The Spot Something For Mother Challenge

Happy Tuesday! We are celebrating the Safer At Home model today! Not that much has changed in our little rural town. It appears that a majority of the large businesses here are whats considered essential. Retail businesses can reopen for curbside pick up immediately and can open on May 1st with some pretty strict rules! 

Today, The Spot Design Team is creating cards for Mother's! I chose to pair the Under My Umbrella with the retiring Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper. My lighting and photo are a bit askew... I had arguing children, hungry pigs and and I still needed to get dinner at least prepped! Enough about my new normal... Let me show you my card.

My card started with a bases of Crumb Cake card stock. I have folded my card in a traditional gate fold and added two panels of  Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper. I have paired this with the Under My Umbrella bundle. I used my Stampin' Blends to color this to coordinate with my DSP. I stamped the sentiment with Crumb Cake ink to create a bit of a background. A bit of Lace Trim and Champagne Metallic Edge Ribbon was the perfect added touch!

I can't wait to see what you create for this weeks challenge! 

Happy Tuesday!

OSAT May Fabulous Floral Blog Hop

Happy Thursday to you! It is already the second Thursday of the month!!! Can you believe it!? The kids will be out of school in just two weeks and it seems like no matter what I try to schedule there is always a conflict! Here is a great example, Wesley had a doctors appointment scheduled for Monday. They moved the track meet to Monday instead of Tuesday... So before figuring out he was not going to be eligible... I moved it to today! Phew!!! WRONG... So yesterday, I am hard at work stamping my hands off.... I get an email from Wesley "Mom I can't go to my appointment tomorrow, I have my Ameritown trip".... I kind of wanted to pull my hair out!

The One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop is live this month with a Fabulous Florals theme. I have been showing a bit of new stuff recently, but lets take a look at one of my favorite retiring colors Powder Pink and a great returning favorite Beautiful Bouquet! 

First let me say... This was not what I had in mind when creating for today's hop. I had started a Mini Album with the Everything is Rosy Product Medley... Then, I talked my self out of completing it and designing a card. I knew that I wanted to create with something that we have right now and maybe even something that will be retiring... Well the good news Beautiful Bouquet and the Bouquet Bunch are coming back in the new Annual Catalog. Bad News, I used the retiring In Color Powder Pink. This pink is by far one of my favorites. I stamped many flowers from the stamp set in Poppy Parade, Powder Pink and So Saffron. I accented the centers with Soft Suede. The stems are stamped with Pear Pizzazz ink and for some extra dimension I die cut it as well out of Pear Pizzazz card stock. This is nicely laid out on a Stitched Shape Oval on a Champagne Foil Scalloped Layering Oval. This is adhered over a Pear Pizzazz Corrugated embossed strip and a Powder Pink Polka Dot strip using Stampin' Dimensionals. This is nicely layered onto a Pinewood Planks Embossed piece of Whisper White that is on a mat of Powder Pink card stock and a card base of So Saffron!

Here is a bit of a closer look at my bouquet! You can also see that I have accented some of the flowers with the Clear Wink of Stella and droplets from the Clear & Frosted Epoxy Droplets. You can also see my nice little Linen Thread bow that ties on my Classis Label punched "Happy Mother's Day" sentiment from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set (Which also returns)!

My Cute Tufted embossed purse is quick and relatively easy! It is a 2" x 6" piece of card stock that I scored to fit around two Nuggets that wrapped in DSP, I decided to use the NEW Delightful Tag Topper punch, this will be available to you June 4th but it was perfect for this little project!

Thank You so much for stopping by today! I have provided a full list of products for you to see or shop with! I can't wait for you to see what Sara Levin has created for you today! You can get to her by clicking along the full link list below!

Product List

Beautiful Bouquet Photopolymer Stamp Set $27.00	Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set $36.00	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad $7.50	Poppy Parade Classic Stampin' Pad $7.50	Powder Pink Classic Stampin' Pad $7.50
So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad $7.50	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad $7.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock $9.75	Powder Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock $8.50	So Saffron 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock $8.50
Pear Pizzazz 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock $8.50	In Color 2017–2019 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper $11.00	Champagne Foil Sheets $4.00	Classic Label Punch $18.00	Delightful Tag Topper Punch $23.00
Bouquet Bunch Framelits Dies $30.00	Layering Ovals Framelits Dies $35.00	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies $30.00	Pinewood Planks Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder $10.00	Tufted Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder $9.00
Corrugated Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder $10.00	Linen Thread $5.00	Clear Faceted Gems $5.00	Frosted & Clear Epoxy Droplets $9.00