More Mother's Day

Yup, more Mother's Day cards to show you!  I hope that it sparks some type of inspiration for you.  I know that sometimes I need all the inspiration I can get...

Here's another one of the cards that I made to send to my friends this Mother's day.  You can't forget your friends either on Mother's day.  Friends, sisters, Aunts, cousins...  Anyone who is a Mother.  It really is a thankless job sometimes, but it is so very rewarding.  I would never change a thing about it ~ the ups, the downs, it's all worth it.  I ♥ being a Mom and would not do one thing different.  Whoops, there I go again - off track...  sorry.

The base card is Barely Banana (I'm going to miss that color.  It's so feminine.) and I layered it with Blush Blossom and Certainly Celery.  I stamped the image from Darcie's and colored it in with my pencils and gamsol then layered it on to a piece of Certainly Celery and adhered it to the card.  I also paper pierced the card at the upper left and lower right corners - it looked just too plain without it I thought.

I stamped the word "friend" in Pink Passion ink and punched it out with my word window punch.  I had a piece of scrap of Certainly Celery that I ran thru my cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder so I punched it out with my Modern Label punch and adhered the sentiment on to it and added it to the card with pop dots.

Inside I took a piece of Blush Blossom card stock and adhered it to the card and matted a piece of white card stock that I stamped the words "Happy Mother's Day" in Certainly Celery ink.  I took a piece of Certainly Celery card stock and punched it out with my Martha Stewart punch and added that inside for a little more detail. 

If you look at the up close picture you can see that I added just a little touch of stickles to the flowers for a little extra "pretty".

I hope that you enjoy it and there is a spark of inspiration that it gave you! 

Wishing you all a wonderful Mother's day!

For (my) Mom

With all the Mother's Day cards I made I had not yet made one for my Mom.  I wanted to make something extra special for her - after all we all want to make our Mom the perfect card, right?  At first I wanted to make an easel card and I sat down to make it and out popped a Tri-Shutter card.  That was a long way from an easel card but I'm glad.  It turned out nice I think.  I know that she'll like it.  So, you wanna see it?  Of course you do!

She likes blues so that's what I went with on this card.  The base is Soft Sky that I layered with paper from the Maine Blueberry collection.  I stamped the image from PSX and colored it in with my pencils and gamsol.  I cut out the flower image and Certainly Celery base with my oval and scallop oval nesties and attached it to the front of the card.  The sentiment is from Paper Parachute and I stamped it in with Brocade Blue ink.  The butterflies are punched out with the SU! butterfly punch.  I added some primas and some shimmer paint around the main image and I was done.

I thought that it turned out fairly nice, don't you?  I know that this one is a keeper.  Like I said blues are her favorite colors.

What have you made for Mother's day?  I'd love to see - leave me a link and I'll take a peek! 

Have a super great day!!

For Mom

More Mother's day...  I've got lot's of women in my life who if I could chose another Mother all of them would be it.  There are lots of women who I've befriended in the past years that mean the world to me and I want to recognize them on Mother's day.  So here is more to show you to inspire you for Mother's day, or any day for that matter.

The image I used was from SU's Flower Garden.  I stamped the image and colored it in with chalk and cut it out with my oval nesties.  I cut a piece of red card stock with my scallop oval nesties and layered it under the image panel.  The card base is Barely Banana and I layered it with DP from SU Sweet Slumber set.  I took a piece of Barely Banana and a small piece of Sweet Slumber and stitched it and adhered it to the card.  I also cut out some flourishes with my cuttlebug and before I adhered the image panel I added those to the card front.  Once the image panel was adhered I added another butterfly with pop dots on top of the one stamped on the panel - I added some stickles to it for a little "pop" and I was complete.

I hope that it inspires you. 

Have a super great day!!

More Mother's Day

I've got some more Mother's Day cards to show you.  I sure hope that they give you some ideas, some inspiration.  When I blog hop I love to take a peek at what everyone makes, I'm sure you do to.  No matter how hard I try to re-create something that I've seen (case) I just can't.  There are some cards that I want to make just as they are - but my hands and my brain don't work like that.  It is always different.  But if there is ever anything that you see on here and you want to case it, I am more than happy to have you do so.  It makes me happy to know that you like my work that much - all I ask is that you give me the credit.

Enough of that...  Let's take a look at the cards...

I whipped up this card yesterday afternoon.  I had purchased some of the Melon Mambo DP and I don't think that I've used it, til now.

I stamped the image from Memories of the Heart.  It's an old set that a goodie ~ I think that it's perfect for Mother's Day.  I stamped the image and used my watercolor crayons to color it in.  I cut it out and used some stickles on the flowers and set it aside while I put the rest of the card together.  I took a light pink piece of linen card stock and layered the Melon Mambo DP on top of it.  I took my nesties Labels Nine and cut out a piece of the pink linen card stock and stamped the word "Mom" in Rose Red ink and attached it to the card.  Once that panel was adhered I attached a length of organdy ribbon and attached the whole panel to the card front.  By then the stickles was dry on the flowers and I attached the image to the front of the card.  I finished off the inside and I was complete.

I'm still not sure about this card.  I love the flowers in the Full Bloom set - I've used them a lot for various things, but I'm still not sure about this card.

The base card is Pink Pirouette (I'm so GLAD that this color is coming back!!) and I layered it with Pretty in Pink and some Georgia Peach DP.  I added a piece of ribbon that was in my scraps because it has the same colors as the Georgia Peach DP.  I stamped the swirl from Judikins in Close to Cocoa ink directly on the DP.  I then took a piece of Blush Blossom paper and crumpled it and inked the edges, also with Close to Cocoa ink and adhered it to the card.  I stamped the images from the In Full Bloom set and colored them in with my watercolor crayons and added that panel to the card over the Blush Blossom panel.  I also stamped 3 more and colored them in and cut them out and pop dotted them on to the card a little offset from the others.  I stamped the word "Mom" in the lower left corner and a little stickles to the flowers and I was complete.

A lot of times I will stamp an image and if I can I will look for it online and provide a link to it just in case you would like to see where they are offered ~ however the Mom, Mother's Day and the swirl stamps that I've used in these cards are no longer available that I can tell.  The Happy Mothers Day stamp that I used inside these cards I did find on EBay, but I felt a little weird posting that link for the benefit of someone who I don't know.

I will try to come back later today and show you another card...  So, see you later!!

Sweet Mother's Day

It's that time to get started on Mother's Day Cards ~ it's really not that far away.  So here is the first one that I thought that I'd share with you.  And just in time too because I got quite a stash of paper from Betty.  Stampin' Up is having a sale if you go to the web site and click on clearance you can get some really good deals!!  Go check it out HERE...

Anyway, wanna know about the card?  Sure you do, that's why your here...

The base card is Barely Banana that I layered with Blush Blossom and Georgia Peach DP.  I took a piece of Blush Blossom and stamped Happy Mothers Day in Regal Rose ink on it.  I then layered a piece of Pretty in Pink paper behind it that I used my scallop edge punch on.  I paper pierced some holes and added a length of Rose Red ribbon to it before I adhered it to the card.  I then stamped some flowers from the Friendship Blooms set with Regal Rose ink and cut them out.  I added a jewel brad to them and adhered them to the card.  A little stickles and I was done.  It was a quick card, but I think that it's pretty.

I was browsing thru the SCS gallery the other day and I saw a card similar to this one and had to make it.  Have you ever tried to case a card and it does not come out the same ~ well this is one of those times. 

I used a linen card stock that I've had for a while as a base.  I stamped the Medallion stamp on a piece of Purely Pomegranate with the coordinating ink and cut it in half.  I then ran a piece of Basic Black thru the  cuttlebug with my swiss dots folder and punched the edge with my punch.  I took a scrap of the Purely Pomegranate and punched that also and added under the black piece.  I added a length of ribbon to all of it and then adhered it to the card.  After I added it to the card I wanted a little something extra so I added the stickles to it for a little more of a punch.  The sentiment was stamped in Purely Pomegranate ink and it was also from SU! but I forgot which set it is, sorry...

I hope you like what you see today ~ and that it inspires you!  Have a super great day!!