Creative Cucina

This sample invitation was also based on the www.tinyprints.com version I mentioned earlier. It uses the stamp set Season of Friendship which is one of my all time favorites (I say that a lot don’t I?) but this one truly is one of my faves!

Card base is a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Baja Breeze layered with a 4″ x 5 1/4″ Whisper White. I printed the invitation wording out on the computer first, then cut the paper to size, rounded the corners with my corner rounder punch, and stamped the tree in Chocolate Chip ink. The bird was stamped in Baja Breeze ink.

At the top, I added a glittery cross by using sticky tape and Brown Supernova Fine Cosmo Glitter. It sticks great and holds up well. Hardly any glitter rubbing off at all even if I try to rub my finger over it. Please see my previous posts for tips on how to make the cross.

Based on a design from www.tinyprints.com this is the third sample invitation I made for my nephew’s baptism.

Card base is 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ Baja Breeze card stock. Whisper White card stock was stamped with leaves from Embrace Life in Basic Gray ink. The invitation wording was printed out on the computer, and using the RGB codes, I was able to match the blue color font to Baja Breeze. Font used is Bickham Script. I clipped the corners of the white layer with my corner rounder punch for a finished look.

Finally, the cross at the top is made from Sticky Tape and Dazzling Diamonds Glitter. See my previous post for more details on how to make the cross.

I think I like this one more than the original. Plus, regular postage applies for mine, since it doesn’t requie a square envelope!

OK, this one I didn’t think I’d like when I was making it, but honestly, it has become my favorite! Originally this was designed as a photo card for a birth announcement, but I changed it to fit my occasion.

Necessity really is the mother of invention! I don’t have any cross or religious stamps, which forced me to come up with an alternative. That’s how I came up with the idea to use Sticky Tape and glitter to make a cross. I absolutely LOVE it! Here, I used Brown Supernova Cosmo Glitter to make the cross (see previous post for how to cut the Sticky Tape). Then, I punched out the cross with a 1 1/4″ punch and layered it onto a 1 3/8″ Baja Breeze Circle, adhered with dimensionals.

The base is a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock. The bottom striped piece is from Parisian Breeze Textured DSP, cut to 1″ x 4″. I tucked it behind the white invitation panel (which I printed on the computer) and adhered that to the base. Note: I used the RGB codes to make the name on the invitation Baja Breeze R:250; G:201; B:201 and used Libby font for the name. Check out Krystal Kuckenbaker’s RGB codes here. Thanks Krystal!