Memories in the Making: A Mother's Blessing

Monday, May 2, 2011

A Mother's Blessing

I very rarely make a card with a neutral/white backgroud, but have been wanting to find a simple design that I could do just that. While looking at Mother's Day cards at Hallmark the other day, I found a card with a simple bouquet of flowers on it. I immediately thought of my CTMH stamp set "Friendship Blessings." I put together this little card, using Tulip, Crystal Blue, Honey and Chocolate inks. I stitched the stems with some green embroidary floss.

Tip of the Day: Need inspiration? Visit your local card store to get ideas for card layouts, colors ect. All of my best work are copies of another card....just with my own take on them.

I plan to mass produce this Blessings card to send out to all the MOPS moms in my discussion group (about 15) for Mother's Day and am glad to only use a few products to make such a lovely card.

Be sure to check out other Mother's Day inspired artwork at http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/. Share yours too!

~Amy

7 comments:

Sãndra V. said...: I love the simplicity. Colors are great together. Thanks for sharing.; May 2, 2011 at 4:28 PM
Haley D. said...: Very sweet! Thanks for joining us at H2H!; May 2, 2011 at 5:05 PM
Lorrinda said...: Love this simply sweet card Amy! SOOOO much better than hallmark :) Thanks for sharing with us at H2H!; May 2, 2011 at 8:15 PM
Gina Brandstetter said...: Nice Card! I love simplicity of it - it's beautiful.; May 3, 2011 at 2:56 PM
Marie said...: I love the bold colors of the flowers with the white background. This is going into my "CASE" folder :); May 4, 2011 at 7:14 AM
Debbie Carriere said...: Wonderful CAS card!!! Very colorful & clean at the same time :) Thanks for sharing at H2H :); May 4, 2011 at 10:11 AM
Karen Day said...: Great card, Amy! Glad to have you join us at H2H this week :o); May 4, 2011 at 5:32 PM

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Time goes by way too fast! It seems like it was just yesterday, I was a new mom "learning the ropes," making mistakes and just trying to figure motherhood out. Now I am a mom of 2 school aged childern. How in the world did that happen!

Luckily, I have photos on top of photos to prove that these two children here once little. These photos are precious memories that I love to look back on and remember. Reminiscing always helps me to see that I am so blessed and do have "A Wonderful Life."

I have found scrapbooking to a be hobby that helps me do this. Not only can I showcase my favorite pictures on a layout, but I can also capture special memories and funny/favorite quotes, to always keep thoses memories fresh.

I hope to be able to use this blog as a way to share this hobby with others as well as to share tips I come across along the way that help making crafting fun and not too time consuming. Although, I will mostly share paper crafting, I hope to also include fun "mommy tips" for crafting with kids, birthday parties, fun and easy recipes and just about anything that makes life with kids a little bit easier. Just know there will always something "crafty" here. Crafting just makes me happy!