The final card for Mum

Well, I've finished making the third card for my mum's birthday and I think this one probably took the longest time of all of them. Most of the time was spent in trying to decide what to do, as I didn't want them all to look the same.
Most of the items used on this card were from my stash, the image was a gift card that I cut down slightly, the beautiful sparkly lilac paper was from Joanna Sheen and the little lilac corners were from K & Co.
Now that I've finished these birthday cards I can move onto the next project on my ever growing list!

This is another card for my Mum's birthday. Whenever there is a family occasion I end up making my card plus one from each of the kids and usually one from my mum too, at least I haven't got to make one from mum on this occasion LOL
The colours on the card are not as bright as my scanner has made them look, the ribbon is a very pretty pink and the cuttlebug card is a pale banana colour in real life and was part of a wad sent to me by my crafting friend Jenny to tide me over until I get my own cuttlebug.
The little flowers are a free download from a site called Fred, She Said which I came across yesterday and are designed by Tracey Lynn Miller. She has designed some more lovely flowers as digital download kits and I think I may be very tempted to buy some after seeing how pretty the little freebies look. The other bits and bobs on the card came from my stash.
I don't know who will choose to send this card, I'll let my lovely DIL choose which one she likes and my younger son will have the one that's left....once I've made the other card that is!

Mum's Birthday Card

It feels like simply ages since I made a card, but with Mum's 83rd birthday coming up on the 5th of August I knew I needed to make a start on things, as I expect I'll be making cards for her from my eldest DS and DIL and my youngest DS too!
As she's been through so much recently I wanted to make this a special card and so decided to use a Harrison Fisher image as they are her favourites. This one is from Joanna Sheen's fabulous Fashion Boutique CD and is just so feminine.
I have used some of the beautiful white tapestry card (from Joanna Sheen) to make this 8x8 card and mounted the image onto some miri card then onto some lace paper (again from Joanna Sheen), apart from the trimmings this could almost be a complete Joanna Sheen one stop shop card. Does anything give you the impression that I love the quality Joanna provides in all her products? The card was finished off with bits and bobs from my stash.
My scanner hasn't done a great job with this card and it has also cut off the corners a bit, but you get the idea.