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Welcome Mou Saha, 2009 Dream Team Member

April 2, 2009 on 6:00 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments | Tags: baby card, baby tag, CK, Creating Keepakes magazine, cutting template, Dream Team, Get Creative with Type, Mou Saha, stencil

Hi everyone,

I’m Mou Saha, member of the CK’s 2009 Dream Team of designers. I have been blogging for almost two years now, but I’m still nervous posting here today :) So, I’ll stop talking and do what I do best – create! Come join me in making a simple baby card and tag.

It’s almost spring and that means many new beginnings. For my projects, I chose floral patterned papers and the theme is babies. Today, I’m going back to the basic supplies such as templates, punches, letter stickers, etc. I also want to show you that it is very easy to translate generic supplies to create themed projects.

Let’s start with the card:

Step-by-step how-to:

• 1. Trim an 8.5″ x 6.25″ piece from the Raining paper or blue cardstock. Fold in half to make a 4.25″ x 6.25″ card.
• 2. Trim a cream cardstock to 4″ x 6″ inches.
• 3. Take the template with the baby bottle and place it over the Morning paper and trace the bottle shape with a pencil.

• 4. Cut the bottle out with a craft knife or scissors.
• 5. Spell out your sentiment with letter stickers
• 6. Attach the bottle at about the center of the cream cardstock above the sentiment with the adhesive tape runner.
• 7. If you wish, you can further personalize the card with a handwritten (or stamped) message below the sentiment.
• 8. Sew a small white button toward the top left side of the bottle.
• 9. Attach the finished cardstock piece to the blue card base.

For the tag:

• 1. Trim a 2.5″ x 5.5″ piece from the cream cardstock and a 2.75″ x 6.25″ piece from the Raining paper or blue cardstock.
• 2. Follow the same steps as the card with a baby carriage template.
• 3. Sew buttons to make the wheels.
• 4. Stamp To: and From: using alphabet stamps. I used one of the dollar alphabet sets from Michaels.
• 5. For an added touch, you can use a border punch at the bottom of the cream cardstock.
• 6. Punch a hole at the top, pass a ribbon through and tie into a bow.

Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper; Patterned papers: Piggy Tales (Raining, Morning – It’s Raining, It’s Pouring Collection); Letter stickers (Piggy Tales); Templates: 3M (Scotch Designer Templates); Punches: Fiskars; Stamps: Studio G; Ink: Ranger Industries; Buttons, ribbon: Michaels; Embroidery floss: DMC; Pen: American Crafts; Adhesive: 3M; Others: needle, pencil and craft knife/scissors.

I hope you enjoy making this set and that it inspires you to create in your own style.

I’ll leave you with my favorite creativity quote:

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook.

For more from the cute and talented Mou Saha, please visit her blog and check out our latest book Get Creative with Type.