Hello Weekend, oh I mean friends! I met you’re happy Friday is here! Being retired… well maybe I shouldn’t go there, lol, but there have been days I’ve had to look at the calendar to see what day it is, now that’s sad. However, I can say I have excuse, I’m a Senior. I hope a few of you can relate to what I’m talking about. Wink, wink.

Today’s card was a fast and furious one. My friends daughter delivered a baby girl earlier than expected, so I got caught up in the excitement and hurried out to buy a gift. Needless to say, I had to whip up a card to match too! Purchasing several things in the same color family, I focused my inspiration from the baby blanket that had pink raccoons on in, I actually bought the blanket because I wanted to make a card to match. I thought I would step out of the box and use nontraditional colors as the raccoon in the blanket was pink. I’m thinking this is for a baby, let’s give it a shot and see what it looks like. Well this is it and I think it turned out pretty cute, what do you think?

Measurements:

• 11 x 4 1/4 Whisper White, scored at 5 1/2
• 1 x 5 1/4 Pink Floral DSP, 1/4 x 5 1/4 Daffodil Diagonal Stripe DSP, 2 7/8 x 5 1/4 Dotted Petal Pink DSP, 3 x 2 Whipser White, Whisper White scrap, 3/8 x 2 3/4 Petal Pink, 1/2 x 2 3/4 Lovely Lipstick

Instructions:

1. Fold card base at score line
2. Using Lovely Lipstick ink, stamp the outline of the raccoon on the Whisper White scrap, follow by stamping over the image to fill in the raccoon’s body use Petal Pink ink. Using Daffodil Delight and Garden Green inks, stamp the flower. Fill in the flower using a Daffodil Blender. Hand cut both images. Adhere the flower to the raccoon’s body.
3. Punch the 2 x 3 Whisper White by using the Scalloped Topper punch.
4. Adhere the raccoon to the lower left side of tag using dimensionals.
5. Stamp the sentiment in the upper right corner of tag using Garden Green ink. Color the heart with a Blushing Bride marker.
6. Using Blushing Bride ink, stamp the butterflies around the raccoon.
7. Add three Faceted Gems.
8. Adhere the 1 x 5 1/4 Floral DSP on the left side of card a 1/4 from the outer edge.
9. Adhere the 2 7/8 x 5 1/4 Petal Pink on the right side of card a 1/4 from the outer edge.
10. Using the 1/4 x 5 1/4 Daffodil Delight diagonal strip, cover and adhere over the gap.
11. Use dimensionals to adhere the tag to the card’s front right side.
12. Tie a bow, adhere to the top of the tag.