Mother's Day

I'm not sure why pink and flowers are symbolic with mothers, but I succumbed to the cliche when I created these cards over the weekend. I played with my Wonderful You set and some retired designer paper and the sketch came together rather quickly.

Pink and brown is one of my favorite combinations, and the paper helped determine the use of the flower as the focal image. The base of the card is Pretty in Pink and Close to Cocoa is the mat. Notice the little splash of bling with Dazzling Diamonds in the center of the flower. The sentiment comes from the It's Your Birthday set, and I think it's perfect for Mother's Day. The Happy Mother's Day stamp is from the retired All Year Cheer II set; however, there is a new all occasions set available called All the Holidays, which covers all kinds of holidays and occasions and has 12 stamps total in it.

I was also playing around with some scraps and incorporated that dotted frame I experimented with last week to make this card. I really like it! It has the same sentiment and message inside, mounted on some more of the dp.

Here's a suggestion: consider expanding your Mother's Day card giving beyond family members to your friends or to other ladies who have had an impact on your life. They may have waded through the toddler years with you or passed along some wisdom because their child was a few years further down the road than yours, or just encouraged you as a friend. However you define "mothering" or "nurturing", think about expressing your appreciation to those women this weekend.

Thinking of Mothers

This is take two for this post, since Blogger can't seem to finalize things today. I made this monochromatic card for my workshop Saturday because my hostess wanted to have this card set aside for the upcoming event.

I really liked the way this came together. The From the Garden stamp is a Level 1 Hostess stamp, and the detail in it is just beautiful! I didn't want anything else to detract from the image, so I kept everything else simple.

Things were rather crazy around here Saturday before that workshop. We had several severe thunderstorms pass through our area, and a friend called me to ask if I was okay after she'd heard a report about a tornado passing near our house. We had hail the size of ping pong balls (not all of it, but some of it), and the street was running red with dirt that was streaming off the hills from all the yards, but no tornado siren ever went off. It unnerved me a bit, but we had a lull in the storms that enabled me to get to the Starbucks where the event was being held before another round passed through. Nuts, I tell you!

Gotta go get dinner started! Have a good Monday, what's left of it.