Mothers Day!

I was asked by a friend to make this card after seeing my other Spring Flower cards.   This time I have been inspired by all the snowdrops that are springing to life in the village I live.  I think this stamp makes a brilliant snowdrop.
I have stamped and embossed in gold onto white paper and fussy cut the flowers to form a tuft of snowdrops. Here is a photo I took last week such pretty flowers.

Its not the best photo as the weather has been really bad in the last few days and I needed to get it in the post to my friend.

Here is a photo I took last week in the woods near our house.

I am adding this card to both the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"  and the Simon Says Flickr Group challenge #65 also "Anything Goes"

Hope you have a great week.

Hugs Sally

Fabric Challenge

After watching a tutorial on Agatas' blog about making ribbon flowers, I made a couple, one of deep red organza and the other of a piece of gingham fabric( its great for using up all those odd scraps of fabric and ribbon). I was pleased with the result so attached them both to a card. I have stitched small beads to the red flower and pearls to the gingham one.
As this card has fabric on I will enter it into this weeks EBTKS challenge.
Just a short post today as I have a busy week on. Hope things will calm down soon.

Amethyst

On the Daring Cardmakers blog challenge this week there is a prize of a Martha Stewart butterfly punch donated by Craft Obsessions oh how I would love to win that punch! The challenge is "Amethyst" which is the birth stone for February. As its mothers day soon in the UK I have made this card. The flower is made after watching Dawn McVeys "poofy flowers" tutorial. These flowers are quite addictive.


Here is a close up of the flower. Papers are BasicGrey. I am looking forward to a crafty weekend, the forecast is for rain so I am not venturing far!

Three Cards Two Challenges!

I wanted to make some Mothers Day cards and the Embellish colour challenge helped me decide which colours I would use. Their colour choice was Pink, Brown and Turquoise, I love these colours together anyway so it was't difficult. You also have to add ribbons to your card.


This was my first attempt and I am pleased with the result, used my new Martha Stewart border punch on this one, a little present from my son for my Birthday. He knows what I like LOL.

Patterned papers from BasicGrey.

This is my second attempt not so sure about this one so I haven't added a sentiment yet.

Butterfly stamp: Hero Arts Papers: BasicGrey



This next card is for a new blog site that I have found called "Daring Cardmakers" Love the inspirational cards on this site. The Dare was to make a return to school card. The main site is based in New Zealand and the children there are just returning to school after their summer holidays hence the challenge. This is a fairly simple card but liked the idea of "an apple for the teacher"