Orange, Quack.

This is just too cute! I wanted to find the right balance of whimsical, playful, and masculine in a baby boy arrival card.  Then the orange jumped at me, and I love how it paired with slate and the turquoise.

This is a 5x7 white cardstock base with decorative turquoise and ivory paper.  The orange banner is actually a decorative paper as well - it has some distressing that gives great dimension.  The slate circle is actually shimmery silver, and the stamped message is adhered to a blue vellum.  Interesting note - the blue velum is fairly basic - but when set beside the turquoise color - it appears more turquoise.  I love it.  The stamped message is done in SU Pumpkin Pie.  The adorable duck is stamped in SU Tempting Turquoise (and mounted on SU tempting turquoise cardstock).  I then colored in the duck with SU pens (turquoise and pumpkin).  These stamps are not SU - just some acrylic ones that I have lying around.  On the dimensional adhesives - I used a 'taller' one for the duck and a thinner (yet still dimensional) 3M product for the message.  I like the effect.

I'll definitely be using this layout in the future!

Hexagons in Coral

Can I just say that I love this card?  It is a completely fresh take on a wedding card and it was a stroke of genius on my part.  Ha ha ha - no modesty here!  Ok, so this is SU Calypso Coral cardstock, with the hexagons on a shimmery gold cardstock that I found at Office Depot (true story).  The ink is SU Basic Black.  The hexagon stamps are the Six Sided Sampler set from SU with matching punch.  The Best. Day. Ever. stamp is from the Sale-a-bration set earlier this year (called Best Day Ever).  I used a lot of repositionable scotch tape to align the hexagons and relied heavily on my Stamp-a-ma-jig.