Lost Art Cards and Designs: Vintage Baby Carriage Announcement card

Vintage Baby Carriage Announcement card

10/03/2011 |

Posted by lost art cards and designs |

In approximately 12 weeks I will become a grandmother. Looking back to the day when I learned about the new addition to my family I began thinking ,"What could I make to give as a gift, knowing a baby shower would take place sometime this year?" Unsuccessfully attempting crocheted baby booties, I decided to stick with something I could complete with better results,which became the design of my new baby announcement card, Vintage Baby Carriage, and presented a set of cards to my daughter yesterday at her shower in a handmade box with parchment tag. I think she enjoyed opening them almost as much as I enjoyed making them.

Obviously I could not resist purchasing the Carriage stamp by Hampton Art and couldn't wait to get started on designing something unique for Brian and Alicia to announce the birth of their first child. I began working on the card front combining Rubber Stamp Tapestry's Baby and Little Posy Basket sets on the Lattice Spellbinders die cut. I added the idea of a gravel walkway using Lyra Oil Colored Pencils and then stamped the word 'baby' using a baby stamp designed by Kollette Hall for G Studio stamps on the lower right side of the design.

A quick search on Google for baby announcement word stamps resulted in finding Ali Edward's Technique Tuesday, Sweet Baby clear stamps. These I loved. Her choice of sentiment and fonts won me immediately, plus I couldn't believe how quickly they arrived after ordering them. Now the fun part-- deciding what sayings I wanted to use, trying several different layouts, having to choose between them and then placing the selected stamps where they would look the best, all took some time. Agony! I wanted to use the 'sleepless nights' sentiment, but I had already chosen the Fiskar's Special Delivery clear stamp set for the baby stats and all of the wonderful words I could have chosen wouldn't fit on the inside die cut. Realizing no one makes the best decision while tired, I slept on it overnight and began again the next day.