Mother's Day Blog Hop

Welcome to the Mother's Day blog hop that is hosted by Nicolette.  A special thank you to Nicolette for hosting the fabulous hop!

I am very excited to be a part of this hop and share with you a few projects that I have made to celebrate all of the terrific Moms out there.  I am a Mother, as well as a Daughter and know how easy it is to overlook all the everyday things that Mom's do for the ones that they love.  I can only hope that my projects will inspire you to call your Mom (or at least make you smile).


The blog hop occurs over two days, but I will be posting several projects, so please be sure to check back often, or simply sign up over to the right to get email notifications when I post new items.


If you are just beginning the hop, you should start at the beginning ... Click HERE to start at Nicolette's blog.


If you are arriving from Brenna's blog (http://brennasblitherings.blogspot.com/) you are in the right place.




For my first projects for the hop, I'll be sharing a few Mother's Day cards that I made.

The first card that I created above uses DCWV papers.  I love the butterflies!

The sentiment on the front of the card is a digital stamp that I stumbled upon over at Digital Delights.  You too can pick it up HERE.

The second sentiment on the inside of the card is a traditional stamp that I purchased from Lili of the Valley.  As you can tell, I am a HUGE fan of circular sentiments.  

For my second card, I also used DCWV papers.  This is the new Lemon stack.  I love it!

The sentiment is also one that I picked up over at Lili of the Valley stamps.  

The small Happy Mother's Day stamp is something that I picked up over at Papertrey Ink.  They have some great items over there.  

I hope that you have enjoyed my cards for today .. and the hop itself.

I'll be giving away some blog candy too!  I have a set of cute stamps that I picked up over at PaperTrey Ink that I'll be giving away the day after the hop.

It's the TINY TAGS stamp collection.  Super cute, isn't it???

You have a chance to win this cute stamp set if you do the following three things:

(1) If you are not already a follower of my blog, just do so now.

(2) Become a Fan on my FaceBook page HERE.

(3) Leave at least one comment on a post during the blog hop (4/30-5/1)

I'll use Random.org to chose a winner on May 2nd!

Good luck to all those who enter.

This is your last stop on the hop.  Thanks so much for sharing with all of us!

I hope that you are enjoying the hop, and please come back again soon.

Take care, and Happy Mother's day to ALL of the wonderful Mom's out there!

Friday's Design team challenge

This week, the design team for Little Scraps of Heaven had the following challenge:

- Create a card with the color pink, and utilize scallops.

And here is my entry:

I truly love how versatile the peeking bear is that is in the Christmas Bears collection at Little Scraps of Heaven.

I used some SEI papers in this card from the Chocolat collection.

The sentiment stamp is from Lilli of the Valley.  

Please come and join the Design team on this challenge.  You're entry can be placed HERE

Enter to win free patterns!

My first Easel Card

I can not believe how much fun I had making this card!  Maybe because it was a change for me .. I'm so used to making scrapbooking pre-made's.   The excitement that I feel for this card is really going to help me with my creative challenge #1 for this year for sure!

Thanks again to the ladies at Split Coast Stampers for the wonderful tutorial on making an easel card!

This card will be entered in the Little Scraps of Heaven Designs sketch#5 challenge.

For this card I used miscellaneous papers from my stash ... sorry I do not know the names of them.

I also used a Little Scraps of Heaven Pirate Bears Paper Piecing Pattern.

The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley Stamps and the Anchor charm is from Karen Foster Designs