Aqua Lace Boy Age One

Here is the card I made for my cousin's little boy's first birthday.

I decided to use the digi stamp image, Boy Age One, that I recently purchased from The Clipart Fairy. It's a really cute image and perfect for a little boy. The image was printed onto Xerox Colotech Gold card and coloured using Copic markers:

• '1st': BG02, BG11. BG32, B00, Y17
• Hat/Jumper: BG02, BG11, BG32, B00
• Skin: E00, E21, E51, R20
• Little Boy: E11, E13

The image panel was then matted onto aqua card.

The aqua stripe paper and aqua glittered bubble paper from the DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy mat stack were joined and then wrapped with cream broderie anglaise and aqua Dovecraft grosgrain ribbon and matted onto aqua cardstock.

The 'Happy Birthday' sentiment, from the Papermania Clare Curd Sentiments stamp set, was stamped using Versafine Onyx Black archival pigment ink and matted onto the blue bubble paper and the aqua cardstock.

The floral aqua card candi from Craftwork Cards was added to the card either side of the sentiment panel below the image panel.

I also decorated the inside of the card using a panel of the striped paper and a stamp from the Papermania Clare Curd Sentiments stamp set using ColorBox Celadon pigment ink.

Here are the blog challenges I am entering this card into:

• Bloggers Challenge - Ribbon and Lace
• Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - Recipe (1 digital image, 2 patterned papers and 3 embellishments)
• Delicious Doodles - #22 - Anything Goes
• Inspire Me Fridays - #3 - Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments - #26 - Anything Goes
• Meljen's Designs - #55 - Masculine
• Dare To Be Sassy Thursday - #69 - Pastels
• Shelly's Images - Show Us What You Got
• Stampavie and More - #138 - Birthday
• The Paper Variety - Use Numbers
• A Spoonfull Of Sugar - #148 - Let's Celebrate
• Scrap-Creations - Digital
• Paper Take Weekly - Spots and Stripes
• Top Tip Tuesday - #30 - Open Challenge
• Bunny Zoë's Crafts - One For The Boys
• Craft Your Passion - You've Been Spotted (Use Dots)
• KB Cute Monday - Birthday
• Nettie G's Digital Gems - Colour Your Favourite Digi
• Ooh La La - #78 - Aqua, Bling and Sentiment
• Squigglefly - #94 - How Do You Like To Use Your Digis?
• Stamp With Fun - #107 - Birthday
• Card Cupids - Pastels
• Cheerful Stamp Pad - #16 - There's A Man In My Life
• Creative Inspirations - #58 - Digi Day
• I Did It Creations - #52 - Recipe (1 image, 2 printed papers and 3 embellishments)
• Pile It On - #17 - 2 Or More Ribbons
• Sparkles Forum - #10 - Anything Goes
• Copic Creations - #48 - Favourite Copic Card
• My Graphico - Anything Goes