A mother's love is like sunshine

Wow this is amazing I actually have been using my Copics and coloring again. I was going through a rough patch of not wanting to lift a marker for quite a long time. I actually had these Mo Manning images printed, but finally took the time to color them. This cutie with the large sunflower makes me smile. 

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio
Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollection
Stamp:  Mo Manning - Baby Sunflower
Sentiment:  TLC, Create
Bling:  Mark Richards
Spellbinder:  Lacey Circle
Corner Rounder:  Creative Memories

Challenges
Mo Manning Pencil - Ch. 301 Anything Goes with Mo image
Mojo Monday - Sketch 556
Fab 'n Funky - Ch. 516 Flowers
Sweet Stampin' - Special Women 
Crafty Catz - Ch. 544 Anything Goes with optional Dreaming of summer
Time Out Ch 184 Inspired by Words. 

A Mother is love

My Mother's birthday is the first week of May so this is a card that I made for her using a sentiment from TLC, Create. Not sure if this will be her Mother's Day card.  The flower from Prima flower came with bling in it so I added bling and pearls in the die cut.

Patterned Paper:  My Mind's Eye

Cardstock:  Bazzil

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - A Mother is Love

Spellbinder:  Small and Large Circle; Picot Edge Circle

Flower:  Prima

Bling:  Paper Studio

Pearls:  Paper Studio

Challenges

Die Sketch Tanten - Ch. 43

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 527 Pretty in Pink

DL Art Thursday - Ch. 277 Mother's Day

Penny's Paper Crafty - Ch. 377 Anything Goes

Crafty Gals Corner - Ch. 164 Anything Goes

First Friend Best Friend Forever

My Mother's Birthday is in the beginning of May and I made this birthday card for her using a stamp that I got from Unity.  I had several of there stamps from years ago, but when the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop came out and when a fellow blogger and a past DT member that I worked with Cynthia had a Unity posting I saw some of the newer stamps and fell in love with them.  I picked up this set called, First Friend, Best Friend Forever which is not listed on the site and they recently had it as a freebie if you ordered a certain amount of stamps so I'm not sure if it is still available.  I just love the sentiment, which I put on the inside of the card.  My Mom doesn't come on my blog so she won't see it.  I added some white butterflies and pearly accents to the card besides I used Derwent Watercolor pencils instead of Copics.  I put green bling on the card since her birthday is in May and the birthstone is Emerald and to match the leaves.

inside of card

Cardstock:  Recollections; Bazzil

Watercolor Paper:  Artist's Loft

Stamp:  Unity - First Friend, Best Friend, Forever

Sentiment:  Verve - Simply Amazing

Ink:  Distress - Black Soot; Seedless preserves

Embossing Folder:  We Are Memory Keepers

Ribbon:  Michael's

Bling:  Paper Studio

Punch:  Martha Stewart

Dermont Watercolor Pencils

Tim Holtz Water color brush

Pearly Accents

Challenges

Allsorts - Wk 412 I spy something with "B" (Birthday, Bouquet, butterflies, bling, bow, blue, buds)

RRR - Ch. 162 Put a bow on it

Aud sentiment - Ch. 178 Use a stamp for your sentiment

4CC - Ch. 347 Butterflies

DDD - Birthday (Happy 50th to Lisa)

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 474 Birthdays

Creatalicious - Ch. 113 Birthday

The Card Concept - Ch. 71 Fresh Flutters (Clean and Layered)

Loss of Mother - Sympathy

I have a long time friend that had his Mother pass away so this is the card that I made for him.  We started out being friends in college, was in my wedding party and then he ended being my daughter's adviser in her Education program.  I felt happy to know that there was someone on campus to keep an eye on her.  It's great to know that some of the friends that we make and even though we don't stay in touch on a regular basis, are always there.  This sentiment is one of from one of most used set from TLC so it is a great investment.

Patterned Paper:  My Mind's Eye

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollection

Stamp:  TLC, Create - (see above for a direct link)

Spellbinders:  Small and large circles

Border punch:  Fiskars

Button:  Stash

Hemptique

Flower:  Prima

Challenges

Mojo - Sketch 449

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 232 -233 Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Ch. 156 Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts - Ch. 143 Anything Goes