Hello lovely friends; I hope your week has been great and the weekend is nearly here *yay*. Today I am sharing one of the Mother's Day cards I made back in March; when I saw that it was Mother's Day in the USA this weekend I realised that I hadn't shared my cards for this year. Today I'm going to share the card I made for my mother and then in another post I will share the card I made for my MIL.
I made a larger 6" x 8" card this time and even though it's quite a large space to fill I had a layout in mind when I made it. I used a new (back in March) decorative die and some gorgeous flowers from Gina K Designs. I hope you like it.
Here is my card:
A closer look at the flowers:
Plus I decorated the inside:
I began by creating my background panel using a clear background stamp. I cut my white panel 5 3/4" x 7 3/4" but the stamp is only 4 x 6 so I turned it sideways and stamped it twice using a light brown ink so that it would fill my panel. I used gold mirri card as my mat layer and adhered them together with double sided tape. I cut two of the decorative panels from ML 19 and again added a gold mirror mat layer behind it with double sided tape. I placed them on the panel at a jaunty angle, overlapping slightly. For my focal point I used two flower images and coloured them with the layering stencils and die cut them out with the coordinating dies. I added a few white hightlights with a gelly roll pen. I cut a few extra white flowers so that I could add some dimension with using foam squares. The flowers were adhered together with liquid glue and then added to the decorative panels with liquid glue. For the sentiments I used a mix of stamp sets, stamped them in black ink and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I also die cut extra white pieces of these and layered them together with liquid glue. They were added to the card panel with liquid glue. The panel was added to my card base with double sided tape. For a finishing touch I added some gold pearl embellishments. For the inside I used some leftover offcuts of the stamped background and placed them at the top and bottom of the panel, adding a thin strip of the gold mirri card to make it look more finished. I adhered this onto a gold mirri mat layer with double sided tape. The inside sentiment was made up of two separate stamps which I stamped in black ink. I added the panel to the card base with double sided tape. I was really happy with this card and it looked so much better in real life.
I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Beautiful Blossoms challenge - Anything floral goes with optional mood board

Cardz 4 Galz challenge - flowers
Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist feminine
Craft Rocket challenge - flowers
Crafter's Cafe challenge - ATG optional theme feminine
Crafty Catz challenge - ATG option May flowers
If You Give A Crafter A Cookie challenge - pretty flowers

Inkspirational challenge - seasonal - spring/Mother's Day
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - beautiful blooms
Stamping Sensations challenge - feminine
The Four Seasons challenge - think spring optional mood board

The Dream Factory challenge - flowers and/or Mother's Day
Triple B challenge - birds, blooms or butterflies optional mood board

I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and that you have a fun weekend.
Thanks for stopping by.
Love and hugs,
card supplies:
Gina K Designs - floral friendship stamp & die bundle & layering stencils
Gina K Designs - ML 19 die set
Gina K Designs - double BG 1/grip mat clear stamp
Gina K Designs - celebration wreath mini stamp
Gina K Designs - gentle silhouettes stamp & die bundle
Gina K Designs - a bit of spring mini stamp (inside sentiment)
Gina K Designs - Sending flowers clear stamp (inside sentiment)
Gina K Designs - pearl mix - metallic black, gold & silver
Craft UK Ltd - 12" x 12" 250gsm smooth white card
Versafine - onyx black ink pad
Sakura - no. 10 white gelly roll pen
gold mirri card from stash
13 comments:
Your card is beautiful. I love your background and the fancy panels to which you added pretty flowers. Thanks for joining us at cardz4galz, Johanna DT
Just lovely - gorgeous in fact. Love the colour scheme and those little details. Thank you for joining us at Cardz 4 Galz xx Lynda/Loopyloo DT
Very pretty, many thanks for sharing such a feminine card with us at Stamping Sensations challenge.
B x
Wow, this is a gorgeous card, such a beautiful design!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Beautiful Blossoms, Triple B, The Four Seasons!
Diane BB DT and TFS,TB Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
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Oh Denise, this is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! Love your design and how you finished the inside too ... great job! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Triple B & Four Seasons challenges! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Triple B Challenge Co-Owner
Four Seasons Co-Owner
Beautiful card, love the stamp used. Thanks for joining Stamping Sensations challenge. Anesha
Just GORgeous! I LOve your colours and design.
Thank you so much for sharing it with us at Crafty Catz.
Chrissyxx
This is so pretty and I love the background! Thanks for sharing with us at Beautiful Blossoms :)
Such sweet florals and I love the overall design layout. We're so happy you've joined us at The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge and we hope you'll play again soon.
Donna xx
Beautiful Blossoms Challenges
Paper Funday Challenges
Inspiration Station Challenges
This is lovely Denise. I do love that background stamp.
Hello Denise...I'm dropping in to share that your card is a Top Pick at Inkspirational. Congratulations - and thank you so much for joining us!
~carol
This card is really wonderful!
Thanks for joining us at the Dream Factory Challenge!
Hugs,
Conny
A beautiful card - those panels work so well.
Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations.
Helen x
DT
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