Hi Stampers!

You won’t believe what this card was meant to be in life.  What do you think? Now if you guessed a baby shower card, you’d be right! Say what?? Well, here’s what happened. My son called me from work and said he needed a baby shower card for a baby boy, but here were the restrictions:

1.) Don’t use traditional little baby colors. 2) Don’t use any cutesy bunnies or other animals. 3) Make it Art Deco or Frank Lloyed Wright and 4) Think outside the box! Don’t make it like every other baby card.

Be careful what you ask for, that’s my motto! When you ask for art deco (a love of mine), that’s what you get. I think even this one was a bit of a shock for him though. “Well, mom, maybe a LITTLE blue would be ok.”  LOL Back to the drawing board, but I still like this one and I thought I’d share it with you. I’m saving this card for a different occasion now and I’ll figure out later what the sentiment should be.

Items used — Just click on the link to take you to the ordering page:

Brushed Silver cardstock (Item #100712)

Night & Day Specialty paper from the Holiday Mini (Item #116768.)  It’s folded in a lattice pattern –which is easier than it looks. This was done freehanded. I then rubbed it with a little Lavender Lace craft ink

Lavender Lace craft ink  (Item #103144)This was  used to rub to a burnished look on the cardstock.

I used SU Two-way glue (Item #100425) to attach everything.

A CB die was used to cut the diamond shapes and the small fleur de li’s and dots.