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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Happy Mother's Day!

I've been busy making cards for the mothers in my life and I am here to share them today, a day early.

For the first card, I used the current card sketch at Frosted Designs. I am also linking up with the current stamp and die cut challenge at Cooking With Cricut, which is to make a Mother's Day card using a stamp or manual die. Since "all" I have for die cutting is a Cricut, I used a stamp. This stamp is from an older Stampin Up set. I stamped it in Archival ink and then colored it with watercolor pencils. I went over the coloring with a water pen to blend the colors.

I used an embossing folder to make the frame on this one and then inked the raised part with a few different colors of ink to make it stand out.

I used my Cricut a lot for this one. The background and sentiment were cut using the "Cindy Loo" cartridge, and the butterfly is from the Sentimentals cartridge. I wanted to add a little something to the tone on tone background so I went over some of the flowers with Moonlight Smooch ink.
There you have it, I have cards for my mom, mother-in-law and two grandmas (I made two of the first design). I hope all the mothers out there have a great day tomorrow!

6 comments:

  1. Hi Jessica, this is gorgeous and your colours are just lovely. I am entering one in this but mum passed away in November so it is hard to do...God has made her our Angel...have joined your blog as like what I see. ♥

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  2. Such a cute card, and an adorable image. You did a great job on the coloring and the flowers are great! Thanx for playing along with us at Frosted Designs.

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  3. Cute cards! Thank you for choosing to use the Frosted Designs sketch for the first one. The little "dressed up" girl is adorable and a great choice for Mother's Day! Please play along again with us at FD next time. Beverly

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  4. I love the glitter on the first card, along with the cute colored-in stamped image! Thanks for playing along at Frosted Designs! :) -Heather, DT

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  5. Hi Jessica. You did a great job coloring that stamp! Great blending!! Thanks for playing with us at Frosted Designs! :-)

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  6. great cards, thank you for joining our challenge at Frosted Designs, hugs, martina

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