AWH April Creative Showcase: Mother's Day

Hi!

Welcome to the Art With Heart Stampin’ Up! Team Monthly Creative Showcase. The theme for this month’s showcase is Mother’s Day. Under the current conditions Mother’s Day this year is going to be completely different to any other Mother’s Day celebrations.

I'm not sure yet how we will celebrate! My mum lives in a different state and my MIL lives in a little town nearly an hour away from us. I see several FaceTime calls on the horizon for Mother's Day! I guess a mother's job is to keep her family safe and healthy, so we will do that by staying in our little household bubble.

The Art With Heart Team are hoping to share a little Mother’s Day love and inspiration with you tonight.

My Mother-In-Law loves her cruising - although that might change! When I thought of what card I could make for. her, I decide to go with a tropical theme to fit with the cruises she's taken recently. I started by stamping a heap of images from Timeless Tropical in Memento ink. I then coloured them using my Watercolour Pencils, blending with my old favourite, Wink Of Stella. The piece they are layered on comes from the temporarily retired Nature's Thoughts Dies. I sponged the top half with Pool Party ink, and the bottom half with So Saffron, hoping it would look like sand and sky.

I googled frangipanis to see what colours to use, and I found a gorgeous variety called Darwin Monsoon. They are tricolour, so I used Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight to colour the blooms. I layered a couple of ribbons under the sentiment, which is a shortened image from the Beautiful Day stamp set. I didn't have any Rich Razzleberry ribbon, so I coloured a length of Whisper White Seam Binding with my Dark Rich Razzleberry Blend.

I used the same DSP from the front on the inside. Both pieces of Tropical Oasis DSP have been dry embossed with the Subtle Embossing Folder. The inside sentiment is from Timeless Tulips. I hope my MIL likes her tropical Mother's Day card, even though she won't be going on any tropical cruises for a very ling time!

That's all from me tonight, now you're off to see the wonderful creations of the lovely Rebecca Jacovou.

Bye for now,

Tina

If you have a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway, you can view all the participants below:

Rebecca Jacovou

Vicki Boucher

Rachel Woollard

Sharon Davern

Catherine Proctor

Kate Morgan

Andrea Sargent

Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Rachel Palmieri

Caroline Manwaring

Michele Taylor

Tina Gillespie

JAI #499: Just Add A Colour Combo

Hi!

I hope you are all staying safe and staying home - we certainly are! I thought it might mean more crafting time, but supervising the kids with their school work and being Rob's coffee lady is running me off my feet! I had a quick half hour to throw a card together for this week's Just Add Ink challenge though. Rachael has given us a soft, pretty colour combo to work with.

I'm not quite sure why, but every time I looked at the colours I immediately thought of gingham!

Thankfully each of the colour family DSP packs has this gorgeous gingham paper! I layered some Balmy Blue Gingham DSP under the rectangular die cut from the Nature's Thoughts Dies. I love the pretty stitching effect on the border of the die cut. The two layers were popped up on a Whisper White Notecard, which is smaller than a regular card base. The die cut rectangle fits perfectly!

I used my Balloon Bouquet Punch to create the Easter Eggs. All I had to do was snip off the bottom part of the balloon - the knotted bit - and turn the shapes upside down. Easy! The sentiment is from the new Timeless Tulips stamp set. The whole sentiment is not something I'd ever use, so I took my snips to the stamp and just chopped off the Happy Easter bit.

The Balloon Bouquet Punch crops two balloons each time, so I used the remaining three on the inside of my notecard. I didn't have a sentiment to put on the inside, so I just left it blank - more room for writing!

Please head on over to check out the Just Add Ink blog. You can find the links to the other Design Team cards, and you can also add your card to the challenge gallery. I can't wait to see what you do with these colours!

Bye for now,

Tina