Stampin' With Michelle Pepper

Mother's Day (which, in NZ, falls on the second Sunday in May) is the inspiration for the theme for my May Mum & Me craft session. However, I hesitated to advertise that "we are making Mother's Day cards" as I realise that Mother's Day could be tinged with sadness for some. I have long heard about the Triple Time Stamping technique, but never actually tried it out. When I saw Dawn Griffith's card online, I just wanted to replicate it, so I did and I thought it appropriate for all the wonderful Mothers out there. Yet, it is  easy enough to change the greeting - happy birthday perhaps? Oh, what about, "Congratulations"? Or simply, "Thank You"? Now Dawn used a stamp set which I do not own, so I substituted with En Francais (#112358) and Blooming with Kindness (WM #131961, CM #126422) and the sentiment is from the ever versatile and IMHO, must have greeting set, Teeny Tiny Sentiments (WM #130042, CM #120024). And what is a must have ...

This is the second card I made for the combined CAS(E) This Sketch #73 and Runway Inspired Challenge #58 . As mentioned in my previous blog post , the patterned paper triangle pieces in this card were the scrap from cutting out the half hexagon shape used in the first card. Unlike the first card, it worked in this card to put the flowers from the sketch in. I already had the flowers in my "left over stash", ie the ones that didn't get used on previous cards because either they were just the extras I made in case I needed them, or the end result wasn't what I imagined so they didn't get used. I should really put these into jars because "my flowers jar" sounds better than "left over stash", but I digress...The leaves were from the Bird Builder Punch (#117191) and then inked up with En Francais  (WM #128562, CM #127790) in Crumb Cake colour. I am not sure if you can see there is actually faded details on the crumb cake hexagon portion...

This was my entry in a recent Sage Kimble's card making contest which got a honourable mention - it got the most Likes on her Facebook! That coloured butterfly there, was my first attempt at the stained glass technique I mentioned here . Well, instead of making a card tonight, I have been on the internet. I worked on the Header... boy, was it a tedious process, going back and forth, testing each image. After many hours, this is the look I have decided upon, for now. My conclusion: since this blog will be image rather than writing driven, a clean Header (and indeed overall blog look) is actually quite good. That way your eyes will be immediately drawn to the image of the first post as you enter this site. (But it was still hard not to choose an image that would somewhat scream ME! Besides it's not much to show for 2 hours of work, lol.) In my internet rabbit trail tonight, I did come across Amy Lynn Andrews of Blogging with Amy fame. She was a "non techy" goog...