Mother's Day Flowers

 Hi Friends,

Happy Mother's Day to all mummies out there.  Today I would like to share the card I made for mum's day which was inspired by both the The Card Concept and Fusion Card Challenge. When I saw the current Spring Flowers Challenge at the Card Concept I thought it was time to make another flower based card. However, I could not decide on what colour to go with until I saw the Sweet Orange Blossom Challenge at Fusion Cards. I loved the fresh orange flowers....so orange it was!

I used the beautiful, delicate flowers from the AlteNew Persian Motif stamp set for this card. I have owned this stamp set for about a year but this was the first time I have had the opportunity to ink it up! I love these flowers :)

I also thought it was time to try out another colouring medium so out came my Faber-Castell Polychromo pencils.  I was lucky enough to pick up the full set of 120 quite a few months ago on sale but, I'm afraid to say I have never really used them!  This card was a practice run for me.

I kept this card very simple with minimal embellishments as I wanted the flowers to have centre stage.

 

Supplies:

AlteNew Stamps - Perisan Motifs 

Memento Ink - London Fog

MFT Die-namics - Tag Builder 4

 Simon Says Stamp Cardstock - Fog 

Pretty Pink Posh Sequins - Lime Sorbet 4mm

Pretty Pink Posh Sequins - Create a Smile Snowdance Mix

Zig Wink Of Stella Glitter Pen - Clear

The flowers were stamped on a piece of white cardstock using London Fog Ink and then coloured. I then added some clear wink of stella for some shimmer.  I generated the sentiment on the computer and printed it out in Grey.  I used a flag from MFT die-namics tag builder set to cut out the sentiment. I trimmed this and mounted it to the card using foam tape. I adhered a couple of sequins before mounting the image onto a SSS Fog cardstock card base.

I would also like to link up with the following challenges:

• Addicted to Stamps and More - #192 Make your Mark
• Crafty Gal's Corner - #70 Celebrate Mom 

Thanks so much for popping by,
Hugs Ax

Believe in Yourself

Hi Friends,

It's new release time once again over at Whimsie Doodles and this month Melyssa has created two stunning Abby Girl images and a unicorn set. Please pop over to the blog to have a look and to check out what my teamies have created with these images.

For my inspiration card I just had to play with the unicorns, they are so darn cute!

I decided to go with the leaping unicorn and had originally wanted to incorporate a rainbow into my design, because rainbows and unicorns go together - don't they?! However, my rainbow die is tiny and I wasn't feeling creative enough to make my own rainbow and decided just to use my cloud dies instead! Now this card is a bit out of my comfort zone in the sense that it is very girly and very pastel! I tend to go for bright strong colours so this was a change for me, and I'm not sure if I like it!

Supplies:

MFT Die-namics - Blueprints 20

Taylored Expressions Dies - Build a Scene Rolling Clouds

Mama Elephant Dies - Basic Set

Simon Says Stamp Cardstock - Fog

Heidi Swapp paper Pad - Dreamy

Generic Glitter Sheets - White

Copic Multiliner - 0.3 Black

Hero Arts Ink - Pastel Blue and Pastel Yellow

Zig Wing of Stella Glitter Pen - Clear

I started by adding some extra lines to the unicorns tail with a copic liner as I wanted to make the tail multicoloured! The image was coloured with copics and fuzzy cut it out. I blended some pastel yellow and blue chalk ink onto some white card and die-cut a rectangle panel out using blueprints 20. I printed the sentiment, die-cut some clouds and mounted them onto the bottom section of my panel. The unicorn was also mounted using foam dots. I die-cut some tiny stars from pink designer paper and white glitter card using a die from ME basic set and randomly added them to the scene. Using SSS fog cardstock I die-cut the large scallop rectangle from blueprints 20. I then adhered my scene to the scallop rectangle before mounting it onto the card base. I added some wink of stella to the clouds and to the unicorns tail and mane.

 

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

•  Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge - #192 Make Your Mark 
• Crafting By Designs - May Anything Goes 

Thanks so much for visiting. 
Hugs Ax