Mother's Day - You Are Made of Wonderful for GDP035

What a beautiful Mother's Day!  It was warm, sunny and filled with so much joy and love.  And sick kids... 

At 5am this morning our middle son woke up crying.  He had thrown up in his bed.  By 9am he was on his second bath of the morning and our youngest wasn't feeling the greatest either.  Lots of clean up and cuddles before church.  But the kids are feeling much better and I wouldn't trade the yucky parts of the best job in the world for anything!

I hope you had a wonderful Sunday too!  We spent the day with my husbands parents, grandparents and his aunt and uncle and cousin. Good food, cake (more on that later this week), fun at the park and a campfire.  God is good and I'm grateful for His many blessings.

I wanted to share with you the card I made for my sweet Mother-in-law.  I absolutely love this new technique I discovered last week.  You can stretch and smash the Honeycombs and make a very cool embellishment.

The calligraphy "mom" is not Stampin' Up! but I love it too much not to use it! :)

For the cards background and the heart around "mom", I used the Project Life stamp set called Memories in the Making.  I love the little cluster of swirls - it makes such a fun background!  You don't have to use the PLxSU sets just for your scrapbook pages...

I am entering this card in this week's "Project Life" theme challenge over at the Global Design Project.

Hopefully by mid-week I can start a page for the challenge too!  I took lots of cute pictures of the boys yesterday.  Sure is great being their momma! :)

I hope you enjoy the rest of your day! 

Blessings to you!

-Holly 

Endless Birthday Wishes for TGIFC54

Hello everyone!  Happy Friday to you!  It is going to be a gorgeous day here in Minnesota.  Forecast is mid-80s... Yes, 80s in MN! I didn't even know that happened.  :)  Since it's Friday, that means there's a new challenge over at TGIF.  Here is our summer-ish color combo that had me a little stumped at first!

When I first saw this color combo, I was a little worried.  I do love the two blues together (they are my blog colors) but the yellow was throwing me off!  The first thing I thought was that the colors would make a fun kid or guy card.  I do have a few guy birthdays this month in our family so I wanted to make some birthday cards.  This also is the set I'm leaning towards for my Stamps in the Mail class, so I wanted to try a few cards out with Endless Birthday Wishes.

I love this Pool Party Glitter Ribbon.  

I added some of my favorite accessory at the moment - the It's My Party Enamel Dots.  I also added some Crushed Curry ink around the cake using the ink pad and Aqua Painter.  

For this card, I pulled the ribbon apart so that I would have some strands to tuck behind the cake.  I originally had more white space but thought the card needed something.  I added the Happy Birthday sentiment and some Island Indigo splatter. 

For the swirls and dots I used the Memories in the Making (swirl) and Wondrous Wreath (dots).  Shannon Lane used the dots a few weeks ago on this card and I loved the idea!

So there you have it! I hope that you join us this week for this fun color combo!  Can't wait to see what you come up with!  I also am entering my white card in Just Add Ink's sketch challenge this week!  (Maybe you could combine both challenges too!)

-Holly 

TGIFC48 - Remix with Sprinkles on Top!

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope you are excited about this month's remix challenge with TGIF Challenges.  I always thought the idea was so fun and clever - so much to challenge you with :)  Want to play along??

Pick 2 or all 3 of the challenges below.  Make sure to mention us in your post and you're all set!

Can you believe March has almost come and gone??  I cannot believe how fast this month has gone by.  And actually, I can't believe how fast this week went!  I realized yesterday afternoon that my card for this month's remix was due last night and I was running out of daylight! I literally took over 90 pictures of this card.  

I know. I'm crazy.

I took pictures outdoors, indoors, under my Ott light... 

I really wanted you to be able to see all the details.  

I used the no-line watercoloring technique on the cones and ice cream and added some Pink Pirouette splatter on the card too.  But my favorite part of the card are the mini ice cream cones and the Dazzling Diamonds circles around the bigger cone.  Both of these stamps come from the Project Life set in the Occasions catalog called Memories in the Making.  

I hope this subtle sweet tooth card inspires you to mix it up with us!  Make sure you head on over to TGIF Challenges and see what the other team has come up with too!

Happy Easter! HE IS RISEN!

-Holly