In case you haven’t heard, the Houston Astros have made it to the World Series and the first game is tonight in Houston!! Woohoo!!! When you are a stamper and cardmaker, you make cards to celebrate all kinds of occasions so I made this Go Astros Baseball Card. It’s fun to make something different that is not our usual cardmaking occasions.

This card has just a Basic White card base, then a layer of one of the In Colors, Starry Sky. For the main top layer I used Pumpkin Pie, cut a little smaller than usual to allow more of the blue to show on the card front. Then I stamped it randomly with some little stars in the Alphabest Stamp Set. I only recently purchased this stamp set, maybe during the stamp sale. Even though I’ve had lots of alphabet stamp sets in the past, I was seeing some cute samples online using this stamp set.

There is also a small punch that goes with this Alphabest Stamp Set that makes it particularly appealing! It’s the Best Label Punch. The punched image is only 1/4″ x 3/4″ so you can see that it is quite small. But it is really fun to use with this alphabet stamp set. I’m looking forward to playing with this stamp set and punch a lot more and seeing what other ideas I come up with and checking out some ideas online!

For the baseball, I simply die cut a circle out of Basic White and drew on the lines with a Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker. If you want the curved lines to be shaped well, just use the scrap from the die cut and use that curve as a guide on the baseball to draw the curved lines.

The letters are all stamped on Basic White with Starry Sky ink, using the outline first. Then I went back and stamped the letters inside and punched out. It’s really fun using that little punch! Then I just adhered the letters in a haphazard fashion so I didn’t have to worry about anything being lined up and perfectly straight! It makes it more fun this way, too!

You could also pop up the baseball and/or the letters with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but I just glued mine down flat on the card.

The Houston Astros have been in playoffs and World Series before. I even got to go to a game with a friend who had tickets! One of the thrills of my life to walk into the stadium for a World Series game (although they lost that game!)! Also a thrill to have a one-up on my son-in-law who is a huge baseball fan who hadn’t been to a World Series game at that point, but now he has been with the Dodgers!

Here is another baseball card I made to celebrate the Astros, even using another alphabet stamp set several years back! If you have an alphabet stamp set, you can do a lot of things with it when you don’t have the proper greeting. But you can also use words like “Celebrate” or “Hooray” and others when you don’t have a baseball or World Series stamp or name of the team! Stars, in stamps or dies, are always great to use!

When you have unusual occasions like the Houston Astros being in the World Series, see what kind of card you can make with what supplies you have as I did with this Go Astros Baseball Card!

GO ASTROS!!