The Blogger's Challenge this week is a theme challenge - Baby. I don't have any babies right now, and I'm not really looking for grandchildren yet. I didn't really want to do anything with babies, but a challenge is a challenge - if you only do the ones you want, then you aren't really challenging yourself, are you?
No, I was not going to do "Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop"; although it does use a tree, it's really just too gruesome.
I might have a few baby oriented stamps tucked away in my all occasion stamp sets, but I didn't really want to deal with them, they are just too cutesy, although a certain degree of cutesy is called for in a baby card. My mind wandered to the one baby thing I have still held onto, for 27 years now. It is a plastic baby rattle decoration that was on my very first baby shower cake. I kept it after the shower and tied a string through the ring on the end, and hang it each year on my Christmas tree. I didn't have a rattle stamp, I was certain, but could I make one out of punches?
The rattle on this card was made with a circle punch and three different oval punches. It seemed a little plain with just solid cardstock, so I heat embossed all the pieces with white sparkle embossing powder (guess how I stamped the swirls!). I made the background with the TJ Quilt Card technique, and I stamped and cut out the little letters from the scraps I had left over from punching (am I thrifty or what?).
I'm ready to put down the tree stamp. I definitely got my money's worth out of it - ten cards, eight different ways to use the stamp. Woo hoo!
2 comments:
How cute! Very creative making the rattle out of punched, love the quilted BG too! Thanks for playing along with the Bloggers Challenge.
What a great challenge- this is a wonderfully creative use of your tree stamp! Awesome use of your one stamp.
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