Baby Card and onesie

Here is a Welcome baby card that I just love making and giving. I have a friend who had a baby a few weeks ago so I made this card with a matching onesie and wrapping paper to boot.

I found a onesie card awhile back on Splitcoast and couldn't resist making one myself. The template that I used can be found here but there are lots to choose from if you do a little searching. I have made a few of these cards in the past but this time I decided to take it one step further and make the whole emsemble.

For the card I used retired soft sky paper and then sponged the edges with Baja Breeze and added faux stitching with the white gel pen. I stamped the birds in black and coloured them with regular markers (I don't have the SU! ones yet). I found a few white buttons in my stash of stuff and glued them to the bottom of the onesie and called it done. If I had textured cardstock I would have used that for a more cloth-like look, but you have to use what you have, right?

The wrapping paper is just the stuffing paper SU! uses in their packages and coloured with regular markers.

The onesie took a bit if research on how to do. I first washed and dried the onesie, then stamped in black craft ink which takes awhile to dry. I then heat set the ink with my iron but I read you can also do it with the heat tool. Next I coloured the birds in with fabric markers and then I think I had to heat set it again, whatever the markers said to do is what I did. Then I washed it and dried it again, so it is super clean now.

I think it is super cute and can't wait for another friend to have a baby so I can make another set. Did you hear that guys, get on it!