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

A Mother's Day Card

So sorry for the late post... kinda went for breakfast with the mummies and it turned into a brunch. We had a meeting this morning in school about our little ones so decided to go for a bite to eat before heading home. 

It's my day to post over on the Make The Day Special blog and today I'm sharing with you the card I have made my Mum for Mother's Day (my Mum doesn't read my blog so I'm ok to share it here ). This week the girlies have been playing with a colour combo to create their cards.. if you want to join in to there is a challenge tab on the top of the Make The Day Special blog so we can take a peek at yours.

Lots of gorgeous goodies landed at Make The Day Special this week, there were deliveries from both Avery Elle and Wplus9 (with more Wplus9 to follow). So my card has things from both companies. 

To start I cut the Spring Wreath from Wplus9 inked in Hero Arts Field Greens and attached to my card layer. I then added my sentiment making it up from the greetings from Avery Elle's Needle Little Love. Although it says Mom on the stamp set I added a little tail to the 'o' which made it look like a 'u'. 

Then I cut two lots of the More Fresh Cuts dies and stamped the More Fresh Cut stamps (on the way) onto the coordinating shapes. And arranged them in the bottom right of the wreath and added some smaller stamped images around this cluster. 

After I had finished this panel I added it to my base card on which I had already used embossing paste through a stencil to create a bit of texture. 

Thanks for popping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx