Mother's Day Challenge

Today's challenge over at Exploring Cricut is all about Mother's Day.  We were asked to create a layout, card or other paper craft about Mother's Day.  So here's my take on the day.

As most everyone knows I'm not a mother and will never be one (except to Ella), but I am an honorary member of the Commas,Christian Mommas. We get together once a month for Ladies night out so I decided to use this wonderful group of ladies as my inspiration for Mother's Day. (My Mom gets tired of having her picture taken).  I started out creating the candy bar favors for my group and for these I used the flowers under Banner 1 and Banner 6 on the Art Philosophy cartridges.  The tag came from the new Tags, Bags, and Boxes 2 cartridges under the takeout Box2.  I stamped Happy Mother's Day using a stamp set from CTMH and on the back I put "You're worth a 100 Grand".

I had to use these pictures for the layout of course since I didn't want to take a lot of pictures at the restaurant.  Now on to the layout!
The layout uses paper from the Lucy paper line from CTMH which is very femine.  It is one of my favorites, but I'm a pink and green girl.  I cut 2" circles using George and Basic Shapes out of Grey cardstock and one of the pattern papers to use as accents.  Also used as some accents are the "zip" strips that are included at the top of the pattern papers now.  The font used for Happy Mother's Day is the new Type Candy font and I can easily see this becoming one of my new favorites.

Next I added flowers to the gray circles.  I used flower 4 and flower 10 from Florals Embellished.  I used a jewel/sparkle in the center of the flower.  I thought the top corner seemed a little empty so I found some flower ribbon from my stash that I thought looked really similar to the design I was trying to come up with.

Thanks for taking the time to view my project for this week.  I hope you have fun playing along with us for this challenge, and for all you mothers out there.  Happy Mother's Day!!
Receipe:
Art Philosophy
Banner 1 (page 68) 4" using Font feature
Banner 6 (page 69) 4.25" and 5" using Font-shift feature
Tags Bags Boxes 2
Tkout Box2 (page 53) 3" using Tag feature
George and Basic Shapes
Q-shift (page 108) 2"
Type Candy Regular font 1.59"  "Happy Mother's Day" welded using Gypsy
Florals Embellished
Flower 10 (page 30) 2.04" all layers
Flower 4 (page 24) 1.89" all layers

April Card Workshop

I realized not too long ago that I forgot to post the cards for March's workshop. I didn't want to make the same mistake 2 months in a row so I tried to get a jump on it a little early. Mind you when I say I tried to start early, I started the post Thursday night before the workshop on class on Friday. The kits weren't even put together at that point, but I work better under pressure (I hope). This is one of the paper packs that I've been waiting to use cause I just love the colors, but then I really struggled coming up with cute ideas. Here are the five ideas that I came up with for this month's workshop. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for taking the time to view my post!

Recipes: 95% CTMH materials
Lucy pattern paper
Cardstock: Cotton Candy, Creme Brulee, Pear, Colonial White, Grey Wool
Ink: Cotton Candy, Blush, Creme Brulee, Pear, Sweet Leaf, Grey Wool
Ribbon
Opaques
Sparkles
button
Flower and Butterfly cut-outs are from Art Philosophy cartridge then stamped using the stamp set from the workshop on the go.

Till next month, Happy Scrappin'

Card Class Schedule

Hi all! Just wanted to post my card class schedule so everyone could plan ahead. I'm including the paper and stamp set so you can look in the new catalog to see what's what. If I were to change something I will let everyone know!

February 17: Stella paper with Fashionista stamp set
March 16: Pemberly paper with Card Word Puzzle stamp set
April 20: Lucy paper and the stamp set from the workshop on the go (it will still be the same price as always for the stamp set)
May 18: Footloose paper and Under the Sea stamp set
June 15: Florentine paper and Life is Tweet stamp set (June stamp of the month)
July 20: Victory paper and Happy Camper stamp set

Happy Scrappin'
Emily