Happy Mother's Day

Maria is Hosting our Word Week at Just Us Girls

and has chosen one that 

I am sure is close to all our Hearts.

Mother's Day is a very Special Day for me as I get to

spend it with one of my Daughters. It is a yearly

get together as we fly north to the Sunny Tropics to

celebrate that Special Day and 

2 of my Grandchildren's Birthdays.

Here is my 'Mother Card'

I love the big flower from SU's Fifth Avenue Floral 

and that is my choice as a feature

 using Brusho's Rose Red. I heat embossed it

in white before colouring.

Card base is kraft. Added some torn green paper

behind the Inspired by Stamping DP.

Leaves are cut from a Kaisercraft die.

Added a few pearls and ribbon to finish.

I would like to Welcome our May Guest Designer Kathie Durgan. 

Check out Our Blog to see what 

Kathie and the Designers have created

and come join us this week. 

You could be our next Chic of the Week.

Thanks for dropping in

A REALLY cas brightly coloured card.

Once again I am drawn to the gorgeous colours for

Game #89 at AAA Cards

Don't you just love them!

Well I do as this is my second card.

My first card is Here

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Now this one is reeeeeeeeeeeeely clean & simple

only taking a short time to put together.

Off course I had some fabulous stamps to use

making my card simple and striking.

The stamps I used are

STAMPlorations Flutter Zen Row

STAMPlorations Vignette Celebrate Artsy

and STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies 2

I inked my background stamp with

Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers/Squeezed Lemonade

Wilted Violet and Festive Berries.

My butterflies and sentiment were heat embossed in black.

Added some scoring for interest and mounted

my card on black card stock. 

Here is a close up of the embossing.

I am popping this card over to
Card Mania for their Life is Colourful Challenge
and the

STAMPlorations Anything Goes Challenge

I have a card class coming up to try the new

and exciting TH Oxide Inks - can't wait.

That's it for me for now - till next time

Cherrio from 

Love to read your comments!

It IS Bright AND Beautiful

Once more I found myself playing with my new addiction.

Over at AAA Cards there is beautiful mood board

 which just screams Brusho's to me.

All the details for this challenge are Here.

I picked up on as many colours as I could and

just had to include feathers to my card.

I cut out a feather die from SU Four Feathers to use as a mask

and then added my Brusho's spritzing lightly

and waited for the magic to work.

I then decided to add more to my background 

with some dots from SU Timeless Textures.

My feather was then inked with TH Evergreen Bough

and then cut and placed where my mask was.

Inked the edges in TH Black Soot and Inka Gold

including inside and Blue Moonstone Sparkle Medium.

The Inka Gold was also randomly placed on the

background and the stitched edges.

The Hello die is from STAMPlorations

and again  inked with gold.

How often are we tempted to just add a little something?

In keeping with the CAS Challenge this couldn't happen.

Instead of popping different elements here I went

all flat and kept some white space. Hope I didn't overdo it!

Hope you enjoyed my take on the Bright & Beautiful Challenge.

*Update
Also entering this card over at
Card Mania - Details are Here for their
Life is Colourful Challenge

Thanks for dropping in. Till next time - Cherrio from

Beauty Blossoms

The Challenge this week at Hiding in My Craft Room is Freestyle

sponsored by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps with the Winner

to receive 3 Digi images of their choice.

The image I used for my card is from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

and was coloured with various pens adding WOS for shine.

I added a scrap piece of DP to the top

and underneath the popped featured flower.

The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping.

Finished with sprinkled gems.

Thanks for dropping by today.