Cute Forever Friends Baby Easel Card

I am creating some new designs for my Etsy shop 
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I am real pleased with my progress. Here's my latest baby card design.....

The Forever Friends bear image is quite large and easy to colour with Promarkers. 
I was really surprised with its size when I bought it.I just wish I was quicker in designing new cards, I seem to pfaff around for ages, is everyone else like that?
I am entering this card into 2 challenge that are new to me...
I have just found a challenge blog called 
ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE BLOG #77 animal
Well this cute bear is an animal!
ABC CHALLENGE BLOG y is for chromosome!
in other words a male card! well although this card is lemon coloured
that little baby bear is a male named Ethan Paul!

I can add a personal message or birth details as above to this card, 

which easily makes it into a wonderful keepsake.This easel card is also available as a Christening or adoption card or even a card for new grandparents!

and alernative colours of pink, blue, lilac, as well as this sample in lemon. 

Although the cradle hood and frill will be mainly white with a coloured bow.

I am thinking through how to make a similar card especially for the older sibling, I have seen "Big Sister"or "Big Brother" cards available on the internet and think this image would lend itself nicely 

I just don't know how popular they are?

so what do ya think?

PSX Botanicals Pansy

I used my PSX Botanicals Pansy stamp this afternoon to create another centre step card. I am so pleased with the finished card, it turned out even better than I imagined. so why don't I use this image more often I ask myself? I love my PSX Botanical stamps, most of them were a gift from mother,

I am entering this card into some challenges.....

CREATIVE CARD CREW Purple! errr yes theres plenty of purple ;o)

CUTE CARD THURSDAY Lotsa Ribbon! I have a large bow plus ribbon under the licalc braid ;o)

PAPERTAKE WEEKLY Anything Goes! Happy 5th Birthday Papertake \o/

CHARISMA CARDZ Badda bling! yes I have clear ab gems blinging on the image and the sentiment ;o)

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I layered the pansy image decoupage style once I had coloured it with Promarkers, the wonderful thing about this pansy image is the multitude of different ways to colour it as pansy's come in an array of colours. The photographs do nut display the purple coloured background as the actual colour it is! it seems a lot more blue than the mauvey purple it really is!