Stampin' Sisterhood Mother's Day Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampin' Sisterhood Mother's Day Blog hop!  Yes, Mother's Day will be here before we know it, so we wanted to share some of our favorite Rubbernecker images we love to use for our Mother's Day cards.  My mother loves butterflies, so I used the Butterflies stamp set.

 

I used Vintage Violet ink to stamp the sentiment and the butterfly images.  I colored the yellow part of the butterfly with Stampin' Up markers and water colored the violet with Vintage Violet reinker.  I added silver glitter glue to part of the butterfly and then Glossy Accent to the rest of it.  Here's a closer view of the butterfly:

Now, here's your hop route!  Be sure to leave some love with your comment at each stop and then finish up with the Stampin' Sisterhood blog to let us know you have hopped!  You will be entered for your chance to win a free Rubbernecker stamp set!  AND, as an added BONUS,  we will draw an EXTRA winner  for a STAMP SET of your choice, just for sharing our HOP on your Facebook page or Blog!! -After you have shared, just go back to the Stampin' Sisterhood Blog and let us know where you have shared our hop!!  The winner will be announced on our blog on March 30th!

• Charlene Driggs
• Charlene Merrick (you're here!)
• Ellen Taylor
  
• Jacquie Peifer
• Jen Charboneau
• Jennifer Cuthbertson
• Joan Ervin
• Judy Rozema
• Julia Aston
• Juliana Swanson
• Karen Hunsaker
• Kecia Waters
• Kittie Caracciolo
• Stampin' Sisterhood
  

Supplies I used:

Stamps: Butterflies

Paper: White, Vintage Violet, designer

Ink: Vintage Violet

Accessories: Stampin’ Up markers and reinkers, watercolor brush, silver stickles, Glossy Accents, petite oval and scalloped oval Nestabilities, Fleur de lis Motif, Vintage Violet ribbon

Blue Tulips for Mother's Day

Frances, aka Stamp Owl, is our May CCEE challenge hostess with the mostest.  Frances is pretty fired up this month because she is going to be a first-time grandma...this month!  How exciting, huh?   The May CCEE challenges, therefore, are going to be centered around mothers and babies. We hope you'll join us each Thursday!

To kick off the first week in May, Frances challenged us to make a Mother's Day card.  My mama loves to garden and she loves butterflies, so I chose my favorite tulip stamp from Gina K's A Year of Flowers.  I heat embossed the tulip image with PearlLustre Sapphire Opaque embossing powder on vellum cardstock.  I then used my blender pen to paint in Broken China Distress Ink.  I let that dry and then used my Stampin' Up Metallic pencils to add a touch of purple to the base of the tulips and to color the stems.  The leaves were stamped in Broken China and colored and blended with a metallic pencil as well.  I added Crystal Effects for the dew drops on my tulips.  Here's a close up of the tulips to show you the dew drops.

See the butterfly?  After I punched it out on black cardstock, I got the idea to color it with the same Stampin' Up metallic pencils, and I love how it looks! 

I used my octagon Nestabilities to cut out the vellum cardstock and then a piece of white cardstock.  I embossed the white cardstock with my dotted swiss embossing folder and then adhered the vellum tulip panel onto that.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up's Well Scripted set.

Please stop by our CCEE blog to see the beautiful projects my friends made and get the details for how you can play along with us!