Stamped Birthday Card - Robots!

Remember my failed attempt at a card here?  Basically, I couldn't make an idea pan out.  So instead I just came up with another idea.  And I got to use what have become my favorite stamps to use.

I used a set of 3 robot stamps on a silver cardstock, then colored them with markers (Prisma, since they work nicely on the paper).  I then used a paper edger with robots and gears on some black paper.  Stamps some silver gears behind it.  Layer everything on, and this is what I came up with.

Honestly I'm not that thrilled with it, but my husband seemed to like it a lot.  It's one of those things where I want to change something, although I have no clue as to what it would be.  Maybe the colors, maybe the background, maybe lots of things.  It's too late now though, it's long been given away.

Meanwhile I've also been busy chugging away at the baby shower decorations.  I'm surprisingly on schedule, at least so far.  I think I'm done with the majority of the decorations, and we will just have to set everything up before Sunday.  For the next 3-4 days I will be cooking and making lots of goodies for the party.  Here's a sneak peek at the thank you stickers I'll be putting on the goodie bag.  I don't think we had a theme for the baby shower, but I'm making one I guess.  Pinwheels.  Because they're cute.  It all started with a banner/sign I made, and it sort of snowballed from there.

When/if I get more pictures I'll post them up.  I probably won't be posting much until after the baby shower on Sunday though.  Hopefully my brother and his wife and everyone else will have fun.

3D Paper Butterflies

Sometimes I just like to make embellishments for fun.  Usually they're tests for cards, scrapbook pages, tags I have in mind, for my Etsy shop, or I really have no idea what to do and I just want to make something pretty.  I ended up refining these butterflies from decorations used at my daughter's birthday party.  Long story short, my aunt (who hosted the party) wanted me to make some decorations, showed me some pictures of butterflies, and I ended up making some 3D paper butterflies we could plaster around the place.  They aren't terribly big, 2"x1.75", but I thought they stood out against contrasting colors.

Since I didn't have a ton of time to get these done, I made a quick butterfly design in Adobe Photoshop that would fit my EK butterfly paper punch.  The design took me 5 minutes.  Photo credit goes to a friend, Mary, who does some very nice macro shots.

That was over 2 months ago, and I liked the initial idea and wanted to simply make it a little nicer.  I kept the general design, but I cleaned up the lines so they're smoother (at least to me).  I didn't necessarily take a ton of time with them, it probably took me 10-15 minutes, but in the end I came up with something I liked.

I made a lovely pastel rainbow of colors.  Each butterfly is 3 layers, the middle is vellum, I like how it turned out.  It's very subtle.