Paper Hearts Handmade greeting cards, invites & announcements.

Sweet Little Peas

I created these sweet little baby cards while playing around with Baby Button Bits (PTI). I haven't really had any time to create lately (I'm currently in school trying to finish up some schooling I started before) so I haven't had as much time to create as I would like. I used the sweet pea image and stamped it with a combo of Landscape/Ripe Avocado ink. I punched out three circles (1 sweet blush, 2 Spring Moss) added some inking and glued them together to create the "peas". I used my favourite background stamp from Polka Dot Basics (this is my mostly used set from PTI) to add a nice whimsy background. I added a strip of Ripe Avocado cardstock to tie in the greens and a darker shade of blue or pink cardstock for the bottom. Have a nice day and thanks for visiting!

Baby Giraffe

 

 

Last week I pulled out some older SU! stamps because I felt like doing a bit of colouring. I decided on my favourite little stamp from an older set called Little Hellos. This little giraffe is two cute! I pulled out my prismacolor pencils and spirits and coloured away. I am so inspired by Paula's colouring (she does the most beautiful colouring so I was happy to see that she is coming to my neck of the woods next month to teach a colouring class...yay!) I paired the little giraffe with a PTI sentiment from Signature Greetings. Have a great day.

Little Duckie Card

I originally made this card for my girlfriend's baby shower but for whatever reason I ended up giving her a different card. My intention for this card was to be neutral because she didn't know what she was having and I actually made the invites for her surprise baby shower so this card matched the invites. I used a little duck punch to make the sweet little duckie. I added some shading with a Copic marker. The scalloped frame is a QK die and I used my swiss dots embossing folder to create some texture. I used my favourite ribbon (from Michaels, I actually went to purchase more this weekend and they didn't have any!!) The sentiment is stamped in Burnt Umber ink and the stamp is from Mega Mixed Messages.

Have a great day.

p.s. that same girlfriend is coming over this morning so we can make her birth announcements (maybe I will have one to post tomorrow...)

Little Baby Giraffe Card

This is one of the cards that made it into the recycling bin yesterday morning. It's too bad I don't have enough supplies to make another one becuase I am going to a baby shower this weekend and the sex of the baby isn't known so this would have made a great neutral baby card. Stickers on this card are from Doodlebug Design and the patterned paper is by K & Company. I stamped the sentiment (Mega Mixed Messages, PTI) onto my fasvourite little label by Quickutz. You can't tell in the photo but I went and added glitter to the giraffe, flowers, bird and label for a subtle glittery effect, (so pretty.) Have a great day.
  

Little Baby Boy

I made another baby card...no surprise. I love baby cards. I made the patterned cardstock by stamping the star trio randomly on blue cardstock. The little outfit is made by punching out a shirt and overalls and layering them together with two brown rhinestones for buttons and I cut out two tiny little have circles for pockets. I mounted everything with dimensional adhesive.

Flowery Baby

This card was actually inspired by the pattern on my daughter's umbrella stroller. Very girly. How appropriate for a baby girl card. So I recreated a similar pattern using a little cardstock and ink and I threw in a little glitter to boot! I added subtle glittering to the label and flower centers. A bit of raspberry gingham ribbon and raspberry rhinestones complete it.

New Arrival...

 

 

A nice cheery baby card. Chatterbox plaid paper and a decorative scalloped edge. The plane is made from light blue and light green cardstock with subtle hand glittering. Baby is stamped in Ddark brown ink.

Just hatched...

  

I used the birdie from Tags for Spring and the sentiment from Birds of a Feather to make this cute baby girl card. The birdie is stamped in two shades of yellow for a little dimension and I drew his little legs with a brown pen. Than I added a nice frilly girly border.

Baby Thank You Cards

 

 

I needed some thank you cards to send to family and friends who were kind enough to send Joshua a baby gift. Even though I have a million thank you cards already in my stash, I wanted to send out personalized thank you notes with his name on them. I didn't really have any plan for these cards when I started them, except that I was probably going to use something boyish like a car or plane and maybe dark blue and red. So these cards turned out nothing like I thought, I went with softer, more babyish colours and used a cute little elephant instead. I also added some machine stitching to add a nice soft detail to the card.

Speedy Little Racer

 

 

I had been working on a few things before I had my son, so I do have a few things to share. This baby card is made with a multi layer paper pieced dimensional car. Handstamped in the corner is the sentiment welcome little one in brown ink. The car itself is handcut and made from soft boyish colours and highlighted for dimension. Card is 3.5 x 5 and is blank inside.