Saturday 2 January 2016

Birthday Robots

Hello!
Today it's time to begin sharing my Clearly Besotted Stamps teaser cards for January. This month's release is as cute, fun and pretty as ever, and my projects today feature my favourite set of the lot - Mini Bots.
It bugs me so much that all robot themed clothing and toys are aimed towards boys, as my daughters are obsessed with robots. And it's just the same with their other great loves: dinosaurs and trains. So, as it is my youngest's birthday coming up, I decided to make her a card that I could never find in the shops: a really girly, sparkly, interactive, robot card. :)
First up, I created a shaker pocket using Pebbles patterned paper and my Tinkerbell Shaker Selection. Next, I die cut a frame from white card, then used the older Clearly Besotted sets - Sentimental Type and Basic Alphabet - to create a custom message for my girl. I stamped my cute little robots on grey paper, then again on the same pink paper as the background, hand cut them out and paper pieced them together. I adhered them to the frame, then added a line of stitching to finish.
Birthday Robots by Lucy Abrams
I adhered the frame to the card with foam tape.
Birthday Robots 2 by Lucy Abrams
And as I had all those robots on my desk, I decided to make her a little matching colouring book too. I simply stitched some sheets of paper inside a 4 x 4 folded card and stamped the pages with various images and messages from the set. They are so cute!!
Robots Colouring Book by Lucy Abrams Check out the little robot puppy!!!!
Robots Colouring Book 2 by Lucy Abrams
I'll be back tomorrow with more peeks.
Bye for now.
Supplies

15 comments:

Michelle Short said...

Oh my goodness! This is so cute, Lucy! I love the personalised card, so cute and girly and what a great idea to create your own colouring book too xx

Jennifer said...

The coloring book idea is so fun. Might have to use that idea. :)

Aimes said...

Sophie is a lucky girl to have such a talented mum! I completely agree that it's such a shame that things have to be so gender specific. Maybe one day things will change. Fingers crossed!
xx

Dori Johns said...

Your card is simply darling and the little coloring book is so clever! Thanks for the inspiration!

Karen said...

Loved the idea of the coloring book. The card so cute!

Craftychris said...

Ooh such a gorgeous card and I love the colouring book idea! xxx

Dotty Jo said...

Sophie will love this! Happy New Year, Jo x

Judith said...

Very sweet, just perfect for little girls (-:

conil said...

Sophie's going to be so pleased with this darling card and coloring book. Those bots are so adorable, almost as cute as she is.

Maxine said...

Oh my gosh. I love the colouring book idea, & the card is adorable x

Mandy said...

What a fabulous card Lucy. Sophie is sure to love it along with the gorgeous little colouring book. x

Linda said...

Super cute card!

Jenny Colacicco said...

Love the robots and the coloring book is fab!!

jan metcalf said...

Cute as can be and love the feminine look for robots!

Karen Petitt said...

Adorable and so very cute, love the sparkly pink card and then you created a mini colouring book: love it! TFS Karen