Paper Lace Mother's Day Card

I created these cards for the Peachy Keen Challenge #50 and as I needed to make my Mother's Day cards, I made sure they would fit the theme.  Hope you enjoy them.  Both cards are A2 size.  The sentiment stamp is a single stamp from SU called Mother of Mine and is only available until April 30.  The felt flowers, flower brad and paper are also from SU.  I used my EK Success daisy border punch.  The scalloped flower and shadow is cut from Paperlace at 3.8"  (as I used my Gypsy) and can be found on page 35 of the handbook.  I then layered the scallop circle punch (SU) and cut a flower from the same DSP paper as the base flower and popped it up with a dimensional.

To add some bling (and also to meet the the metallic twist of the challenge), I added silver metallic stickles in the center of each daisy.  I think it dresses it up nicely, although the photo doesn't do it justice.

 I needed more than one card and decided to alter the design just a bit for the second card.  For this card I used flower8 on page 37 of the handbook and cut it at 2.25".  Again I used a SU brad in the center of both flowers.  Both cards are edged with the Martha Stewart double loop border bunch and I placed coordinating DSP inside along the bottom of the card so it would show through for some added decoration and make the double loops pop.

 Again, I used stickles in the center of each flower, this time metallic gold as the silver just didn't seem to show up well.  Hope you find some inspiration for your Mother's Day cards.

Paper Lace Flower appreciation card

Today I have an appreciation card I made from the Paper Lace cartridge.  Again I used my Gypsy to weld to two base shadows from page 25 of the handbook together to make the card.  I flipped the second image from left to right.  These images were cut at 3.80" out of SU Pacific Point cardstock.  I then cut the flower2 feature out of Daffodil Delight.  Next I used the butterfly from page 35 of the handbook and cut the Lace2 and Lace2 Shadow features at 1.40".  I used a discontinued DSP paper for the Lace 2 feature.  I popped the butterfly up in the center of the card using dimensionals.  The outside sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes by SU.  .

I used stickles at the center point of each scallop for a little bit of bling and on the outer edge of the butterfly for a little bling.  Here is a closeup of the butterfly.

For the inside of the card I cut two base shadows from page 25 at 3.20" and stamped the sentiment from Emma's So Grateful For You set.  You can find the link here.  I used core'dinations pearl cardstock and pacific point ink to stamp the sentiment and ink the edges.  I like to put a lighter colored cardstock inside when making cards that will be signed by several individuals as this card will be.

 Here is a snapshot of the back of the card.  I like to do this will all my cards.  This stamp is from a Pink By Design set called Handmade By You.  You can find the link here.  Hope you enjoy and find inspiration to create something today.

Baseball Mitt Appreciation Card

Here is a quick card I made for Administrative Professional's Day for our male secretary.  He is very much into baseball so the Boys Will Be Boys cartridge inspired me to make this card.  I welded two shadow baseball mitts cut at 4.15" one on top of the other so the card opens from the bottom of the mitt.  These can be found on page 29 of the handbook.  I flipped the top mitt upside down prior to welding on my Gypsy.  I then cut the card base in black.  Next I cut the base of the mitt from color core-dinations pearlized cardstock in red.  Next I cut the shift base of the mitt in SU creamy caramel cardstock and ran it through my texture boutique with my square lattice folder for a little dimension.  Layer was cut from close to cocoa cardstock.  Next I went to the shift base of the bat and ball featured on page 39 of the handbook.  I cut the ball base at 4" so it would fit nicely into the mitt out of the same red cardstock as the mitt.  Next I cut the layer feature for the ball out of very vanilla cardstock and inked the edges with SU crumbcake ink.  Layered the two cuts together and popped them on top of the mitt with some dimensionals.  The outside sentiment is from SUs Teeny Tiny Wishes.  For the inside I cut another card using vanilla cardstock.  I cut the card apart at the weld so that when placed into the card and the card was closed, it will all lay nicely.  I then stamped the inside sentiment in Night of Navy ink with one of Emma's stamps from My Creative Time So grateful for you.  You can find the link here.  Thanks for looking.