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Baby Shower Thanks

Welcome to another day of ramblings ....

One of my sisters started a local Enbrace Grace group at her church.  I love the message of this ministry, especially since I too was single and pregnant.  I dealt with a lot of loneliness and guilt associated with my situation while also happily anticipating this new role in my life as mother.  So, when she told me she was going to be a part of such an important mission, I offered to help however she needed me.  Apparently, my card making skills are what is needed. 😊  This is my third set of baby shower Thank You cards.  I was asked to make 50 cards this time.  I try to create a simple, easily assembled design and make each slightly different.

A while back, I saved a baby card with BABY spelled out with alphabet blocks.  I thought this was adorable, and someday I'll CASE that card 😊, but for now, I wanted to spell out THANKS on baby blocks across a piece of baby pattern paper from a stack I've been working through.  I looked through my Big Book of Stamps and could only find the one alphabet(less) block.  (as my baby grandniece says) Da Heck?!?! (BTW ... I know we shouldn't encourage that but it's so darn cute, right?).  None of my letter stamps would fit inside the block I found so I stamped a lot of blocks out, scanned it in, overlaid letters on the blocks and printed them over the stamped images.  I'm sure there was an easier way to do that but I couldn't think of it at the time. 😖 Then used my ScanNCut to cut out the blocks.  Next was the multiday assembly ...

In hindsight, I should have cut the blocks without a border, then they wouldn't be overlapping quite so much.  Other than that, I think they turned out pretty gosh darn cute!

What do you think?

Thanks for taking time to read my wandering thought process.  Have a super-dee-duper day!

Card Recipe

Stamps: SU! Fastened With Love
Punches & Dies:  ScanNCut for images
Embossing folders:  
Paper: SU! Whisper White, Paper Studio Hooray Baby
Paper Size: A2 5.5" x 4.25" card
Ink: printer toner
Accessories: 
Techniques: image cut

Here are some of the previous Thank You cards I created for Embrace Grace



CASE - Copy And Share Everything 💓
SU! - Stampin Up
SSS - Simon Says Stamp
MFT - My Favorite Things Stamps
C9 - Concord & 9th
FMS - Freshly Made Sketches
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