Paperplay Challenge - "For a Mother"

This week's challenge over on Paperplay is "For a Mother" - make a card, gift, layout or any other creation you are giving to a Mother this year - it can be your own Mother, aunt, Grandma, sister or daughter.  The challenge is sponsored by DT Member Mandy and here are the goodies up as this week's prize.  Papermania goodness - embellishment and paper pack from their Capsule Collection.

Mother's Day is celebrated during the month March in the UK and Ireland and this year it is the 14th March.  In the USA it is in May (so I try to swing Mother's Day twice!!). 

Made this card using stickers and am entering it into this month's Caardvarks Challenge - create a "new" card and use stickers.  This month's challenge is sponsored by SRM Stickers over on Caardvarks.... really wish I had some of them to use... they are stunning.  Check out their blog here.  Thankfully they now have a super online store...woohoo!!!!

Supplies: American Crafts Thickers (felt), Butterfly clear stickers from Dunnes Stores, acetate,

DCWV textured card blank, Martha Stewart border punch, machine stitching,

Textured cardstock by Papermania and Papermania pearls.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Happy Thursday!

Happy Valentine's Day

I made this card for all my Hero Arts Flickr Friends - I used a Hero Arts Sentiment with My Mind's Eye die cut sheet.  I get such fantastic support and encouragement from all the group - this is my "thank you" and Happy Valentine's to you all.  Hope you all have a wonderful day with family and friends.

Did you know the history behind St Valentine's Day?

Saint Valentine's Day (commonly shortened to Valentine's Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards (not in the Hero Arts Flickr Group!!! LOL!!!).

I was inspired recently by Krysten's ability to make LOTS of cards with only 2 sheets of 12x12 - wow .... so I decided to try my hand at something similar and used two sheets from My Minds Eye (one was a die cut sheet) and managed to produce quite a few quick and easy (simple!) cards but not as many as the talented Krysten!. 

This one is for my hubby - another one with My Mind's Eye die cut sentiment, card blank from DCWV and the Forever Friends Bear stamp.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day.

Another Birthday Card

This card went off to the US on Wednesday to a very good friend for her Birthday.  It is a textured card blank by DCWV in a lovely shade of brown.  Then used the threading water punch by fiskars on the base cardstock.  Added pp from Making Memories (just chillin' range).  Added misc. orange ribbon.  The image was stamped on watercolour paper and coloured with promarkers, then the edges were torn and adhered to the cardbase with pop dots.  I added pearls by Papermania to the finished card.

Thanks so much for stopping by.