Pear Tree Designs - Challenge #42 - Mother's Day

Morning all, I have a Mother's Day card to share with you today for the new challenge over at Pear Tree Designs this week - MOTHER'S DAY. We want to see your Mother's Day creations, whether it be a card for the special lady or a project you have created especially for her on her special day! I love Mother's Day almost as much as I love my Mam! She is the most special person in my life and come the 3rd of April I will be telling her that whilst giving her this card I have made her as well as an African Plains ornament I am buying her from Collectables.

Anywho, enough of that. Thank you to everyone who joined in our 'Happy Birthday' challenge last week - there were some stunning entries! You people never fail to impress! :) I just about managed to keep up with the comments! I hope I managed to get around to you all. The winner from last week was Elke - http://elkescreativecorner.blogspot.com/, if you would get in touch with Donna, she will sort your prize out. Congratulations.

The sponsor for this week is

http://robynsfetish.com/shop/

They will be offering our challenge winner 5 x digital images of their choice or 4 x digital images and 1 x digital paper pack!

Here is the card I came up with..

Meet Rosalie with Roses from C.C Designs. Is she not just the sweetest? The perfect image for a Mother's Day card. I have coloured her using lead pencil and ProMarkers for her bunch of Roses.

I made the music note patterned paper myself using a the Music Note standard roller wheel from SU! as well as some Soft Suede ink from SU! and some DI. I stitched around the edges and rounded the corners - this was the base for the rest of my card. I don't know if I've said before, but sometimes I really struggle to use pink, but I love the colour combo of pink and brown together - I always think it works so well!! :)

I have used Pretty in Pink from SU! for both the ribbon and the embossed cardstock. The spiral flowers are made from organza ribbon - what a faff they were to make - they just wouldn't stick. But I think the time I took trying to get them to work really paid off as they add a lot to the main panel of the card.

Being from the north east of England, I call my Mam, Mam - not Mum, and I don't know about you, but I HATE that shop cards do not have much variety at all when it comes to greeting and phrases. Que my Cosmo Cricket mini alpha stickers. Three little letters M A M and the sentiment is complete! :) I hope she likes it as much as I do!

I would like to enter this card into these challenges:
× Crafts & Me Challenges - Anything Goes
× Creative Craft World - Mother's Day + Bling
× Freshly Brewed Challenge 40 - 2 or more Embellishments
× I Love ProMarkers - Challenge 58 Go Dotty
× The Paper Shelter - Challenge 6 Flower Power
× The Pixie Cottage - Sketch/Sparkle
× Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes
× Simon Says Stamp - Mother's Day/Girlie
× Your Next Stamp Challenges - Make it Sparkle
× Anything Goes - Make your own Embellishments
× Papertake Weekly - Its a Mom Thing
× OLLCB - #76 Mother's Day
× Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight - Make your own Designer Paper

Why not head on over to Pear Tree Designs and see what the rest of the DT have made!! Show us your Mother's Day creations - I can't wait to see what you lot come up with this week! :)