Happy Mothering Sunday

This card is for my Mum, who has been staying with me since January and helping to hold things together.  The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat, stripy ribbon is Stampin' Up, I've stitched around the edge and added buttons and twine.
I'm entering my card into;
Papertake - for the girls - or Mum
My Mum's Craft Shop - mum's the word
Delightful Challenges - someone special
Glitter Geeks - mother's day
DRS Designs - clean & simple
Ditzy Craftyness - buttons

Serenity... and a card

Today I just may have had the most relaxing day ever.  We have enjoyed a few days off and today we went to Bath and visited the Thermal Spa.  The rooftop pool is just 100m or so from the Abbey, there are steam rooms with differently scented areas and there is a basement pool.  All use the hot spring water and are really, really warm.  Just blissful!

OK so despite all that laziness I do have a card to show you.  It's an "on the mend" card for a sewing friend, the patchwork block in the background is Churn Dash.  I've used Basic Grey Kioshi DP, a Martha Stewart punch and the digis are from Pink Petticoat.  The buttons at top right and the one on the flywheel of the machine are from my buttonbox.

My card is for the following challenges:
ABC Challenge - V is for violet
Creative Card Crew - anything goes
Inspirational Card Sketches - sketch
Papertake Weekly - pale, pretty pastels
Digital Tuesday - add some texture (popped up image, buttons)
Creative Craft - restful colours

You're Sew Special

I'm just sneaking in under the wire for this week's Less Is More. When I saw the sewing digis at Pink Petticoat I broke my stash diet for them (to get both sets for a bargain price you understand ;) ) and I knew just what I wanted to make fpr the 3 squares recipe.  I had a go and managed to print my sentiment directly onto the card after reading the tutorial on Less Is More.  My printer only likes very thin card and usually I spraymount thicker stuff to a piece of paper but that's no good for a one layer card!  I couldn't get the sentiment as low as I'd have like but I wasn't prepared to feed too many card blanks through!  Digis are coloured with Copics and matted onto pink, pink ribbon from stash.

My card is for the following challenges:
Less Is More - Three squares
ABC Challenge - P is for pink