Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to those that are mothers specially step mothers & foster mothers that have the hardest job to be there for the kids and not always loved or appreciated.

I don't make many Mother’s Day cards just for people in my inner circle and daughters-in-law. One of my favorite flowers is tulips because they come in all colors and in my state there is a place up north where if you go on the right time you can see them right when they are blooming so pretty. Anyway when Spellbinders came out with their hot foil plate & matching layered stencil was a must have set for me to get since I hate heat embossing, the wonderful tulips. I decided to use Altenew hot foil rose gold because it was one of my new foils that hadn't tried and made them in different colors using Tim Holtz distress oxide inks. For all cards the white cardstock is Accent Opaque Digital International Paper 80 lb. cover smooth except for the card base that is Recollections 110 lb. and used for the leaves mowed lawn,  rustic wilderness; to cover the white areas used faded jeans; since I didn’t have hot foil message that said Happy Mother’s Day used the message from the set with its die, cut an extra layer for dimension. Used the die to cut the flowers and decided to mount to a layer of clouds paper which die cut with Cindy Echtinaw Designs Card Creator Perfect Layers A and mounted to an A2 card base.

for these pink flowers used spun sugar, kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry

for the blue flowers used tumbled glass, salty ocean, blueprint sketch

for the red flowers used abandoned coral, lumberjack plaid, aged mahogany

for the yellow flowers used scattered straw, wild honey, fossilized amber but didn't see much difference with the those colors so added mustard seed on top of wild honey

for the teal flowers used salvaged patina, peacock feathers, uncharted mariner

and finally for one of my favorite colors, purple flowers used milled lavender, wilted violet, villainous potion