Picture Perfect Mother's Day Easel Card

I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday! It was a picture perfect Spring day here in Michigan! I was blessed to have both my boys here along with my beautiful Mom. My wonderful husband made us dinner and and the boys cleaned up...couldn't ask for a more memorable day! Here's the card I made for my Mom...

I used the color combo of Mint Macaron, Perfect Plum, Rich Razzleberry & Blackberry Bliss. I just love the way Picture Perfect and the Timeless Textures stamp sets work together. I put out a couple tutorials recently featuring projects using both of these sets. You can see them here.

I used a retired set, Blessed Mother for the sentiment and the Botanical Blooms stamps and framelits to create the flowers on the base of the card. Here's a closer look...

Clear Wink of Stella was used on the flowers and the hummingbird for some shimmer. I also made an alternate, easy to pop in the mail, version of this card.

Thank you for visiting.

Happy Mother's Day

Looks like we are going to have a beautiful day for Mother's Day here in Michigan! I'm lucky to be spending the day with my Mom. She is a quilter, so I like to incorporate that into my cards for her when I can. So I used the beautiful new Paisley Petals papers cut into 1" squares to make up my background "quilt" for her Mother's Day card.

I watercolored the flower image from Blessed Mother using Classic Inks and my aquapainter. I couldn't decide which sentiment I wanted to use, so I made an easel card so I could use them both! lol To make the easel base, just cut the card stock the same width as your card front (in this case 4 1/4") by 8". Then score at 2" and again at 4". Fold and then mount your card front to the easel base. It folds up to fit into an envelope. Here's another view to see the base...

I hope you have a beautiful day celebrating Mother's Day with your family.

You Mean So Much

Here's another creation using the Blessed Mother set from the Occasions Mini. The color combo was inspired by the colors in the Springtime Vintage papers, but I ended up using my Square Lattice Embossing Folder instead of the paper. The little banner along the bottom with the stamped sentiment was cut using the Big Shot and the Petal Cone Die.

Stamps: Blessed Mother
Card stock: Baja Breeze, Always Artichoke, River Rock, Not Quite Navy & Whisper White
Ink: Black Stazon, Not Quite Navy & various other Classic Inks to watercolor
Accessories: Framed Tulips & Square Lattice Embossing Folders, Scalloped Rectangle Clearlit, Petal Cone Die, Always Artichoke Seam Binding Ribbon, Basic Pearls & Aqua Painter

Here's hoping that the weather reports for today are wrong...they have issued a winter storm warning...YUK! I was so hoping that we were done with winter weather. I guess good ol' Mother Nature hasn't looked at her calendar to know it's now "Spring!" Hope wherever you are is sunny...and send it my way!

Blessed Baja Wishes

The color scheme I used for this card was inspired by the Springtime Vintage papers, which I thought I was going to use when I watercolored this image. However, I started with Whisper White card stock instead of Very Vanilla and it didn't look so good with the paper because of that. Despite that little wrinkle in my original plan, I just love the way this turned out...hope you like it as well!

Stamps: Blessed Mother & Silhouette Sentiments (Level 1 Hostess Set)
Card stock: Baja Breeze, River Rock, Not Quite Navy & Whisper White
Ink: Black Stazon, Not Quite Navy & various other Classic Inks to watercolor
Accessories: Framed Tulips & Square Lattice Embossing Folders, Aqua Painter, White Organdy Ribbon, Basic Pearls, Jewelry Tag & Scalloped Border Punches & Beautiful Wings Embosslit

Have a wonderful day!

Razzleberry Blessed Mother

I just got this pretty new stamp set from the Occasions Mini called Blessed Mother. I immediately loved the sentiments and liked the images, but was unsure if they would be suited for traditional watercoloring since they seemed kind of dark and detailed in the catalog. The only samples I had seen were colored directly on the stamp vs stamping in black and watercoloring with inks, which is the method I enjoy most. Anyways, after playing with the set, I'm happy to report that it is a fun set to watercolor! I've made several sets of cards in different color schemes already...here is a couple using Rich Razzleberry paired up with So Saffron.

I stamped the main image in Black Stazon and used my aqua painter and Classic Inks to color it. Here's a closer look...

Here's another card using the other two stamps from the set, with basically the same color scheme. I just swapped out the Always Artichoke for Elegant Eggplant on this one.

I'm wishing now that I would have used the White Organza Ribbon on my first card as well, because it I like how it looks here over the Razzleberry Taffeta on my 1st card. I wish the Organza Ribbon came in more colors...I really like the mix of the sheer and silky solid down the center. The little banner I stamped the sentiment on comes from the Petal Cone Die. The main image is matted using the Scallop Rectangle Clearlit.


We haven't gone out in a while, so I think tonight we are going to dinner and to a movie. I want to see Rango...it looks really cute in the previews. It stars Johnny Depp, so I'm sure it will be good. (too bad it's just his voice! ;-) Hoping to get some stamping in too. Whatever your plans are...hope you have a wonderful weekend!