Friday, April 20, 2012

Mother's Day card

On Tuesday, my mom called me at 7:20 am and was very stressed. My sister was supposed to pick her and my dad up at 7:00 am and drive them to the hospital for her surgery (minor). So I talked to her until my sister showed up (after 7:30). I was a little nervous now about her surgery, because she was feeling so stressed, that I decided to focus on her and make a Mother's Day card. By the time she called to tell me she was home and doing well, I had finished the card.



For the background, I embossed (clear) the HA's stamp Lotus pattern and used distress inks to watercolour it. I stamped the same inks on some neenah cardstock , misted them with a bit of glimmer mist and with black ink, stamped the HA's butterfly. I cut them out with the matching die. I used the butterfly dies to cut the windows in the card. The sentiment/label is all Hero Arts. The twine is from Doodle Twine.

I know Mother's Day isn't until May 13th, but it felt good making the card for her, and it helped me keep from worrying too much.



I was inspired by three challenges:
 (watercolour butterflies - and this is a 2-week challenge, so lots of time to enter!)
The PlayDate Cafe's challenge colours


I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

I'm so glad it is Friday! Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by.

16 comments:

  1. Your card is gorgeous! So glad things worked out well for your mom, too!

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  2. Sooo fun! Love what you have done here! The colors really pop on the white, too! Your mom will love! :)

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  3. Just wanted to let you know how much I absolutely love your card! gorgeous!!

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  4. How great that you turned your worry into creativity and came up with your wonderful card for our mother! Glad all ended well for her!

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  5. Thank you for sharing your Mothers Card with the DT from SSS and S. I hope everything went well with your mom though....and offcourse she is going to love it. Fabby colors and loveley butterflies, thank you for sharing. Hugs Terry xxx

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  6. I'm glad your mother got home safe and sound.

    This is a great card, I love how you 'mirrored' the diecut butterflies with the ones on top.

    Thank you so much for entering our Window Card Challenge!

    Good Luck!

    Linda

    A Blog Named Hero

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  7. That negative use of the butterfly is lovely. Pretty, pretty card! Thanks for sharing with us at The Play Date Cafe. :)

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  8. Wonderful card! Love the bright colours!

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  9. Lovely card, so bright and happy. Thanks for playing along at A Blog Named Hero!

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  10. This is stunning!! The colors are magnificent!

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  11. Fabulous take on the challenge, thanks for playing along with us at The Play Date Cafe!

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  12. i love your sweet buttfly windows and that amazing color palette, thanks so much for playing along with our Challenge #2 at A Blog Named Hero

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  13. That color combination looks fabulous on your card! Really gorgeous, I love it!

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  14. Great job combining the challenges! Such a pretty example for each one!

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  15. This is beautiful Jeanette! I'm sure your Mum will love it. Glad her surgery went well too :) Sarah x

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  16. Hey Jeanette! Thanks for linking this up to this week's Tuesday Trigger in the Moxie Fab World! I'm so glad you joined in on all the fun! :)

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