Little Sweet Pea..

Morning all, what a grim day here in Berkshire, the light is so bad!

I have a card to share for a few challenges today, I was inspired by the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday Challenge, for some Background Building. I happen to have two little stamps sets on loan from a very lovely friend, so I pulled them out last night and had a tinker.

Neither of these sets are, on the surface, suitable for Background Building, but after many tries on scrap paper, I finally came up with something I was reasonably happy with!



The set I have used is Baby Button Bits, a lovely set perfect for those sweet Newborn cards.

I have used the pea-pod and flying bee image from this set, together with the circle stamp to create this baby themed background.


I also used two sentiments from the set - Little Sweet Pea, and As Sweet As Can Be and stamped them alternately.

I then cut and edged with a Martha Stewart border punch, and layered onto some pretty gingham paper from Nana's Nursery, also edged with the border punch.




Then layered this onto some green bazzill embossed with a woodgrain folder, and mounted onto a large scalloped edge card base from stash.

Finally added some twine bows, some twine strips to the left edge, and some Candi Dots from Craftwork Cards.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday - Background Building

Stamptacular Sunday - Borders and Frames

Charisma Cardz - Cutsey

CES Challenge - New Beginnings


Supplies Used:

Stamps: Baby Button Bits - Papertrey Ink

Inks: Memento Pear Tart and Cantaloupe; Versamagic Key Lime and Sage; Brilliance Sunflower Yellow; Distress Ink Dried Marigold

Paper: Card base from stash; green Bazzill; Gingham card - Nana's Nursery DCWV

Other: Candi Dots - Craftwork Cards; Green and Yellow Twine - The Ribbon Reel
Woodgrain Embossing Folder - Craft Concepts; Martha Stewart Double Scallop punch.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline