Made this card for my little one.. Isn't it cute to give a card to your new born baby, though i know he/she won't be able to read it till a long long time!! :)

Also as far as i remember this is my first majorly stamped card,  I stamped the background as well.. I bought a lot of stamps last year but i barely used them.. I started this card keeping Varna's stamping challenge in mind, though ended up with those two more sentiments near the ribbon.. Couldn't help myself!

 I am entering this card for ICR challenge - CAS + anything goes & CraftyJC - Something new challenge.

Below is my first attempt at the same design.. I used a light purple colour in this, and the card still looked white.. The brown one was made on a special request by my husband,  who didn't like the whitish background, and didn't want pink or blue either!!


Stamps used - 
Background & toys-on-a-string - Artemio 'Baby' clear stamp set
Sentiments - Papermania 'Honey & hugs - Sheep & pig' clear stamp sets
Circle border - Papermania 'Mix N Match - Borders' clear stamp set
Background in the panel - Ippity 'A bit of Burlap' cling stamp

A new addition to our family!! :) My sister in law gave birth to a baby boy 5 days back and I'm so excited about it. My darling husband is in Delhi right now, he just had to go when he got the good news! A friend is coming tomorrow to stay with me while he's away, though I would still love to have my husband beside me all the time.

I just so had to make a card for her, I am a proud Maami now! For those who don't know, Maami is kid's mother's brother's wife! lol! It sounds so complicated, though is not, since we Indians have been brought up in a world where every relation has a specific name! Check this link if you are into reading all possible relations we use in everyday matter..

Ok, so getting on with the card, I was in a hurry to complete this in time. I seriously didnot want my husband to leave without a card!  The design is inspired from one of my own baby-girl card that i made. I happen to purchase both boy & girl gift papers from Archies, which is why even the sentiments look same. Even the baby  on both papers is same, only the picture frame is in a different color.



Details of the lovely glitter hands from itsybitsy & ribbon from A1 craft supply -


Sorry for not-so-nice pics, was in a hurry to click them too. The night time when i clicked these doesn't help either!

Edited later :  Just going through my archives & realized, today my blog turned 6-year old! :D what an awesome feeling..  I started blogging as pure fun, when i was back in college and blogging was the new-est fad! There was no concept of followers, no page widgets and designing the blog was much more complicated. Through all this time, I've stopped blogging for a few months every now and then.. 2009 saw only one entry into the blog..For those who dont know, I have even churned out some fictional short stories on this blog, my fav one being this one. These days I'm majorly focused on paper crafts & general state of my mind & life.
My come back to blogging happened by chance, when i hooked onto indian ATC swapping club - found on ICR now. This blog allows me to express my happiness & my thoughts with so many lovely people out there. I thank each one of you for reading my stories, appreciating my work, advising me, doubling my happiness and sharing a part of my life! 

Another Challenge!! :D this is for Yvonne's guest blogger Donna's Dimensional challenge. Challenge link is here.
I have recently bought a small booklet which has multiple images (re-printed) to make 3D cards.. Do some cutting and you got ready to make them!! I bought the booklet long back & probably would not have started using them before reaching back home.. but this challenge really made me move my lazy bum and try this out for the first time.. i luckily had half a roll of 3D-double-sided-tape..

The first one i made - The boy looks soooo cute on that toy train..