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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The Open Sea Workshop Make

Here is my June workshop make inspired by a card I'd seen a member of the Stampin' Up! team I belong to make. I love this maritime inspired card and especially love using the new Summer Mini stamp set The Open Sea. The colour scheme is Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. I used a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes. And the embellishments are the mini brads from the main catalogue. The background is stamped using the Woodgrain stamp.

And a quick Summer update.  Here is a pic from my cousin's wedding of Summer with my lovely Dad ;0) She is getting so big now and enjoys chatting and smiling with us all (she loves being around groups of chatting women- I think the sound of chatter is soothing to her. She'll fit right in with my craft classes once she is a bit older).

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Happy crafting ;0)

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Forever Young Card Class Make

Here is another of our card class makes from June's class. This was again inspired by Pinterest (how many hours have I lost surfing Pinterest for ideas to help regain my mojo after a couple of months away from crafting) and another Australian Demo.

I love this colour scheme: Island Indigo, Baja Breeze and Rich Razzleberry. I enjoyed working with the different layers and textures and it showcases the gorgeous Twitterpated papers (or one design from the set anyhow).

This card uses the Forever Young stamp set and the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

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Happy crafting

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