Love You, Mom

Inspiration: Lawn Fawnatics #46 + Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch #325

The current inspiration picture from Lawn Fawnatics' challenge immediately reminded me of the Painted with Love Specialty Designer Series Paper Stampin' Up! carried last year. The colours, the brushstrokes, the touches of gold... It's all one and the same! So I grabbed the papers from my stash and they became the starting point for the card. I went through my LF stamp sets, selected a few options, but finally landed on Mom + Me. I found out as I was working on the casrd that I still don't have the dies that match this stamp set so I had to handcut the images, which fortunately, are pretty straightforward. I gold-embossed the tree trunk on Crumb Cake cardstock. I've found in the past that the contrast is too stark between brown ink and white cardstock, so I find that a kraft-colored cardstock looks better.I wanted a soft background to my scene, so I used Powder Pink ink to stamp the grass and I sponged a cloud through the negative space of a cloud stencil I made using the Simple Puffy Clouds dies. I used my Blender Brushes from Picket Fence Studios to get a very soft blended look. I've found that those are also easier to use with stencils than sponges or blending tools are because it doesn't bend or move the stencil as much. I didn't even have to tape it in place, I only held it with my fingers and it didn't move.

I used the same paper collection to make a matching envelope with my envelope punch board. It's stunning, with the gold-foil stripes. I'm thinking of keeping this one aside for my mom for Mother's Day. (I'll have to hide it, as she usually have a look at the latest cards I've created when she visits.)

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Stamps: Mom + Me (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Powder Pink, Fresh Fig, Whisper White, Calypso Coral
Specialty Designer Series Paper: Painted with Love
Ink: tuxedo Black Memento, VersaMark, Powder Pink, Fresh Fig, Calypso Coral (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: Dotted Rectangle Stackables, Simple Puffy Clouds Dies,
Stitched Oval Stackables (Lawn Fawn); Blender Brushes (Picket Fence Studios);
Stampin' Dimensionals, Subtles and Metallic Enamel Shapes, Designer Button,
Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder, Burlap Ribbon, 1/8" Fresh Fig Ribbon, Metallic Pearls,
Sweet & Sassy Framelits Dies (Stampin' Up!); Markers (Copic);
Rainbow Hearts Shape Sprinkles (Doodlebug Design)

 

Comments

[Gab]

This is just gorgeous

[Samantha Mann]

love the layers of the banners and the textures!! wow! soooo cool!! what a lovely card for your mom!!! thank you SO much for playing along with the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge blog! :)

[Kim Skinner]

Absolutely beautiful. The papers are gorgeous! Thank you for joining the Paper Craft Crew this week!