Cute as a Button Baby Card – PTI Make It Monday #241 – Ombre Stenciled Backgrounds

March 2, 2016 by Kathy D 14 Comments

 

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I haven’t been participating with many Papertrey Ink challenges lately, but this week’s Make it Monday #241 – Ombre Stenciled Backgrounds caught my attention.

Instead of an ombre stenciled background, I made an ombre stenciled element (which covers the entire card front, if that counts!).

I die cut a onesie, and heat embossed “cute as a button” on the chest. Then, I blended some old Stampin’ Up! colors – for some reason, this designed itself in my head as orchid/purple. Placed the stencil and did some more blending. I needed a button to go with the sentiment, but it had to be a soft faux button – no real buttons on onesies! So, I die cut a button, and threaded it (that took the most time!) with embroidery floss (one strand only). I thought it worked well as a flower center near the sentiment.

The glitter around the onesie neckline – that is a trick I picked up from Julie Ebersole at the very end of one of her Hello, Monday (1/11/2016) videos on Ellen Hutson’s The Classroom blog.

The three flowers at the neckline – remember when all girl undershirts or slips had the little pink flower there? (my age is showing!!) In reality, I had an ink smudge that I filed off, but then the file mark showed (and it was off center). Three flowers to the rescue!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: Stamp – Papertrey Ink, paper – Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream, inks – Stampin’ Up! Lovely Lilac (retired), Orchid Opulence (retired), VersaFine Onyx Black, dies – Papertrey Ink (onesie), Stampin’ Up! (button), stencil – Heidi Swapp, glitter – Stickles Crystal, flower punch – Fiskars, embossing powder – Filigree Fine Art Powder clear, embroidery floss – DMC.

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