A Butterfly and doily for Mrs A and Mothers Day - Card 14

Happy Mothers Day to all my friends. Hope you got thoroughly spoiled today!!!
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Our plans had to be put temporarily on hold. My youngest has a terrible cold and I leave tomorrow to look after my Mum (for a week again).  Mum just got over double pneumonia, so we can't risk me bringing any germs her way. Eldest daughter has been helping out her sister so has been exposed to the germs as well! Drat...We had a buffet brunch planned and had all the food in...even Strawberry Shortcake for dessert.

We shall celebrate Mothers Day together with Fathers Day when we are home again in June! Sounds good to me as it is going to be a very busy day here anyway. We had our annual perennial plant sale yesterday and so were kept busy Friday and even early Saturday morning, getting ready. We managed to finish the packing, set up the watering system for our gardens here and did a last minute shop! I must confess that I have a bit of a mountain of laundry to catch up on as well!

Here is the card I am taking to my Mum. We will have our own little Mothers Day celebration tomorrow.  This card fits in with Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge theme this fortnight. This is a true snippets card. The pink doily was punched from snippets and filed away in the photo albums I use for die cut storage. The scalloped circle is from those die cut snippets as well. The "You Are Special" is from a bunch of sentiments I stamped out for the grandkids to use, and then snitched one back for myself! lol I love to have prestamped items filed away, ready to be pressed into service. If I am inking a stamp, I like to stamp a few pieces before I clean it and put it away. How about you?

When I set the pink felt flowers in the corners, they looked lost. Everything I tried under them, didn't look right. Finally I found something that worked...hope Mum doesn't notice that the white flower I used to ground them is the smallest piece of a Memory Box Poinsettia die. lol I'm pretending it is a daisy!

I used 4 more of my flower stash on this card (the felt flowers). I am adding 4 more to the ticker on my header. I am not counting the poinsettias I die cut, as I am tracking the number of flowers I manage to use from my existing stash! It is good to see my progress so far...keeps me committed to use them up.

Here is the inside...I had already signed it when I remembered to take the photo! Sorry about that...

Recipe
Card base and envelope - from my stash
Design Paper - Card front is Wild Rose Studio, I think. Inside of card is from the Dollar Store
Card stock - snippets of pink dotted texture paper and snippet of white card
Butterfly - K&Co
Flowers - White felt flower and pink one layered overtop are both from my stash
Dies - The pink one is a Marianne doily die; the white is a Martha Stewart precut doily
The green leaves are a Memory Box die; the white flower is M/B as well
Stamp - Will look them both up once I am home

****************This is card #14 of 50. I am on a consumables spending freeze until I have made 50 cards (Sook Wang tape and heavy weight card stock are exempt).***************

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. Butterfly Challenge - #7 Butterfly and a doily
3. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -  must cover card with paper

Home Sweet Home -Card 13

Here is a very quick and easy "New Home"card,  made from my stash. I am sticking to my frozen status...no consumable purchases for this lady! I have been having fun rediscovering papers and elements in my craft room! In other words, I am still shopping...only it is shopping from my stash!

I managed to use some fairly old snippets of aqua card stock and some newer brown snippets as well. But the best part was that I got to use some NBUS for a treat.

The elements on this card are BoBunny 3D elements from a Christmas open house day at my LSS (back in Dec, 2013). They had grab bags you could buy that day...for a small price! They were chock-a-block full of papers and full collections. Great fun!

I left the inside blank so I could write a letter!

****************This is card #13 of 50. I am on a consumables spending freeze until I have made 50 cards (Sook Wang tape and heavy weight card stock are exempt).***************

Recipe:
Card base -  from my stash
Design Paper - snippets of design paper from my unmarked snippets pile
Card Stock - snippets of brown and aqua
Ink -  Colorbox chestnut roan chalk ink
Embellishments - 3D stickers from Bo Bunny

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets

Christmas Card Club - Challenge 10 - Poinsettia - Card 12

It was Karen P at Stamping in Pink's turn to choose the theme for our fortnightly Christmas Card Club. She chose Poinsettia's!

I was caught a little off guard with this card as it is only a week since our last challenge. We had to adjust and tighten our timeline down to a week this time, to accommodate our yearly schedule.

In decided to keep with my current goals to use my stash on hand, and to incorporate NBUS (never before used stash) as well as VOS (very old stash).  I chose this NBUS embossing folder, Couture Creations A Magical Time,  for the background of my card.

I embossed a piece of Co-Ordinations black card and then used the green flip side, to showcase my focal point.  I lightly sanded the embossed piece of Co-Ordinations black card, and the lovely green showed through.

I have wanted to try this type of embossing for a while...and I really like the outcome. Kept the rest of my card quite simple as the embossing sort of steals the show.

Die cut  Penny Black Holly leaves die out of a snippet of white card, and inked it with Ingvide Bolme Gunsmoke chalk ink...then over inked it with some of her dark green chalk ink as well. Added some 3D K&Co branches, required poinsettia, and their 3D Cardinal, to create my focal point.

I used Marah Johnson Christmas Swatch Impress Ons (rub ons) to create the inside. They are my VOS item. I have had these for a few years now and have been trying to remember to use them on my cards this year. Had a little trouble with the rub on not completely transferring...so I did a little fine ink pen touch up. You can see a slight difference in the sheen. Thought I might try a little hairspray to even out the sheen, after I sign the card!

No recipe tonight as I have given it in the descriptions above!

****************This is card #12 of 50. I am on a consumables spending freeze until I have made 50 cards (Sook Wang tape and heavy weight card stock are exempt).***************

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1.  Christmas Card Club - Poinsettia
2.  Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
3.  MFP Speedy TV Christmas Card Challenge - must be Christmas
4. Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Card Challenge Extra - must be Christmas