Precious Baby Boy

I am absolutely excited about a baby.  On Saturday, a new little one was born into the world and he’s already special to us.  It’s our first baby born to one of our students since we’ve been serving at this Church.  When we started with the Youth Ministry, almost 9 years ago, his mama was in grade 11.  We grew very close to her, performed her wedding to a wonderful guy a few years ago and now they’ve had a beautiful son.  I’m overjoyed for them, and since each of our students, current and former, is a bit like one of our own kids, I’m almost a “grandma” (wink!).  

I began with this beautiful baby set from Flourishes - Hello Baby.  I love the sweetness to the baby onesie and booties.  I stamped them on Flourishes Classic Ivory card stock with Tuxedo Black ink and then colored them with Copics.  I actually had the onesie coloured up for a long time,  but today when I wanted to make the card I realized it was a bit too blue for the paper I had chosen (some older Graphic 45 dp), so I went back and added some BG Copics onto the onesie and it worked better.  I love that about Copics.  It’s just so easy to change the tones of colours.  I saw the Mojo Monday Sketch this week and knew it would work well.  

I added a vellum tag underneath the onesie and booties because it would bring a softness to the design, as well as still show-off the pretty vintage babies in the dp  (Aren’t they precious?)  I added some Emerald Coast Cardstock to the top and sentiment on the tag and added some cream buttons, lovely lace and a couple of types of twine and crinkled cream seam binding to accent and give it a wee bit of vintage appeal.  

Sorry the photos are a little bit darker than I normally like, but especially since the “Fall Back” time change, way up here in Canada the late afternoons are getting much darker!

Hopefully I’ll get a couple of pictures of this sweet little-one soon and can show off his baby new-ness if his mommy and daddy are ok with it!

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Precious Baby Boy