Special delivery and a free Creative Stenciling class.

It's not very often I get a chance to make a baby card so I was super excited to make one for my cousin Tiffany's baby shower over the weekend. I just recently ran across some wonderful stamp sets by Clearly Besotted that have really sweet, simple sentiments so of course I added them to my collection.  Now....I just need some more babies!

I used a striped border stamp to create the background on this card.  I wanted to keep it clean and simple with soft colors.  To add a little baby cuteness I used WPlus9's Unforgettable elephant stamps and how awesome that it fits perfectly in that little box die by Mama Elephant?!!

I added some dimension with some fun foam on the back of the stitched circle and a little 3M dimensional adhesive to lift the elephants head. To ground the box a little I scribbled a light gray Zig watercolor brush before adhering it.

For this card I used the following supplies from:

Stamps:  Special Delivery (Clearly Besotted), Unforgettable (WPlus9), Striped Background (My Favorite Things)

Ink:  Berrylicious Hybrid (My Favorite Things), onyx black (Versafine)

Paper:  white 140 lb cardstock (Neenah), kraft cardstock (unknkown)

Accessories: 1st Place Award Ribbon die (My Favorite Things), All Prettied Up die (Mama Elephant), Stitched Mats: Circles die (Lil' Inker Designs), distress markers (Ranger/Tim Holtz), light gray marker (Zig Kuretake Real Brush), clear sequins (unknown)

Just a reminder, today the new Creative Stenciling classes are starting up over at StampNation to celebrate our 5th birthday!!  These classes are FREE to all members!!   Woohoo!  Happy Birthday!!!  

Catherine Pooler and her team will be posting new videos every day for the next couple weeks, teaching some amazing techniques on how to use those stencils we all have in our stash. You can watch, learn, create and share your creations.  They also have some fun sponsors and prizes lined up!  If you're not a member yet you better hurry and get in on the birthday bash fun.  Just head on over to StampNation and sign up today!!  Seriously, you don't want to miss this!

Hope to see you there!!