Mother's Day with Stampin' Up!

For me, Mother's Day is a day to give thanks to a special lady in your life who is caring and nurturing, usually this is your birth mum, but often it can be a carer or foster mum.  I decided to donate Mother's Day cards to the school just down the road and with that decided to ask a few Mum's to help me assemble them.  I created the cards in three layouts, one with colour and butterflies, a white card with hearts and a beautiful tree of colour - the tree being from Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree stamp set.  These are our creations...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri with sponging over the Hex Hive thinlit die I used as a mask for the background

The first was Papillion Potpourri and Sponging over a honey comb mask in colours of Perfect Plumb, Melon Mambo...  

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri with sponging over masked background

The layered butterfly using Stampin' Up! Bitty Butterfly and Elegant Butterfly punches...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri with sponging over masked background

The second layout was simple and used an embossed piece on a backing of Whisper White  and a line of hearts...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! embossing folders and small heart punch

More, more, more, together we made over 150 cards...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! embossing folders and small heart punch

The third layout used the stamp Sheltering Tree, LOVE THIS SET, and love that we can colour the tree to anything we like...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

 The majority of the cards were not dressed but I snuck a few with hearts and bows...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

 From a different angle...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! 

I thought they looked cute... the tree was double stamped in Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

This was so lovely, I ran a class just before Mother's Day for my lovely A Crafty Cats.  So check out the next post to see what we made.

Yours in paper craft,