Sunday 24 February 2013

Happy Birthday Sarah-Jane

Today is my Stampin Up sister Sarah-Jane's birthday and here's the card I have made for her.


It's another card made using the baby wipe technique. I have used Real Red and Daffodil Delight
re-inkers to create the three colours that have been stamped with the flower stamp from 
the free Sale-a-bration stamp set. The leaves are stamped in Old Olive and the borders are punched in Pumpkin Pie card stock with the Scallop Trim border punch.
The butterflies are made using the Beautiful Wings embosslits with Daffodil Delight card stock.
Sentiment from Petite Pairs.

I have had a couple of people ask what the baby wipe technique is - so here goes!!
You take any sort of baby wipe (I use a well known supermarket's value brand)
and fold it  2 or 3 times .  Place it on an OLD saucer or plate (not you finest porcelain!!)
and add a few drops of ink in various colours.  For the card above I put 6 drops of Real Red ink in the middle of the folded baby wipe, then 6 drops of Daffodil delight next to that,
then add 3 drops of DD on top of 3 drops of RR, which makes the orange colour.
I tried to keep the ink drops in a sort of rounded square shape - and it will look like a little ink pad -
which it is.  Proceed by stamping your selected stamp on the baby wipe  and you should get the effect shown above.  If you try this, do let me know and pop it on your blog so that I can see your results!!

19 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card, Ive not heard of the baby wipe technique, looks amazing Px

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  2. Beautiful - what is the baby technique? Stunning colours on the flowers too. Helen x

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  3. love the colours and the card kate
    beryl xx

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  4. I love your card such vibrant colours xxxx

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  5. Hello, Love this technique and will definatly be giving this a go, I love your card and the effects are beautiful. Lisa :)

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  6. Oh this is gorgeous, I'm loving what your doing with these flowers, the colours are so fresh and spring like xxx

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  7. love the colours so bright and cheerful x

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  8. Beautiful card, love the colours and layout. Thank you for the tut. All I need to get now is some inks :). Chris xx

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  9. Very pretty. I will have to have a go at the babywipe technique.

    C x

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  10. Gorgeous Kate, love the beautiful zingy colours and the great design.

    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  11. Gorgeous card Kate, love the image design and the colours are fab too hun.
    Hugz, Lorraine xx

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  12. Such cheerful and fun colors! Beautiful, my friend.

    Love and hugs,
    Stephanie

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  13. Great technique, lovely card, thanks for sharing :)

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  14. Beautiful card, love the colours x

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  15. Hi Kate, I am a true stamper at heart and this is a brilliant idea, and fabulius effect. The card is gorgeous.
    Thank you for sharing the technique.

    Claire x

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  16. A fabulous card, with a fabulous technique, thanks for sharing x

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