'Baby On The Way' Shower Card

I wanted to craft a baby shower card that was a little unusual because the baby-to-be's mother is a graphic designer. Making the card upright to fit into a standard shape envelope seemed like a good  starting place.  The standard envelopes sold at Daiso are not only budget-wise but come in a good assortment of pastel colors.  I have a lot of baby-themed card stock scraps so I chose a partial sheet of Bella BLVD to form the card base.  Next I searched through my stash of letters because I wanted to spell 'BABY' on the front of the card.  Since I didn't have any letters of the right size I decided to die cut some but I didn't have any letter dies of the right size either.  Finally, I remembered a We R Memory Keepers gadget that I purchased years ago. It is capable of cutting any letter in a large basic font.  After cutting out the appropriate letters, I glued them onto the card front from which I had earlier clipped the corners with a Corner Cropper tool (We R Memory Keepers).  Since I didn't buy stickers to match the 12x12 Echo Park baby themed paper, I decided to fussy cut out some of the images to attach to the card front with foam dot adhesives.             

                                                

Inside the card I attached a gift card pocket made with a Lawn Fawn diagonal gift pocket die. For an element of motion, I made a confetti pocket using a Heiko cello bag and a word panel cut from a 12x12 Echo Park Special Delivery printed card stock. (Surprise! I didn't put the confetti shaker on the front of the card.)  Again I added some fussy cut creatures and the BABY shower card was complete. It was fun to design a card in a different format instead of the usual 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 standard size.  Sometimes size does matter and will make your card stand out as well as challenge your creativity.  I think the card looks original and perfect for a soon-to-be born Baby Boy!