Art Impressions Blog: Baby Keepsake Easel Card by Lynn Dionne

Happy Wednesday Ai Fans!

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Let's take a look at this fun new Ai Baby Keepsake Set (6109) which includes a little teddy bear, lamb, adorable giraffe and several sweet sentiments! This set is part of the "Keepsake" series of stamp and die sets. I have done a few cards with two of the other sets including the Fall and Christmas Keepsake Sets and I will link those videos below for you. The best part is that you can mix and match these sets for a unique look. Each set includes a bucket, barrel or basket that can be filled with the floral arrangements in the set or any of the critters!

To begin, we will stamp, color and die cut the images. All of the coloring will be done using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Pink Haze, Sugared Almond Pink, Peach Pink, Flesh Colour, Yellow, Orange, Mustard, Beige, Mid Brown, Lt Gray, Warm Gray #4, Sea Green, Lilac, Lt Green.

We will be creating a fun easel card so that the recipient can display it in a baby's room or on any table! For the card base, let's die cut the pretty scalloped oval from the Ai Scalloped Oval Dies (6046) using some sparkle cardstock. Also, using some cute "clouds" patterned paper from the Ai Baby Girl PP (6057) we will die cut a smaller oval using the Ai Nested Oval Dies (5727). And let's die cut a small portion of that same oval die from some pink and white gingham paper. This will ground our little scene nicely!

Let's go ahead and layer up the card using a combination of 3D Foam Squares and adhesive. This will give us lots of dimension and interest.

For the sentiment we will use the Ai Scalloped Circle Dies (6045) and this will say "Cuddles and Cuteness".

Let's also add some pretty ribbon to the top of the scalloped oval and tie a sweet little bow! We can also die cut the easel using the Ai Mini Rectangle Frame Dies (5901). You may want to die cut this a few times, once with some plaid pattern paper and once with some heavyweight white cardstock. This will give a bit more stability to your easel design.

Finally, we will add some Diamond Confetti for sparkle and added cuteness!

Here are the two video that I spoke about earlier where I used the Fall and Christmas Keepsake sets: