Baby card with Something Sweet and Sweet Treat cup

Sorry about the lighting on this one, it was a little late when I decided I should get some pics. The panel of Kaleidoscope paper at the bottom is fresh pinks and lemon in real life!

It's yet another card variation using the Something Sweet stamp set from the Summer Mini catalogue, and this time I've used the rattle handle to create a pretty pink baby rattle.

I have used my circle scissor to cut the larger pretty in pink circle around the Sweet Treat cup and the 1 3/4" circle punch to make the opening for the cup.

Inside the cup I have put a mixture of Crystal and Pink Chunky Sprinkles glitter and Dazzling Diamonds, as well as lots of lolly coloured stamped hearts from the set. I punched these out using the Heart to Heart large punch - the smallest heart of the three is just perfect for this!

The card base is Pink Pirouette, and the band is textured Barely Banana cardstock sponged with Apricot Appeal. The Scallop edge punch was used for the top of the Kaleidoscope paper, and a Pretty in Pink narrow section was scallop edge-punched for underneath.

The sentiment was stamped using Pretty in Pink ink, and I have added a Sherbet Button collection button under the curve. To finish, I made a stitched bow using the wide Pink Pirouette grosgrain ribbon.

Very easy, quite quick, and certainly able to be adapted to suit a baby boy. Hope you like it! All products used are available to purchase through me, just give me a call (and there's still time to earn free Sale-a-bration sets too! - less than a month to go now!)

Sweet Somethings, Sweet Treats and Fleurettes, mmmmm!

Here's a card that was a collaborative effort between Kim Tonnet and myself at our beach holiday in January. I had a spark of inspiration to put one of the crochet flower embellishments in the Summer Mini, Fleurettes into one of the Sweet Treat cup plastic bubbles.

There is a button from the Sherbet Button collection sewn onto the flower. Kim practiced her new found sewing skills there, very neat it was too!

Kim then selected a perfect colour combo of Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie and Certainly Celery, as well as Whisper White to complete the card with the Sweet Somethings set.

But it's not a gumball machine I hear you say? Have a closer look at the other stamps in the set and you can see that you can also turn it into a fishbowl or a flower too! Very versatile, particularly with the selection of greetings included.

We also played with the fantastic Circle Scissor to make the nested circles on the card, and the co-ordinating 1 3/4" punch to create the hole in the circle for the cup.

To complete the card, Kim selected some Striped Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon. Noice!! ( I think anyway!)