Christening dress

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week and a good start to October.

Today's card is one I made for Jude's youngest Granddaughter Charlotte for her Christening last month. I wanted a card with a Christening dress on, but didn't have a die or stamp so I made one myself.

I used a paper doily for the skirt and folded it until I had the shape I wanted. Then I used a small rectangular piece of white card and used a circle punch to chop out the neck hole and to make the underarm section.

Then I tidied it up with scissors and a corner rounder for the arms. I put it all together with a small pink bow and then decorated it with tiny pearls.

I then used a pearl trim on the bottom of the skirt, around the neck and down the side of the card, after putting it on a pink paper background.

As we don't have stamps for Christenings or Baptism's, I wrote the sentiment on the PC and then printed it onto Safmat. (A clear sticky film which you can print on).

Hope you like it, have a great week and I'll see you Thursday.

xxx

Dreams come true

Hurrah it's Friday at last!  Thus has been a really busy week and I'm looking forward to spending some time in the craft room this weekend.

As you know last weekend was my granddaughter's christening.  This is the card I made for her uncle to send to her.

This cute image is from Lilly of the Valley and needed little more than a sugar pink matt and a simple sentiment.

The sentiment is from a new Lawn Fawn stamp and die set called Critters Ever After.

Hope you like it. TTFN Jude xx

On your Christening Day

Good afternoon all, apologies for there not being a blog post this morning! I totally forgot about it, I really don't know where my head is at this week lol. 

Anyway, this card is one I made for my great niece's Christening on Sunday. It was meant to be very simple with just an image and the sentiment. But... I don't do simple very well, I always think it needs something else, so this is how it ended up.

The church stamp is from a Papermania set called Village. We have had it a couple of years and have looked everywhere for the matching dies for it. They are made by Xcut, but they were discontinued so I haven't been able to track them down. But I decided it was about time it came out of the packet and be used anyway lol.

I stamped the church with Memento ink and then coloured it with Copic markers. For the sentiments, I wrote them on the PC and then printed the sheet on my laserjet printer. Then I ran it through the Minc Machine with some gunmetal foil.

As you can see I couldn't just leave it there, so I dug out some very tiny stamps from a couple of sets and started stamping them around the image.

It didn't end up with just the few I imagined, but it reminded me of confetti, so I liked it anyway lol.

Hope you do too, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Charlotte Rose

Yesterday was my youngest granddaughter's christening.  

This is her in her beautiful dress before the ceremony.  

She was very well behaved and didn't cry at all during the service.

For her christening card I made a very simple white on white card with a silver charm. I used 2 different papers and embossed the linen centre layer. 

I used the Concorde & 9th Sophisticated Script stamp set to add her name.

I found a verse I really liked on Pinterest and decided to print it for the inside of the card. 

Hope you like it. TTFN Jude xx