Friday, May 06, 2016

Mother's Day Cards

Happy May everyone! Hope your weather is great...I know it's been crazy in a lot of places. Today, I have two Mother's Day cards to show you, that I am sending out to my Mother and Mother In Law. I usually make them cards extra feminine style, but this time I wanted a more vintage and almost masculine look, minus the roses. I LOVE the way they came out, and hope they do too.
 
 
I dug through my stash and found some of Ranger's Perfect Pearls Powders...remember those?!! It's always great to mix new product with the old. That's how to use up your stash so you can buy more! ;0)  I misted my craft sheet with Tim's Distress Spray Stains in various red tones, and then added Pink Bubblegum and Perfect Pearl to the mix. I misted water on this, and then drug several tags through one time.
The sheen on the tags is fabulous. I wish you could see it. I stamped Wendy's Script stamp randomly on the tags with her Red Geranium Archival. I cut the stamp in two, in case you are wondering, to have for classes.
I mixed up a few drops of Tattered Rose Distress ReInker with Wendy's White Embossing Paste to tone down the brightness of the white. Then I scraped this over Tim's Scribble Layering Stencil, which looks like roses to me. You see that white cup? I got this over two years ago on the Italy trip with Tim. It had a to go cappuccino in it, and I've used it ever since to mix up embossing pastes with color. Cool huh?!!
I inked the edges of the tags with Red Geranium. The shimmer and script coming through is wonderful. I used two for this project, and will save the other two for another day.
I made copies of some older pictures of the mothers, and printed them out in a sepia tone. I used some Distress Ink and a water brush to add color. Then I mounted these on brown distressed paper (Tim's), and tried to give them an old passport photo look.
I used paper from the Dapper and Correspondence stash to create the background, as well with a little Tissue Tape.
I coated this with Crazing Distress Collage Medium for a really cool vintage look. Then I started to add lots of ephemera, and lots of stitching, followed by Remnant Rubs, and a Mirrored Heart.
 
 
 
Happy Happy Mother's Day to all of you out there with babes. I hope you are pampered and loved where ever you are!  

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!