New Beginnings at Sparkles Monthly Challenge!

Animals, Baby, Lawn Fawn, Ocassions

Hello friends!  With January comes a new year and every year people are thinking about everything “NEW” like resolutions, out with old, in with new sort of things.  It seems with cold and snow winter outside; I’ve been doing a majority of my time organizing and figuring out what to toss or keep!  I’m thinking I need a new “for sale page” here on my blog!  I will need to figure that out and update later!

Today brings a new challenge for the start of the year at the Sparkles Monthly Challenge Blog!  For the start of the year and this month’s challenge, we have the theme: NEW BEGINNINGS!  I received a Lawn Fawn gift last year and this is my first time using it for my card today:

Of course, a baby is a wonderful “new beginning”, and I was inspired to use this darling Lawn Fawn stamp set called Elephant Parade plus the Add-On.  I stamped, colored and die cut all of the images to arrange a scene over the arch opening of my card front made with the Lawn Fawn Secret Garden Window die set.

I wanted to keep the colors gender neutral, so I went with mint and yellow type colors.  I blended around the inside edge and white heat embossed the sentiment at the bottom.  I found a very old scrap of decorative paper and ran a stitched cloud background plate die over it.  (I think it’s been retired) This was the background for my window opening.  I added foam tape to the back of the mint card front and attached it to the decorative paper.  Some of the images were glued directly onto the background and some were popped up with foam tape. I’ve added this panel onto a top folding A2 white card base.

I finished out the design with some clear sparkling sequins filled with Stardust Stickles and a few white and black dots with gel pens.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and have been inspired to come join us this month to enter your creation!  I look forward to seeing what you make!  Thanks so much for stopping by as I appreciate you taking the time!  Have a great day!

CHALLENGES:

  1. Simon Says Stamp – Cute Critters
  2. Critter Crazy – Anything Goes featuring a Critter
  3. Time Out – NEW
  4. CRAFT – NEW
  5. My Time to Craft – New in Your Stash (stamps/dies – first used for this card from gift given October 2023)
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24 thoughts on “New Beginnings at Sparkles Monthly Challenge!”

  2. This is such a cute baby card with those darling elephants and sweet little mice. Yes mice are sweet when they’re on a card LOL I love the arch you placed everything in and the way you colored everything looks wonderful! You even added peanuts, how fun is that! Great card!

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  3. This card is special, Vicky. I love the colors, you beautifully combined the gray elephants and this subdued green. This is the perfect card to welcome a baby.
    hugs,
    BożenA

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  10. Beautiful cute stamps Vicki and I love the peanut sentiment, so adorable, gorgeous card..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  12. How adorable and such a beautiful card! The images and sentiment is super cute, and I love your design with the die cuts and embossing 😊. Take care and sending you happy wishes! Hugs, Jo x

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  13. A lovely card.
    Thank you so much for entering our challenge this week at CRAFT Challenge, looking forward to see you again next challenge.
    Hugs Sheryl xx CRAFT DT

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  15. What a sweet card Vicki. I love those adorable little animals. That elephant is the perfect sweet little baby animal. Hugs-Erika

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  17. Aww, this is such a cute and an adorable Baby card. I really love the Arch window and these cute critters from Lawn fawn. Thank you so much for joining us at Time Out. Hugsxx Deepti

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  18. This is just so sweet, Vicki! Thanks so much for playing along with us over at CRAFT Challenge the week!

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  19. Vicki, Stopping by and seeing your beautiful card and reading how it came together is time well spent for sure! This is a darling card and a baby is a wonderful new beginning for sure. The colors are soft and works for both guys and gals! As always your details are amazing, I think my favorite is the stitched clouds on the panel. And the peanuts are just such a perfect touch! lOVE IT! My email now is kdawnhunter@gmail.com ( I haven’t found a note from you there) I no longer have the charter email. I can’t remember where you emailed me last year when you gave me hints on mixed media cardmaking. It was probably the charter email. I look forward to hearing from you! Smiles, Kathy

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  22. Hi Vicki I have finally managed to comment on your post I have tried several times this one I am doing via my e-mail I absolutely adore this wonderful cute creation the colours, image and design are fantastic I love it
    hugs
    lorraine x

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    1. Thanks so much for your continued support and figuring out how to leave me a comment. I’m so sorry you were having such problems. Hopefully you’ll be remembered with your email the next time you visit and not have to enter your information every time. I appreciate your kind words and taking the time to do this! BIG HUGS

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  23. Cute scene! I love all the little details – the banner, peanuts, little heart, embossed clouds. So sweet to include the little mice. And great inspiration since I finally know of a baby on the way!

    I too am currently undergoing some organization – but purging is my kryptonite. But for this year, I MUST use what I have and practice self control 🙂 Thank you SOOO much for the sentiment offer. Should you pull out your TE chickens, I would absolutely love to score some of the sentiments. I guess waiting for clearance, there’s a chance you don’t get the entire set. Thanks again for the offer and have a wonderful crafty day.

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