Mother's Day Cards

I don't think I shared the cards I did for Mother's Day.  This year I made them all alike to save time brainstorming up new designs.  For the background I cut strips of paper and them embossed them.  The "I love you Mom" tag came from Happy Birds Crafting Haven that I linked to in one of my Walks Around Blog Land.  The flower is a free digi from Beccy's Place, that I colored and glittered and adhered with a piece of pink ribbon underneath.  I twirled some green strips of paper and glued them behind the flower too.
This post linked to:
Whatever You Want Wednesday

Side Step Card

First time to do a side step card....here's a great tutorial on it if you're interested.  Here's another view from above so you can see inside the steps

Supplies used:

• Blue cardstock
• Misc. paper scraps
• Stamps
• Posy Patch (Heartfelt Creations)
• Basket stamp
• Just Because Stamp (Studio G)
• Butterfly punch
• Homemade buttons
• Martha Stewart leaf punch
• toothpicks

This post is linked to:

Craft Catwalk
Making Monday Marvelous
Whatever You Want Wednesday 

May Bulletin Board

Here's the bulletin board decoration for the month of May.  As you probably figured -- I did it in a teacup theme to go along with my Mother's Day program.  This is the fastest and simplest one I've done (SO MANY other things to do - just couldn't take lots of time on it).  I actually used stickers on something!!!  That's something I rarely do -- simply because once you use them they're gone --- I tend to shy away from buying them and put my money into things I can use over and over again.  This time it paid me to have a few pretty flower stickers on hand though -- made the whole project take less than 10 minutes start to finish! Simple and Easy!

More Cupcake Cards

Remember the above card I made to go with the Dollar General cupcake stuff?  Well, I made a whole set of little cupcake cards as part of a Mother's Day gift to a lady here whose "adopted" us as kids/grandkids.  She's told me several times "I don't want you to buy me stuff, but since you won't listen... what I'd really like is some of your homemade cards as a gift!"

I made her six little cards and included them in her Mother's Day gift bag -- she loved them!

For the above three I added candles to the top -- below you'll see strawberries. 

Supplies used:

• Misc. paper scraps 
• I don't think I cut up any new paper at all -- just used scraps from my paper scrap basket
•  Paper Crimper
• Beads
• glued them on 3 cards for "sprinkles" on the icing
• Glitter
• Ribbon
• Swirls embossing folder (Provo Craft)
• Liquid Applique
• Template from Inspired and Unscripted

I also included three little cupcake shaped birthday sentiments just in case she wanted to glue them in a card or two. 

This post linked to:
Whatever You Want Wednesday