A christening card - and a baby elephant ..............

Here is a christening card using the gorgeous LOTV stamp which I coloured with copics.  I added white guipure 38mm lace beneath the image and the magnolia swirl was diecut from plain white card.

I finished the card with stardust stickles, and white silky crush ribbon, adding narrow purple satin ribbon and  5mm Berisford orchid gingham to the knot in the middle.  Lastly, I threaded plum divine twine through an 18mm sparkly button and tied it to the bow - this card is for the LOTV Thursday Challenge 'button it'.

The ribbons, lace, twine and button are all from http://www.ribbongirl.co.uk/    I found it very difficult not to add a whole load of flowers, but restrained myself!

It was very rainy this afternoon, so I had a go at making a 'less is more' card - not my usual type of card at all - this week the challenge is to make a card based on the colour of your eyes - mine are greeny grey so here is Humphrey's baby brother, Jack (from the new Christmas collection).  I got the shaped cards from the papercraft exhibition at Harrogate a few weeks ago. I used green copics sparingly, added loads of stardust stickles to the wings, mounted the image onto green card and added a scrap of celery twill stripe ribbon.