Happy Watercolor Happy Mother's Day Card

Hello crafters. What a rainy day here on the Isle of Wight. A perfect day for sticking on a film and tucking myself away in my craft room for a couple of hours. Once this is posted I might take advantage of the babies being asleep for a little while and see what I can create.

Today's share is the Mother's Day card I made for my Mum. It was inspired by this card I had seen on Pinterest. I decided to give it my own twist and use the tools and stamps I had within my crafty cupboards. I chose my colour scheme as a starting point: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Strawberry Slush & Blushing Bride.

I stamped the background with the En Francais background stamp in Crumb Cake ink. The corner 'splodges' are from the Happy Watercolor stamp set. The small hearts are stamped in Strawberry Slush,  Blushing Bride & Crumb Cake using the multiple heart stamp from the Language of Love set and then punched with the Small Heart Punch.

The final detail on the card are the main hearts which were punched using the Full Heart Punch from Modern Medley Designer Series Paper. I inked the edges of each heart with Crumb Cake ink and then stamped each heart with the floral orchid stamp from the Happy Watercolor stamp set. I then repeat stamped this image on to Very Vanilla and coloured the flower heads with Blushing Bride and Strawberry Slush using a Blender Pen. Then using my lovely sharp Paper Snips I cut around the coloured flower heads and glued these on to my punched full hearts.  To finish I covered the coloured flower heads with Crystal Effects and left to dry to give a lovely textured sheen to my card.

Thanks for popping by today. Lovely to have you join me at Stampin' Sarah! If you'd like any further information about any Stampin' Up! products or find out more about hosting a party, placing an order or joining my team or hostess club, I'd love to chat to you. Please get in touch on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

Happy Crafting

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Stampin' Up! UK! Last Day of 25% off 25 Stamps

Good morning and welcome to another crafty week at Stampin' Sarah! I hope you are bundled up warm and have weathered the storm overnight. I haven't ventured to the window to survey the damage just yet. But it was certainly rainy and windy overnight (!).

Just a quick reminder that today is the final day to benefit from 25% off 25 stamp sets. Click on the picture above for a direct link to my online store to see the 25 stamps included and to order your stamps direct online.

 And don't forget to add the hostess code below for your chance to win the combined hostess freebies for the month. So far there is a guaranteed £25 to be won! Orders need to be received by 6pm tonight to be entered in to the draw.

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My crafty share for this rainy Monday is this lovely card designed by my downline Hayley for a recent shoebox swap. I love this use of the huge Sunflower Background stamp (Page 71 of the main catalogue) overlaid on to the panel stamped with the En Francais background stamp (Page 100). The colour scheme is So Saffron, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla and the card is finished with a Designer Button and Linen Thread.

Please get in touch if you have any questions about todays project, about placing an order or about Stampin' Up! in general. You can contact me on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

Happy Crafting

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