Mojo Monday 478 Contest | Spring New Baby Card featuring Lawn Fawn

Alright, so it's the first Monday of the new year, and I am determined to stick to the schedule that I have set for myself. Today, I promised I would create a card to share with you using the Mojo Monday sketch for this week, which is Mojo Monday 478 Contest.

For this card, I wanted to pull my Simon Says Stamp January 2017 Snow Much Thanks card` kit , since I had yet to do anything with it other than take it out from the box and transfer it to a ziplock baggie. When I looked through the patterned papers, I was drawn to the plaid paper with pinks and greens in it. This made me think of spring, which also made me think of a new baby.

If you read my last post, I recently inventoried my stamps on my computer in Evernote. All I did, was type in "baby" to find a stamp that I could use. I came across two stamp sets that I wanted to use together. The first was the chick image in Chirpy Chirp Chirp from Lawn Fawn. The second was a sentiment in "It's the Little Things" (now retired) from CTMH.

I first cut down the pink paper and patterned paper from the kit, white paper, and Cucumber Crush cardstock from Stampin' Up! I put my card together and then begun with my images. I ended up stamping the chick and cracked egg images on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper with Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink , and then colored them in with Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers .

After putting together the basic layout for my card, I stamped the sentiment "Congratulations on your exciting news!" with Stampin' Up! Cucumber Crush dye ink on a strip of white paper. I die cut my images and put my card together. I wanted to add more interest, so I used Lawn Fawn's Stitched Rectangle dies to create a stitched edge around the whole center of the card before adhering it to my card base, which I created from Neenah Solar White 110lb. cardstock. Lastly, I finished off the card with some Clear Wink of Stella , and that finished up my card. Hope you enjoy :)