Fabulous Floret-ish mothers day

Well I was going to be back with more fishiness and scoring ideas today but then I suddenly realised it's mothers day this Sunday... top marks to me for being ahead of the game? I think not! However, with Stampin' Up's Fabulous Florets and the gorgeous spring colour scheme at Dynamic Duos this week, it didn't take long to come up with something gorgeously floral for my stepmother. Come and have a look:

The Fabulous Florets stamp set is aptly named - the flowers and foliage really are fabulous. For this card I stamped the tall image slightly to the left of centre, then again on an angle to create lower lying foliage. The flowers were stamped then coloured using ink and an aquapainter. Very Vanilla card stock isn't really intended for watercolouring as it can buckle if you use too much water, but I find that works in my favour for flowers like this as the petals curl up realistically! I cut the flowers out and added centres with a marker when they were dry.

The elegant sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes. I scored a strip of card stock along its long edges and ribbon tailed it with a square punch to make a banner, then used a stamp-a-majig to position my sentiment onto it.

I'm also going to link my card to the wonderful Make My Monday where the challenge is to get Inspired By Nature.

Here's what you'll need to make this card
Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Garden Green, Early Espresso
Card stock: Very Vanilla, Naturals Ivory
Other: Simply Scored, square punch, aquapainter, paper snips, stamp-a-majig
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A friend of mine once told me that when he was a little boy, he decided to make his mother breakfast in bed on Mothers Day. He was quite young and didn't know how to cook eggs or anything so he put some frozen peas in a pan and cooked those. He made her a cup of tea too with water from the kettle although unfortunately he forgot to boil it first. He took the breakfast proudly into his mother's room and sat with her while she heroically ate her peas and drank her tepid tea with every appearance of delight. This story made me laugh but more importantly it taught me that a gift from the heart should never be despised.

Have a lovely day today,