Mother's Day Roses

When I am having creative block, I will often pull out a stamp I love and push myself out of my creative "box". I find CAS (clean and simple) cards a huge challenge so that is the direction I went with this card. I also stepped out of my comfort zone to create an A2 size card - I don't do them often!

I am usually behind on making cards for Birthdays and other special events so I decided to use this gorgeous rose stamp for a Mother's Day card. I am blessed to have both my Mom and my Mother In Law to make cards for so I hope one of them will enjoy this creation. 

 I cut my alcohol marker friendly paper to size, stamped the roses and sentiment and coloured the flowers using Copic markers. 

Next, I found some matching card stock and cut a thin matt to go behind my image and added a few glitter dots to add a bit of sparkle. 

Stamp: Winter Roses Background - Whimsy Stamps

Sentiment - Mother Love (retired) - Whimsy Stamps

Hammermill Digital Cover Stock, Tuxedo Black Memento ink, glitter dots

Copic Markers

Roses - R81 R83 R85 R39

Leaves - G40 G43 G24 G28 

I will be adding this card to the March and April challenge on the Whimsy Stamps and Inspiration Facebook group

Thanks for stopping by! Have an awesome day!

Blue Rose Smile

I coloured this stamp a few months ago and today the design for this beauty popped in to my head.

Roses are my favourite flower and blue is my favourite colour so why not combine my two faves?! I love colouring flowers as they remind me of my Grandma. She used to come and plant our flower beds every spring. We didn't have rose bushes but the types and colours she put together gave us beautiful colours all season long. 

After stamping and colouring these gorgeous roses, I hand fussy cut them leaving a thin white edge. I added a silver foil (so hard to photograph foil!) half circle behind it. I stamped the sentiment directly on the white cardstock and that finishes off my CAS design. 

Card Recipe

Stamp: Winter Roses Background - Whimsy Stamps
Sentiment: Everyday Mini Sentiments - Whimsy Stamps

Hammermill Digital Cover Stock, Tuxedo Black Memento ink, silver foil paper

Copic and Spectrum Markers

Roses - BG01 BG05 BG07 BG09

Leaves - CG4 DG3 JG6

Thanks for stopping by! Have an awesome day!