Happy Mother's Day

 Good morning, a very happy Sunday, and happy Mother's Day! How do you all feel after getting up an hour early?!!! Happy Mother's Day mum, you're losing an hours sleep - the gift that just keeps on giving. They wouldn't get away with that on Father's Day!!

Here's a card that I've made using the fabulous Independent Women collection..

It's been a while since I've been in my craft room as we've been on holiday, so it was really nice to get in and have a play.

This was quite an unusual card for me to make as it was pretty much a 'what's on your table already' card. That sounds so much better that an 'I couldn't be bothered to tidy up last time' card.

I started by printing out my background paper and adding some random stamping in the colours that I would be using.

Next, I cut and layered some tags. These are sooo pretty!

Then I stamped and fussy cut some flowers on scraps from the papers that were left over from my last project.

After I played around with the composition for a while, I ended up with this! I always have to photograph it when I'm happy with the layout and I still never get everything in the same place.

I love the stamped vellum on top of my tag. You can still see the original colours and it's a nice way of adding a sentiment.

The stamping ties the background and focal points together.

Such pretty flowers! I coloured the clear gems with alcohol pens to match the paper.

As always the collection can be found in both digital and A4 formats.

Digital

A4 collection

I hope you like my card and have a very happy Mother's Day. Take care and thanks for looking xx

I Shall Wear Purple

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm sharing a Diagonal Twist and Pop card, made with beautiful papers from the Independent Women collection from  Relatively Thoughtful, and a tutorial from Paul Lang-Ford (Papercrafting With Paul) I'll put all the links at the end of this post.

The card is just shy of 8x8, so it folds flat(ish) and fits into an 8x8 envelope. Inside there is a surprise....

These are the lovely ladies from the Independent Women Authors kit, and are trimmed to3x4.

I've teamed the collection with some chipboard from the Stamperia Provence collection.

I think that the collections work perfectly together.

And the rather nifty mechanism means that it all folds away. It really has got mantlepiece appeal.

As always the collection is available in both digital and A4 formats.

Papercraft Collection

Authors Kit

Digital Download

Authors Kit Digital Download

Stamperia Provence

Papercrafting With Paul FaceBook

Paul's YouTube channel

Have a wonderful Sunday whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x