Christening Dress

Hi Crafters,

 I'm sure that many of you, like me, have a stash of lace and trims in your craft room and when I was asked to create a Christening card recently and the brief was 'pretty and girly' I came up with this design.

Recipe

Crafters Companion Brick Embossing Folder and Arch Window Die

Tattered Lace Picot Edge Frame die

LOTV Sentiment Stamp

Pearls and lace from my stash

I set about making the dress by drawing half the shape on a folded piece of paper and cutting it out. When unfolded it makes the full dress shape, an easy way to ensure it is symmetrical. I used this template to cut out the dress in pearl card and embossed this to create the swirly pattern.

Then I added the layers of lace for the frills of the dress and trimmed the neck and sleeves with pearls.

The card turned out quite chunky so I had to make a box for it too.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Embossing Wet/Dry

Creative Inspirations - Lace & Pearls

I said I'd share some of my holiday photo's with you so here are a few of Portmeirion which we visited, with it's brightly painted buildings.

We walked across the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct alongside the canal boats. It crosses the Dee Valley and is 38m high. I really don't like heights but held on to the rail tightly. :o/

This is the view looking back over the side after we'd walked across...

The holiday cottage where we stayed

...and after climbing the hill behind it this was our reward.

 See you soon,

Lorraine

xXx

Passion For Promarkers Anniversary challenge #346 - Spots and or Stripes

Hi Crafters,

We're celebrating our 7th Anniversary at Passion for Promarkers this week so we have inspiration from both Design Teams and multiple Sponsors...
Letraset
Michele R Designs
DigiStamp Boutique
Bugaboo Stamps
L C Designs
Sassy Studio Designs
Di's Digi Stamps
Clearly Besotted Stamps
2 Cute Ink
Uniko
Little Lucy's Cards

We'd like to see spots and or stripes somewhere on your project and use your Letraset markers of course.

My spots are on my background panel

Recipe

Image - Baby Girl 2 by Mo Manning

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Joy Crafts Corner Die

Crafters Companion Arched Window Die

Spellbinders Labels Ten Die

Embossalicious Grande Dots

LOTV Sentiment Stamp

Various Flowers From Stash

It was very tricky to get a good photo with the pearlescent card and silver mirri card that I used in this project - if the pearl card looked good then I had a glare on the mirri and vice-versa but hopefully you can see the embossed background.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Catz - #324 Dies and Punches
Unicorn Challenge  - # 9 Spotty Dotty
Mo's Digital Pencil - # 263 ATG with a Mo Image

Please hop over to the challenge blog for a list of sponsors and prizes to be won.

Still using scheduled posts I'm afraid as I'm still looking after mum while she heals from her hip operation so sorry I haven't commented for a while on your blogs but I will try and catch up soon.

Lorraine 

xXx

Christening / Memory Album

Hi Crafters,

*As a heads up this post is very photo heavy.*

 

A few weeks ago it was my great nephews' Christening and as a gift I made a Memory Album for the parents to record the day.

 

I made the album myself, I'm not sure what the technique is called but I joined the pages together using strips of folded and gusseted card to form a spine that would allow some embellishments on the pages.

 

The finished album measured 18 x 14 x 6 cm and had room for five standard photo's.

 

Here is the front and back cover, the papers I used throughout were Echo Park - A Bundle of Joy - New Edition

Each page has a photo mat and a place for recording the details of the day together with a verse...

 

 

You can also see here the strips joining the pages together, I punched them with an EK Success Scalloped border punch...

 

 

Some of the embellishments were cut on my Cameo and others were dies..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photo mats were cut and the corners were punched using another EK Success punch which makes this pretty swirly corner to tuck your photo's under...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you liked my little album I really enjoyed creating it.

 

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Not Just Cards - #19 ATG

Creative Fingers - #80 ATG

 

No great plans here for the weekend, just the normal housework, crafting and family time but I do hope you all have a lovely weekend whatever you are up to.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

 

Christening Cards

Hi Crafters,

It's such a lovely day here today, not meant to last the week but I will make the most of it while it's here. I have been busy washing and pottering in the garden this morning but now it's crafty time. Before I get stuck in to some orders -and I do hope Mr Mojo is coming to play today - I have a couple of Christening cards to share with you ...

... two completely different styles but cute none-the-less I think.

 

 This first one uses an array of Spellbinders dies layered up in blue and white cardstock with a little bit of Distress inking through the dies for added interest. The cross however is a Cottage Cutz die. A computer generated sentiment cut out with another SB die, grosgrain ribbon and plenty of gems.

 

This second card was created using images and papers from the Forever Friends New Arrival CD-Rom, together with some more grosgrain ribbon an LOTV sentiment stamp which I heat embossed, an MFT border die and more gems.

 

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafting From The Heart - #57 ATG

Crafty Cardmakers and More - #137 Dots

Papertake Weekly - Cute As A Button

Crafty Creations - #287 Seeing Spots

Crafty Girlz Challenge - #1 ATG/April Showers

Scribble & Scrap - #43 ATG

 

Later in the week I will share with you the album I made as a memory book of the Christening day for the family.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine