Greetings!
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms around the world that are celebrating! Today is a wonderful opportunity to pamper mothers and grandmothers! I am going to be happily pampered with a Mother's Day brunch by Dan and Rachel and the boys. The Mister and Hammy will come too, of course!
However, I know for some of you today can be very painful, so I send you extra hugs of comfort and understanding.
Here's my card:
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms around the world that are celebrating! Today is a wonderful opportunity to pamper mothers and grandmothers! I am going to be happily pampered with a Mother's Day brunch by Dan and Rachel and the boys. The Mister and Hammy will come too, of course!
However, I know for some of you today can be very painful, so I send you extra hugs of comfort and understanding.
Here's my card:
On an embossed card base, I've layered this NBUS succulent journaling die (which has a matching stamp) from Neat & Tangled which I've cut and paper-pieced from alcohol-infused glossy paper.
I tried to think outside the box with this and stretch the succulent die to make it look more like a rose in honor of the Mom sobriquet. Does it look a bit like a rose to you?
I tried to think outside the box with this and stretch the succulent die to make it look more like a rose in honor of the Mom sobriquet. Does it look a bit like a rose to you?
Here's a closhup of the alcoholic paper's gloppiness. Erm, skuzsh me, I meaned to shay gloshiness:
Challenges
- Cards in Envy: Motherly love.
- Happy Little Stampers: Anything goes with dies.
- Pixie's Snippets Playground: Use those snippets.
- Watercooler Wednesday: Penny's "Mom" theme.
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Speaking of succulents, for my Mother's Day bouquet for you I've got an update on those succulents which bloomed this year for the first time even though they are at least three years old. I first showed them to you on April 9 and here you can see how they grew and opened!
Here's a closeup of the individual magnificent flowers:
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A unique design, love the way you used this succulent die. Yes, you made it look like a rose and I do love the colors. Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteAww Darnell that is one stunningly gloshy rose card! Love it. Your real life succulents are beautiful too. So good to be back in blogland again, despite the reason why I now have time to be here :-(.
ReplyDeleteHope you and Hammy and the Mister enjoyed your speshul lunch today - I did - my DD fed me at lunch time, and DIL at afternoon tea time, so now I don't need tea
Blessings
Maxine
Hi Darnell, Lovely card. We celebrate Mothers Day in March.
ReplyDeleteThe plants are lovely.
Hope you have a nice day. Sue
Happy Mother's Day to you too! Beautiful card Darnell I love those alcohol inks... Your succulents are stunning!! Must be the wonderful weather you have out there. Have a beautiful day full of pampering!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty Darnell is your Mothers day card ours has been and gone but how lovely to see what you created as always your so talented and the photos of the flowers are stunning so beautiful enjoy your day x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colored flower Happy Mom's Day to you!
ReplyDeleteThat's really lovely looking, good choice of colours and it almost looks like an enamel finish x
ReplyDeleteYes, I do think your flower has the look of a rose, I love the gorgeous colours of the alcohol inks - and the wonderful sheen. Great embossed background card too!
ReplyDeleteYour succulents look so beautiful and the close up of the flowers is just stunning!
I hope you enjoy your Mother's Day brunch with the family and that Hammy is a good boy! Big hugs, Annie xx
Amazing design, stunning card and great work with alcohol inks!
ReplyDeleteHappy mother's day!
Beautiful card!! Hope you enjoy your Mother's Brunch with your family. Happy Mother's Day!!
ReplyDeleteI love how you inlaid the colorful negatives to create such a fabulous card! This is just beautiful. Thanks for the photos of your beautiful plants and flowers too. What a gorgeous garden! Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day to you Darnell! Enjoy your pampering!!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your special day. Beautiful card, love the sheen and I totally saw flowers. Love your photos of the flowers too, love how delicate they are. Cara x
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day to you, Darnell! I hope you have a lovely day. Your card is so very pretty. I see the rose you spoke of. Your succulents look amazing. Wonderful blooms!! Hugs! :)
ReplyDeleteStunning RC Darnell the colours are fabulous and I love the gloshiness!! Enjoy your Mother's day with the family xx
ReplyDeleteTotally fabulous card Darnell - LOVE the gloss effect, and that die is brilliant! Happy Mothers Day to you too my friend - and thanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. Now get back here and pick up those candy wrappers you left! :)
ReplyDeleteHugs
Di xx
Happy Mothers Day to you too, Darnell, hope you have a lovely day and thanks so much for sharing your fab photos and super duper card today too
ReplyDeleteKathyk
Lovely card Darnell...and wishes for a Happy Mothers Day to you! Enjoy your day...hope you are spoilt to bits! xx
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day to you. To me it sounds like you started celebrating before the family got there! The succulent does look like a rose and made a lovely card. The blend of inks is beautiful. Your real life succulents are gorgeous. They really came alive and spread out. Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous glossy succulent Darnell, and the way you have die cut it to use the pink for the flower and then some green for the background is so pretty and a clever idea. I'm glad that Dan, Rachel and the boys are giving you some TLC today so sit back and enjoy. I love your wonderful succulents and the flowers are spectacular and great photography too. x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card and love your plants. x
ReplyDeleteIt does resemble a rose! This is fabulous Darnell, pretty colors. Have a beautiful, blessed and happy Mother's Day!!
ReplyDeleteOff to church but wanted to tell you that your ROSE card is delightful! Love all those smooshy/splashy wonderful colors. And the embossing...well, just everything. Happy Mother's Day to you my darling friend. Big hugs and tons of love!! xo Bev
ReplyDeleteThis beautiful. A rose by any other name. Enjoy your day. Hugs Mrs A.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day! I love the look you created using those alcohol ink bg:s, makes this die look completely different than usually! Great job!
ReplyDeleteDarnell, your card is beautiful. You must have the most beautiful yard too. Love the pictures. Happy Mother's Day to you, friend.
ReplyDeletePretty flowers both on the card and in real life! Love your card Darnell and all the different colors in the rose/succulent.
ReplyDeleteHave a FAB Momma's Day and enjoy every minute of it.
Lynn
Darnell what a lovely tribute to mother's everywhere and what a gorgeous card you've created. I love effect of the alcohol infused background design peeking through the succulent die cut. Very nice and so are your real life succulents. That's quite a collection. I love it when the bloom, they are just so stunning. Thanks for joining us for the "Mom's Theme" challenge at Watercooler Wednesday this week and for your nice comment on the challenge.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day, Darnell! Enjoy being pampered--a brunch sounds wonderful! Yes indeed--succulent didn't enter my mind when I first saw the card--looks like a gorgeous rose! I'm in awe of the alcohol inked glossy paper! Your succulents are amazing--what a beautiful flower!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous gorgeous with the alcoholic gloss which looks almost like a glaze. Spectacular succulent rose you've got there! I love every bit of the background, and that's quite a fabulous die. You have such beautiful sunshine for your photos and for growing your amazing succulents. Enjoy those splendiferous blooms, and have a happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteLove this, Darnell! It's awesome on the screen, but I bet it's just dreamy IRL... Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteIt definitely looks like a rose. Such gorgeous colors you chose, as well. Like the embossed framing a lot. Hope your Mother's Day is one to remember with joy in your heart.
ReplyDeleteYes sure does look like a rose to me...great use of the die and love the AI background. Thank you too for sharing the photos of your succulents and so glad that they have eventually flowered. Gorgeous card x
ReplyDeleteYes I can totally see that as a rose!! Beautiful card! Happy Mother's Day friend! Your succulents are magnificent! You have the right climate for sure!! Happy Day! Heart Hugs, Col
ReplyDeleteDarnell, I absolutely LOVE this gorgeous card! I immediately thought of it as a rose! Thanks for the good wishes for those of us who are feeling a bit of a twinge of frustration and sadness on Mother's Day. (DS is making some not-so-good decisions lately.) DH fixed us both some French Toast this morning, so that, and a pot of fresh ground coffee, was a nice start to the day!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty card!
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day to you, Darnell!! Love the card! Your hens n chicks must be very happily crowded to have such a magnificent show of blooms. Have a wonderful day and week. Hugs
ReplyDeleteYummy shmooshing (auto correct wanted smooching) and yes, I see the rose! Happy Mom's Day!
ReplyDeleteThis made me think, very Retro, no idea why, great die and super colours, great embossed background too.
ReplyDeleteSorry if I have not commented during the past 10 days but I have been on holiday.
Kath x
Happy Mother's Day to you Darnell!! Yes, you've made the succulent look like a rose---such a pretty card!!
ReplyDeleteHi Darnell
ReplyDeleteHappy Mothers Day to you dear lady. Hope you're having a wonderful day with the family.
Yes, your succulent does indeed look rosy and very shiney too.
Your close up flower is super.
Have a great day.
Ang x
So beautiful and I love the sheen. I am loving all the cards with succulents on them these days. Your colors are perfect for it too!
ReplyDeleteAnd Happy Mother's Day to you. Your day with family sounds wonderful! I've never tried to grow succulents...yours are just beautiful and great pictures too!
ReplyDeleteHappy Mom's Day Darnell. Hope you're having a super schpecial day! Love your card - the colors are just gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card and I just love your plants. Happy Mother's Day to you.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty and unique card. Love it.
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are pretty also.
Happy Mother's Day to you.
Beautiful card, Dolly!! Your die-cut does look like a rose in those gorgeous colours. Great design, great techniques!! :)
ReplyDeleteHave a very special Mother's Day with your family. And love the photos of your blooming succulent! Lolly xx
Love this card, Darnell! Beautiful colours and colouring.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day to you. Hope you had a fabulous day!
Hugs,
Trina xx
A beautiful card (yes, it certainly does look like a rose!), and some amazing succulent flower photos. I didn't realize they could get so MANY flowers on one plant.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a lovely Mother's Day and I adore the mix of colours here and yes it looks like a rose x
ReplyDeleteLove the colours you achieved on your 'rose' Darnell, so pretty. I actually thought it was one until I read further.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the contractors are on the retreat, their compound is being returned to pasture and the track almost complete. I won't be sad to see them leave that's for sure.
Thanks for sharing at HLS too. :)
This looks beautiful ..... and definitely like a rose. Hope you had a lovely Mother's Day xx
ReplyDeleteBeautiful succulent rose, Darnell. Hope you had a blessed day.
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Em xoxox
I thought it was a rose so you did a wonderful job of changing that succulent! Love those gorgeous AI colors! I didn't realize that succulents had such pretty flowers! Hope you had a wonderful Mom's Day and enjoyed being pampered!
ReplyDeleteFantastic card Darnell! and your succulents are gorgeous! I hope you had a lovely Mother's day with your family!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the hug and for thinking of us who can maybe never become mothers, it means a lot that someone acknowledge us :-)
xoxo Olga
A belated happy mothers day to you Darnell. I love the card, the alcohol ink glossy background is ace, and a fabulous colour scheme too...very fresh and bright. The succulent is stunning I couldn't grow anything like this here in the cold UK its beautiful and well worth the wait, Thank you for sharing it with us. crafty hugs Andrea x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, Darnell! Love the pleats and that pretty flower. Thanks for joining us this week at Watercooler Wednesday Challenges.
ReplyDeleteBelated happy Mother's day to you Darnell. I love your card. The embossed background is pretty. Lovely colors too. The succulents are very beautiful. The flower is stunning!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers and colours on your card, and some wonderful photos!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love your use of the glossy paper with alcohol put in to the embossed sections! This look is wonderful! Really adds a whole level to the depth! Wonderfully done! Thank you so much for joining in for the WWC118 Mom's Theme Watercooler Wednesday challenge this week!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the stunning flower!!! gorgeous work!!! glad you are back making cards!! thanks for playing with Cards In Envy!!!
ReplyDeleteIt does indeed look like a rose! Great card - Thank you so much for joining in for the WWC118 Mom's Theme Watercooler Wednesday challenge this week!
ReplyDeleteLove this glossy gorgeousness Darnell, beautiful colours. Great plants too xx
ReplyDeleteMaybe I need to get sloshed a little. That is a gorgeous rose, Darnell. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous succulent. Love the photos, too. thanks for playing along at Watercooler Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteLoving your succulents, both read and inky and hope you had an amazing Mothers Day! My succulents have really taken off this year too, so I guess the weather agreed with them.
ReplyDeleteTruly a work of art, I love checking these lovely cards and ill and some stickers to me make it customized for my Mama.
ReplyDeleteIt is clearly a rose! Reminds me of a big one, we call them Pioenroses...
ReplyDeleteI never have seen that plant in bloom and it looks spectaculair!
Hugs, Gerrina
Gorgeous card with your cool alcohol ink rose! Fab embossed background too! I hope you had a wonderful treat day! Love your garden photos. Hugs. Chris xxxxxx
ReplyDeleteo wow, great card and an amazing die. and I love your flowers!
ReplyDeletehugs xx
Beautiful card I love the pretty design and a belated Happy Mothers Day to you. Loved the photos of your plants always look a load better in the sunshine Love and hugs Carole x
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day to you too! Sounds like you had a fabulous day! Danny & Eric BBQ'd a yummy elk steak supper and did the dishes too!
ReplyDeleteFabulous image! And YES...IT TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE A ROSE! I would never have guessed! Love your resourcefulness pal! Beautiful colors and beautiful pics of the 'for real life'. I have NEVER, EVER seen this succulent bloom! No bout adout it...you've definitely been blessed with one heck of a green thumb!
Happy Mother's day...hope you had fun! I think it does look like a rose, you are SO creative. Lovely card!
ReplyDeleteLove how you used this on your card, I think I need it to add to my NBUS!
ReplyDeleteLove succulents too, mine are all ready to go once the weather clears.
Sounds as though you had a wonderful Mother's Day planned, Darnell ... hope it was just as good as it sounded ... and that brunch was excellent! Gorgeous blooming succulent ... those flowers truly are spectacular! Wonderful shine on your alcohol infused rose (it is a rose, with or without alcohol!) ... and those colours are just delicious ... another beauty! LYAMYBLHYWIGW! Hugs & bisous, Anita :)
ReplyDeleteYour succulent rose looks so pretty, Darnell, and I'm very impressed by your real-life flowering succulents! Great detail photo.
ReplyDeleteNice share! I also hosted Mother's Day bash for my mom and mother-in-law. It really turned out to be a fabulous luncheon. Had booked one of best garden themed Venues in NYC and they offered really great services on a budget.
ReplyDeleteYour mom will surely be delighted. The colors are so energizing and joyful. And the cut flower looks like a rose, I have no doubt !!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
BożenA xoxo
I've never seen that glossy paper before, I just want to reach thru the screen and touch that succulent!! The colours are so succulentesk(?) and your flowers one has gone wild. Its so funny how plants can suddenly take off after remaining the same for years. I have a few peonies like that, fingers crossed this Spring they will finally flower!!
ReplyDeleteSuch a gorgeous card! Love the vibrant colors! Here via the WCW inspiration posts :)
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful Card Darnell..Love the succulents..Thank you so much for joining us at Happy Little Stampers - anything goes with dies Challenge.. Hugs xx Deepti Aggarwal
ReplyDeleteHurray! Happy Little Stampers loved your blossom card as much as I me...hate to say, "I told you so", but I kind of did.
ReplyDeleteWow--another win! Congratulations, Darnell!
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