Mother, defined

I saw this fun layout on the Paper Dolls challenge blog and thought it would work perfectly with the  wonderful Mother Definition from Stamping Bella. Have you read it? I know...it's a definition, but it's quite a nice sentiment and this is the card I'm sending to my mom for Mother's Day.

I know the green flower looks like it's really "in your face" but for some reason it's showing up quite a bit brighter in the photo than it does on the real card. I tried playing around with the colours in Photoshop but it didn't seem to make a difference. Instead, just imagine it's the same colour as the green in the patterned paper, which is a mix from the Quite Contrary collection. The pink cardstocks are Prism frosted pink and intense pink. The sentiment is popped on foam tape for a little dimension and I also stitched around the patterned panels for interest.

This week's Bellarific Friday Challenge is All About Flowers!!! Use anything with flowers, embellishments, paper, Stamping Bella stamps and email your submission to Em by Thursday evening to be included in the Friday round-up. Oh, and of course there's some Bella Bucks for one lucky challenge participant, so get your flowers out and play along!

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

I Miss You...

I whipped up a quick little card a few minutes ago and instead of waiting I thought I'd share it with you right now. When I was blog surfing earlier today there were a few challenges that caught my eye and I've combined them on this card.

The first is the Three Cheers for Chairs challenge on the Moxie Fab blog. What a perfect excuse to use my new Chair-ished set from Papertrey. Then I saw a new challenge blog, The Papertrey Paper Dolls and their first challenge was a sketch (I'm too late to link my creation to the weekly challenge but that didn't stop me...really, you're never too late to play along with any challenge if it gets the creative juices flowing, right?). And finally, my friend Jeanie has a Krafty Thursday feature on her blog and I decided to jump in and use kraft cardstock on my card today, in honour of her! Phew...that's a good mix of challenges in one card. I hope you'll play along in a challenge that gets you stamping just for fun!

I had so much fun making this card though! It came together super quick and the paper piecing was easy peasy. I liked to combination of papers I used yesterday from my Green at Heart 6x6 pad so I used them again for this card. The floor is a stamp from the set then I just coloured it in with copics. Probably the longest part of the card was stitching the ribbon into pleats, but even that only took about 5 minutes. The buttons coordinate perfectly because they're Basic Grey buttons. It's funny, I have a LOT of buttons and when I bought these I KNEW I didn't need them, but I wanted them, so I bought them, and I'm so happy I did because they coordinate perfectly!!!

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen