Finally Well Enough to Post!

Hello. Did ya miss me? I am sooooo behind on my blog visiting and even my emails and messages. I have been one sick puppy for the last 10 days, but am finally on the mend. Honey and I both got bamboozled by our pollen allergies, and then I guess the inflammation from that woke up my Arthur-itises, and eventually I was in so much pain I could not use my fingers if I could remember what to use them for. It's a long story, but we both did Teledoc visits, then had to go to my hospital's drive-through lab, then get a steroid shot. That and and the meds greatly helped the postnasal drip and coughing but they are very strong and I've basically been sleeping a lot and then can't focus on anything when awake. Still not 100% and may not be until the pollens burn off in our heat, so thank goodness I'd made Honey's mom her Mother's Day card early.

Some of you old-skool scrap bookers may recognize that huge flower -- I have a very old stash of Heidi Swapp giant flowers that are at least a decade old. And if you don't believe that, check out THIS BLOG POST from 2010. LOL Well, I thought they fit this card design and colors well, so my muse has decided they are getting used.

My design was inspired by the May sketch at Stick It Down. I adjusted the elements to fit my 6x6 shape better. I made ample use of my Spellbinders 6x6 Art Deco Fairmont Labels cutting and arranging my SEI Sunny Day patterned papers in an inlaid fashion. The card base is Bazzill card stock. The yellow Lawn Fawn banner and computer-generated sentiment on flag banner die cuts are yellow scraps. I used my ancient Quickutz Blossom alphabet dies for cutting MOM using pink scraps.

I layered a pink heat-embossed scalloped Spellbinders circle cut out of scrap on top of the Heidi flower. Then on top of that, several yellow faux silk yellow flowers, a leftover snowflake die cut peeking out, and on top a Gecko Galz siren image from their By The Sea collage sheet, die cutting the image with a Spellbinder circle die and then adhering it to another pink heat-embossed scrap die cut a tad larger. There's a large flat head brad in there holding it all together.

For the inside, I'd wanted to find a really good quote and when I Googled, I found several. So, I made a collage on a light yellow base in PSE and printed it all out on my inkjet and die cut it with the Fairmont die. Same on the right side but using a piece of white card stock. I hand-stamped the Avery Elle sentiment and then printed out the We Are 3 digi sentiment from Special Wishes set and die cut it using Spellbinders Labels 8 die.

I used the leftovers from the Fairmont die cuts on the back - love how I can do that, heehee. Then with another scrap I used my Spellbinders Framed Floral die to cut a frame for my Impression Obsession stamped siggie.

So, Honey delivered it and a Whitman Sampler. My mother-in-law loved both. At 90 years old, she's a cherished treasure. And perhaps my biggest card fan, so no way would I not make one for her. I hope every mom had something special on their day. Stay well and safe, XOX.

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:
1.   Stick It Down May Sketch -- sketch is shown above
2.   Gecko Galz Blog May Challenge: Vintage Botanicals

3.   Gecko Galz Facebook Challenge: Make A Project That Shows You Care -- details are in post above 
4.   Creations in Pink May Challenge #22: AG in Mainly Pink (more pink than any other color) -- I took my inspiration from Irene and Nikki's DT sample HERE.
5.   More Mixed Media May Challenge: AG + Opt. PINK -- I have played the option.
6.   Try It On Tuesday: Lovely Ladies
7.   Paper Girls #199: Hello May Photo Inspiration -- I was inspired by the circle, flowers and pink, yellow, orange colors.

8.   Scrapping 4 Fun #166: Ladies
9.   Aud Sentiments #251: Sentiment + AG
10. Happy Little Stampers May AG with Dies -- all dies used are mentioned in my post 

11. The Crafters Cafe #242: Feminine