Mother's Day Card

Yes, I know.  Mother's Day was two days ago and I'm just now getting around to posting the card I made for my mom.  Rest assured, she did receive it before Mother's Day.  I just had a hard time getting a good picture of it.  Blue card stock seems to give me fits when I photograph it...same thing with purple.  The colors don't show true or the background takes on a strange hue.  I've tried several different photo editing programs and finally was able to get it to come out close to the actual color.  The green is still a little off but it's much better than when I first downloaded the picture.  OK, so enough about my photo editing troubles.

I used Tempting Turquoise for the base.  I used one of the stamps from the Polka Dots and Petals set for the top half of the card.  A strip of Old Olive card stock was pierced and then added to the middle of the card.  The bottom of the card is Pretty in Pink card stock and Petals and Paisley paper.  The focal image is from the Polka Dots & Paisley set.  It was stamped on white card stock and then punched with the square scallop punch.  The larger square punch was used to create the mat with Pretty in Pink card stock.  A small swarovski flat-back crystal was added to the flower for some sparkle.  Two coordinating eyelets were then added (because my mom loves eyelets).  All card stock, paper, ink, stamp and eyelets are @Stampin' Up.

I'm in the process of editing a few more photos and will post them here soon.  Until then...

-Melanie-

Comments

[simone]

Love this card, so cheery with all that color and the extra crystal is just perfect.
Don't all moms love eyelets? lol

[Julia]

Pretty card!

BTW note the date... I still haven't made my mother's day cards. I plan to do so tomorrow and will mail them too. Everyone knows they were going to be late. I'm *still* putting together my darn craft room but I've made loads of progress.