The Paper Players #384: Joanne's Color Challenge

Welcome back, Paper Players!  Spring really sprung last week!  There were so many beautiful entries and it made us all long for warmer and sunnier days.  Our wonderful hostess this week for the Color Challenge is Joanne and she wants us all to think Pink:

For me, it was perfect timing. A friend had asked me to make invites for her DIL's baby shower in April and the big reveal told us it was going to be a girl.  It was also a little bit of a first for me, making multiples of the same card which I usually do not do very often!  Once I figured out the "assembly line" technique, it was a lot of fun!

I had leftover DSP after the 30 invitations, so I made banners, raindrops for the shower "cloud," candy wrappers, water bottle wrappers, and baby rattles too!  To keep the construction a bit easier, I used the darling Ella the Elephant digi image from Pink Gem Designs and a pretty simple layout.

Please check out the other team members' blogs for some awesome "pinkness:"

The Paper Players Design Team

• Claire
• Joanne 
• Jaydee
• Laurie
• LeAnne
• Nance
• Sandy
• Elizabeth 
• Jan

And just a few rules:

1. Create a new paper project.
2. Upload your project to your blog with a link back to The Paper Players.
3. Provide a direct link to your blog post for your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than FOUR challenges (including ours).
5. HAVE FUN!

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you have a wonderful week of crafting!  Daylight Savings Time starts here today.  Although we lose an hour, that extra hour of daylight and Vitamin D at the end of the day just makes me happy!

New Baby Girl!

Finally!  My niece gave birth last week to their first child - a sweet baby girl named Kaleigh.  And...I'm a Great Aunt for the first time!  I made a card for the happy parents and would like to link up to the following challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #316 

Tic-Tac-Toe #27 (pastel, patterned paper, open)

Thanks for stopping by!  Now I need to get back to finishing my Christmas cards!  The products I used for this card are listed below:

Cardstock:  MFT
DSP: Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid; MFT Lucky Prints
Stamps: MFT Welcome Baby
Stencil: MFT Small Cloud
Dies: MFT Stitched Rectangles; MFT Bundle of Baby Clothes
Ink: Catherine Pooler It's a Girl; Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass
Other: Wink of Stella, Recollections paper flower, The Twinery pink/white bakers twine

Bundle of Joy

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #220 is to use monochromatic colors.  I needed a new baby card, so I stuck with the monochromatic theme and used the adorable "Quirky Stork" image from Doodle Pantry.  I distressed the edges with Distress Ink (Evergreen Bough) for a little definition.  All the dies used are from My Favorite Things.  The twine is from The Twinery.  Thanks for stopping by!!