janine, Author at Glitter Monster Craft Blog

This lovely baby boy Christening card can easily be made for a baby girl by keeping the cream card blank and pale yellow handmade mulberry paper but changing the ribbon, brad, Fun Flock and pearlised card colours used to pink/lilac.

You can also use this design for a new arrival baby card as well by simply changing the Christening wording to New Baby Boy or New Baby Girl peel off stickers.

Gatefold baby boy christening card

What you will need to make the card as pictured above:

Directions to make:

Using the various craft punches punch out the following shapes: 2 x super scalloped squares from the pale yellow handmade mulberry paper, 3 large squares from the pearlised blue card, 1 x large teddy bear from the pearlised blue card and 1 x large pram from the pearlised blue card.

Using sticky foam pads stick a scalloped square on either side of the top of the gatefold card blank.

Apply glue to the whole of the surface area on both the pram and teddy bear punched shapes, then sprinkle the snow cone blue fun flock generously over the adhesive and tap off any excess. Set aside to allow the adhesive to dry, then brush away excess flock. Do this over a piece of paper and then replace the excess flock back into the jar to save on wastage. Once the shapes are dry use sticky foam pads to stick the teddy bear to the left hand scalloped square and the pram to the right hand scalloped square.

Cut two 14cm lengths of the light blue ribbon. At the centre of the card blank make two holes on either side of the centre opening the first approximately 6mm in on both sides and the second about 10mm further in from the first hole. Fold the end of one piece of the ribbon over to avoid fraying and attach it to the card blank with a pastel yellow and pastel green brad pushed through the two holes on the left hand flap, attach the other piece of ribbon to the right hand flap in the same way. See close up pictures below showing the front and bach of the brads fastening one of the pieces of ribbon. Once attached the two pieces of ribbon are tied into a bow

. brads fastening ribbon front brads fastening ribbon back

Remove A, B and C letters from the gold alphabet peel off sheet and stick one letter to each of the three pearlised blue punched squares. Next use sticky foam pads to stick these squares to the bottom left hand side of the card blank as shown in the finished card picture above to look like stacked ABC building blocks.

Remove the ‘On Your Baby’s Christening’ wording from the gold Engagement/Christening peel off sheet and stick them to the bottom right hand side of the card blank as shown in the picture.

Finally fold and stick a cream paper insert into the inside of the card blank using double sided sticky tape. As well as sticking the insert to the back of the inside of the card blank, ensure the insert is stuck down on the insides of the flaps to hide the folded down brad prongs.

Card Idea by Janine

One basic topper design with many colour scheme variations! These toppers are really easy to make on a large scale and so are perfect for wedding stationery. Make matching Wedding, Evening, Order of Service, Thank You cards and even Menus by using these toppers on pearlised card blanks with appropriate wedding banners. If you don’t want to use the idea for wedding cards then they will work very well for Valentine’s cards as well. Pictured here are two finished cards using a couple of the toppers, further down are pictures of 12 variations of the topper.

Gold/Ivory/Burgundy Wedding Card #1

These are the various items used to make these toppers:

Obviously not all of the above items are used on every topper, simply select the card/paper and heart colour of your choice to suit your wedding stationery colour scheme.

Use the super duper square and super square craft punches to punch out backing squares from the card/paper types you have chosen.

Important Tip: If you have chosen Mulberry tissue paper for one or both of your backing layer squares, do not try to punch through it as it is as the punch will not cut through it cleanly and it may tear as it is too thin. Simply place the sheet of Mulberry tissue paper between two sheets of ordinary plain paper like printer paper and then punch through all of the layers for a clean cut.

Once you have punched all of your squares layer the smaller super squares on top of the larger super duper squares and secure them either with craft glue or with sticky foam pads for a raised 3D look.

Stick the heart of the colour of your choice onto the centre of the two squares again using craft glue or sticky foam pads.

Shown below are some suggested colour choices within the dark red, gold and ivory colour scheme that we have chosen here. Click on each picture for a larger view and a description of the card/paper types and all colours used.