Mother's Day

I'll be taking my mum to the Corbyn Head Hotel in Torquay today for their wonderful Mother's Day lunch. Here's the card I've made her - I used some papers and a design in one of the cardmaking magazines - and a scrapbook layout which has hidden journalling. I hope you enjoy Mother's Day whatever you are doing.

Flowers

I haven't had time to do any of the card challenges this week so here is the card I made for my Mum for Mother's Day. I used a template to cut out the window from cardstock and some paper from K&Co as the garden view, with extra blooms and bling.
Off now to make a get well card.

Mother's Day

My first entry for the Lili of the Valley Thursday Challenge is Mother's Day. I made two cards at the weekend, although sadly there is only one recipient this year, and decided to go with this one for my mum.

I put the new Laura Ashley flower stamps to good use (which mum gave me for Christmas) and highlighted them with Glossy Accents and Stickles. The background is chalked.

I'll be going down to Plymouth to see her next weekend and the now traditional (and really excellent) lunch is booked at the Corbyn Head Hotel in Torquay.

Mum's Recipe

The DCM little extra challenge is for a card that follows a recipe. Two buttons, one ribbon and a 'spoonful' of flowers.....!

One of the two Mother's Day cards I made achieves that formula....if hand painted flowers count!

I drew and painted the bluebells with help from a wild flowers book. There are two buttons (K&Co) and one ribbon (ric-rac, hope that counts!). The letters are by Making Memories, the blue paper by DCWV and the matting hand-made paper from Lakeland.
Here is the card I made for my Mum, which uses a stamp by Hero Arts, flowers painted with Twinkling H2Os and highlighted with glitter Mother's Day greeting from Anita's stamp and ribbons by Fancy Pants. The zig zags are peel-offs by Anita's. (I am not too proud to use peel-offs!). I stamped a butterfly (Artefacts) onto acetate which is a nice touch because you can bend the wings upwards.

Both cards are fairly traditional but the two ladies are both 75 so they prefer this type of card. Tilda's and Hanna's are not for them!

Thoughts turn to spring

Spring seems to have arrived very early this year....already the temperature is warming up and the bulbs are bursting forth.

I was inspired to use lighter, brighter colours over the weekend and I was keen to use flowers. I created two Mother's Day cards but, canny crafter that I am, I keep them in reserve until one of the challenge blogs asks for Mother's Day cards!

Meanwhile here is a spring-inspired layout which is part of the Story of My Life. It's on the subject of my hair.

I've had the sparkly balloon stickers from K&Co for ages, and didn't know what to do with them. But they made a great backdrop here for small circular shots of my head!

I used K&Co sparkly paper and scalloped cardstock and a Gelly Roll pen for the doodling. I drew the bluebells by hand and painted them with Twinkling H2Os. For the journalling, I wrote on an acetate (transparency) and then painted the back of it with acrylic paint.