A Mother's Day Card and Father's Day Card

I just wanted to share the cards we made at the class I teach at my church.  Since Mother's and Father's Day are both quickly approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to get a jump start on them.  My mom sent me a link to this great tutorial for the Mother's Day card.  Of course, I had to use some of my great Close To My Heart products.  We used Hollyhock cardstock and matching Hollyhock ink as well as Sweet Leaf ink and Canary ink.  For stamps, we used this totally fabulous stamp set: Happy To Be Friends  This was prefect to be able to supply some alternative sentiments in case some of our older folks needed to change things up.  And of course, for the flower, we used Pretty Petals, which coordinates beautifully with our Art Philosophy Cricut Collection.  I also created another sample using Glacier ink.  I think they equally look good.

For our Father's Day card, I used this fabulous Stamp of the Month for April: Typed Note 

This set is only available for purchase during the month of April.  If you spend $50, you can get this awesome set for only $5!!  It has so many sentiments and works perfectly for masculine cards...I have such a hard time coming up with manly cards that I love having this in my crafting arsenal!!

I actually got the idea for the message to pull out as a "secret" message from another fabulous CTMH Consultant.  I used our black archival ink for this one.  Inside, I stamped "You're the BEST!", by masking one of the other sentiments that comes on this set.  I love that you can make them work for you!  There was some fussy cutting on this one, but overall not too bad!

Easter Cards

Here are a couple of Easter cards I taught at my church class.  I wanted to teach about heat embossing as well as cover a couple of different coloring mediums.  We embossed the cross and sentiment with gold embossing powder.  We also colored it in with colored pencils and a Dove blending pen.  For the second card, we stamped on watercolor paper and used water color pencils to color the image in.  We then sprayed some glitter over the entire card...it gave it a nice subtle shimmer.  The cards ended up being a little more time consuming that I thought.  However, I still had the ladies make a small basket full of some Easter treats. 

The daffodils on the pink card are from CTMH A Little Note

The sentiments are from Sweet & Sassy stamps