Mother's Day is coming up!

I have been creating Mother's Day cards, like crazy. It is, after all, the most important day of every year! I will feature Mother's Day cards all week!

I used our glorious Paper Fundamentals for the patterned paper, on this card. I matted with Lagoon and White Daisy cardstock. I tied things up with Lagoon Baker's Twine and added a Clear Sparkle that I coloured with our Shin Han Alcohol Markers.

For the watercolour piece, I first embossed a retired flower image on watercolour paper, with Clear Embossing Powder. I smooshed Flaxen; Glacier; and Sunset ink on my All Purporse Mat. I spritzed each colour with some water with a Spray Pen. With a paint brush, I just started to apply each colour in thirds, then let the colour move around as it wanted. Once the piece was dry, I spritzed it with water and added some more colour so it was more vibrant. I stamped the sentiment with Black ink, then overstamped it with Versamark. I added clear embossing powder to it, them used my heat gun to emboss.

All supplies are Close to My Heart, unless noted.
Stamp: Artfully Sent Sentiment set; retired flower
Paper: Paper Fundamentals Whimsy Assortment; Lagoon; White Daisy
Ink: Flaxen; Glacier; Sunset; Black; Versamark; Shin Han Alcohol Markers
Embellishments: Clear Sparkle; Lagoon Baker's Twine
Other: Watercolour paper; Stitched Die

Do you love elephants?

I have recently been noticing some rather sweet elephant stamps online. Nothing that made me jump to buy, until I got an email with this sweet set from WPlus9. It is called, Unforgettable and has matching dies.

I needed to create a special 7th birthday card for a former co-worker's Neice. So I thought this Girl's 5 x 7 card would be perfect for pink and grey elephants. I started with Slate and Cotton Candy cardstock. I stamped with Cotton Candy ink, with 4 different "7" images, for this 7th Birthday card.

I matted some patterned paper with Slate cardstock. I cut some White Daisy; Slate and Whisper stitched circles, with stitched dies from Li'l Inker Designs. I stamped the sentiments from the Unforgettable set in Black ink, then added coordinating stars in Cotton Candy ink. I coloured the sweet elephants with my Shin Han Markers.

I embossed some Whisper cardstock with CTMH's Heart folder, then matted it on some Slate cardstock punched with our border punch. I also added some Slate Diagonal striped ribbon. I cut flowers with CTMH's Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge at 1 1/4", then stamped them with swiped Cotton Candy ink. I added some Stardust Glitz to their centres.

All supplies are Close To My Heart, unless noted.
Stamp: WPlus9 Unforgettable; retired alphabet sets
Cardstock: White Daisy; Slate; Whisper; Cotton Candy
Ink: Cotton Candy; Black; Memento Black; Shin Han Alcohol Markers
Embellishments: Slate Diagonal Ribbon; Stardust Glitz
Tools: Scallop Punch; Heart Embossing folder; Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge; WPlus9 Unforgettable coordinating dies

A quick post

 I have been so busy with card making and photo taking, that I have neglected my blog. This is a card I made as a group of "Female Birthday" cards for a friend who I custom make cards for every year.

I used the glorious Brushed paper pack along with some Red Shimmer Trim and Canary cardstock. The stamped images are in Cranberry; Pixie; and Canary ink. The flowers are from a retired set and the sentiment is stamped in Black ink, from Joyful Birthday. I added some Red Glitz to the tops of the Cranberry flowers.

All supplies are Close To My Heart.

One last flower card!

Here is the last in my series of "Red" watercolour flower cards.

I have been working on some new watercolour cards and lots and lots of Mother's Day cards. I'm going to add some tea; coffee and donuts to the mix, too!

All supplies are Close To My Heart, except watercolour paper.

Mother's Day is less than a month away!

I have been making lots and lots of Mother's Day cards to sell. This one was part of my 4th watercolour series. I used the same supplies for each card in the series.

This one got its sentiment from Artfully Sent's sentiment stamp set. I used Jumping Geometrics in Cranberry ink on coordinating cardstock. I coloured Gold Sequins and Clear Sparkles with my Shin Han Alcohol Markers. I embossed with Canary Pigment ink on watercolour paper then coloured in the flowers with Cranberry and Canary ink.

All supplies are Close To My Heart, except watercolour paper.

Spring Flowers

Our Spring flowers are all in bloom. My daffodils are almost finished blooming. My tulips probably have another week until they are finished. My prairie lilies have their leaf stalks up and the buds are starting to form. I even have figs on my tree right now and all of my Hellebore are blooming like crazy.

In keeping with flowers, here is the first card in my next trio of watercolour flower cards.

I first want to utilize retired papers to create these cards. I stamped the background with an image from Jumping Geometrics in Cranberry ink . I added Ruby Baker's Twine and also some Clear Sparkles and Silver Sequins coloured with my Shin Han alcohol markers.

The flower was stamped with Canary pigment ink, on watercolour paper. I embossed it with clear embossing powder, then used Cranberry and Canary ink to colour it in. 

All supplies are Close To My Heart except watercolour paper.

Happy Easter!

I wish each of you a wonderful holiday, with lots of family time and chocolate!