Mother's Day Card

Mother's Day is coming up pretty quickly.

Sunday, May 14th is Mother's Day,

have you started your cards yet?

I have to make a few cards to send out, 

and this is my first.

When I was shopping with a couple friends

in Ohio, I found this 

"Spider Mum" stamp set from Stampendous 

for half price, so I had to pick it up.

I do love flower stamps!

I stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black Ink,

colored it with my Fantasia Colored Pencils,

then fussy cut the pieces.
I used my Prismacolor blender pencil 

for the first time and love how it works.

I wanted something more than a plain white background,

so I went into my stash of goodies and found

a piece of deli paper that I had colored with 

alcohol inks and used that.

The sentiment is from the

Happy Anniversary Stamp Set from

QKR Stampede

I wasn't sure at first how I liked this card, but 

it really has grown on me and I really do like it.

I'm hoping to get some more
Mother's Day cards done this weekend.

How about you, what do you have planned?

Thanks for stopping by,

see you again soon!

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Mother's Day challenge

Mother's Day is almost here and this week's

Eureka! Stamps Challenge theme is

Mother's Day.

I chose to use 2 different images from

Eureka! Stamps

"Tulips" (#28502)

"Butterfly and Sunflower" (#20801)

I stamped the tulips across the bottom of a piece of white card stock

and colored them with water color crayons.

I then stamped them again on some scrap white and colored select tulips.

These tulips I fussy cut and adhered them over the tulips on the background piece with foam tape. I also cut some random tulips and added them with foam tape to give more feeling of depth.

The butterfly was colored and cut from the stamped image of

Butterfly and Sunflower as I only needed the butterfly.

Here is a close up picture that shows the layered tulips.

The blue background was created with water color crayons

and a good amount of water.

The sentiment is printed from my computer.

 

For all the details about the challenge, be sure to go to the

Eureka! Stamps Blog

I hope you have been inspired in some way

and will create something for the challenge.

 

Thanks for stopping, I hope you'll leave a comment

and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Mother's Day Card

Happy Mother's Day!

I know Mother's Day isn't until Sunday,

 but I thought I'd be the first to say it.

I made this card using 2 stamps from QKR Stampede.

"Bouquet" (#16220)

and Happy Mother's Day from the

"Happy Birthday" set (#22803)

I stamped the Bouquet image onto white card stock and colored it with FlexMarkers and inked the edges.

The sentiment was stamped with the same color ink as I used to ink the edges and that I used to create the base paper.

To create the base I:

1. Ran a piece of waxed paper through the Cuttlebug in an embossing folder.

2.  Put a piece of white card stock on either side of the waxed paper and ironed over it. (Place a piece of scrap paper over it before ironing so you don't get wax on the iron.)  This transfers the wax to the card stock.

3. Inked the card stock with direct to paper technique. This means you put the ink right from the pad onto the paper.  You could use a blending tool if you wish.  The wax acts as a resist.

4. Use a paper towel to buff over the entire piece, this will remove any excess ink that is on the waxed areas.

5.  Use the newly created patterned card stock.

It's as easy as that!

Make a stop into the QKR Stampede shop and see what images you can find that will be great to use with paper you create with this technique!

Thanks for stopping by today!

I hope you enjoy my card as much as I enjoyed making it.

Leave a comment if you wish and come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!