Lullaby Boy

Hi! Tami here with a baby card to show you; a fussy little card for a boy...

Baby boy cards can be fussy too! Why should girls get all the fun? You just have to use a little restraint, which obviously I did NOT since I embossed almost every bit of this card.

I didn't really mean to emboss the background of the card. I  know that Watermark Ink has a nice long dry time, but I was impatient and sprinkled the embossing powder onto my sentiment without checking and it stuck to some of the background. So --- I embossed the WHOLE background!

But, the accidental embossing of the background brought on a new discovery. Did you know you could emboss Smooch Accent Inks? Well you CAN! I wanted the sentiment to blend in somewhat with the background, but had planned on adding some shadowing using Smooch. But now that the background was embossed in places, I knew that the Smooch would not dry well on those areas. So, what to do? Well, Smooch Accent Ink is just that - ink - so why not try embossing it. It worked beautifully...

 
The accent paper was embossed too but it was treated to a special inking technique first. The stamp was inked with Watermark Twinkle Pearl Ink, then several ColorBox Pigment Inks were tapped on and slightly blended. This created a multi-shade image when stamped...

SUPPLIES:

Clearsnap Products:

• Watermark Ink
• Watermark Twinkle: Pearl 
• ColorBox Limited Edition Pigment Inks: Stormy Seas and Blue Jean
• ColorBox Pigment Ink: Smoke Blue and Cream White
• Smooch Accent Inks: Moonlight and Nautical Navy
• Top Boss Embossing Powder: Clear
• ColorBox Stylus & Tips

Other Products:

• Hampton Art: Scroll Background and Little Darlings 1
• Spellbinders: Labels One
• Bazzill: Cream, Dark Blue and Medium Blue Cardstocks
• Beacon Adhesives: Zip Dry
• Hydrangea Hippo: Button, Twine and White Trim
• Pull Ribbon

Tools:

• Trimmer, Scissors and Heat Gun

DIRECTIONS:

1. Cut a 4 X 12 piece of medium blue cardstock and fold in half to make card.
2. Stamp card front with Scroll Background Stamp and Watermark Ink; then emboss.
3. Stamp "Lullaby" at bottom right using Cream White ink, then emboss.
4. Add shadows to letters using Nautical Navy Smooch and emboss.
5. Ink Scroll Stamp with Watermark Twinkle Pearl Ink. Then use Stylus & Tips to apply touches of Blue Jean, Stormy Seas and Smoke Blue Pigment inks to stamp. Stamp image on cream cardstock and emboss. Cut out and ink edges, using Stylus & Tip with Blue Jean Ink.
6. Stamp pram on dark blue cardstock using Cream White Ink and emboss. Diecut and Emboss using label die. Then fill in the edge using Moonlight Smooch. When dry, ink edge using Smoke Blue applied using Stylus & Tip.
7. Adhere accent paper and pram diecut piece as shown.
8. Tie button with twine and adhere as shown.
9. Adhere ribbon and trim as shown.

And, as promised on Facebook to celebrate 4000 fans this week, we're doing a giveaway of our Smooch Glitz Collection to one lucky winner!!!! All comments on the blog post linked here will be entered to win!: http://clearsnap.blogspot.com/2012/04/3700-friends-to-celebrate.html

And don't forget to enter our giveaway celebrating 3700 Facebook fans here: http://clearsnap.blogspot.com/2012/04/3700-friends-to-celebrate.html