Mother's Day Wreath

Happy Sunday - hope the weekend is treating you kindly.

I've suddenly realised that next Sunday is Mother's Day here in the UK and that I'd better get a wriggle on with my card making for it so today my make is the first of my cards - this one will be for my Godmother.

I started with the gorgeous new Spring Wreath Die from Wplus9 but I wanted the flowers I put on it to be more of a statement that the little blooms that come with the die so I added flowers using Papersmooches Flowers Dies.   To give some texture and a rich feel to the card I die cut all my elements from felt.  The sentiment in the centre is also from Wplus9 - the little Mother's Day Bouquet set which I stamped using the awesome new inks from Avery Elle - this one is Fog - a warm mid-grey.   After stamping the sentiment, I ran the panel through a woodgrain folder for more texture before adding the wreath and flowers and accenting them all with a tiny pearl centre.

Restocks from Papersmooches and Lawn Fawn were both posted from the States this week and I am waiting on Mama Elephant to process the order I placed last Saturday - keep an eye out for the new arrivals early to mid-April along with 2 new brands that I'll fill you in on later - I'm keeping those secret until they arrive ;-)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend - catch you later.

Tara

Two Floral Minis

Hello there :0)
After my trip into masculinity last Monday I've gone floral this week with two 4" square cards using the new Flower dies from Paper Smooches.... they are made to compliment the Calico stamp set but I've used them on their own and added colour with Promarkers...

I kept the dies joined together and ran them through twice with regular white card and once with the card I use my promarkers on. After adding colour to the flowers I glued the layers together which gives the shapes a bit of strength and the appearance of chipboard :0) The sentiment on this first card is from a set called Strictly Sentiments 1 which is out of stock at the moment

I kept this card very simple and layered up a couple of flowers.... I love the way the red really packs a punch!! This sentiment is from another Paper Smooches set called Just a Note... it's the perfect size against that nodding flower :0)

                                 

I love that these flower dies are a standalone set so you can get great results with them without the stamps, leave them joined together or separate them so you can use them even more creatively ...... we'd love to see what you make with any stamps or dies from the store and now it's easy to share your creativity on our new Flickr group, just click to join us and load up your photos :0)

See ya next week
Jenny x