So, my friends.... What are your Easter plans? We'll be having family dinner here and it will be our first egg hunt for my grandson. It should be fun! I sent my husband to the local Dollar Tree for some of those plastic eggs and some kind of little toy/treat to put in them and what do you think he found??!! They had Paws Patrol figures!!! If you have any small children around you know what they are!!! My grandson loves them and can tell you all about each of the characters (at 2.25 years old!) And they were a DOLLAR each! What a score! I can't wait to see what he thinks of them! On the crafty news side... The Stampin' Up! Annual catalog will be coming out in June for all of you - I got to have a look now 😄 and they did a great job on stamp sets this year! I felt like they kinda "phoned it in" last year and was disappointed but this year it's going to be hard to keep within my budget! As soon as I'm allowed to I'll put up the PDF here and on my fb page so ya'll can see what's available right away! Here's this weeks card! I used the Tea Together stamp set (which will still be available in the coming year!) and I think it's just darling for a Mother's Day card. Of course you can always switch out the sentiments and make it for other occasions too!
The first half of the year is just loaded... With card giving occasions! It seems like we just get past Christmas when Valentine's Day comes along. Following that is St. Patrick's Day (if you give cards for that!) then Easter, Mother's Day and Father's Day! Add in a few weddings, baby showers, and birthdays and you have crafting excuses (like I need an excuse to hide out in my craft room!) for MONTHS!!! I've been trying to keep the Mother's Day cards interesting but mailable this year! Wish me luck! I can feel myself breaking out in nice big dimensional flowers! This first card has some nice dimension but should still go thru the mail just fine! 😄
The Leafy Borders and flowers came from Heartfelt Creations, the inks, cardstock and various tools from Stampin' Up! I found the Happy Mother's Day die set here and the Mother's Day sentiments stamp set here. *** It appears the MSE Mother's Day sentiment stamp is no longer available. How can they do this to us? It was probably the BEST Mother's Day stamp set! A solution to this great problem would be to find a pretty font in word and print it out!
As I was looking thru the cards I had on hand ... I realized I didn't have any "Get Well Soon" cards! As we all know, when someone is sick you want to get a card to them as quickly as possible so there's no time to think up and make a card. This one is bright and cheery and I finally got around to making a pocket card which I had been thinking about for quite some time! I'm also checking out what all the hoopla is about with using make-up brushes or "life changing ink blending brushes". Go ahead, do a search on youtube on life changing brushes, you'll see what I mean! I've found them to be wonderful for a light colored background and they make blending with dye based inks soooooo easy. The brushes I used I found here on amazon.com. At $8.99 I figured it was worth trying them out!
