More Calendars a Christening card and a Birthday card!!!

Good Morning

Here are some more of the Thank You Calendars I've made.  Still a few more to do!!!

As you can see I'm loving my new Big Shot and dies and am putting them to good use!

Last week, I was asked to make a Christening Card.  To start with I had a complete mental block, but once I got going I was ok.  I decided to use the Deco Art embossing board from the glitter girls.  I really love the effects achieved by using these boards, but I do find them quite tricky to use, I think I need more practice!

I embossed the whole design of the cross and swirls onto Centura Pearl cardstock.  I then embossed just the cross onto sillver paper, cut this out, and applied over the first cross using 1mm foam pads.  I then embossed the inner cross onto white glitter card which I again applied using foam pads.  I ran silver peel offs all around the edge of the Centura card, and applied pearls in the centre of each of the swirls.  This was matted onto pink pearlescent cardstock to which I applied silver corner peel-offs,

The flowers in the centre of the cross were from my stash.  I applied a large 'blob' of Collall Glue gel to a square of acetate into which I put a few white feathers.  I added some mulberry leaves, and then 'arranged' a number of mulberry flowers.  I left this for a good few hours for the glue to harden, then trimmed away the excess acetate before applying the arrangement to the cross using Collall Glue gel once again.  I'm not very good when it comes to flower arranging but was pleased with how this turned out!  To finish off I added a couple of white roses to the edges of the card.

I had been asked to personalise the card, so printed the name and date onto centura pearl paper, which I matted onto silver card and applied to the card using foam pads.

I was very pleased with how this card turned out, and my customer was delighted with it.

Finally, hubby asked me to make a 'simple' birthday card for a friend of his.  He has always been a keen bowler, and I remembered having some Paper Nation decoupage papers stashed away.  I am very fond of the Paper Nation images, and they are lovely to work with.  So in no time at all the card was ready.

Thanks for sticking with me through this long post!  I hope you have a good day.

Jo x