Saturday, April 2, 2011

PaperPlay Challenge- For a Mum


My brother asked me to make a card for him to give to our Mum for Mother's Day. He told me he didn't want anything too girly or pretty though and instead to concentrate on more natural colours. My Mum loves to garden so I wanted to use browns and greens. I pulled out my new PTI woodgrain impression plate and inked it with Fresh Snow. Once I rolled it through the machine with some kraft card, it left a lovely impression and the ink transferred onto the embossed areas. It looks very delicate and I love the effect it leaves. I attached that to a white card base and die cut Mat Stack #5 in brown card, which I stamped with the matching stamp from Tiny Treats Birthday in brown ink. I cut a strip of Ripe Avocado cardstock and stamped it with another stamp from Tiny Treats in Memento Pear Tart ink. The Thickers were white but I inked them up with Pear Tart to match. I added some PTI Chartreuse buttons to finish it off. I would like to enter this into the PaperPlay Challenge- For a Mum. Thanks for looking :)

6 comments:

  1. Love that effect with the embossing folder, never tried it though. Your mum will love it :)

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  2. Lovely card, am sure your mum will love it

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  3. I love the way you've done the wood - it looks amazing. Great card. Jaqui x

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  4. Emma, this is stunning. Bet your brother was thrilled with it. Of course I know your mum loved it. Thanks for playing along with paperplay this week

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  5. What a lovely card for a Mum! Thanks for joining in with us at Paper Play this week. I have a Magnolia stamp candy on my blog if you are interested :)
    Alicia xx
    http://alicia-timetocreate.blogspot.com/

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  6. That is beautiful, really like that wood grain effect, thanks for sharing!

    Thanks for stopping by the Pixie blog and thanks for the shout out, good luck!

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