Thursday, May 1, 2014

A Mother's Day card

Today I played along with two challenges: Freshly Made Sketches and ColourQ.  Here are the challenges:
                                 
 

And here's what I made:
 This will be a Mother's Day card for my mother-in-law.  My mother passed away 11 years ago, so it actually is not one of my favorite holidays to stamp.  But my mother-in-law, Lillian is a sweet woman and I love her dearly.  I think she will like this. :)


I watercolored the flowers using the challenge colors of: Pumpkin Pie, Calypso Coral, Pretty in Pink and Old Olive. I stamped the flower image randomly onto Pumpkin Pie cardstock using my Craft white ink pad. I also added little dots using my Chalk Board marker.  It's hard to see, but I hand cut 4 little flowers and and popped them up with dimensionals. Fringe scissors for the bottom piece and some Calypso Coral ribbon and a piece of Bakers Twine finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Stamping!    

6 comments:

  1. Stunning card, Annette! I love how you used the CQ challenge colors, and the randomly stamped flower image in white is a great idea to carry the floral theme on to the background. You MIL will so enjoy this!

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  2. The cluster of flowers is so pretty! Love all these details! Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches!

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  3. Oh wow--love the look of this card!

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  4. So pretty, Annette. I love how you customized the DSP!

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  5. Love how you've focussed on the pumpkin Annette...it's such a bright and cheery card. Thanks for playing along at Colour Q!

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  6. Oh how beautiful! Your colouring of the flowers and leaves is just perfect Annette! Thanks for joining us at FMS this week!

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