Mother's Day cards.

These are the cards that I made this year for my Mom.

I used the outline stamps from Peony Bouquet by Altenew, stamped with old paper distress ink, then coloured them with promarkers.
The spotty paper is by Dovecraft, Back to Basics (Baby Steps)
I used the largest die from Spellbinders 'Elegant Ovals', which has a sentiment is from DigiStamp Boutique printed on to it. MOM was die-cut using By the Letter dies (Die-namics)


Here's the card that Jake gave to his Nan...

I used the floral stamps from 'Gift of Love' by Stampin Up, adding a little more shading with promarkers.
The heart is a Marianne die (CR1225), stamped with a sentiment from a LOTV stamp set (digi version HERE), and NAN added using alphabet dies by Tattered Lace.
The stripy paper is by Dovecraft, Back to Basics (Bright Spark)

Peonies for Mother's Day

I've been playing with my new Altenew Peony Bouquet stamp set recently.
The first card I made was in shades of blues to make a get well card for my friend who's healing after an operation. I forgot to take a photo of the card before giving it to her though. Silly me.
Peonies are one of my Mom's favourites, she has a beautiful red peony bush in her garden, infact, it inspired me to buy the stamp set in the first place. So I just had to use it for my Mom's mother's day card, which is March 26th in the UK this year...

I kept the design quite simple, because the flowers do the talking here.
Here's a list of supplies used:
stamp sets - Peony Bouquet, Calligraphy Alpha Uppercase, Calligraphy Alpha, all by Altenew.
colouring medium - Memento dew drop inks.
patterned paper - Glitz Design (Color Me Happy).
scalloped heart - Marianne die (CR1225).
white card base; red card stock; vellum; WOW white embossing powder; clear Wink of Stella glitter pen.

I'm entering this card at:
Simon Says Stamp (Weds) - Fantastic Florals
Sweet Stampin - Flowers
Addicted to CAS - wood
That's Crafty challenge - heart
Crafts Galore Encore - anything goes

Thanks for looking xx

Mother's Day cards

Here are the 2 mother's day cards that were given to my mom yesterday.

The first uses my newest stamps and inks...

I've used Vintage Roses stamp set by Altenew, with Memento Dew Drop inks.
I did put a little of clear Wink of Stella on the roses, though you can't see that here.
The sentiment was stamped (badly) with an old stamp that I bought years ago. It has a floral border around it but I chose to use an SU marker to just colour the sentiment in the middle. It didn't stamp very clearly so I went over it with the same marker, then wrote Mom underneath.

I'm entering this card at:
Stamping Sensations - Flower Power
Crafty Calendar - Mum's Day/Special Female
MAWTT - Purple Haze

And here is the card that I made for my son to give to his nan for mother's day...

I've used Lili of the Valley's Posy Trio for this card, coloured with promarkers.
The text background paper was free with a craft mag some time ago.
I've used my SU eyelet border punch for some pretty edges, and Die-namics 'By The Letter' dies for nan.
Happy Mother's Day sentiment was printed off the pooter.

I'm entering this card at:
In The Pink - Special Lady
Cardz 4 Galz - woman or women
ABC - C is for Cute
Passion for Promarkers - Girls Only
Whimsy Challenges - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Mother's Day

Thanks for looking :)

FTH May 2015 Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on this month's From the Heart Stamps blog hop.

Our theme this time is "Mother's Day", or, for a special lady.

As you hop along, please leave a comment on each blog.
One random commenter will be selected on each blog to win an image of choice from the FTHS store.
Additionally, one commenter on the From the Heart Stamps blog will be selected to win a $15 gift voucher to the store!

If you have arrived here from Jessica, you are in the right place. If you haven't, why don’t you start at the From the Heart Stamps blog, so you don’t miss anything. The full hop list is there too.

Here is my card...

For my card, i've used one of the three images from Spring Baskets, coloured with promarkers, then fussy cut around it.
The patterned paper is from a freebie kit by Shery K Designs.
Other supplies used are my swiss dots embossing folder, scalloped edge punch, a small heart punch, and a mother word die by Clearly Besotted Stamps.

Now, please head over to Kathy's blog to see her fantastic card for this hop.

I hope that you enjoy hopping with us today.
The hop will end on Monday, May 4th at 6am, EST (11am UK time).
Winners will be posted on the From the Heart Stamps Blog on Wednesday, May 6th.
Good luck, and happy hopping! xx

lots of die cuts

This card was given to my Mom, from my Son...
 

I have used a selection of die cuts:

Die-namics - Leaf Filled Flourish
Paper Smooches - Loopy Leaf
Memory Box - Chloe Stem
Die-namics - Flower & Leaf Trio
Die-namics - By The Letter (uppercase)
Clearly Besotted Stamps - 'love' word die
  ( 'you' was made by using letters from 'birthday' and 'congrats' and trimming down )

I've added a stamped butterfly from a freebie Clearly Besotted Stamps set, which I received in a craft mag.
The paper is 'At First Blush' from a collection by Melissa Frances called Classic Elegance.

Inspiration Wednesday

Here's a mid-week inspiration post for From The Heart Stamps.
This time i'm showcasing the card that I gave to my Mom for Mother's Day last Sunday...

I've paired up 2 great floral sets for this card, using the daffodil image from the new Easter Trio stamp, which is this months SOTM, and teamed it up with images from Spring Medley, which was the SOTM for April, 2014.
I made the sentiments on my pc to match.
I used promarkers as my colouring medium, and then simply added top and bottom borders with card scraps in similar colours to those used to colour the flowers. The pink scalloped borders were made using my trusty old SU eyelet border punch.
I added a 'read it and weep' verse inside, then gave my Mom the card, with a bunch of flowers, wine, and a homemade pineapple pavlova, and operation Mother's Day was complete ;)
*except that my husband and son had to give them to her because I didn't want to pass on my cold to Mom, so I wished her a Happy Mother's Day via phone instead.

Join FTH on Facebook and “Like” our page to read about the latest FTH news. We'd also love it if you'd join our Facebook Group too, this group makes it easier for you to share pics of your FTH makes, we'd love to see them!
You can find our Stamp Of The Month challenge and details of how you can join this progressive challenge HERE.

I'm entering this card at:
Papertake Weekly - Happy ... Anything!
Fab n Funky - Spring into colour

FTH March Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on this month's From the Heart Stamps blog hop.

Our theme this time, as it's February, is "Going Green", we'd like you to use any shades of the colour green, or to use something recycled on your card or project please, or do both if you'd like to!

As you hop along, please remember to leave a comment on each blog.
One random commenter will be selected on each blog to win an image of choice from the FTH store.
And additionally, one commenter on the From the Heart Stamps blog will be selected to win a $15 gift voucher to the store!

If you have arrived here from Jessica, you are in the right place. If you haven't, why don’t you start at the From the Heart Stamps blog, so you don’t miss anything. The full hop list is there too.

Here is my card...

I've used Daffodils for my card today. I love daffs, they are my favourite flower, So bright & cheery, they always make me smile.
I've coloured my daffs with promarkers and complimented them with papers from Bella Gypsy's 'Grumble Grumble Glow' collection, which I duffed up slightly on the edges.
The sentiment was cut using 2 word dies from Clearly Besotted Stamps.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Creative Card Crew - Green
Digi Galore - It's all about Her / Mother's day
Addicted to CAS - Distress
Sugar & Betty's - Anything goes
That Craft Place - Mother's Day / Anything goes

Now, please head over to Kathy's blog to see her fantastic card for this hop.

I hope that you enjoy hopping with us today.
The hop will end on Monday, March 9th at 6am, EST (11am UK time).
Winners will be posted on the From the Heart Stamps Blog on Wednesday, March 11th
Good luck, and happy hopping! xx

Mothers Day card

This is the card my son will give to my Mom this Sunday...

This pretty bowl of flowers is by DigiStamp Boutique, (Mother's Day set 2).
The backing paper is from a pad called 'Fabrications' by Teresa Collins. The pad was a magazine freebie sometime last year.
'Nan' was cut using Die-namics dies (By the Letter), and the kraft frame behind the image was cut with a Marianne die.
Both the sentiment and the love word die were bought from Clearly Besotted Stamps. Can you see that I added a bit of glitter to 'love'. I just got my first order from CBS, and I'm really impressed, delivery was very fast, and was securely packaged. Inside, my order was wrapped in pretty pink tissue paper too. They obviously care about their customers :)  I'll be ordering again, I want some of the word dies that are currently out of stock and I'm hoping that they'll be re-stocked soon.

I'd like to enter this card at:
DigiStamp Boutique - March customer competition
Cute Card Thursday - floral delights
Crafty Catz - anything goes

Blooming lovely

Here's another Mother's Day card I have been asked to make.
I've used another image from DigiStamp Boutique, this one is from the Blooming Lovely set; Blooming flowers...

I wanted to keep this card quite clean and simple, so this weeks lovely sketch provided by Papertake Weekly fitted the bill perfectly for this card.
No patterned papers were used, I wanted the flowers to really stand out from this card.
The pale pink piece was embossed using a Swiss Dots folder.
I wanted something to edge the dark pink piece, but didn't want to add a border punch, so decided just to paper pierce each side instead.
The sentiment is computer generated.

I'd like to enter this card at:
DigiStamp Boutique - March customer competition
Papertake Weekly - sketch
Passion for Promarkers - embossing
I love Promarkers - anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - floral delights
Charisma Cardz - CAS

Thank you for stopping by today xx

For You, Quacky

Last week I made a card using Birthday Quacky from DigiStamp Boutique.
Well Quacky is such a cute little character, that I wanted to use For You Quacky for a Mothers Day card that I've been asked to make...

I've coloured the image with promarkers and added some finer detail with SU markers. The sky was sponged in with a light touch of SU Bashful Blue ink.
The sentiment is also a DSB one, from Mother's Day set 2.
Both of these spotty papers are from the same MME pad (Lime Twist; Life of the Party)
I wanted the die cut flowers (Die-namics flower and leaf trio die) to look similar to the one i'd coloured in the image so they got the same treatment with my markers.
The leaves and fronds are all Marianne dies, and 'Mom' has been cut using Die-namics By the Letter dies.

Quacky is going to the parties at:
DigiStamp Boutique - March customer competition
I love Promarkers - anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - floral delights
Creative Inspirations - it's a girl thing

Bobbi and Flowers

When I was asked to make a Mothers Day card which is to be given by a toddler, I wanted a cute baby looking image, but not TOO babyish. Bobbi is perfect...

This is Bobbi and Flowers from DigiStamp Boutique, coloured with promarkers and fussy cut out (I didn't include the butterflies).
As the card will be given by a little boy, I decided to go with blue. I still have some SU Bashful Blue papers left so thought they'd be ideal as they are still pretty and feminine too.
I punched the edges with the SU scalloped punch and die cut a scalloped circle for the dotty piece behind Bobbi. The sentiment is computer generated.

Bobbi is being entered at:
DigiStamp Boutique - March competition
Digi Galore - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Mothers Day or Special Lady
Sentimental Sundays - Cute and Cuddly

Thanks for looking, hope you've had / are having a great weekend xx

Daffodils

I love daffodils, they are my favourite flower, they are a national flower of Wales and an emblem for St David's Day (1st March).
I'm not Welsh, although my Grandmothers family do originally come from Wales, but I was born on St David's Day so i've always associated daffodils with my birthday too.
And right now I have 2 big vases of  beautiful daffs in my lounge and another on my kitchen window sill :)

So naturally, when I saw this image at From The Heart Stamps, it just had to be bought...

I decided to make my card using this weeks I {heart}sketches challenge.
Here's the sketch...

But starting this week, they are sketches with a twist. This week we are asked to add real or faux stitching.
I used the sketch AND the twist, I paper pierced around the edge of the image and dragged a white gel pen through the holes for my faux stitching.
The paper is by Prima, from a pad called Believe. The sentiment is computer generated.

I'd also like to enter this card at:
Paper Makeup - anything goes
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Passion for Promarkers - flowers
Craft Mojo - spring flowers
Crafts Galore Encore - use a stamp or digi stamp

Tulips for Mothers Day

Here's another commissioned card I was asked to make for Mothers Day, this time i've used Tulips by The Stamping Boutique. Sorry I can't link directly because I can't find this digi stamp on their site anymore, which is a shame because it's a beauty.

I printed the image 3 times, and coloured with promarkers before cutting it out so that I could 3D it with foam pads.
The main sentiment is computer generated, and the 'Best Mum' tag was stamped using a clear stamp from a magazine. Bit of matting and layering and a tiny bit of bling, job done! hope the lad at work likes it, more importantly, I hope his Mom does!

I'm entering this card at:
Sweet Stampin - mothers day / special lady
Totally Papercrafts - spring colours and/or image
Crafty Cardmakers - blooming images
Paper Makeup Stamps - Anything goes / use a digi
Inky Chicks - Mothers Day or Birthday
Sentimental Sundays - flowers, flowers and more flowers

Thanks for looking xx

Sunday makes...

Here's a couple of cards i've made.
This first card is part of a commission order...

I used this truly beautiful and delicate image by DigiStamp Boutique; Sketchy Cherry Blossom. It's actually on offer for this month and is only 95p!
I made a simple frame in my paint program and added the image to it, then coloured it with my promarkers.
I printed out the flowers twice so that I cut 3D them.
The sentiment is also computer generated, and layered on top of the frame using a pretty cArt Us border beneath it, and adding some little diamonds (crystals) to embellish it and finish it off.

I'd like to enter this card into:
DSB blog's customer competition
I love promarkers - one for the girls 
Charisma Cardz - anything goes
Crafting When We Can - Birthstones (diamonds for April)

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This card has been made for my daughter's boyfriend.
I used one of my favourite images, one I often go to for male cards. It's a Pollycraft image; Beer Monster...

Rich is a wolves fan (wolverhampton wanderers) and this is my second card to be made recently for wolves fans. I'm more used to making blue and white cards for Baggies fans, BOING! BOING!! :D
Anyway, I digress, back to the card, so as a wolves related card, I had to go with the orange and black theme. The stripy paper is from a Dovecraft paper pack, Abstract Prints.
'Happy Birthday' is computer generated.
'cheers to you' is from a stampin up stamp set of the same name. I drew the speech bubble myself.
'rich' was made with die cut letters (die-namics by the letter), as you can see I still haven't got around to getting the uppercase die-namics dies yet, hence the lowercase 'r'.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Totally Gorjuss - for the men
Sweet Stampin - stars and stripes
Stamptacular - TWO's company (2 punched stars. Also 2 stamps, one digi, one rubber)
ABC challenge - H for Happy Birthday


thanks for stopping by today xx

she loves me

This card will be given to my Mom by my son for Mothers Day. I really hope that my Mom doesn't stop by my blog before March 10th, I can't put photos on facebook yet but i'm hoping i'm safe to on here.

I have used another of my latest 'winnings', 'she loves me' from Crafty Sentiments. Isn't he a cutie? coloured as per usual with my trusty promarkers...

I'm entering this card into the challenge over at Passion for Promarkers - add sparkle, and the challenge over at Oldie but a Goodie - Glitz and Glam (my old stash is the leaf patterned paper and the crystals) I have actually had the leafy paper for about 4 years now, it is from a pad by Provocraft and is called 'windswept'. The sparkly, glitzy part is of course, courtesy of the pretty gems added to the pale blue piece cut using my cArt-Us 'drops' border die. The yellow (barely banana) piece was punched with my SU eyelet border punch then I glued the 2 together before adding the little crystals.
I'd also like to enter it at Creative Card Crew whose theme is girly, & Pennys Paper Crafty, whose theme this week is One for the girls, presuming that means a card for a girl and not a girly image (Pennys & CCC DTs, please delete my entry if it doesn't fit the theme for your challenges).

Thanks for stopping by xx

on a roll...

Morning all, look at me? haven't posted so much for aaaaaages! and i'm here again with a few more cards I've made.
BTW, I'm so glad to see the back of all that snow, aren't you? or do you still have some?
We have rain today and the sky is overcast, so I apologise for the dull photos.

My first card is for the challenge over at Simply Less is More and uses their sketch, the image is called Flowers and Bumblebee and is by Heart Song Designs, I sponged the sky background with bashful blue SU ink before colouring the image with promarkers. I added a thin strip of card top and bottom and punched out the handwritten sentiment.

I'd also like to enter this card at Totally Gorjuss' challenge which is 'flowers'.

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This next card will be entered at the challenge over at Seize the Birthday, who also gave us a sketch to use for our layout, this time they want to see a feminine birthday card...

and on the inside i've handwritten "...it's your birthday"

This card was in fact my second attempt at the sketch (scroll down a little to see my first).
I used Mo Manning's oh so cute 'Two Jill' and coloured her with promarkers. I will also be entering this card in Mo's  DP2 challenge, which is 'emboss it with a Mo', I used my stylised flowers embossing folder on the pink piece behind the image.

I'd also like to enter this card at:
Top Tip Tuesday - layers
Creative Card Crew - girly
Pennys Paper Crafty - embossing

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So this is the card I made with Seize the birthday's sketch before realising i'd made a Mother's Day card instead of a birthday card lol, no matter, it's a lovely sketch...

I won this Kenny K image along with 4 others over at the challenge at Totally Papercrafts last week "YAY!!"
How lucky am I eh? HUGE thanks to the Totally Papercrafts team and of course to Kenny K for my prize. This little beauty is called Happy Hour, and straight away I knew I wanted to use this for my Mom's card for Mother's Day which is March 10th this year.
I coloured her to (sort of) match the paper which are both from a set called Sew Pretty and were free in a craft mag.
'mom' was cut using Die-namics dies and the sentiment is handwritten.
The beautiful border edge to each side of the image is a cArt-Us die.

I'd like to enter this card over at:
Charisma Cardz - hearts and flowers
Crafty Calendar Challenge - 'New' (in my case, it's stash, the image, papers and border die are all new this week)

Hope you like, and thanks for stopping by today xx

Tulips for Mothers Day

This card is for my Mom this coming Sunday...

The image is from The Stamping Boutique and is called Tulips, coloured with promarkers as per usual. I actually printed out the image 3 times so that I could cut out parts of it to 3D the image.
The paper is by Echo Park and is from their collection called Little Girl. I've had this paper pack for a little under a year, and liked it so much that I recently bought the digi set so that when I run out from the paper pack, I can print out more.
The sentiment is computer generated.
All I need to do now is look for a 'read-it-and-weep' verse to add to the inside.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Crafty Catz - Mothers Day / Special Lady
Allsorts - Say it with flowers
Lexi's Creations - Mothers Day
Crafty Bloggers Network - Floral
Papertake Weekly - For the Girls (or Mum)
Oldie but a Goodie - Mums the word
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Think Spring
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
My Mums Craft Shop - Mums the word
Creative Inspirations - Something for Mum

Thanks for stopping by today xx

UPDATE:

with this card, Thank you Laurie xx

Mother's Day Designs

Here are a few of my cUp designs which are suitable for Mother's Day...

A Card for my Mother

Blue Hydrangea

Pink Hydrangea

Vintage Violets

Morning Glory

And if your Mom loves chocs instead of flowers...

Chocolate and Roses are so overated!

in 2 designs

each sheet is 80p, $1.21 (US), $1.31 (AU) or €0.90
Available from craftsUprint

Sweet Stampin #17 - colour combo

Time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin, and this week we have a colour combo chart for you...



You don't have to use all 4 colours if you don't want to, but we would definately like to see 3 of them in your challenge entry please.
I'm greedy though and like to use all 4 if I can lol
I've made this card for my Daughter (who doesn't like cardmaking herself but likes the finished products if they are made for her!) to give to my Mom tomorrow - it's ok, my Mom won't see this post before she receives the card...

I really do like this colour combo together :)

I started with a barely banana card base then matted onto this a piece of blush blossom cardstock after distressing the edges first with the blade of my scissors.
I made my own background by stamping with sage shadow, barely banana & certainly celery ink onto whisper white cardstock, the SU stamp set I used is 'One of a Kind'
The image was given to me by Margreet (thank you hunni) and was coloured with SU inks to match.
I wanted to put a solid background behind the cute hanglar girl so I punched some barely banana cardstock with my SU eyelet border punch, and then added torn strips of blush blossom beneath the word Nan to help make the letters pop out a little more.
Those 'Nan' letters were hand drawn & coloured with the same ink colours too.
The sentiment is from the 'Yummy' stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by today, and to all the Moms who will be celebrating Mothers Day tomorrow I hope that you all have a wonderful day xx

Mothers Day 2010

Here's the card I have made this year for my Mom...



I have used close to cocoa & kraft cardstock by stampin up, the DSP is called 'Bella Bleu'
The flower was made using this tutorial that I found while browsing the web,
however, my flower looks different because I forgot to do the final fold before I glued the petal together, saying that I do still like the end result :)
My printer is broken at the mo, hence why the greeting is a bit dodgy lol.
The letters to spell out Mom were hand drawn onto the same DSP, backed onto cardstock for extra strength then attached with foam pads.
Punched flowers & leaves and twirly tendrils complete the card.

All I have to do now is write in a verse, then it's ready to give to my Mom :)