Adventure Awaits {Baby}

Hello and welcome! I'm sharing some fun non-traditional baby ideas using lots of different travel themed products from over the years. This is a "for me" post so I don't forget some of the ideas, but hopefully it will give you some inspiration as well. My friend's daughter had her first baby, and my friend's first grandbaby, so I wanted to get a gift put together. I have really been enjoying packaging up baby gifts in suitcases, but I haven't done a boy gift before, so this one was really fun! When I went shopping for some outfits, I came across some airplane themed items, so that made it even more fun!

For the card, I used the Going Places stamp set and the coordinating Going Places Die along with some older, but unfortunately retired, stamps and dies. I asked Julie if she would consider creating a baby version of the Going Places stamp set, so that might be fun to see come about.  I told her how much fun I've been having packaging up baby gifts in suitcases and how much fun that would be to have!

A package of diapers would ruin the aesthetic of my gift, so instead, I decided to make the Vintage Travel Suitcase Die to add a gift card to the grocery store so the new mom could get diapers and wipes, or anything she needs, really! The sentiment on the tag is from the Baby Elephant Stamp Set, which is one of my favorite baby sentiments. I added some images from the Going Places stamp set and the luggage tag itself is from the Going Places die (linked earlier). The heart was leftover from the 3-D plane from the retired Valentine's Day Love You to Pieces collection from Papertrey Ink.

I also made a few other little suitcases (not knowing exactly how I would use them) from the Holiday Hatchback: Luggage Die. I decided to just to add them to the front of the larger suitcase.

The plane and clouds on the card are also from the retired Love You to Pieces stamp/die set and the photo corners are from the retired Fairytale Christmas stamp set.

The finishing touch is a plane that I added to a Tim Holtz tag using foam squares and liquid glue. I will use this tag to tie around the bow and cellophane wrap to put it all together. 

I tucked everything into the suitcase...the flap of the suitcase will be up when the gift is wrapped in cellophane. You can see one of the inspiration outfits tucked on the right.

I hope the new mom enjoys her gift! I had so much fun putting it together! Thanks for fluttering by!