Welcome Baby Ethan

My friend Jo gave birth to a beautiful baby boy last week, who they've named Ethan. He's so cute and his big Sister Ruby seems to be very happy to play Mummy :)

I wanted to make a card to welcome him into the world and this week's colours at The Play Date Cafe were perfect to work with.

I knew I wanted to use a particular digistamp that I bought from DigiStampBoutique and I wanted to use an oval frame, so the sketch challenge #124 over at Friday Sketchers was ideal.

I chose to rotate the sketch to fit the orientation of my digistamp and stamped a cute tag using one of the 'Little Bit of Everything' stamps from Stampin'Up! I added a bow to the tag using ribbon that came on the packaging of a pair of pyjamas - always remember to reuse and recycle folks ;)

Instead of using patterned papers for the rectangles I decided to try something new and cut out the panels as windows onto the beige card underneath. I paper pieced the babygro, bunny and socks. Paper piecing is fast becoming my favourite technique!

Here's my card...