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 

Picture Perfect Mother's Day for TGIFC52 & Giveaway!

Just a quick post today to remind you of a few important things:

1 - The TGIF Challenges site just turned ONE and we have a giveaway! (ends tomorrow)

2 - The TGIF Challenges weekly challenge is all about MOMS <3 (also ends tomorrow)

3 - Mother's Day is less than 2 weeks away!

Guess you better get stamping!

Here's a card I made last night - and not quite sure if I will give it to my mom or my MIL since they both read my blog!  Either way, I hope it gives you an idea for this awesome Picture Perfect stamp set.

I will say it again and again... I'm not a big floral fan when it comes to stamping, but SU! is doing a pretty good job at persuading me!  I love these roses and how beautiful they look with the different shades.  Really gives it a 3D look.

To make this a true Mother's Day card, I inked the 'mother' part of the sentiment from Crazy About You and stamped the background.  I stamped the word off before stamping the background because I wanted it to be subtle, but I think it may be too subtle.  Can you see it?

If you have time, head on over to TGIF Challenges and play along!  You have until 10am PST Thursday, April 28th!

Blessings!

-Holly 

Picture Perfect for Stamp, Ink, Paper 43!

It's super late here and I just realized I've spent so much time playing with other challenges this week that I totally spaced on my card for tomorrow's TGIF Challenge!  YIKES!  Looks like my night just got a little longer...

But good news is, I have another card to share with you!  This time I'm playing along with one of my first Design Teams.  Stamp, Ink, Paper has a easy sketch this week so I thought I'd join the fun.  It's been awhile!

I just received the Picture Perfect set last week and wanted to use it right away.  I love any of these 2-step (even up to 4-step) stamps.  They give so much depth and dimension - they're great!

I wanted to highlight the more current in-colors and start detaching myself from the ones that are leaving.

That will be a sad day... 

I trimmed some Watermelon Wonder ribbon and added some pearls for a little extra. 

Hope you like it!

I will be posting late, but I hope you come back tomorrow for a new challenge!  And be sure to head on over to Stamp, Ink, Paper and see all of the other creations!

-Holly