Baptism Cards

As promised, here are the baptism cards I did for Matthew and Sophie. Matthew loved his.  He said it was a beautiful card and hugged me.  He is such a sweet boy.  I will miss him next week. 

Supplies:

• Whisper White cardstock 8 1/2x11 #100730 cut to 5 1/2x8 1/2, 3 3/4x2 3/4, and a scrap
  
• Bashful Blue cardstock 8 1/2x11 #105120 cut to 4x3
• Bashful Blue 1/4"Grosgrain Ribbon #109029 cut to 5 inches, 1 1/2, 1/2
• Special Blessing stamp set #113411
• snail adhesive #104332
• mini glue dots #103683
• Stampin dimensionals # 104430
• Bone folder #102300*

*If you don't have a bone folder, this is essential equipment for any cardmaker and paper crafter.  It just makes scoring and creasing your fold lines easier and prettier.

What to do:

• Take your 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 piece of Whisper White and score and crease at 4 1/4
• On the same piece looking at the front of the card, fold the openning edge to the folded edge, or score at 2 1/8 and fold back to the other folded edge and crease.  This is the basic of a Z fold card.
• Make sure all of your folds are creased very well this makes the card lay better.
• On the scrap paper stamp the cross(or you can use the dove) from the set and cut it out close to the outline but not cutting that off.  place 5 Stampin Dimensionals on the back(you could use less but I wanted to make sure there would be no sagging because we hate sagging.)
• Then on the Whisper White piece (3 3/4x 2 3/4)  Stamp the "May God Bless You..." stamp in the lower right corner
• Use the long piece of GG ribbon and use your Snail on the back of the ribbon. ( I do mine on the back all the way across.)  And glue it down on about the middle of the white piece that "May God Bless You..." is stamped on.  ( you can measure if you are a stamper that prefers exact perfection, I am not...I don't have time)
• Then take the longer piece of GG ribbon and on one end use a mini glue dot and make a circle 
• Next you want to use the smaller piece of GG ribbon and a mini glue dot on the same side of both ends glue the first end to the back of the large loop and then wrap the other end around to make a bow and glue it down.  There is your perfect bow.  It works everytime.
• Then use a mini glue dot to attach the bow to the ribbon
• After all that use the snail to glue the white cardstock to the bashful blue cardstock  Then adhere the cross to the white and blue 
• Then the way I measured was to, hold up the front decoration to the card , I used my finger nail to make a small line so I don't glue past it.  You could use a pencil and then erase the mark later, but again for me it takes to much time. 
• Glue down the front decoration, I centered mine vertically.
• Then I stamped the cross again on the inside of the card making sure it wouldn't show on the outside of the card.
• I also stamped "on your Baptism day" in the bottom right corner of the finished card.

This card will fit is a Meduim Envelope from Stampin Up! # 107303

Here is another color  and a slightly different card I did for Sophie.

As always you can order your supplies for this and all my projects at my website http://mistismemories.stampinup.net anytime.