Mother's Day

I thought it was about time to get some Mother's Day cards made. I was asked for a few last week at my choir and had nothing to offer, so I have been trying to remedy that. Some people prefer to have Mothering Sunday in the sentiment rather than Mother's Day, so I made a few of each.

This one uses the sketch from CAS(E) this sketch, the colours from Dynamic Duos .

                                                     

This one has the Mothering Sunday sentiment, which I made on the computer, I don't remember seeing a commercially available version.

This one uses the sketch from Paper Players and the theme of a circle from CASology

                     

I made the sentiment on the computer and used Pink Petticoat paper for the base. The hearts I believe are Memory Box and and I used a couple of the centres of the die cut to add to the circle.

A tiny touch of silver

A friend asked me to make a card for her husband to celebrate their 20th Anniversary... it doesn't seem two minutes since they were married, it must be a sign of old age on my part.

Among other accomplishments, he is a composer and so I wanted to get a little reference to music in somehow. I decided on this Sizzix embossing folder.The panel is from Spellbinders and the flourish (one and a half of them) I believe is from Dienamics.

I made the sentiment on the computer and added a couple of small die-cut hearts.

I have lost a new set of tiny heart dies, purchased recently from Simon Says Stamp and I'm really cross that I can't find them!!! I have only cut one set of hearts from them and now they're nowhere to be seen!

Grrrrrr!

Casual Fridays - Hi Ho Silver

Paper Piercing

I returned home yesterday and tried to make some cards for this week's challenge at "Less is More" and had no inspiration whatsoever! 

These are what I finally finished up with, but being so tired from my week away, I couldn't seem to get going!

This is a little heart from the SU set Hearts a Flutter with its co-ordinating die. The piercing was done with my EK Success gizmo which is used in conjunction with either my Scor Pal or Scor Buddy.

This one uses SU Framelits dies with a Studio G image and a Sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.The piercing was done with my pokey tool.

Once more details of this one are on the LIM blog, but it's simply Versamark with a whole bunch of different embossing powders sprinkled on. The piercing was done with both the previous methods.

The stamps used are from the SU Salebration set Bloomin' Marvelous (sadly with only one 'l').
The piercing on the panel has been turned into faux stitching for the challenge at ABC Challenges

I plan on taking it easy this weekend!

Up in the air

I am feeling a little 'up in the air' at the moment... we have had our darling granddaughter with us this week and she has been an absolute delight, but  we have to go to take her home and I will be staying on for a few days as she has a couple of additional days' holiday for two in-service day closures of her school.

Until Tuesday, my daughter will have no wifi service, so I have to get things sorted PDQ!

Here are my cards for this weeks Less is More challenge entitled Up in the Air...

'planes, balloons, rockets etc

Here is a Woodware image paper pieced using some scraps from my drawer. I think it's such a fun set.

This is a Stampin' Up image, now retired I believe simply added to a raised panel. the sentiment was cut with SU word window punch.

Sorry this is so short and sweet, but I seem to have a zillion things to do including more flat pack assembly this weekend!

HAve a good one!