A Vintage Challenge at Rubbernecker Stamps

We are having a Vintage challenge this fortnight at Rubbernecker Stamps. I love vintage inspired anything so this was a lot of fun for me. I used this little girl stamp called Hannah for my card. She is the perfect stamp for a vintage inspired card.

I stamped the image with Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. I also used a birthday stamp from the Happy Birthday stamp set. I used Michele R Digital Papers in Basic Vintage along with the Basic Vintage Elements 1 Set to make the little envelope and tag. The metal heart and wood butterfly are from Michaels craft stores. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Make sure you stop by the blog and enter this challenge for your chance to win one of two prizes: a $25 gift certificate for 1st place, and a $15 gc for second place. This challenge runs for two weeks.

Vintage Challenge at OMCF

The current challenge at Open-Minded Crafting Fun is "Vintage", and I chose an image by Lemon Shortbread called Winter Muff Shoujo. Lemon Shortbread is just one of the awesome sponsors for this challenge. The others are Fairy Tangles, The Art of Ronne P. Barton, and The Fantasy Art of Nikki Burnette. They are offering up some awesome prizes for this challenge as well, so go check out the blog and enter your own project for a chance to win!

Winter Muff Shoujo

I don't have any experience with vintage, so I'm not sure this is vintage, but I like how it turned out, nonetheless. I coloured the image with Copics. The papers are from Michele R Designs, the Vintage Frost collection. The embellishments are from Live & Love Crafts (as part of our swag bag at the Kit & Clowder retreat), the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Some sad news to report is that Open-Minded Crafting Fun is closing up shop. you can read Vicky's post about it HERE. It's become too difficult for the ladies to manage the admin side of the page after losing their main admin person a couple months ago. So there will only be two more challenges after the current challenge and then it will be no more. Sad to see it go as those are some fabulous ladies over there doing some awesome things.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there! I hope you get to take it easy today and let the men in your life take care of you, or your children, or whoever your significant others are. I decided to do a post for Mother's Day because I went to mail my mom's card and they wanted almost $20 to mail it. Well, I'm pretty cheap when it comes to things like that. If I weren't seeing her in a few weeks I would have went ahead and mailed it, but we will be going to my oldest daughter's high school graduation at the beginning of June, so I think she'll understand if I just bring it to her then. I don't think she would mail a card for $20 either. Anyway, I decided to write a blog post for her as a little present and so she can see the card I made for her.

My mom and I don't live close to one another. She lives in Kentucky and I'm in Alberta, so we only see each other a couple times a year. That is hard for someone like myself who is a self-proclaimed mama's girl. I cried, and I mean cried, when I left home. It was very hard for me. Since then, we've rarely been in the same state, or the same country, or even on the same continent for that matter. We had a few years that we both lived in Florida, so that was awesome, but now here we are again in different countries. My mom worked really hard as a single parent to raise my sister and I. It wasn't easy and I admire her and love her for it more than I can ever tell her.

So Happy Mother's Day Mom!! I love you more than it is possible to tell you!!

On my card, the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I Am Roses. The lace and the pearl string are from Live & Love Crafts. The dove is from Wild Orchid. I used Vintage Flowers digital papers from Michele R Designs.

This sentiment is from Verve Stamps. I stamped it with Color Box Espresso pigment ink and heat embossed it with Recollections clear detail embossing powder.

The butterfly is from Live & Love Crafts. I glued glass beads on for the body. I got that idea from tofa. She has some fantastic projects on her blog. Check her out HERE!

My mom, pregnant with me. We won't talk about what year it was. ;-)

At the lake last summer during her visit. (My oldest daughter isn't in the picture)

Thanks for visiting! I hope you all have a great Mother's Day, or a just a great Sunday if you're not a mom. xx

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Crafting From the Heart - ATG

613 Avenue Create - ATG/ Let's Celebrate 

Amusing - Happy Mother's Day/feminine