Mother’s Day Bear Hug Card - Using Up Patterned Paper Packs - Stashbuster

 Hello and Happy May!  I can’t believe how fast April flew by!  

Today I am sharing these cute Mother’s Day cards.  I am pretty sure I have used this image before, but I always thought it looked cute for Mother’s Day or a baby card.  I need to get these sent out ASAP!

I just today decided that I was going to make a concerted effort to use up some of my old 6x6 paper pads.  I got out two of my oldest My Mind’s Eye pads (they were both similar color schemes) and I cut up all the papers into card fronts.  I kept the scraps and am going to just push through them and make as many cards as I can.  There is a local birthday card charity that I can donate to so I may do a lot of birthday cards.  

I usually design a card around a stamp, but I thought it would be interesting to see what I come up with focusing on the paper!  

So fair warning, you will be seeing a bunch of cards with similar paper this month. I hope to get them all done quickly but we will see.  

Stamps sets used: Close to My Heart Bear Hug, and Close to My Heart For You Darling.  

Thanks for visiting and for your kind comments!  Are you doing any sort of craft personal challenge right now?

JFF May Challenge

I am very pleased you are visiting today because I am excited to announce the new Just for Fun Rubber Stamps' May challenge!

Moms!

I hope you will be inspired to make a card for a mom in your life.  Mother's Day is coming up on May 14th this year, and you could get ahead on birthday cards for mom.

For my card example, I used a beautiful peony stamp that I am really looking forward to color, but this time I paper-pieced it.  

I didn't have a patterned paper in the right color green, so I took a plain paper and stamped over it with green ink.  Sometimes the small details make me happy.

Supplies: Just for Fun Rubber Stamps Peony, Tattered Screen background stamp, Happy Mother's Day sentiment, Versafine Black Ink, KI Doilies 6x6 paper pad, Gina K Jelly Bean Green cardstock, Gina K Applemint ink, Elizabeth Designs Embossing folder

Thank you SO MUCH for stopping by! 

Non-traditional Mother's Day Card

ETA (4/26/16):  I was so excited that this card was chosen to be an Honorable Mention at CASology. Thank you so much!

This may not *look* like a Mother's Day card, but the great thing about making your own cards is that you can personalize cards specifically for someone.  There are a couple reasons I made this card for my mom.  First, she really likes more natural colors over pinks and purples. Also, she gave me this stamp set, and I often will make a card for someone using the supplies they gifted me!  I used the "thankful for you" sentiment on the outside of the card because I think it gets the appropriate message across for mom.  I can write or stamp "Happy Mother's Day" inside.

The process for this card was not hard.  First I sponged blue distress ink on the left side of the card, then I stenciled the green over top of that.  The stamping was done with pigment inks because I think that looks nice and smooth over top of the dye ink sponging.  

Supplies: Inkadinkado Meadow stamp set, Gink K sentiment Thankful For You, Avery Elle pigment inks Sea Glass and Jungle, Distress Ink Tumbled Glass and Bundled Sage, Heidi Swapp stencil, Gina K Ocean Mist cardstock

I would love to participate in the following challenges:

CAS Mix Up April (Dye Ink, Pigment Ink, Sponging, Stenciling)

CASology - Mom

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I appreciate your visit and kind comments!

(Not So) Shabby Chic Mother's Day Card

Hello and I hope you are doing well today.  

I wanted to try the shabby chic look.  However much I love it, it is not the style I usually create with, so I altered the style to be more clean and simple. It is a style oxymoron to be Shabby CAS Chic?  

Before I overthink this further, here is my card...

The essential parts of Shabby Chic for me are lace and the colors pink first, then beige and mint.  The essential, for me, for CAS is clean white space, so I just left out distressing that would normally be included.

Supplies:  Rubber Stamp Tapestry A Spot of Tea peg stamp set, Avery Elle inkpads in Kraft, Mint to Be, Raspberry and Pixie, Hero Arts Celebrate Everyday (sentiment), Echo Park Victorian Garden paper pad, Die-Namics Pierced Squares, EK Success circle and corner punch.

I would love to participate in the following challenge:
CASology - Pink

I really do appreciate your stopping by!