Mother's Day

 Hi all, back this evening with my Mother's Day card using another of my new Unity Stamps images.  I haven't seen any tulips blooming yet, but the daffodils are in full show, all the hedgerows are starting to waken, and baby lambs in the fields.  I love seeing everything coming to life at this time of year!

 This took me a while to colour, but I love how it turned out.  I added a touch of glitter to the Pussy Willow and some silver splatters to the background. 

Simon Says Stamp Monday - beautiful blooms 

Inspired by #IB379 - spring brights

The Card Concept #225 - spring flowers 

Crafty Calendar March - spring 

Mother's Day card

Hi all, popping in with my Mother's Day card which I almost forgot to share.  I've used my lovely new bunny alphas from Lili of the Valley, aren't they the cutest! I added gloss and lots of glitter to the letters so it was really sparkly in real life.  I did have a green bank behind the bunnies but didn't stencil it dark enough and they kinda look like they're floating there 🤣

(PIN)spiration #311 - glitter

We Love Stamping March - feminine 

Daisy Chain #83 - animals

And sorry I've been on the missing list ... I've been taking colouring classes from Kit & Clowder and they have taken up my spare time.  One of the few New Year resolutions I've actually followed up on!  Here's a couple of my recent bits of homework...

Mother's Day

 Hi all!  Well it's been a weekend of events ... St Patrick's Day on Friday (free day off work yey!), Ireland winning the Six Nations on Saturday, and Mother's Day today!  So this is Mum's card using this cutie from Penny Black.  She has a fabulous rose garden so this image is actually pretty perfect for her as she does spend all summer watering them!  Coloured with polychromos and clear gloss added to the watering can.

Penny Black Saturday March - anything goes 

Daisy chain challenge #72 - flowers

Word Art Wednesday #587/588 - anything goes 

And here's a wee photo of my lovely mum with her roses...

Happy Mother's Day

 Hi all, and Happy Mother's Day for tomorrow to all you Mums out there!  I'm sharing my Mum's card this evening.  I've used my new Penny Black daisies, it's a bigger stamp than I was expecting (no I didn't read the dimensions when I was ordering LOL), but it works well enough in this DL size.  My new PB butterfly dies also made a surprise appearance after I managed to get a dirty smudge on my sentiment 😜

I should have taken a photo of my own pot of daisies, I'd forgotten I had some mini daffodils planted in the same pot, but they look amazing popping through the daisies!  We've had such a lovely spell of sunny spring weather, though there's talk of it getting cold during the week and a chance of snow! Hopefully it's just the weathermen getting over excited again!

 Penny Black Saturday March - anything goes, option bright colours 

Layout inspired by the sketch at Try Stamping on Tuesday #548

Word Art Wednesday #535/536 - anything goes 

Cut It Up #248 - spring project 

Pupdate..

Miss Molly has been back at the groomers after her puppy introduction a couple of weeks ago.  I'm not entirely sure how well behaved she was, but she came back lovely and clean and tidy, and oh my goodness her fur is soooo soft!  

Happy Mother's Day

 

Hi folks, and a happy Mother's Day to all you mums out there.  I've always wondered why it's on a different date in the US, when we all agree on the same date for Father's Day?

This is my card for my mum, a bit different to my usual and it looked different in my head, but I'm happy with how it turned out!   My butterflies are from a new to me brand - Kwan Crafts.  I got some dimension to them by gluing them down at the centre and adding foam pads to their wings.  I've also highlighted parts of each butterfly with gloss and glitter so there's lots of sparkle.   I stencilled some bricks and then some words in the background but it all got a bit lost anyway so I needn't have bothered 😉

• Word Art Wednesday #481/482 - anything goes
• Love to Craft  - March anything goes
• My time to craft #452 - make it feminine

This one was inspired by Kristina's beautiful card and tutorial:. https://www.kwernerdesign.com/blog/live-replay-underpainting-watercolor-technique/

A watercoloured background isn't one I'd do often as it's a bit of a faff waiting for it to dry properly and I could have been braver and went a bit darker with my colours, but I love how it turned out and I'll definitely give this technique a go again. 

• Time Out #183 - try something different
• Allsorts #615 - a stamped image
• Simply Create #168 - embossing

Mother's Day & Silver Anniversary

Well it's been an icky damp old day today, but at least the birdies think that Spring is on it's way ... the blackbirds out our back garden were having a great sing off earlier!

So it's Mother's Day tomorrow - this is card #2 for my Mum.  I decided I didn't like my first effort so made this one instead!
I've used a LOTV image - I'm gutted that they're going digital as I LOVE their stamps.  Coloured with watercolour pencils and clear gloss added to the flowers.  MFT heart die.

• Heart die / layout based on Anita's card over at the Muse challenge #256
• Fab'n Funky #384 - Mother's Day
• Creative Kockouts #235 - dies / punches
• Cute Card Thursday #520 - Mothers

This one's a special request.  Hmmm, not sure about it!  I've been struggling with my mojo and think this might be one of the dodgy ones ;)

It's maybe because I tried to squeeze the names into the design?

Love my sparkly silver card though!

Image is an oldie from Art Gone Wild.












Oops, just realised that I forgot to add in some shading to my birdies after the base layer. 

• Make My Monday #66 - gold or silver
• Time Out #104 - bold

Mother's Day

So this is my Mum's card for Mother's Day.  It's hard to remember sometimes what I've given her for Birthdays etc, but I don't think I've used this stamp on one of hers before.

Image from Whiff of Joy - coloured with watercolour pencils and sparkle added to the flowers and to the little heart snippets.
I didn't quite get the dimensions of my layout right - the pink panel should have been shorter to show off the little heart panel which is mostly hidden now!
Sentiment stamp is an oldie from Lili of the Valley.
Dienamics stitched circles die.

• Sketch from MFT Wednesday Sketch Club #324 - I didn't have any fancy curved edge dies so had to go with a straight edge
• Creative Inspirations #270 - use an LOTV stamp
• Sweet Stampin - Mother's Day
• Crafty Cardmakers #184 - for a special woman
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - layer it up

The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge

A two-fer day 30!

Woohooo Day 30 of the Daily Marker colouring challenge, and I've a couple of Mother's Day cards for you this evening.  I made 2 of the larger square version for a couple of work colleagues, and then they came back and asked for a smaller version for their Mothers-in-Law ;)


For both I've used this pretty floral stamp from Poppy Power - coloured with watercolour pencils.  DP from Lili of the Valley.

• CRAFT #352 - Mother's Day
• Cute Card Thursday #414 - florals
• Crafty Catz #313 - special lady
• Sweet Stampin - Mother's Day
• Crafty Cardmakers #156 - for a special woman
• Card 2 - Tuesday Throwdown #283 - frame it 
• Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday (Feb) - floral

ETA: Winner at Sweet Stampin challenge :)

Mother's Day card

Phew I'm pooped tonight ... it's been a dry but brrr chilly day.   We had a few hours at the garden centre this morning and then I spent all afternoon out sorting the back garden.  Who knew there were so many weeds hiding under the fallen leaves! ;)  Looks good now though!

This is my card for my Mum.  I won this Lili of the Valley image a while back - coloured with watercolour pencils.  Marianne Design butterfly die.  Woodware flower punch.

My Time to Craft #283 - for a special lady
Moving along with the times - bingo - I used Die, image, gems
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - things that fly (butterfly)
Papertake Weekly - Mum's the Word
Simon Says Stamp Monday - B is for ... Bunnies, butterfly, bling and banners
Natalie and Amy's challenge #30 - flowers
Crafty Cardmakers #134 - for a special woman
Kathy's 30 day colouring challenge - Day 11 #thedailymarker30day

Happy Mother's Day

Just a quickie post tonight, there's a good evening's viewing on the telly (...for a change!)
This is the card I gave my Mum - image from Lili of the Valley, coloured with promarkers and central panel popped up on dimensionals.
The layout was inspired by the Muse challenge, but I'm too late to enter it now.

Everybody Art #226 - butterfly
Passion for Promarkers #188 - for a lady
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Cuttlebug Mania #01 - butterfly
Creative Inspirations #204 - Happy Mother's Day
Simon Says - a bit o' green
Lili's Little Fairies - a card for Mum
Totally Gorjuss #174 - for Mum
Joanna Sheen - Mum's the word
Dream Valley #52 - Mother's Day