Mother's Day card

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

Word Art Wednesday challenge - ATG

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

Gina K Designs - ink pads - butterscotch, sunkissed coral, jelly bean green, fresh asparagus

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