Mother's Day Wishes

 Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Flowers

Here is my card for your inspiration:

This was my card for my mother and it was the perfect way to use up some pretty patterned paper scraps.  When I saw this sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, I knew I HAD to use it!  Unfortunately, I missed the deadline for entering the challenge, but I still wanted to give them credit for the sketch.

The photo below shows a lot of the scraps I used.

Some of the strips I just had to trim the bottoms off into a fishtail shape, some of them I die cut with a plain banner die, and the rest were die cut with a stitched banner die.  That way I could get banners that were different widths, which makes the layout more interesting.  I ended up switching out the white die cut flower for a yellow one; it fit the color scheme much better.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Verve "Happy Thoughts"

Dies: Papertrey Ink flower die; MFT "Blueprints 13" banner, "Blueprints 12" stitched banner and "Happy Trio"

Challenges:

Snippets Playground #454--anything goes with snippets

Cards Galore--anything goes

Unicorn Challenge #87--flowers

Sheepski Designs #74--flower power

Creatalicious Challenge #259--anything goes with the optional twist: use 3 or more patterned papers

Crafty Gals Corner #243--flowers for mom

613 Avenue Create--anything goes with the optional twist: say it with flowers

Crafting Happiness #142--flowers

Triple B Challenge--anything goes with birds, butterflies, or blooms

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #204--anything goes