Celestial milestone backgrounds

Every celestial background in Little

• MoonIllustrated

  A crescent moon in a deep night sky. The mat for the month they finally slept through.

• Moon CradleIllustrated

  The crescent shaped as a cradle, so a lying-down newborn sits inside the curve.

• Starry NightIllustrated

  Scattered stars on dusk blue. The softest of the night scenes and the easiest to read at widget size.

• Starry Night TwoIllustrated

  A denser star field with a different palette, for a second night-time mat that does not repeat the first.

• Sun & Rainbow

  The one gradient design left in the category, and the brightest. Often kept for a rainbow-baby mat.

• SpaceIllustrated

  Planets and stars in bold colour. Suits a sitting-up baby in the second half of the year.

• Space TwoIllustrated

  An alternate space composition with a different colour balance, so two space mats stay distinct.

• Space UFOIllustrated

  A small flying saucer joins the planets. The most playful design in Little and a first-birthday favourite.

• Cotton CloudsIllustrated

  Soft daylight clouds. The quietest celestial design, close enough to a plain gradient to use as a default.

Backgrounds for the milestones nobody prints a card for

The first year is full of moments no standard milestone template has a slot for. The night they slept six hours. The week they stopped needing the 3am feed. The month you finally moved them out of your room. Moon and Moon Cradle exist for exactly those, and they let a mat mark something real rather than just counting to the next number. Starry Night and Starry Night Two work the same way for the softer version, the last feed of the evening rather than a breakthrough.

Space scenes as your baby gets older

The three space designs are a different mood from the moons, brighter and more graphic, and they suit the back half of the year when your baby is sitting up and grabbing at things. Space and Space Two are planets and stars; UFO adds a small joke to the frame, which lands well for a first-birthday mat where everyone is being a bit silly anyway. Cotton Clouds sits between the two moods and is the quietest of the nine, close enough to a plain gradient to use as a default.

Questions about celestial backgrounds

How many celestial backgrounds are illustrated?

Eight of the nine. Sun and Rainbow is the one gradient design left in the category.

What is the difference between Moon and Moon Cradle?

Moon is a crescent in an open night sky. Moon Cradle nests the crescent so your baby sits inside the curve, which suits a lying-down newborn photo.

Do dark backgrounds print well?

Better than you would expect, though a very dark mat uses a lot of ink on a home printer. If you are printing a set, mixing a couple of light mats in stops the whole batch coming out heavy.