Cocktails, mothers and pink lanterns...

Ok. So this is kind of a mash up of 3 months worth of card-club cards.
Long story short...been super busy, so here are my April, May and June cards I made for my card club.
April had to be funny, May had to have flowers and June had to be pink.
Enjoy!

It's a quicky tonight, as I'm mad tired. Enjoy the cards and I hope to get more crafty coming soon.
Nighty night!
M

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Purses for Mothers Day & Blog Candy Giveaway

So I was stumped with what to do for my Mother's day cards this year. I came to the conclusion that I really don't have a lot of Mother's day stamps, let alone anything that says 'Mother' or 'mom' on it. A secret sister swap I did a few months ago gave me these adorable K&Company purse popup embellishments, and I thought. Hey, why don't I make purse cards! So I used the only real Mother's day type stamp set I have have with it. I created the sketch for these cards, and decided to use the same sketch and layout idea for all of the cards, just with different colors and papers, to match each of the purses. I started with the square card, then remembered I didn't have many square envelopes left, so went to the standard card size. Anyways, These are all the cards I made. (scroll to the bottom of the post for Blog Candy info)

Now on to the individual cards for their own spotlight each. I guess I'm putting them in order of which ones I like. haha. The square one is for my Mom, then the rest are for Grandmothers.

My mother-in-law will get a different card, because I don't want to give her one with a pin sticking in it, since she is blind and I'm afraid she's prick herself. Here's her card. It's all fuzzy-wuzzy.

See below for the blog candy info.
Blog candy giveaway extended
Like I said in my previous post, I decided to extend my Blog Candy giveaway by a week. So enter before May 1st by commenting on this post here. Enter to win and tell your friends about it! Thanks all!
Have a great Saturday everyone!
-M

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Mother's Day cards for a Friend

So I have been awake all day/night today. It currently is roughly 11am here in PA and I have been up since noon yesterday. (whow!) I made the mistake of having a caffeinated beverage around 8pm last night at dinner, and me being on a healthier kick have basically given up caffeine, so when I do drink it, I get allllllll hyped. Anyways, cranked out 4 Mother's Day cards for a co-worker and one audition card for a design team on a fellow blogger's new digital sentiments company.  But I will just show  you the Mother's Day cards today, since this blog will be way too long anyways and I think I might finally crash after I post. Read the bottom of my post for the story behind why none of these cards have any words on them. *sigh*

Ok, so the story goes: about a day after I made my Etsy site, a co-worker of mine was surfing the net and came across Etsy. I happened to glance over at the right time and quickly mentioned I just opened my own store for my creations. She checked out my store then immediately requests that I make her some Mother's Day cards for her mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt. However, since most of them do not speak English, she wanted to know if I could make them with no sayings or if I had to make sayings, she would specify what it was to say. So instead of having her go into the trouble of writing out things that I could say on the card and to avoid the possibility I would spell words wrong, etc. I let her know that I would do my best to create cards with no words on them. Ok, DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS!!!!??? Me, being the chipboard lover and sentiment-holic I am, was soooo challenged. Since there were to be Mother's Day cards and not like one of your other important holidays, I have very little to work with. Um, flowers, butterflies, stuff like that? Also, I was to not use glitter or markers on them. Another blow to my comfort zone. But I got through them, and half I like, the other half I only sorta like. So above are the fab four! Enjoy!

-M

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