Bundle of Boy Joy

It's Subtly Yours week at Dynamic Duos and we are to use Pool Party and Soft Suede on our creations.  I immediately thought "baby boy" when I saw these colours and so pulled out Baby Basics from Market Street Stamps (designed by Julie Day).  I paper pieced this cute little teddy and made a border for him to sit on using the "Boy" blocks and a Fiskars punch.  I thought it needed a little something else so I gave my bear a little banner to wave as well.  :)

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Pool Party, Soft Suede) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (All from Baby Basics) Market Street Stamps
Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black)  Tsukineko, (Soft Suede) Stampin' Up
Punch:  (Threading Water) Fiskars

4 Crafty Chicks & Inkspirations

I've been making note of a lot of challenges for the last couple of weeks and not actually getting around to creating anything for them.  Part of the reason is I feel like I've been inundated with sketch challenges!  I find that I really struggle with them and tend to avoid them.  Colour and theme challenges are my favourites.  However, I decided to push myself today and combined this week's 4 Crafty Chicks colour challenge with the sketch challenge at Inkspirations.

Here's what I ended up with:   

Cardstock: SU Basic Grey, Pretty in Pink & Concord Crush; Stamp: Fiskars; Ink: VersaMark; Other: Ranger embossing powder, Basic Grey gems, Cuttlebug EF and PTI IP, Diamond Glaze

I'm not much of a pink girl usually (especially a pale pink) but I fought my anti-pink tendencies and went for it!  I embossed the pink cardstock with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, punched out purple circles to fill in some of the dots and then added Diamond Glaze to them.  I also added a DG border around the sentiment.  It's a start but I still have a long way to go with these sketch things.  I find I take them very literally and have to try and relax and let myself play with them a bit.  Guess I'll just have to make more cards to practice...  :)   

Challenges - Curtain Call 62 and Card Patterns 96

Lots of firsts for me today!  My blog received it's first comments from Lynn and Dallas and it's first follower - Lynn!  I'm feeling very chuffed at the moment and have a silly grin on my face.  :)

These will be my first ever entries for Curtain Call and Card Patterns.  Also, it's the first time I've broken out my Stampin' Up goods.  If anyone could have seen me trying to open up my first Stampin' Up ink pad they would have had the best laugh of their day!  Even with the picture guide on the back of the ink pad it still took me a while to figure it out (serious blond moment) but I conquered it in the end.  So here is my entry for CC62 and CP96:

Supplies:  Stamps: Hero Arts sheet music & Fiskars sentiment; Ink: Stampin' Up! Whisper White & VersaMark; Cardstock: Stampin' Up! Early Espresso. Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz & Whisper White;  Other: Cardmakers ribbon & Nestabilities Lacey Circles