Happy Hydrangea Mother's Day

I love hydrangeas, as does my mother.  Mother's day is next Sunday here in the US, so it's time to make mom a card. I have had this Happy Hydrangea set from PTI for a long time, and I have never shown it any ink.  In an effort of trying to use some of my stash that has been neglected, I checked out this week's Shopping Our Stash Challenge. This week's challenge is "Opposite Day" - to make something that's opposite your usual style.  So I pulled out my Happy Hydrangea set, and some PTI inks and went to work.  I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch #184 for the layout of my card.  I have been leaning toward Clean & Simple for quite a while - I don't use a lot of layers.  This card has 5  layers, and through it is still rather CAS, that number of layers are not my usual.

After stamping the hydrangea panel, I added a little Platinum Stickles to give my hydrangeas a little sparkle.  Not sure that I love the different sizes of stitching on the rectangle vs the fishtail die cuts,   but I decided to leave them as is and call it a card.

The Pink Elephant Challenge this week is Anything Goes, so I am posting this card to their gallery as well.

Thanks so much for stopping in today. Have a great one!

Joyous Easter

I found this adorable Easter confetti and of course, I had to make a shaker card with it.  I was inspired by the following challenges to come up with this fun creation:

 Click HERE to go to this week's FUSION Challenge. I used the sketch and (Easter) Celebration inspiration.

 Click HERE to get to this week's ATCAS Challenge.  These Paper Smooches images are terribly cute.

Click HERE to get to this week's The Pink Elephant Inspiration Challenge - Eggs and chicks and bunnies...

Click HERE to get to this week's Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - Anything Goes.

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