A Star is Born

Our next door neighbors have just have their first child, and they are, of course, overjoyed. I wanted to be sure to have a card and gift ready to take when they are up to a visit. I found the onesie in an envelope of die cuts I made when I borrowed Concord & 9th’s Bitty Banners from a friend. I loved the patterned paper I used, and knew I had a wooden stamp that read “A Star is Born.” The wooden stamp was too large, so I created the sentiment on the computer and die cut it with one of the dies in The Greetery’s Pretext Banners.

The inspiration for the design came from a Clean and Simple challenge where they wanted a center focus. By the time I finished, I decided the card didn’t meet the challenge requirements, but it does it does work for two other challenges which I’ll link below.  I die cut several stitched shapes and ended up with one of the the Reverse Confetti Pierced Round Top dies. The stars were cut with Ellen Hutson’s Essential Stars. I added dimension behind the Pierced Rounded die as well as behind the sentiment banner. It will be hand delivered so I don’t need to worry about putting it in the mail. I do think this is a very Clean and Simple card, but I did lose the center focus in the end.

Here’s a look at the inside of the card. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink’s Tucked In: Baby stamp set which I stamped on a Simon Says Stitched Square.

I’m sending this off to A Cut Above Challenge–almost all die cuts, once again, and also to Addicted to Stamps and More: Any Occasion.