Guest Designer: Janice

Good morning all. Our April Guest Designer Janice Melton is joining us today with an lovely Mother's Day card!

Here's what Janice has to say ...

For my card today I have used the beautiful Spring Floral Jars (G363). I heat embossed the image in White on Kraft cardstock and colored it with my Copics. Found this lacy paper in my stash and thought it went perfectly with this image, paired it with some Gingham and twine. Finished it off with some pearls. The Happy Mother’s Day sentiment (B190) is also heat embossed but in Black so that it stands out more. Thanks again for letting me share my cards with you'll this month!

Such a beautiful card! I love the embossing on craft cardstock, along with her coloring and design with the lovely lacy paper. Janice did an amazing job! Make sure you stop by Janice's Blog to leave her some love!

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Happy Mother's Day ...

Good morning! Ruza here to share another Mother's Day card that features one of our Newest Stamps ...  the F631 Bear with Flowers along with the B190 Mother's Day Sentiment, available at the Great Impressions Stamps.

I stamped the Bear with Flowers on Watercolor Paper with Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink then commenced with watercoloring the image with my Marvy LePlume Markers, pallet, paintbrush and water. To get the darker brown color for the Bear I also used Vintage Photo Distress Ink for my watercoloring. Using one of my circle dies I outlined a half circle and added the sky background around the Bear with Flowers. White Liquid Pearls was applied to the center of all the flowers.

I stamped the Mother's Day Sentiment under the Bear with Flowers and added the ground cover. This is the same sentiment I used last week. I'm sure you are looking at the sentiment and wondering why it looks so different. Well ... I have a tendency to cut my stamps, and that is what I did with the sentiment as I wanted it to be one line.

That is all for me today. I will be back next week with another project featuring some amazing stamps from Great Impressions! I hope you will check out and play along with this months Great Impressions Challenge. Remember, if you use some Great Impressions stamps make sure you link them up in our Customer Gallery!

Wishing all of the Mom's a very Happy and Joyful Mother's Day!

Until next week ... Enjoy!

Happy Mother's Day ...

Good morning! Ruza here to share a Mother's Day card featuring the F440 Spring Tea Cups and B190 Mother's Day Sentiment, available at the Great Impressions Stamps.

I stamped the Spring Tea Cups on Watercolor Paper with Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink then commenced with watercoloring the image with my Marvy LePlume Markers, pallet, paintbrush and water. Once complete, I fussy cut the image out and layered it on the background I created with 3D Foam Tape.

I stamped the Mother's Day Sentiment on the tag, colored in the flowers to match those on the Spring Tea Cups and used my Tiny Attacher to staple the sentiment in place. After adding a bit of Lilac Twine I attached the whole panel to my card base, and then stamped part of the Spring Tea Cups on a coordinating envelope.

That is all for me today. I will be back next week with another project featuring some amazing stamps from Great Impressions! I hope you will check out and play along with this months Great Impressions Challenge. Remember, if you use some Great Impressions stamps make sure you link them up in our Customer Gallery!

Until next week ... Enjoy!

Happy Mother's Day ...

Good morning! Ruza here to share a Mother's Day card featuring the G405 Butterfly Flourish and B190 Happy Mother's Day, available at the Great Impressions Stamps.

The Butterfly Flourish and Happy Mother's Day Sentiment were inked up with Archival Jet Black Ink. Marvy Watercolor Markers were used to color the butterflies and swirls, and the background color. Using a .05 Copic Multi-Liner Black Pen I add the lines 1/4" from the edge on three sides of the panel, added black enamel dots to three of the corners, and used 3D Foam Tape to attach my panel to the cardbase.

That is all for me today. I will be back next week with another project featuring some amazing stamps from Great Impressions! I hope you will check out and play along with this months Great Impressions Challenge. Remember, if you use some Great Impressions stamps make sure you link them up in our Customer Gallery!

If you haven't joined the FUN yet, make sure you check out the Ladies Night Blog Hop for a chance to Prizes from Great Impression and CutCardStock!

Until next week ... Enjoy!