Happy Mother’s Day: Round 2

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day in the United States. We’ve already started celebrating. Last night, Matt, Betsy, and the girls were here for dinner, and we celebrated Mother’s Day as well as my upcoming birthday since we’ll be on the road on my birthday. The older girls are experienced in helping blow out candles on a cake.

After church tomorrow, we’ll be celebrating Mother’s Day with Tracy’s family at a brunch. I have all the mothers covered with cards as well as a card for my brother-in-law and sister-in-law who will be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. (I won’t be sharing that card until later in the month since I made two of them, and the other anniversary isn’t until the end of the month.) Of the five Mother’s Day cards I made, this is my favorite, and I’m posting it a day early to enter it in three different challenges:

CASology

Inspired By . . . 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: For a Special Lady

After all that introduction, here’s the card:

When the Simon Says May Card Kit arrived, I knew I wanted to get it stamped right away. These beautiful flowers from the stamp set, “Delicate Flowers” were screaming to be colored. I decided on coloring with Copic markers this time, but they’d be beautiful in watercolors as well. There are no dies for these, so I fussy cut them which proved to be a bit of a challenge since I’ve been suffering from Trigger Thumb for several weeks. Two days ago, I had a cortisone shot in my thumb (painful!), and hopefully that will take care of the problem. There seems to be some improvement, but my hand is so bruised and sore from the injection, it’s hard to tell. 

I layered the flowers on a “Shape Shifters Oval #2” (Papertrey Ink) and stamped the sentiment from “Fillable Frame #4” (PTI) in black ink. Then I mounted it on a True Black card.

As a final touch, I added some white dots to the stamens with a white gel pen.