Two birthday cards - 29/10/11

The end of October/beginning of November seems to be a mini birthday season. Here are some cards I made the other day:

This card is an autumn theme as I have lots of skeleton leaves and also October is full of falling leaves. White card, pen & ink, stick-on flowers, skeleton leaves, stick-on letters.

This card is Halloween themed as this birthday is on October 31st. White card covered in dark blue paper, pumpkin made of orange paper with gold stars for eyes and nose, bats cut out of the blue paper, stick-on lettering.

Tall Ship Necker - finally finished

Last summer (that's summer 2010 I mean), I went sailing on STS Lord Nelson as part of Girlguiding UK's centenary celebrations. We were divided into four watches and each watch had a different colour necker. I was in Aft Starboard watch, with blue neckers.
Some of us made little cross stitch designs while we were on board, and some people brought blanket badges for swaps. So when I got home I decided to sew my swaps and my cross stitch to my necker.
While we were moving house, I found my half-completed necker so I sat down the other day and finished sewing on the last couple of badges. Frome Valley is near Bristol, Chandler's Ford is near Southampton, the cross with the roses is Cumbria I think, and the bear is Warwickshire. The white square badge was one that was made for everyone on the voyage, and Waterford was the port we visited en route. In the cross stitch patch there are dolphins because we saw lots on our way, a little duck which was hidden somewhere in the ship, a shamrock for ireland which we visited, and a friendship knot made up of the colours of the watches (blue, yellow, pink and white).

Close up of badges

Detail of cross stitch

Christening card - 6/10/11

The baby I made a card for a few months ago is being christened, so I thought I'd make a similar card for her christening.

Birth card

Christening card

I gluyed together the sky & hills, then I cut out the cross and stuck everything to the main card so that the white showed through. The rays of light and letters were added later.