The Mother of all Cards!

OK, so maybe I had a little bit of fun with the title for this post – I hope it made you smile! I certainly had fun creating this Mother’s Day card for my mom.

I used this sketch from My Favorite Things for inspiration:

Here’s my card:

I decided to create my own patterned paper with the floral images from the Mother’s Day Bouquet stamp set. I used copic markers and Spectrum Noir Triblend markers to color the flowers, leaves, and berries. The strips and sentiment circle were die cut using two of the dies from the Blueprints 24 Die-Namics.

The card base is Boysenberry – my mom loves purple and was thrilled to see that I got the colors right for her Mother’s Day card (we won’t talk about how jealous my sister was of my coloring – let’s just say I am definitely Mom’s favorite;-)

I added a sprinkling of iridescent pink sequins and a dot of Tonic CLOUD 9 Nuvo Dream Drops to the centers of the purple flowers.

I’m entering this card into the My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge as well as the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – to create a feminine project.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have time to create something beautiful this week!

Ruth

Lovely friend, lovely sentiment!

So, I’m back to creating cards. Currently, I’ve got birthdays, Mother’s Day, and graduation cards to create. My friend’s birthday was last week, but we are getting together next week, so I’m good and I’m so blessed to have products that inspire me!

But first, there are those that create projects and then I get ideas for what is available, Donna Idlet is one of those creators. While I was inspired by a card she created with a different stamp set from the Gina K. Designs Forever Flowers Card Kit, I still appreciate that she opened my eyes to this wonderful kit and the possibilities it held!

Let’s look at what I created:

Currently, the Monthly Mix challenge at Gina K is to use Die-Cut Sentiments and I definitely wanted to use the lovely Birthday die from the Forever Flowers Card Kit. I wanted the sentiment to really stand out from the card base so I cut it from 110 lb cardstock twice and 80 lb Neenah Solar White once and glued those layers together then colored the layers with copic markers. I cut the shadow from vellum to allow the lovely flowers to show through while still allowing the birthday die cut to shine. I love the grouped flowers in the Lace Flowers stamp set that was in the kit and had a lot of fun coloring that image after stamping it in Obsidian Amalgam Ink.

Also, the Mod Squad Challenge Blog has a Flowers – Spring Has Sprung challenge, which was so easy with this card kit. And an Anything Goes Challenge at  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is always fun to create for!

Here’s a detail of the sentiment:

And I highly recommend Connect Glue, if you like a glue that is a little on the thicker side, but doesn’t dry immediately and has a nice fine tip for application. I just dabbed it on for the die cut layers and didn’t end up with a mess and used it for the sequins as well. It’s got enough body that I just set the sequins on it and that was enough for the jewel picker to let it go, which is awesome!

Oh, yeah, and I cut my main panel and shadow panel (that I colored with copics to match my other coloring) with the Master Layouts 2 dies. These are great dies for creating layers on your cards easily with just the smallest border.

OK, so onward to my other projects.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a fabulous day and are able to create something!

Ruth