Honey Quilted Cotton Ribbon.

This card is fairly simple to put together, so if you have babies arriving among your family and friends, give this one a try!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Something For Baby Clear-Mount Stamp Set [134030]	Something For Baby Wood-Mount Stamp Set [134027]	Little Sunshine Clear Stamp Set [138580]	Little Sunshine Wood Stamp Set [137145]	Sweet Dreams Designer Series Paper [137782]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Soft Sky 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131203]	Hello Honey 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133678]	Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad [131181]	Hello Honey Classic Stampin' Pad [133643]
Soft Sky Assortment Stampin' Blendabilities Markers [133626]	Antique Brads [117273]	Hello Honey 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Quilted Cotton Ribbon [137864]	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments [119247]	2" Circle Punch [133782]
2-1/2" Circle Punch [120906]	Baby's First Framelits Die [133735]	Banners Framelits Die [132173]	Big Shot [113439]	Glue Dots [103683]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]

Little Sunshine for The Paper Players

I was happy to see the latest challenge from The Paper Players because it is a chance to use some of the great sentiments that I have in my collection from the Occasions catalogue and the Annual Catalogue.  I looked through my sets and settled on Little Sunshine, mostly because I wanted to use the ikat patterns in the Sweet Dreams Designer Series Paper that coordinates with the stamp set, but also because, well...I have a small confession to make.

I made a baby card not long ago for a friend who had just had a little girl.  You can see it here. But before I got it mailed away my own daughter arrived and had her baby five days early...five days during which I had hoped to make a baby card for her. But with baby already with us, I used the card I had already made, and now I need one for my friend.

Here's The Paper Player's Challenge #228:

So I set out to create a card where the sentiment, "Hello, Baby" was the star of the show!

• I LOVE the colours in the Sweet Dreams DSP.  They are pastels, a bit muted, but so gorgeous together.  For this card, I used Hello Honey, Crisp Cantaloupe and Sahara Sand.
• I used the Hello Honey Quilted Cotton Ribbon for the first time today.  It works so well with this suite of products.
• The card base is Sahara Sand and the Crisp Cantaloupe panel above it I cut using the Rotary Addition for the the Stampin' Trimmer, with the Tiny Wave Rotary Cutting Blade. I haven't used my Rotary Addition for a long time, and I felt that this was the perfect opportunity to give the cardstock a whimsical look.
• The Word Bubble Framelits coordinate with a couple of the stamps in this stamp set, so I put them to use die-cutting the sentiment.  It's always nice to find out that there are coordinating dies or punches.
• The button is from the Sale-A-Bration reward, Best Year Ever Accessory Kit that contains 3 rolls of ribbon and some coordinating buttons. Unfortunately, it is Crushed Curry instead of Hello Honey, but it works on the card.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Little Sunshine Clear Stamp Set [138580]	Little Sunshine Wood Stamp Set [137145]	Sweet Dreams Designer Series Paper [137782]	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121043]	Crisp Cantaloupe 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131298]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Hello Honey 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133678]	Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad [126976]	Hello Honey Classic Stampin' Pad [133643]	Crisp Cantaloupe Classic Stampin' Pad [131176]
Hello Honey 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Quilted Cotton Ribbon [137864]	Best Year Ever Accessory Pack [138634]	Word Bubbles Framelits Die [132968]