Baby Boy Giraffe

This week at the 2 Sisters Challenge Blog the theme is "Flowers", so you need to include flowers either in your image, or as an embellishment.  My gorgeous baby giraffe image is from our lovely sponsor this week, Digi Doodle Shop.  I've coloured the cute little fella using my fave Promarkers, and chalked around the image with gold shimmer chalk. I've then printed and coloured it again and decoupaged it using stick foam pads. 

The 3 backing papers are old digi papers that I found on my laptop, and I've created the sentiment in Microsoft Word (with a lot of fiddling in WordArt) but it now means I can print it out in different coloured versions (I also made a baby girl one in pink, and a Happy Birthday in Black while I was in the mood!).  It took me a whole evening of playing, but I'm a bit of a perfectionist and kept tinkering with it until it looked as I'd imagined it in my head!  I've seen other crafters using circular sentiments before and I really liked the idea as I don't really like peel offs, so thought I'd have a go at creating my own with some fancy fonts. In case you want to have a go, the 'Congratulations' font is Gabriola, and the 'Beautiful Baby Boy' font is Kunstler Script.  The flowers are Wingdings font.

I've used my new oval cutter, and cut the edges with scalloped scissors. For my floral additions, I've used a floral backing paper, and added a blue cherry blossom from Wild Orchid Crafts, two 15mm and two 10mm baby blue roses. I've also tucked in two die cut leaves from a QuicKutz die. Finally I've added part of a sizzix flourish, some blue ribbon, tied on a bow, and added some blue liquid pearls. 

Please pop on over to the 2 Sisters Challenge blog to enter this week's Floral challenge, and don't forget to leave me a comment to let me know that you've been here.

As well as being my sample for the design team, I've also been inspired by the following:

• Craft your Passion - Let's tie one on
• Cupcake Craft - Something New
• Incy Wincy - Go Dotty (design paper)
• Pollycraft - New things
• Papertake - Cold & Frosty Morning (frosty colours)
• Passion for Promarkers - Baby Cards
• Top Tip - Anything Goes (tip re sentiment)
• Wild Orchid - Sketch
• Creative Inspiration - Brown blue & white
• Paper Sundaes - Circles (backing paper)

Happy crafting