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Wednesday, 1 May 2013

It's All In The Sentiment - Mother's Day Cards

It's time for another challenge over at the Clarity Stamp Challenge Blog. This month's theme is "It's all in the Sentiment".

I have two cards to show you which I made for Mother's Day this year.


This first one I made for my Mum. The heart and the embellishments were from a K & Co. Smitten kit. I bought it years ago but as it was a Valentine photo card kit I never used it. I couldn't really see Hubby appreciating it! Anyway, this year I realised it would make a fab Mother's Day card so I set about transforming it. 

Instead of a photo I used the "To the World" Clarity stamp. As the challenge says, "It's all in the sentiment" and that one was perfect.

I changed the Valentine's Day embellishment to Happy Mother's Day which I had printed out on my computer.


I had some 12x12 papers in the same Smitten design so I used them to make a similar card for my Mother-in-law.

The sentiment is stamped onto one of the Spellbinders Floral Ovals Nestabilities. Then I've used various other dies to decorate the card. I had a bit of a problem with the edging as I just couldn't get it to cut through the patterned paper and the card I'd stuck it to. Luckily I had some old Fiskars punches in a similar sized heart and circle, so I finished it off with those.

Stamp Used

Dies Used
Spellbinders Floral Ovals
Spellbinders Classic Petal Edgeabilities
Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Labels 11
Flower - Tim Holtz Tattered Florals
Scroll - Tim Holtz Elegant Flourishes

Embossing Folder
Cuttlebug Wicker Weave


Clarity have so many lovely sentiment stamps, sometimes they are all you need to make a beautiful, heartfelt card. It's all in the sentiment after all.

Congratulations to the winner and Top 5 of the "In the Garden" challenge. I really enjoyed looking at all of the entries and I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge. Good luck!

Lynne
x

12 comments:

  1. These are gorgeous Lynne particularly love the heart xx

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  2. I have to say the heart is my favourite too, and love the colors. Beautiful.

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  3. LOve both of these, the colour is gorgeous and the sentiment is spot on for a Mother's day card. Truely shows how lovely it is to be able make personalised items like this. xxxAnnie

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  4. Both very beautiful Lynne, pretty and oh so feminine :-) xx

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  5. Love this sentiment and it makes a beautiful card very personal.xx

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  6. Lynne these are lovely - we all love pink!
    The sentiments work so well on both projects but the heart is very unusual.
    Very pretty projects xx

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  7. 2 beautiful projects as ever Lynne. Love the colour. If I had to choose I would pick the heart but they are both superb. xx

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  8. Wow Lynne! Very pink and patterned, I love it! I am going to be different and say the card is my favourite.

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  9. Both projects are great Lynne and hopefully both Mums were pleased with them. My favourite is the heart :-)


    xx Sazzle xx

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  10. Both are beautiful Lynne, makes a nice change to use the verse stamp with patterned papers and die cuts x

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  11. Lynn this is absolutely bloomin lovely, you just reminded me to change the shape of things through decoration! Sam

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  12. Gorgeous Lynne, so pretty. Wouldn't want to choose between them they are both lovely x

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