Welcome Baby Cross Stitch Card - 2017

Another friend was having a baby this year and I believe designing this card is what started my new obsession with card making.  I stumbled across another cross stitched card on Pinterest and said "I can do that".

This card took quite a bit of planning.  The cross stitch design was actually two designs that I combined into one.  Once I finished the stitching, I couldn't decided how to actually finish the card using the supplies I currently had.  This was born (pun intended) after playing around with some stitched frame dies that I had from Frantic Stamper.

The sentiment is Hero Arts "Little One"
Cross stitch pattern from Little Beach Hut

New Baby Card with Hero Arts and Taylored Expressions - 2017

I made a card for friends that were expecting.

I could have sworn they said they were having a girl, but then they had a boy and I quickly made a new card.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts "Little One".  The patterned paper and cloud die is from Echo Park.  The small hearts and stars die cuts and stamped dotted lines are from Taylored Expressions "Hello Baby".