In the City is Perfect for a Christening card

By | December 4, 2017

I saw the most beautiful Christening card by my fellow Stampin’ Creative teamie Mikaela Titheridge (The Crafty Oink Pen) and I just had to case it. You can see her original card here, isn’t it absolutely beautiful?  I needed a Christening card today and with Mikaela’a permission I made a boy version with In the City.

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Mikaela used the gorgeous Hometown Greetings edgelit dies but I’ve used the church from In the City.

This is a 60 piece (!!) host stamp set and has lots of different buildings and vehicles; from churches to ice-cream vans, trees, bushes etc there is no end to the scenes you can create!

Tips and Tricks for my In the City card 

  • Part emboss your Whisper White layer with the Sparkle embossing folder – by association it looks very much like a cross
  • Cover the end of your embossed section with some ribbon – the ribbon I’ve used here is unfortunately retired… but believe me there are several substitutes in the catalogues!
  • Add a little dimension by raising the stamped element with dimensionals.

Eimear Carvill, www.stampincolour.com, Christening card, Stampin' Up hostess set In the City, handmade christening card, papercrafting, Wiltshire crafts

I used a little tag from the Wood Crate frame lit and, due to a lack of christening stamps in my collection, I improvised for my sentiment! I’ve used ‘This is the Day’ from Tabs for Everything but only used the ‘This’ and the ‘Day’. I then stamped ‘Blessed’ from the Christmas set ‘Wonderful Life’ on a tiny scrap and raised it on dimensionals for a little visual interest.

Of course, I used Soft Sky as my base and paired it with a hint of Smoky Slate – my all time favourite neutral!

I hope you liked today’s card and I hope I did Mikaela’s original card justice – she also made some gorgeous co-ordinating projects which were just amazing!

Don’t forget it is your last chance to get some of the Autumn Winter catalogue products in our year end close-out – some have great discounts.

 

Don’t forget it is your last chance to get some of the Autumn Winter catalogue products in our year end close-out – some have great discounts.

If you do wish to make a purchase, please use the current Rainbow Rewards Host Code at checkout M6KHH7PA to receive an extra little gift in the post from me.

And finally, here is everything I used to make today’s card. It is a little product heavy due to my lack of appropriate sentiments – something I must remedy soon!

 

Until next time, happy crafting

Eimear

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