Great parents to Grandparents

I love getting asked to make a special card, with the added challenge of a custom sentiment. 

A friend of mine has friends who have recently become grandparents, to a baby boy. 

Stampin'Up products are so easy to work with. First up, the sentiment... The best parents get promoted to grandparents. 

Easy, really. The stamp set, Make a Difference allows to create your own verse. There's a few options for font too. 

I've recently featured this set in another blog post, so versatile. 

I'm going to TRY and show how TINY these letters are... They are about the size of your fingers pinching. 

My go to suite for babies is the stamp set Little Twinkle, with coordinating moon and stars punch.

The designer series paper is so gender neutral and is in pastel, it's perfect. 

Here's how all this works out to be a card, photo story. 

I love this card, such a quick one to "whip up". 

Just saying, thank you for reading this far. As always, any questions on products or techniques just ask. 

Christie 

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star banner

Where to start. Imagine a mom of an infant planning for a friend's baby shower. Cue the support network. I offered my craft supplies vs buying at a big box store. After some discussion, I offered to make a feature wall banner. 

Hostess provided suggestions on colour scheme and styles she liked. I made up a prototype. After some tweaking I was able to get a full understanding. 

Then I did what I thought was best and took creative control :) 

Using Stampin'Up! Whisper White, I cut out the largest sized banner, VersaMark the edges and heat embossed gold. I realize, I could have just cut out of gold foil cardstock, but why make it easy? 

Next layer is the second largest banner die, stamped with Mint Macaron using the Star of Light set. That was then run through the Lucky Stars embossing folder and using foam strips dimensionals the gold foil Large Letters were attached. 

 

On the ends and the word spacers I used So Many Stars die to give the filigree effect - also gold foil. 

This banner was kept gender neutral until the last minute. 

It's a girl, just a bit late, but in time for her baby shower. 

So, thinking cap back on. How do I make a finished banner more girly? Add pink and flowers! 

I noticed a mistake in my planning when I layed out the letters. I missed a spacer between little * star. So! I created 7 new banner flags using Blushing Bride cardstock, instead of gold. Stars embossing on Whisper White and adhered 3D flowers which were stamped in Blushing Bride and using 2 large and 2 small daisy punches (with curled petals). The picture shows stamped in yellow, but they were gold embossed centres.

All the large banner flags were single hole punched in the top corners to allow twine pass through. 

And my largest banner yet.