Happy Mother's Day 2014

Hi There!

I keep having holidays jump out at me from behind my calendar. Know what I mean? One day I look and the holiday is three weeks off and then it seems like it's just the next day and I am sitting at my desk minding my own business making a birthday card and talking about skin care with my hamster and BOOO out from the wall the calendar yells, "MOTHER'S DAY IS SUNDAY!" I jumped a foot!

That's here in the USA, of course. I know some of you were already startled by that holiday a few weeks back. For you, however, you must have something coming up like Boxer Day or Bra Day or some such Unnerwear Day. Speaking of unnerwear, all of the holidays creep up on my any more. I figure what we could do is, we could just all agree to stop time, say on the 15th of this month, for about ten days while we do nothing but make cards for special holidays. Are you with me? Okay, good. I'll start a petition.

Having said all that, I don't have a need to make a Mother's Day card for a mother, but I did make one for my wonderful DIL, mother of our beloved twin grandsons. We will be brunching with them on Sunday and I can give her my card then. You get to see it first:

Some of you may remember that I bought a bunch of beautiful napkins when I went to see my friend in Colorado last fall and every now and then I will dip in the napkin basket and use one to make a card. They are truly gorgeous napkins. 

To dimensionalize my nappy, I added a hydrangea that I made by applying some Tim Holtz alcohol inks and blending solution to a piece of glossy card stock (ala Laurie), stamping the hydrangea and then fussy-cutting it. To make it look like it was an inter grill part of the napkin, I added the stem and bud  after fussy-cutting them from another snippet of the napkin.

The sediment banner is made from a snippet of purple vellum, certainly celery cardstock, and an overlay of clear vellum. The flower centers were popped on with Liquid Pearls. And thassit!

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My card is playing in these fun challenges:

Clean and Simple 291, sketch.

Pixie's Snippets Playground, use your snippets.

The Squirrel and the Fox, "Mother's Day." This is my first time playing in this challenge! You might have guessed that Hammy found it when he was leafing through the magazine section of the Sunday Critter Chronicles.

Stamplorations, stamp & flowers.

Words 2 Scrap By, "Bloom Where You Are Planted."

If you click on the challenge links, you will find all the details about rules, sponsors, and prizes!

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New Friends Corner

I'm so thrilled to introduce you to our newest friend at the Playhouse. Please welcome Jenny B. of Owl Be Crafty! In Jenny's own words, she enjoys doing just about anything creative such as baking, event planning, and photography, but her absolute favorite thing is making cards. Everything she learned about crafting, she learned from her mother! What a wonderful acknowledgment from a sweet daughter and so timely as we celebrate Mother's Day!

Jenny is trying to become more active as a blogger and I know that your visit and your encouragement will mean a lot to her. If you could follow her, that would be an added bonus for both of you! I know you will find her card art to be exceptional and inspirational!

Welcome, Jenny, and thank you for joining us!!

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I have made a collage of photos for you as a follow-up to my last post. If you're interested, the individual photos can be viewed by clicking on the tab at the top called "My Photos."

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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS!* 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower! Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor!

  

 

*Life Is Too Short!

Project Details
Paper	SU certainly celery, unknown textured card base; glossy paper by Stampland; colored and clear vellum by Grafix
Stamps	Hydrangea H2121 by Hero Arts; sediment by Art Gone Wild (AS-E4.506)
Ink	Stazon jet black; Tim Holtz alcohol inks
Accessories	Napkin by Michel Design Works; Liquid pearls

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