Wonderful Mother

Here are a few more Mother's Day Cards!

I used the Stampin' Up! Build A Blossom punch and a little technique my sister showed me for curving the petals up a little. It's super fast and easy and makes all the difference in making the flowers pop!

Behind the pink flower you'll see a white piece of paper that I embossed with my sister's Big Shot. I think the texture really adds a lot to the card!

On this second card I used a bolder pattern of paper for the petals and glitter embossing powder on the sentiment. 

More Mother's Day

Mother's Day

Mother's day is barely more than a week away so I've been working on a few cards for all my moms!

Challenging

My sister's mother-in-law got a nice big stack of scrapbooking paper at a garage sale for a great price, and was nice enough to bring it out at Christmas. She let us pilfer through it and swipe whatever we wanted from it (she's very generous like that). However, buried among the beautiful stuff was several sheets of this seriously funny paper covered in pink poodles! After several comments back and forth about how nothing good could come from this paper, someone suggested that we all take a sheet and accept the challenge of making a card from it. I think the only rule was that the poodles had to show.

Here's my answer to the challenge. I was quite impressed with myself, making a passable card with such crazy paper and even including an adorable pun on the card until I saw Deanna's card. You MUST check out her card too! It's OMG cute- chic even! She was on such a good role that she even made three more!

Mother's Day Cards

I made a big batch of Mother's day cards again this year! Last year I sent out 6 (to my mom, 2 grandmas, my mother-in-law grandmother-in-law and sister), but this year, I added my sister's mother-in-law, because she's like a grandma to my boys. Plus I made a few to sell in my etsy store. I really got on quite a roll and it was a lot of fun!

Now if only I would sell a bunch more on etsy so I could buy more supplies!

Sellin' Like Hotcakes!

It's wrong to complain when a card sells really fast, right?

My sister's been hassling me to put more items up on etsy ("still on 17 items?"). So, I worked on a few more Mother's Day Cards this weekend and put one up Saturday and waited until today to put another one up. But the one I put today sold almost immediately! I told my sister to go check it out and it wasn't there! Here I am thinking I'll get a bunch of cards made, put them up for sale, and then get out my scrapbook stuff, but the darn things keep selling! How silly of me!

So, I'm sorry Deanna, but now there's only 16 items for sale at Arizona Made and it's going to have to stay that way for a few days because I have homework to do!!!

Mother's Day Is Just A Few Days Away

ok, so actually it's 43 days away, but it's the sort of holiday that always sneaks up on me! ("Sir, you underestimate my sneakiness") So, I am diligently working on getting some Mother's Day Cards made- some for family members and some for my Etsy shop, Arizona Made. This picture here is of the latest card I just put up on etsy and I have to say it's my favorite!!! The felt is a real trial to work with and the buttons take forever to sew onto the paper, but look at the result!!!! I love it! Fun Fun Fun!