'I Love You Mom' card

My mom loves to quilt (and is amazing at it!!) so when I saw this diecut on the Country Life cart, I knew I would make it into her mother's day card!  She's always creating special quilts for us and our boys, we treasure them as I know how much hard work goes into it - they are wonderful heirlooms that we'll always have that she made especially for us!

I was having issues with my E2, this was the first project I made with it and they just weren't layering very well - I think it was user error because now that I've adjusted the paper settings, it seems to be fine!  But I like the slightly "off" look, makes me think of an old quilt that's been shown some love and used a lot!  :-)

I used a Martha Stewart punch, DCWV cardstock from the 'Amber Autumn' stack, American Crafts ribbon, Stampin Up ink to ink the edges and a sentiment stamp from Pink By Design 'Our Mothers' set.

I'm submitting this card for the Sew Easy challenge at Getting Cricky with K Andrew - she has challenges every other Sunday and such inspirational posts!  Stop by her blog and say hi!

Happy Mother's Day!

I made this card for my mother-in-law for Mother's Day!

I used the new Just A Note Cricut cartridge on my E2 to make the butterfly.  I used my i-rock and gems to make the swirl.  The ribbon is American Crafts, paper from the 'Amber Autumn' stack by DCWV and the sentiment stamp from My Pink Stamper.

I'm entering this card into the Mother's Day card challenge at Scrapalicious USA - check it out, there's still time to enter!

NSD Challenge #4

Its going to get a little out of order now, since I've skipped around with the challenges - I have several that are in various stages of planning/completion, so I'm posting what I have completed right now!

This challenge from My Pink Stamper's NSD Challenges was to create something with a mother's day theme!  I made this card and I love it so much, I almost kept it for myself!!  :-)  I'm finding as I make more cards, the creative process is getting easier - I can think of an idea and create it without too much strain on my brain!  ;-)

I bought several new DCWV stacks and I'm in love with them all!  These papers are from 'The Green Stack' - they're so soft and pretty and the papers are made from 70% recycled paper!!  The ric-rac is from American Crafts and the sentiment stamp is from 'Our Mothers' by Pink By Design.'  I cut the flowers from the new Essentials Cricut cartridge that comes on the E2.  Then I used the negative of the flowers under the buttons, I love the way it looks!