Welcome BABY!!

This lovely card is wearing lotsa hats :D I do so love when that happens!!!

First, Miss (Supertalented, gorgeous, all-around-wonderful) Lindsay is today! I'm completely off ... (if you know me, you already knew that) but I think we're supposed to be working with her awesome fall set this week. I was feeling that one last week, and this week I've been thinking about making a baby card all week (partially because of something I'll mention in a minute). So, I finally got to play with Lindsay's spectacularly cute baby set. Go HERE to find this "babies and bows" stamp set. Or you can go HERE to shop through *all* her lovely stamps.

Do NOT forget about her current deal -- spend $5 and get another digi-stamp FOR FREE (free free free... did ya hear the echo?).

Also, you can go HERE to check out Lindsay's awesome blog. She is amazingly creative - and as the title of her blog says, she's a frugal crafter - so keep an eye out for her great tips.

Finally on the Lindsay info - go HERE to check out my fellow Design Team folks, and please pretty please hop through their blogs and leave some love.

OOOOOOOOOOOkay. That out of the way... details on my card! The sketch came from a brand spanking new challenge blog that you *MUST* try - go HERE to check out the Pixie Cottage challenges. This week was a sketch... which I only played with a weeee tad. In the original, the three squares were along the left side of a vertical card. I turned my card on the horizontal and left the three squares along the top. Then my focal image isn't quite as big as the sketch's... and the sketch also had a big circle behind the focal image, which I used the banner to replace. The sketch had some flowers, but since this is for a boy baby... I just left the shoe strings dangling instead...

Remember a long time ago ~ three or four paragraphs AT LEAST ~ I mentioned that I'd been thinking about doing a baby card? Well, Katharina asked folks to make (and send) a baby card to the illustrator for the Whiff of Joy stamp collection in celebration of the new baby boy. So I was determined to make one this week. Since Lindsay had such a PERFECT set, and the sketch fit so wonderful... I combined all three to make this gorgeous card (if I do say so myself). Check the details about this HERE.

I really hope I didn't forget anything. I probably did because I got sidetracked 5 times in writing this late at night by my daughter (who is doing everything she can to NOT sleep) and I can't quite think straight.

Enjoy.