Rockin' Baby

Dh's co-worker who is also my good friend, recently welcomed a brand new baby boy into her family. For her baby's card, I wanted to use a rocking horse image, but just couldn't find one I really liked on any of the Cricut cartridges I own. Finally found one by searching the internet, then used MTC to render it into a cutable file.

Cut the horse out several times and layered and pieced it together using foam dots. Added just a bit of glimmer to the body of the horse with some Tsukineko Shimmer Sparkle Spritz, then adhered the completed rocking horse to a circle and scalloped circle created in Design Studio. I then adhered just the bottom half of the scalloped circle to my easel card base. Embellished a bit with tiny punched hearts on the bottom of the rocker and Robins Nest dewdrops on the corners of the card.

As always, I love to personalize, so I added baby's name to the inside. For this I used a Lettering Delights font, Charming Bold and once again used MTC to render it into a cut file. Stars are plastic buttons from Dress It Up which I "colored" with Copics, then painted with glitter glue.

And finally, the finished card, open and standing as an easel. Still having fun making these and still loving how they always come together without a hitch.