One Stitch at a Time Challenge 161

This week at One Stitch at a Time the challenge is to make a card for a mum. Of course, it's bit late for Mother's Day, but there are still a lot of mums out there who deserve cards!

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This week, I worked with a gorgeous image from Delicious Doodles from a set called Floral Cap Nouveau. Sadly, my mum died a couple of years ago, and with Mother's Day over, I'm unlikely to be asked for a card that says 'Mum' on the front, so I've gone for making a birthday card for my sister (who's a mum.)

Now, this is what you call a bit of serendipity. Between requesting the image and getting it, I happened to go to a friend's house. She was selling off some cardmaking supplies, and I fell in love with a paper pad from Paper Pizazz which included this one. When I was looking for something to use with the image, it was an obvious match - the flowers are so similar, and with the swirling vines and leaves, it seemed perfect!

I cut the image using a Spellbinders die. I coloured with a mix of Promarkers and Flexmarkers, then stitched the pricked areas of the die cut. To finish, I've made some flowers. They're punched card, and the top layers have been punched from a printed sheet I had lying about - from a CD called Flower Power. To the centre of each flower, I've added some Stickles mixed with Perfect Pearl in red (as I only had clear and blue Stickles!) The leafy swirls were cut using a set of Spellbinders dies.

I hope you can join us this week.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Artistic Impressions where they want a card for a lady,
Forever Friends where they want lots of flowers,
Stampin' for the Weekend where they want die cuts/punches,
Sassy Studios where they want something for a special lady,
Crafting by Designs where anything goes,
Nutcrafters where anything goes,
Creative Card Crew where they want hand-made flowers,