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One More Mother’s Day Idea With Mother’s Love
Have I mentioned how much I enjoy the Mother’s Love stamp set? Well, here is another card I made with it that was so much fun to put together:
The stamp set in Photopolymer makes it so easy to look great everytime and add the dash of a watercolor background and you have a beautiful card full of love.
Tips for making this card:
- Use watercolor paper for your white paper on the front! This allows you to create a watercolor wash background by picking up ink with your Aqua Painter and painting the background of your card.
- Let your background dry and THEN stamp your images on top. You can use your standard classic ink pads if you’ve let your background dry for the most part (it doesn’t have to be perfectly dry)
- Stamp the outlines of your flower image in black and then use the stamp for the insides of the flower – coloring with a stampin’ write marker.
- When you stamp your leaf & petals, if they are speckly, use your aqua painter to fill them out.
- Add a few pearls for an elegant touch!
- Don’t forget the inside of your card! Add some ribbon (like this Venetian crochet trim) or matching stamps to finish it out.
It’s a few simple steps for a great impact!
Just a Note
I wanted to take a minute to thank you so much for orders from many of you. But I also have noticed a number of people placing orders and not checking the box to allow your demonstrator to contact you. This means that I can’t send you a thank you card or any other incentive as part of any special offer I may be running.
So when you are checking out, please make sure to check this box so I can send you a note of thanks!
I appreciate your orders and support and want to make sure I can send you something cute as thanks!
Project Supplies Used:

Mother’s Love Wood Stamp Set
Price: $41.95

Mother’s Love Clear Stamp Set
Price: $30.95

Mother’s Love Photopolymer Stamp Set
Price: $24.95

Aqua Painters
Price: $16.95

Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments
Price: $4.95

Venetian Crochet Trim
Price: $6.95

Perfect Plum 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock
Price: $6.95

Watercolor Paper
Price: $4.95

Old Olive 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock
Price: $6.95

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock
Price: $8.50

Perfect Plum Classic Stampin’ Pad
Price: $5.95

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad
Price: $5.95

Old Olive Stampin’ Write Marker
Price: $3.50

Regals Stampin’ Write Markers
Price: $28.95
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May 4, 2015
A Mother’s Day Card for Friday’s Card Night
I got this Mother’s Love stamp set a while back but have only recently started playing with it. I have to admit, it is a lot of fun and the sketchy line art designs give you a lot of options to play with. Today though, I wanted to share one of the cards we will be doing on Friday for my Crafty Card Night inspired by my friend Julie Davison
Tips for making this card:
- Use the littler stamps in a stamp set to make a coordinating background for your card. Like in this case, I stamped the line art flower head in Strawberry Slush onto the Strawberry Slush card base.
- Photopolymer stamps ROCK for sets where you want to stamp an outline (the big flower next to the sentiment) and an inside filler color (the filler of the leaves and flower petals) because it is SO EASY to see exactly where you are stamping.
- Bonus! Because this stamp set is sketchy line art, if you don’t line things up exactly, it still looks like it was supposed to be this way. I love perfectly imperfect card designs because they take the pressure off!
- Add a little glitz to your card with some glimmer paper and a border punch!
  NOTE – This scalloped edge border punch is retiring and while supplies last! It is such a staple in my craft room that if you don’t have it yet, you totally should grab it before it is gone.
- Don’t forget the inside – this stamp set makes it easy for you by giving you a sentiment to go inside. I just gussied it up by adding some filled in flowers (yes that is a separate stamp then what I used on the outside of the card) along the bottom of my stamped insides.
Seriously, too much fun with this set!
And if you want to come make it with me, don’t forget to RSVP to my class on Friday! We are making 3 fun cards with envelopes and always have a great time.
Project Supplies Used:
Easy shopping anytime! Click the images below to see the item in the online store.

Mother’s Love Photopolymer Stamp Set
Price: $24.95

Silver Glimmer Paper
Price: $4.95

Scallop Edge Border Punch
Price: $15.95

Strawberry Slush 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock
Price: $6.95

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad
Price: $5.95

Strawberry Slush Classic Stampin’ Pad
Price: $5.95

Old Olive Stampin’ Write Marker
Price: $3.50

2013-2015 In Color Stampin’ Write Markers
Price: $14.95

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock
Price: $8.50

Basic Black 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock
Price: $6.95
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April 29, 2015
New Ideas for the New Weekly Deals!
When the new weekly deals were released, I had to laugh because so many of the items on sale are ones that I’ve used in classes and stamp club this month! Check it out:
See the Weekly Deals in the online store
So for example, this last week at Stamp Club, we used both the Mother’s Love stamp set and the Something Borrowed embellishments:
And then a couple weeks ago, we were doing an Embossing Folder Fun technique class and we used the Handheld Stapler and Deco Label Framelits (not the ones on the weekly deal this week) but you could do the same technique with the Label Framelits:
And of course, there are those fabulous Washi Sheets that I’ve been sharing with you as part of my Card Celebrations! Fun with Washi Sheets class:
And if you were interested in registering for this class by mail, I do have the instructions ready and available NOW and will be starting to mail out kits in the next couple days.
So you still have time to sign up or purchase the instructions here.
Get Ready for the Butterfly Thinlits!
Just a reminder that hopefully tomorrow the butterfly thinlits will be back in stock! And see, they go so well with the Something Borrowed Embellishments!
Card by Carol Hickman
I’ll be watching and posting to let you know when, but you can get them first! So, you can either:
- Watch for my “The Dies Are Here!” post with links to purchase in the online store – and get my 3 card samples bonus as a thank you for ordering from me!
  OR
- Email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com with your information and I’ll place the order for you as soon at they go live & mail your card samples out to you as a thank you! I will just need your shipping information and either a credit card or paypal email address for an invoice.
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April 14, 2015
Bye Bye Button Buddies–more class samples
I really need to do this more often… hold a class (or just challenge myself) to create a set of cards using each of the stamps in a stamp set. When I did this for my All Occasions card class focusing on Button Buddies, I was stumped on one or two stamp sets but loved the challenge of trying to do something different with each of the images (especially with trying to not do a Halloween or Thanksgiving card using the pumpkin stamp!)
This was the card most people picked as their favorite from the class:
I had fun with the bright colors and I pulled out the Striped Organdy ribbon from the spring catalog to add a little extra in the middle.
And then there was the pumpkin card… I was a bit stuck on fall and Thanksgiving and so I kept it in theme and made it a thank you card!
We colored in the pumpkin image with markers and then stamped 3 times without reinking. So:
1. Color your image and stamp the center pumpkin
2. Immediately stamp the pumpkin to the left of your center pumpkin
3. Immediately stamp the pumpkin to the right of your center pumpkin
4. Clean the stamp
That gives you the stamped images but slightly faded for the main image. Then add a matching button and you get that extra pop!
So if you decide to go for the stamp set…. don’t forget to grab the matching buttons too! They are even 40% off!
See them online: Button Buddies stamp set | Brights Designer Buttons
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Stampin’ Up! Supples Used
Stamps – Button Buddies, Delightful Dozen
Paper – Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Early Espresso, River Rock, Crumb Cake
Ink – Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight, Primrose Petals, Tangerine Tango marker, Gumball Green marker
Accessories – 1 3/4” Scallop Circle punch, Brights Designer Buttons, Glue Dots, Old Olive Striped organdy ribbon
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May 21, 2013
Simply Soft Elegant Mother’s Day Card
I keep forgetting Mother’s Day is this weekend! Thankfully, I ran a class last week specifically for creating Mother’s Day cards, so now I have a stash that I can use this weekend since I’m sure I’ll forget again and think I have a couple weeks. 🙂 Today I thought I’d share one of my favorite cards from the class using the Simply Soft hostess set. I like that it looks simple yet elegant:

This is also one of the cards that went out this month in my Cards To Go program, so hopefully some folks are getting good use out of this design for Mother’s Day too!
To create the banner points at the end of the sentiment, I used the Pennant Punch punching technique I described in this blog post. I love it!

Finally, I added a bit of fun to this class by creating coordinated envelopes to go with the cards. In this case we stamped the outline shape on the front of the envelope and then did the colored flower heads on the back flap of the envelope

I don’t know why I always forget to stamp my envelopes… but when you have Whisper White envelopes from Stampin’ Up! its almost a waste not to stamp on them since the paper is explicitly made to be excellent to stamp on.
I’m thinking this is going to go to my Grandma…another elegant lady in my life. 🙂
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May 11, 2012
Mother’s Day Card with Presto Patterns
If you got my April newsletter recently, you may recognize part of this card! I wanted to show some of the fun things you can do with Presto Patterns specialty paper. See, many people either don’t realize what it is (because in the catalog it shows up as white with brown lines to show the design) or you saw the paper but couldn’t imagine what you would want with white paper with white embossing. So, for those of you who haven’t seen it, this is what the paper looks like:
But you add a bit of sponging, even using multiple colors and you can turn those plain designs into super pretty pieces for your cards! I used one piece on the card below to show you what I mean:
I also had to play with the folded ribbon. I LOVE seam binding ribbon…have I said that before? So, I recently got the Crumb Cake color and decided to play with it in this card. To make my rolls, I used the Snail adhesive and put a little bit down on one side of the ribbon and then folded the ribbon over to make the rounded part. Then I kept using the Snail on the front of the ribbon so I could fold the ribbon back on itself and so on. Yeah, I know, that was a terrible explanation. If anyone is interested in how I did it, let me know and I can take pictures or something to show you better. Anyway I had to finish it off with one of the rose adornments and a pearl. Perfect for mom!
I wanted a sentiment but you can’t stamp directly on the Presto Patterns paper very well (because the ink won’t stick to the embossed pattern) and I didn’t really want a punch out to distract from the pattern, so I stamped on some cardstock vellum and adhered to the front of the card so the pattern could show through.
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Happy Mother’s Day Presto Patterns Recipe
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Peach Parfait, Daffodil Delight, Blush Blossom
Paper: Presto Patterns specialty paper, Botanical Gazette designer paper, Old Olive cardstock, Cardstock Vellum
Accessories: Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon, yellow sponge, adhesive Pearls, Vintage Flower adornments, Snail
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April 19, 2011