Wednesday, June 2, 2010

An Irish Christening

My niece, who has lots of Irish in her, is being christened this weekend. I wanted to make a card that would reflect that heritage, but still look soft and sweet. Since I have no sentiment stamps appropriate for such an event, I had to be creative. I used a sentiment from Stampin' Up!'s Best Yet, and decorated one layer with shamrocks from SU's Lucky Me.

The white sentiment layer was created by using a scrap square of Whisper White, and punching all four sides with a Martha Stewart Flower border punch. No corner punch needed! Hooray! I propped up the punched flowers with two different-sized dimensionals, to give some interest. Oh, and those little green gems in the flower centers are from my kids' craft bin. I just help myself whenever I need to!




Happy Stamping,
Colleen

Stamps: Best Yet, Lucky Me - both SU
Paper: Glorious Green, Barely Banana, white from Papertrey Ink
Ink: Glorious Green, Basic Black
Punches: Martha Stewart fringe flower, flower border , SU corner rounder
Other: dimensionals, ribbon, SU Texturz Plate, Big Shot, gemstones

2 comments:

Emily Keaton said...

I love this, Colleen!! What a wonderful keepsake card for a little Irish gal. Beautiful details!! Love the embossed background. So glad to know that I'm not the only one who raids her kids' craft supplies for card making LOL!!!

Andrea Ewen said...

Absolutely fabulous! I love the border punch, it really makes the sentiment panel stand out! The colors are wonderful together...great job and...thanks for sharing!

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