Happy Mother(-in-law)'s Day!

The card I have today is the one I made for my Mother-in-law for Mother's Day...  as we went to visit her last weekend she already has received the card even though Mother's Day here is not until next Sunday.

The cute image is "Teddy Bear Picking Flowers" from The Paper Shelter, Sweet Stampin' has Four Legged Friends as their challenge this time around so I'm entering there, and Papertake Weekly has Cute Cute Cute... definitely entering there ;-)   
I used this sketch from  The Paper Shelter challenge for last week but missed the deadline (not a first for me, lol), luckily they have an Anything Goes challenge this week so I can still enter!  It was a really great sketch; it made me think about fitting the image panel "behind" the horizontal panel, so what I did was cut around the bottom of the image, thus chopping off the bottom of the die cut, which was another of my new Mpress dies (Antique Frame from Craftonline).  Craft Us Crazy wants us to use our Favourite Stamp Company or Found Inspiration, I have a lot of "Favourite Companies", Paper Shelter is one of them and these new dies are an inspiration :-) so I'm entering there.  Stampin' for the Weekend wants us to use at least four layers - which I have - so I'm entering there too.

Inside of card

I've coloured the image with Copics, adding some Stickles to the flowers to tie in with the sparkle on the papers. Copic Oz  and Joanna Sheen have Flowers as their challenge themes... as well as the flowers on the image, there's plenty of flowers on the Kaisercraft Hey Birdie paper.  I cut the flower embellies with a Nellie Snellen cut and emboss punch and added Dew Drop centres, the sentiment is computer generated using Fiolex Girls font.
I CASED Joey (said I would Joey,lol) and printed a smaller version of the image for the inside of the card, printing the sentiment at the same time.  I used some more paper from that Hey Birdie pad, which has been in my stash for-EVVA!! Lisa's Waste Not Wednesdays challenge to use Stash, so I'm entering there too.

The Pink Elephant has All About Mum, Deep Ocean Challenge has What a Wonderful Woman and both Crafty Sentiments and Addicted to Stamps have Mother's Day challenge themes so I'm entering those, while One Stop Craft Challenge has Celebrations and Creative Craft Challenges has an Anything Goes theme so in there too.

Well that's it for my Mother-in-law's card, hope you like it, I was really happy as it looked in the end exactly as I had envisaged in the beginning... I didn't take forever chopping and changing what papers to use (seriously, the problem with having SO much to choose from, lol) and came together easily.

I'll have to get on to my own Mother's Day card now (as in my own Mother, not my own card, lol) I'll be back soon with that or the baby card I'm working on (more of my son's friends... still not my son!) Until then, Happy Crafting, Donna

Angled view,  showing shine and sparkle on paper and image