Baby Boy's Christening

I was asked to make a Christening card a while ago, and the card I made I've never got round to sharing...so here it is!

It is based on a design that was found on the internet, but I'm afraid I've lost the link!

I drew the church shape by hand and cut it out of coordinating Boofle papers, it looked really plain without the black lining so I carefully drew around the edge with a marker.  The sentiment I printed directly onto the card.

All of the other drawing I did freehand using a fine liner, except the stars which I drew myself some stencils.

Hope you're all having a lovely weekend.  I have been busy busy but have managed to sqeeze in making a couple of cards - I'll share them once I've given them to their recipients!

Jacqui x

Boofle Thanks

I told you I'd be making the most of being stuck indoors!...two posts in one day.

I got some lovely gifts from my parents and my in-laws for my graduation, and I was so pleased that they came to my ceremony that I wanted to write them a little note to thank them. 

My sister bought me a Boofle card making set a little while ago, up until now I had only used some of the card bases but I thought a thank you note lent itself nicely to the Boofle design.  Below is what I came up with...



The sentiment on the brown card is a digi stamp from Pink Petticoat, I found the site a little while ago and absolutley love it.  I gave in and bought the "thank you sentiments" and this is their first outing!  I printed the sentiment onto card and cut around it after drawing a pretty label shape.

They're both simple designs but I'm pleased with how they turned out.  It's the first time I've used images like this that have been bought and I will be less scared of making something tacky looking in the future.

Green Card Supplies:
Card base and Rhinestone - Boofle Scrumptious Card Kit
Centre image - Boofle 6x6 Designstax
Ribbon - From my stash

Brown Card Supplies:
Card base and image- Boofle Scrumptious Card Kit
Ribbon - From my stash

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Pearls - Vivi Gade Designs

Ribbon - From my stash

I still have a wedding card I need to make for this weekend but I think that'll have to wait until tomorrow!

Thanks for dropping by.

Jacqui x

Welcome Baby Boy

Hi all, I hope you are all enjoying the heat wave here in the UK! Not too fun having to work in an office where we have no air conditioning or windows, but it looks like it'll be staying nice over the weekend, whoop.  It's also my PhD graduation on Friday so it'll be nice to be able to be outside.

The card I have to share with you today is one I made a little while ago but I never got round to sharing.  It's similar in design to a card I previously posted...Clearly besotted challenge #1.  The central panel is raised up on foam pads which allowed me to wrap the twine around. The feet I stamped and then embossed with clear embossing powder to give them a smooth sheen.

Supplies:

Sentiment - "Baby" set by Kaisercraft
Feet - Personal Impressions
Ink - Tuxedo black from Memento and "Baby Blue" from Versa Color
Embossing powder - Papermania, Clear 
Card base - Boofle

Jacqui x

Freshly Made Sketches #92

It's my Mother-in-law's birthday next week so I wanted to make a card to give to her.  I was massively lacking any ideas but I stumbled across the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge Blog.  I'd not seen the blog before but as soon as I saw this weeks sketch I knew what I wanted to do, and the card below is the result!  It's a really lovely sketch.

Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

I drew the wave shape of the flowery paper freehand and cut it out, then used the piece I'd cut off as a template to cut the thin strip (it's dark aubergine, although it looks almost black int he photo).  The sentiment I tried writing by hand and embossing but it looked awful so I resorted to printing it out and it looks much better.

Supplies:

Gemstones - from stash

Flowery Paper - Boofle

Pink paper - from stash and embossed using "Simple Flowers" from Cuttlebug

Card - From stash

It's a beautiful day here so I'm heading outside while there's still some sun.  Thanks for visiting!

Jacqui x



Fairy Jasmine

A few months ago I was lucky enough to win some Clearly Besotted Stamps via their facebook page.  I hadn't used them yet so thought it was about time to ink them up! They were all of very cute characters like the one I've used (Fairy Jasmine), sadly they are now discontinued.  I am going to enter this into the CBS challenge as entries are still open for a few more hours. 

I inked the image using momento ink in tuxedo black and then coloured in the image (admittedly I think I need more practice!).  The "3" I cut using  "Large Typewriter Number Set" from memory box on my Cuttlebug and finished using some Glossy Accents.  The paper is from the 6 x 6 Boofle stack, the stars are glittery but it's hard to tell from the photo.  I assembled it all using some foam pads.  The ribbon was from my stash (I think it was from a box of chocolates I got for my birthday!).

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend.  Mine was lovely but very busy, I'll definitely sleep well tonight!

Jacqui x

Christening Card

This is a card I made for my gorgeous little nephew.  I really struggled coming up with ideas for a Christening card but after a lot of trawling through Pinterest (love Pinterest!) I came up with this:

I drew and cut the little shapes by hand after Googling images to get some help.  The papers are all from the 6 x 6 Boofle stack and I think the colours work well for a baby boy. The bow I tied myself with a scrap of ribbon that luckily matched perfectly, I managed to do it after watching a video on YouTube on "how to tie tiny bows using a fork", I honestly don't think I would function without the internet! Sad but true!

That's all from me today.  I have made a card for this weeks CAS(E) this sketch challenge but I got home too late to photograph it...so hopefully I'll have another card to share tomorrow.

Thanks for visiting!

Jacqui x

Wedding Cake Card

This is a second card that I made for my friend to give at the wedding I also went to in April.  I kept with the navy colour theme for this card.  I took the idea for this card from Becky over at Craftjar, I loved her elegant design so wanted to recreate it.

I cut the cake from navy paper from my stash and the light blue paper with little white hearts on is from the Boofle 6 x 6 Designstax.  I used increasing sizes of stick on pearls to decorate the cake.

I like how the card turned out but I'm not sure it lived up to Becky's card from which I took my inspiration.