Mother

I truly had a wonderful day of scrapping yesterday!  I had so much fun seeing what the challenges were and participating in many of them.  I showed you a couple, but you would have been on overload had I shared them all!  On thing that Stacy Julian said in her opening video for the Big Picture Classes Creative Crop was that scrapbooking is "fantabulous memory-making coolness."  Don't you agree?  Gosh, I love all that I have learned from her!

The last project I made yesterday was actually a Mother's Day gift for my mother.  I had the pieces out all day, and I just kept thinking about how I wanted to put it together.  This is what I came up with...

I purchased this shadow box frame at Michael's a couple of years ago.  It has a brown tone to it, so I knew I wanted to use Buzz & Bumble paper.  I cut two sheets of flowers from the Artiste cartridge, and sponged them with yummy creme brulee ink before I rolled them.  Once I had them on the frame, I really had fun adding this and that - butterflies (from the Artiste and Art Philosophy), cocoa buttons, trinket pins, bling gems, dark chocolate striped grosgrain, and some little wooden bees.  I like the way it turned out, so I hope my mother likes it!

This is going into a few challenges:

• Cut it Up - Mother's Day
• StuckOnUSketches Die-cut Challenge -  The word Mother
• Pile it On - April Showers Bring May Flowers

Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope you have a most blessed Sunday!

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Tomorrow is a New Day

This my second post for today so be sure to scroll down and look at the Sketches in Thyme sketch!

I saw that the challenge at StuckOnU Sketches has to do with embossing.  I am always ready to emboss, so I thought I'd give it a try!

In order to achieve this mixed look, I stamped this lovely Hero Arts stamp in Versamark.  Versamark allows a little time, so first I sprinkled CTMH Olive embossing powder where I wanted it.  Then I did the same with CTMH buttercup.  Once you put one embossing powder on the image, it will not pick up another color.  This technique is form Stampendous, and is called painting with powder.  I wanted some resist in the background, so I rubbed over the whole image with Wild Honey distress ink.  The phrase is from Unity, and I also embossed that in CTMH Olive.  Now if I had thought twice, I would have put a Father's Day sentiment on the card.  Evne though this has a flower on it, the colors are lovely for a masculine card.

Just Chillin'

**Don't forget about my Surprise Blog Candy!!  If you don't know what I am talking about, read about it here!  I will also be drawing for the two Operation Write Home prizes on Tuesday morning.  What an exciting week of prizes!!

Ok, on to some artwork!  I found it hard to be in my craft room today.  It is absolutely gorgeous outside - high 70s with a light breeze.  Perfect summer day!  But I did see a sketch this morning that I wanted to give a try.  It is from StuckOnUSketches:

Now it would have be fun to fill this sketch with flowers and bling.  You know me - if there is a way to add a multitude of flowers, I will do it!  However, I had some cute, cute, cute pictures of Shane and Jerry that I wanted to scrap.

Shane's clothes matched this paper perfectly! I saw this sketch in a completely different way once I pulled out those little boy pictures!  I can't wait to show this one to Shane!

Items used: Bo Bunny Sunkissed paper, stickers, and chipboard; CTMH White Daisy CS; Petaloo Color Me Crazy flowers; TPC Googly Eyes; Mark Richards gems