Happy Mother's Day

When was there ever a better time to shake up this little piece of unloved blogland than on Mother's Day.

Of course, Mother's day in England is a little earlier in the year, and as this year I only managed to send a card to both of our Mums I thought I would send their pressies on the Australian date - great excuse to make an extra card .... albeit that I don't think they have actually arrived yet!

I used the All Dressed Up Framelit dies together with the Print Poetry Designer Series paper packs - my favourite pack of paper at the moment (page 16 of the seasonal catalogue).  I love the Flower Trim (page 5 of the seasonal catalogue) - I've cut off individual flowers to use.

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums - near and far.  I'm spending the day with my two - visiting the garden centre to buy a new plant for the garden, some home cooked breakfast, a soccer match and a driving lesson .... sounds perfect to me.

Pop back soon, I've lots of cards to show you, together with all the latest news from Stampin' Up!

Nikki

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Happy Mother's Day

Yes in the UK today it is Mother's day!  That scared all my aussie friends didn't it - ha ha!  I was browsing the internet and saw an ad for flowers for Mother's Day - thank goodness for the odd advert here and there otherwise I would have completely forgotten.  It was Sunday, so I quickly whistled up two cards.

I took part in a swap a couple of months ago and was inspired by a card made by Virginia Newcombe. Its been sat on my desk waiting for me to recreate - what perfect timing.

The frame cut in the front of the card has been created by using the Petite Curly Label punch - a Sale-a-bration freebie.  Just punch three times one way and twice the other- Isn't that a cool idea?

I used Teeny Tiny Sentiments to stamp Happy Mother's Day - as the words are in one line I used a marker pen to ink up each individual word so that I could stamp them one word below the other - stamped in this way meant that the sentiment could be punched using the the Petite Curly Label.  To make it stand out I also punched a piece of Silver Glimmer paper to create a little matted piece - all Mum's need a bit of sparkle don't they!

Using Pleasant Poppies I stamped just part of the image onto a piece of Whisper White for the insert inside the card.  Using a Blender pen I coloured the image - adding a pearl as an accent.

So Happy Mother's day to both my mum and my mother-in-law.  I hope you both have a fantastic day.

Love Nik

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Happy Mother's Day

Its Mother's Day in the UK today - and this is the card I made for my mum to celebrate the day.

I've used the new Strength and Hope set, Pale Plum, Whisper White and Basic Black and the faux silk technique.  Rather than stamping the tissue paper, to create a softer image I stamped a piece of Whisper White randomly with both the script and the butterfly, using Pale Plum and Elegant Eggplant ink - some of the images have been stamped without re-inking to create the different shades.  I then pasted the tissue paper onto the cardstock - for a much more subtle effect

The gorgeous butterfly has been stamped again in Elegant Eggplant onto vellum card stock and cut out.  I applied some two way glue and dazzling diamonds before fixing it to the main piece with an antique brad.

The ribbon has been coloured with a Pale Plum marker - always good to keep a roll of Whisper White tafetta ribbon on hand - if you have any of the Stampin' Up! markers then you are in business - you can colour the ribbon to match whatever it is that you are creating.

I just know that this set is going to be a real favourite for so many of you - and with the Stength and Hope fund raising campaign for Breast Cancer it is sure to be a much used and well loved set for many of us.

Happy Mother's day Mum - I miss and love you very much.

lots of love, hugs and kisses Mum

Nik

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Happy Mother's Day to Our Mums!

Okay for my Australian and American friends you can breath ... it's okay ... it's Mother's Day in the UK this weekend!

And to celebrate here is another Sweet Treat creation.

Now I have CASE'd this 'sort of' and I was hoping that by the time you read this I would have found the original owner .... but as usual I didn't write down the lady's name - if you know who you are can you me know.

I thought the idea of a butterfly underneath a magnifying glass was so brilliant I had to make one myself ... hence that call to Sue Madex to ask her to stamp the handles from the Sweet Something stamp set.

The butterfly is from the Butterfly Prints set and I've used the matching punch - I can't believe that I will only be demoing this for another couple of weeks - I have a sneaky suspicion that it will be back in the new Ideas Book and Catalogue in September.

I've used Upsy Daisy and Pocket Silhouettes to create the flowers and Whimsical Words for the sentiment.

The ribbon technique at the bottom is so simple .... if you check this post over at the Stamp-a-Memory site you'll find my easy instructions - have a go ... it looks really effective.

Well that's it for the Sweet Treat creations for a little while - I hope you have enjoyed them.

Happy Mother's day to my Mum and and to my mother-in-law Pauline - we all hope you are having a lovely day.

 

Mother's Day Card Donations for our Aussie Troops

Being the wife of a Defence Force member this plea for donations is very close to my heart.  It was only the other day that I mentioned to my husband that I admire how much the Americans show their support for their troops serving overseas and asked why didn't this happen worldwide - Stampin' Up! in the US even have their own stamp to celebrate their Defence Force members.

It was through a recent blog hop that I found Tracey Hanshaw and Karen Cummings - two lovely Stampin' Up! demonstrators who have started this project.

Last Christmas, Karen collected hundreds of handmade cards to send to our aussie troops overseas so that they could send cards home to their families at this very special time. These cards reached our troops in Afganhistan, Egypt, Samolia and, yes I am pleased to say, even our Navy!

So Karen and now Tracey are sending out the call again to all of us very talented card makers to ask us all to make and donate some very special mothers day cards, so that they can send them to our troops to post home to their mums and wives for mothers day.

The latest they can accept your donations is April 1st so that they can get them to where they need to go. Again this year Karen will also be collecting Christmas cards, so if you have any left over that you could spare to kick this year's collections off, they would be also greatly received. 

I will post more about christmas cards for the troops later on in the year. If everyone could either put a post on their blogs, or get a group together to make and or collect cards would be a great help. Any, and all help will be gratefully received. You can either send the cards to me, or email Tracey here to ask her for her postal details.

And thank you - we can't really even begin to imagine what our troops are going through on our behalf - mail is so important to them and to have something handmade to send home to their mums and wives will be very much appreciated.