Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with twist of CAS

Good Morning and welcome to another Friday Challenge at Crafty Catz. 

This week's challenge is, as always, Anything Goes but our optional twist is Clean and Simple - we are sponsored this week by Digital Papercraft who are offering our winner 3 images from their shop

My card this week features heat embossing and watercolours. I've always loved messing with watercolours but rarely do I mix the medias and use it on a card, but I thought it would make a really nice change to use my Stamping Up flowers to make a floral design for mother's day. I used a really old stamp for the sentiment (so old the label has come off and I have no idea who made it) and matted everything onto hammered cream and blue card stock from paperbox.

I hope you like the final effect. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Mother's Day Card

Evening all,

 

Nothing quite like being late to the party is there? Oops! Well I've had a terrible few weeks with some health issues and manic times at work and frankly, crafting has gone out the window! That said, Mum and I did have our annual girls day out at the NEC to the Hobby Craft show and yes, I spent too much money. Oops!

So, despite best interests to stay on top of my game and get some extra crafting in this year, my mother's day card wasn't started until 4pm on Saturday afternoon......yep, like I said, last minute. But oh well. I finally made it and thankfully mum loved it so here we go:

 

I used cream base cardstock onto which I layered paper from a freebie paper pack I've had for almost a year - I can't remember what it's called as in January I decided to thin out my unused papers and cut down to 22cm squares all the DP I thought I might use - they are all now mixed up and stored in a box to be used. If they're still there at Christmas, they're going.

 

Ooops, ramble much?

 

Anyway, the design came about with a doily, a half circle of another freebie paper, a computer generated sentiment, a length of gorgeous East of India ribbon, some inked Martha Stewart butterflies and a freebie digital download butterfly which I found on pinterest and you can get here

 

The whole thing was finished with some stickles. The inside of the card (which I didn't photograph before I wrote my message) is another doily with a plain circle ontop, edges inked and finished with some more MS butterflies.

 

So there we go. I hope you like it!

 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Dream Valley - Mothering Sunday

My Craft Creations - Anything Goes

Simon Says - Anything Goes

 

Until next time though, happy crafting!