Invitations for a christening and 30th birthday

Hello everyone! This without a doubt is my biggest project to date. And I'm so happy (and proud) of how it turned out. See this young woman on the right, a family friend (picture published with permission) asked if I could create 30 invitations for the christening of her daughter. No problem, right! She really liked a bokeh background I did a while back - man, did they take a long time to create. My arm was falling off by the 30th 😆

I had the layout all figured out. Background and label cut with Simple and Basic dies, cutie batootie MFT elephants colored, MFT Baby rattle and Altenew In-line alpha's cut.

This year however, we've all been affected by a certain virus. So they've had to delay the christening. And now it was conveniently close to her 30th birthday, so she'd really like for me to add that. What a challenge it was to get this just right. I wanted her to love it, but perhaps more importantly I wanted me to love it. To be proud of it.

So I came up with this idea to let it have the appearence of an invitation for a christening, add a tiny "lift" sentiment behind the photo and then - voilá! Christening and birthday invitation in one.

The semi-circle is an MFT die, party girls are Stamping Bella - I didn't color them because 1- I simply didn't have the time and 2- I didn't want that coloring to be the focal point. I added a Poppystamps bow to the rattle in 2 tones of pink cardstock. And of course I stamped the elephant on the envelopes as well.

I really hope you like this one. I sure do!

I'm entering this into:

https://mftstamps.com/blogs/news/summer-school-2020-day-1 - visual triangle

http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://creationsinpink.blogspot.com/

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge - favorite tool - stencil

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=20944 - summer memories

http://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Face

https://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/257-anything-goes-sentiment.html

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/

https://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes