My First 3D Paper Flowers!

This week at My Sheri Crafts our new challenge is from Sandy and she's asked us to celebrate Moms by making something with flowers.  

I've been seeing so many of these spiral cut flowers and they all look so wonderful that I just had to try them.  Mine don't look nearly as beautiful as so many I've seen, but I really like this wreath anyway!  

All cuts are Cricut , the flowers are from Flower Shoppe, the fern type leaves are from Dinosaur Tracks and the others are from Heritage.

These were really fun and I love the little wreaths!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll join us!

Throwdown with Tuesday Throwdown! Lacy circle card

Good morning!!!  How are you doing this fine Tuesday morning? 

What crazy weather we've been having!  Seriously, SNOW in May in the Ozarks?  Wow!   Anyway, it's supposed to be nice today and tomorrow, then back to more rain.  At least the drought is over!  :-)

Ah well, on to the challenge at Tuesday Throwdown.  This week our theme

is "My Mother, My Friend"  and we are sponsored by

Here's my card with one of Robyn's cute images:

When I saw this digi I was reminded so much of my Mom.  In my last post of the scrapbook page about Mom, I mentioned that she did a lot of gardening work.  We had a large strawberry bed and she made the BEST strawberry jam and jelly!  I just loved getting a sample while the jelly was still warm! 

That's it!  Sweet and simple!  So now join us with your Mother's Day project, after you go over and check out the great inspiration from the rest of the team of course!  Anxious to meet you over at Tuesday Throwdown!

Supplies:

George & Basic Shapes - circle card base, welded on my Gypsy

Spellbinders Dies- Lacy Circles

Papers - My Minds Eye & Karen Foster

Ribbon - Craftsmart

Digi colored with Spectrum Noir markers

Glitter Glue added to flower

 

This cared entered here:

Kaboodle Doodles - For the Ladies

Anything Goes - Shaped, Not Square

 Love to Create - For Mom or special lady

 

 

My Sheri Crafts #109

Hello!  It's time for another challenge at My Sheri Crafts.  I gotta tell ya, I struggled with what to do for this one!  Sandy Palmer hosted this one and challenged us to "show us what makes your Mom unique".  My Mom had LOTS of what I think of as unique traits and I didn't know what to focus on.  So I finally decided to use all I could think of.  Once I figured that out, I had a ton of trouble with a Cricut cut I wanted to use.  When I finally got it cut, I didn't like it after all.  Then I got out the brads for my flower cluster and dropped the whole box in the floor!  Now I don't know about you, but I had one of those divided craft boxes with 16 individual squares and all my brads, eyelets, etc. sorted by color and size.  What a mess!!!!!  I still don't have them all sorted again.  About 1/2 of them are still in a bowl.  Anyway, I did eventually get the layout done, but was late getting the picture posted for Sheri to get it into the blogpost!  Sorry Sheri! 

Just last weekend I met with my brothers and sister and we went through Mom and Dad's house to divide up things.  My Mom died in 1993 and Dad just passed away in February.  A couple of things I got were some of Mom's craft supplies, her jewelry box and her button box.  I remember so much time spent playing with her button box.  So the little lace rosette in the top right is topped with a button from her box.  The button on the bottom of the doilie is also from her box and it's off one of my Dad's work shirts. 

 As I said, I decided to use all the things I could think of and fit into the layout.  If you can't read them, I listed these things:

MOM
* was a pole vaulter in high school (this was a real shock to me as a teenager!)
*finished college with 6 kids at home ( I can't imagine doing this)
*was voted favorite elementary teacher by one of her classes when they graduated
*spent summers working up produce from a large garden and an orchard
*could sew anything, including my wedding dress (she was also a quilter and made one for all of us kids and had enough quilt tops made up that we made quilts for all the grandkids who came after she passed)
*could paint, crochet and had her own ceramic shop
*married the man of her dreams
DAD

Flowers and brads were all from my stash, the lace is from a DT sister.  This is really not my usual style, so I struggled with that, too.  I finally was pleased with the page, though, it just took me a long time to get there! 

So now you show us what your Mom is like with your card/project and join in the fun at My Sheri Crafts!

Mother's Day Gift Bag

 Hello again!  Today I have a fun gift bag for my Mother's Day gift.

 

The bag itself was purchased at Hobby Lobby, the ribbon also.  The patterned papers are from The Paper Studio.  The digi stamp is from Designed2Delight Digital Stamps  and is the stamp of the week for their challenge this week.  The scalloped circles and "MOM" are cut from the Cindy Loo cartridge.  You can't tell from the pictures, but the orange circle is cut from glitter paper.  The buttons are from my "ages old" stash.   I used the "center point" cutting feature on my Expression for the first time!  That's a really great feature that I will be using again. 

I'll be entering this project in the following challenges:

Designed2Delight

Delightful Inspirations Card Ideas

Flaunt It Fridays

Celebrate The Occasion

My Sheri Crafts

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday 

The Paper Variety

Thanks for stopping by!

Mother's Day Card

Here is a Mother's Day card made with a digi stamp called "Ladybug Balancing Act" from Designed 2 Delight challenge.  This blog will give you a free digi stamp each week if you use it to make a project and post it to their challenge.  Very generous!

                        This is for my mother-in-law, who has 3 sons.

 I can only imagine the scary situations a mom of 3 boys has come upon. :)

                                I love pop dots!

         Little, simple finishing touches inside make a huge difference.

The card base is from Hobby Lobby; base paper is handmade paper from The Paper Studio; ladybug is cut from Doodle Charms; the sentiment tag cut from Gypsy Wanderings; the sun is from Life is a Beach with the face hidden with the Gypsy and a Peach Keen stamp instead; ribbon is from Michaels and the sentiment is computer generated.

I'll be entering this in these challenges:
Designed 2 Delight
Peachy Keen Let's Face it Friday