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June 11, 2013 by Lisa Arana 5 Comments

{6.11.2013} oh danny boy…

i love babies…

Mainly the furry kind.  Human babies are OK too, but four legged creatures make my heart all a melty.   We have been waiting for this little face for 11 months…

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This is my cousin’s new colt… Danny.  Gah, he is just too adorable for words.  I wish I could see him in person, but he lives half the country away.  This is his momma’s first foal and she did a good job don’tcha think.  Heehee.

I made my cousin quite a few announcements and sent them on their way {doh, I forgot to photograph those}.  But I also included this welcome baby card and gift too.

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Oh.em.gee is right… danny is too adorable and that is the first thing I said when I saw his picture.  I found a horse shape for Photoshop online and created my own Silhouette file.  I don’t feel comfortable sharing another person’s creation (even though it was a freebie and I converted it to a new format) otherwise I would have happily shared the file. You can find the shape file here.  You could create your own if you’d like.

little-tipCreating your own Silhouette cutting file

This is what I do… first I open my image in Photoshop and fill it in perfectly solid black.  Then I remove all the white and crop the image.  Save the file as a .png and then open it in the Silhouette Studio Software.  Click on the Trace window which is a blue box and a yellow outline.  Click the ‘Select Trace Area’ and make sure you highlight the entire area.  Depending on the image, you will either want just the outer outline (like I used for the horse in my card) or the Trace button (which will do both the outline and inner lines (say you had a tire, it would cut the outline of the tire and the inner wheel).  Then I will save it to my library so I can use it over and over again.

After I cut the horse out, I popped him up on the card, placed some fun chevron paper behind and brought out my Paper Smooches Slang Gang stamp set.  LOVE this set.  It is full of words I say on an hourly basis.  LOVE it.  The inside says ‘seriously adorbs!’

This week’s challenge at Simon Says Stamp are masculine cards.  Danny is a boy, so this qualifies right?

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I couldn’t think of the perfect gift to send Danny’s way, so I’m starting his treat fund!  I know it will be put to good use.  Ha.  I see lots of carrots and apples headed his way.

Hope your day is full of treats too!

 

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Filed Under: Favorite Challenges, Simon Says Stamp Tagged With: baby, card

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  1. Christine Dring says

    June 11, 2013 at 6:18 am

    Awww! Danny is soooo cute! Your card and treat fund bag are so clever and adorable! TFS!

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  2. Toni Storie says

    June 11, 2013 at 6:18 am

    This is fabulous and Danny is darling! I love the sweet chevron paper backing up the negative space behind the horse die cut.

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  3. Jessi says

    June 12, 2013 at 4:53 am

    Human babies aren’t nearly as cute as animal babies! Plus the crying…good lord the crying….baby animals just chill. Super sweet congrats card – and I love the treat fund 🙂

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  4. Sav O'G says

    June 12, 2013 at 12:25 pm

    OH MY! Lisa– this is STUNNING! It’s perfect! Welcome to the world, Danny! LOVE that die cut and the flag– ADORABLE card!!! And that treat fund envelope– ACK! I want to send him some carrots right now:) Or money for some since they would probably mold in the mail:)

    <3

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  5. Wendy ten Hove says

    June 15, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    Oh, these are sooo perfect!! Love the pattern in the horsy die-cut!! Great idea! and that treat fund!! Woehoe, he’s going to be spoiled, hi hi!!
    Hugs, Wendy

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