sweet dreams {my CSS faves!}

The entire CSS design team is showing off projects made with our favorite CSS products.  Sweet dreams is the set that made me fall in love with CSS stamps.  I couldn't help but mix it up with my favorite dies for a little baby ensemble.

It was so hard to narrow down my fave CSS products!  But here's what I came up with:

The favor flags were stamped with the nursery rhyme text border, and I gave the card-base a stripey look.  

For the main image, I die-cut the label die (also tracing around the die and hand-cutting a brown mat for it) and stamped the sleepy moon image onto the label.  I love a book-wormy-moon.  I paper-pieced the images (I love the soft texture that you can get with monochromatic papers), and added some fun glitter touches to the moon.  I don't think you can tell in the pictures, but I added a foam square to the middle of the label, and then firmly glued the outline of the label to the card base.  It gives a bit of texture and dimension without having it stand out too much!

Ever since CSS came out with their envelopes and matching liner die, I don't think a card is complete with a matching envie.  I stamped the liner with the nursery rhymes, and then stamped the moon in a very soft brown ink directly over-top.  Look, ma - no masking.  ha.  I very carefully dabbed some copic color into the moon image, being careful not to smudge the (non-memento) brown ink in the process.

What's a baby card without a baby gift?  I whipped up a little gift box using my favorite CSS favor die - and that's saying a lot, since CSS carries so many different options!  I stamped the box in the same stripes as the card, and included a matching favor flag.

I paper-pieced the cow-jumping-over-the-moon.  Isn't he the cutest?  (designer tip: adding a tiny bit of copic coloring is a fun way to dress up your patterned paper...)

I hope you like my baby-themed CSS faves!

The rest of the DT is showing off as well:  

Audrey ♥ Lori ♥ Jennifer ♥ Laura ♥ Steph ♥ Tracy ♥ Kim ♥ Amber ♥ CSS blog

Clear and Simple Stamps design team.

who me??  Oh yeah!  I have been sitting on this big news for quite some time now *big grins*

In case you can't believe your eyes (hee), there's an official announcement on the CSS blog :)

I am so excited to be joining the Clear and Simple Stamps App team!  If you don't already subscribe to the app, you should!  It costs less than a big frothy fatty something at Starbucks, and you get to see special projects and cards that the design team makes that are not posted anywhere else.  Par example ('scuse my french), this lovely butterfly sneak peek is all you'll get to see if you don't go download the app.... I'm just sayin'....

But, not to leave you hanging with no eye candy, here's a fun card I made with some current CSS stuff:

 I combined two of my favorite sets: "sweet dreams," and "taglines: critters."  I thought it would be such a fun card to give to my Sofia for finishing the 1st grade.

I also stamped a border from "flower garden" onto some bookprint (shhh, don't tell my ex-prof that I'm ripping pages from "the complete romances of chretien de troyes..." I so hated that class...) and cut scalloped edges to frame out my focal image.

 We're only days away from revealing the NEW CSS collection - I hope you'll check back in soon!