Sam's Christening

Download the image used in this card here

The first of the “next generation” babies in our family is being christened at the end of February, and offered a great chance to make a christening card. The child is a boy which is slightly more challenging than for a girl as swathes of flowers and/or ribbon are not really appropriate. Still, I did manage to sneak in some small fringed flowers and a small ribbon!

The card ended up being BIG…too big to mount on a folded 12×12 inch piece of card, so I needed to improvise by mounting on card that was somewhat shorter at the back and adding a contrasting band to the back to bring it to the same length. this wouldn’t have been an issue had the card not also been wide.
I started with a vintage image which I printed out on my bubble jet printer. I cut that into an oval and layered it on a fancy spellbinders oval. Thuis was layered onto blue and white paper, which was then double matted. The right hand panel used the same double mounting but I used a small piece of parchment design that I made several years ago and which has been sitting in my box of orphaned bits and pieces waiting for an appropriate use. Parchment doesn’t look good glued, so i punched holes in the corners and mounted it onto the card with diamonte brads. I added a triple loop bow of 3mm wide silver edged white ribbon and two fringed flowers (tutorial on making fringed flowers is here). I finished the left hand side with some small blue bling and as a final touch, added a blue diamonte to the mother’s hair.