A Mother's Love

Third post for me today.  If you are looking for my Shopping Our Stash card, please scroll down one.  For my Twisted Thursday card, please scroll down two posts.  Thanks.

For this month's Great Impressions challenge, the theme was "Feminine" (Birthday, Mother's Day, Friendship, etc).  I chose to go with the Mother's Day theme even though Mother's Day is a bit painful for me. I lost my mother in law last year on Mother's Day, and my own mother passed away from cancer one week after Mother's Day in 1991.  I am grateful for the two kids I do have, but am missing my own mother so much right now as well as my mother in law.  However, I digress.

For my challenge card, I pulled out two long retired Stampin Up sets to work with.  After stamping the lace gloves from the A Mother's Hand twice onto scrap vanilla card stock and cutting out, I stamped a background onto a vanilla panel using Antique Collectibles before sponging and spritzing rose ink around and over it then layering.  After adding some pink baby brads, I then adhered the lace gloves using glue dots before adding my saying, a heart charm, and pearl bling.  The last step was stamping my card, adhering the glove panels, and then sponging rose ink around everything.  I'm really happy with how this turned out.

I would also like to enter this into the following challenges:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies 1719

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and a great Mother's Day.

Stamps: Stampin Up! Antique Collectibles, A Mother's Hand
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up Blushing Bride and Regal Rose Dye Inks
Card Stock: Stampin Up!
Accessories: Sponges, Color Spritzer Tool, Heart Charm, Glue Dots, Brads, Pearl Bling

April Showers

April showers bring May flowers.... How many times have you heard that phrase over the years?  Well today I'd like to share a card I made inspired by that phrase.

I started off by printing off the April digi from SimplyBStamps and then coloring it using both my prismacolor and copic markers.  Once my coloring was complete, I stippled some Tim Holtz tumbled glass and broken china distress inks around the image before layering.  I also stamped my card and all layers using an old wood mounted Posh Impressions rain stamp I've had in my stash for years before sponging the matching dye inks around each stamped layer.  Finally, I added some yellow flower brads from my stash along with some yellow & orange silk flowers.  To finish off the card, I added blue waterfall ice stickles to all the colored rain drops in the digital image before adding some additional ice stickle "rain drops" for added effect.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Outlawz Festive Friday - April Showers, Farmer's Day, Relaxing, Ho Ho Ho

Great Impressions April 2017 April Showers

Pammies Inky Pinkies - Monday Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: SimplyB Stamps April Digi, Posh Impressions

Ink: Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Wild Honey; Stampin Up! Lovely Lilac, Pink Passion, Bliss Blue

Card Stock: Stampin Up!

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Prismacolor And Copic Markers, Silk Flowers, Glue Dots, Brads, Ice Stickles, Sponges, Stipple Bruches