{graphic forty five}

Our new baby is 17 days old today and our lit­tle girl is just 17 days away from turn­ing two years old! Yup, we have a birth­day com­ing soon! Time sure is fly­ing fast…

Yes­ter­day, I got a nice block of time to sit and craft for the first time after the baby was born. It was so much fun to be back with my papers and so very relax­ing. I got a bunch of cards done!

I recently got my hands on some truly amaz­ing prod­ucts by Graphic 45. If you haven’t already, you might want to like Graphic 45’s face­book page, just so that you can see all the beau­ti­ful prod­ucts they have. I still have their ‘a proper gen­tle­men’ unopened, will sit and play with that someothere day. I see a lot of ‘DAD’ projects com­ing out of that kit! Anyhow here are 4 cards that I made using mostly Graphic 45 papers and Fiskar tools,

The first card was based on the sketch for the CAS-ual Fri­days Chal­lenge #15. I love how this card turned out, the col­ors work so well together.

The sec­ond card, is based on the sketch for Card Pat­terns Chal­lenge #128. I used a lot of rib­bons here– lace, satin and printed rib­bon. I hand stitched the black rib­bon into uneven frills here– it is super easy to do, and takes just  two min­utes (though it did take me longer to find my nee­dle and thread!)

The third card I made just because I loved the color of these  papers.…

The last card, is based on the color combo for the Play date cafe chal­lenge #94. Bright and beau­ti­ful col­ors, and a sim­ple card to make using a but­ter­fly punch.

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