First Sight Mothers Day for a Friend 3

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY LADIES!

HOPE THAT YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY! Despite it's challenges, being a Mom is wonderful! Whether you have children, or not, you are a mother when you teach, nurture, help and serve others. It's all under motherhood.....

I wish the photos would better show all the gold embossing on this card. But I've certainly had a lot of fun making these last three cards with the "First Sight" stamp set. I did make a mistake on this card, however. I had wanted to use the words within this stamp set to read "I Love Mother Forever". I just forgot when I was applying the Versamark to the stamps.

On the bottom layer of white I scored from behind to make a frame at 1/4" all the way around. The I punched the four little hearts using the "Itty Bitty" punch set, and scored another line over the hearts to create a frame around them.

For the sentiment piece, after heat embossing the gold sentiment, I again scored a frame from behind at 1/8" & 1/4". It looks great!

In the next photo you can see how I popped up the layers.

In the corners I gold heat embossed and had in mind to stamp over with the Rose Red. I kinda messed up the inside a bit. I meant to off stamp the Rose Red first, and forgot. Then I went and accidentally smudged the ink before it dried!

Thank you for having a look at the Mothers Day cards of the last three days.

Card Base - Rose Red - 4 1/4 x 11 (5 1/2)
Whisper White - 3 1/2 x 4 3/4
Rose Red - 3 x 3 1/4
Whisper White - 2 7/8 x 3 1/8
Inside Whisper White - 3 3/4 x 5

Be sure to stop by tomorrow, for a posting of one of my classes for the JUNE Scrapbook Parade Crop classes. I only have one to show for now, because I'm waiting to for my order of the new catalogue product to arrive when I get back from the wedding. I will make something new from them and then post the rest of the classes.


Happy Stamping everyone!

First Sight Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Rose Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Embossing Buddy

Versamark Pad

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

Heat Tool (Us & Can)

Regals Stampin' Write Markers

Sweetheart Punch

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

Simply Scored

Fast Fuse Adhesive

Stampin' Dimensionals

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The Wilderness Awaits - Duck

Here in Victoria BC, we have a lot of mallard ducks that can be found in great number at Beacon Hill Park. Knowing the colours of the duck, I was trying to figure out how to get that iridescent blue/green colouring of their heads using the Stampin' Write Marker colours available to us. Using the artist 'pointalism' technique I made dots on the head combining Island Indigo & Wild Wasabi.

This is the second card I'm showing you for the masculine card class in June.

I coloured the duck I stamped on the card as well as a second duck to cut out and pop over the one stamped on the card. The next photo shows a close up of the colouring.

For the water I did use the Blending tool as well.

In the side view below, you can see the layered duck.

I love the pop of the Island Indigo banner added to the card with the other two colours; colours that the duck has.

Thank you for stopping by to have a look at this card. Looking forward to this class in June.

Happy Stamping!

The Wilderness Awaits Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Island Indigo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Gorgeous Grunge Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Subtles Stampin' Write Markers

Regals Stampin' Write Markers

Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers

Aqua Painters

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

Antique Brads

Fast Fuse Adhesive

Stampin' Dimensionals

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Definitely Dahlia - Set

I finally got my "Definitely Dahlia" stamp!! My first idea of sponging three colours onto the stamp did not work out to well. Not enough ink on the stamp, no matter how many times I tried. I was determined to make my idea work, so, my next step was to see if using the Stampin' Write Markers would work. It did!! The image stamped so much better with the three colours. Then I went to one of my favorite techniques, to fill in some more colour into the image - ink sponging!

All the heat embossed sentiments on vellum are from the "Tin of Cards" stamp set.

I used three colours for each card with the exception of this first card, I used four.

Stampin' Write Markers for the stamp - Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, & Tangelo Twist
Ink Sponging - Crushed Curry, Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral & Tangelo Twist

I wanted a bright tropical look and chose to contrast the colours with a Tempting Turquoise card base.

Stampin' Write Markers for the stamp - Delightful Dijon, Crushed Curry, & So Saffron
 Ink Sponging - Blushing Bride (just a touch), Crushed Curry, & So Saffron

I had a hard time choosing the card base for this card because so many colours looked wonderful with these yellows. In the end I went with the black for a more dramatic look.

Stampin' Write Markers for the stamp - Cherry Cobbler, Rose Red, & Watermelon Wonder,
Ink Sponging -  Delightful Dijon, Crushed Curry, & So Saffron

Who would have thought that these colours would work well together! I chose Melon Mambo for the card base, which is not a colour used in the colours of this card, but seemed pull all the colours together.

Stampin' Write Markers for the stamp - Marina Mist, Night of Navy, & Mint Macaron
Ink Sponging -  Marina Mist, Night of Navy, & Mint Macaron

I kept going back and forth between a Mint Macaron & Night of Navy card base for this card. My end choice is obvious, but I did include a 1/16" mat behind the white, on the inside, in Night of Navy. For the colouring of these flowers, I applied the colours in a different order than I did for all the other cards. I usually went from lightest to darkest colours stating with the center of the dahlia, or from lightest to darkest. With this card I started in the center with the medium colour, to the darkest, and ending with the lightest on the outside edge of the dahlia.

Stampin' Write Markers for the stamp - Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum & Wisteria Wonder
Ink Sponging -  Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum & Wisteria Wonder

In the upper right section of this card you will see something that looks like a orangey/yellow strip. That's because I didn't notice that this was lying underneath the yellow dahlias when I was sponging the yellows onto the card! I decided to not redo the purple dahlias and ended up liking that strip of yellow. lol!

So, these are the five cards I got done. I was hoping to make a sixth, but ran out of time. I may still do that, and design a new style of box for these cards, showing them to you at a later date. I will also have to think of something else to create with beautiful Dahlia stamp.

Thank you for stopping by today. Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Happy stamping!

I'm not including the cardstock and ink pads in the product list below, too much info to include and I did already list them with each image.

Definitely Dahlia Clear-Mount Background Stamp

Clear Block F

Subtles Stampin' Write Markers

Regals Stampin' Write Markers

2014-2016 In Color Stampin' Write Markers

2015-2017 In Color Stampin' Write Markers

Stamping Sponges

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