May Inspiration Challenge #31 - 'Celebrate Mom'

Hello and welcome to the May Inspiration Challenge with Paper Sweeties!

This month's inspiration is all about celebrating our beloved Mom's!!!  Mother's Day is such a special day! It is so important and wonderful to celebrate and remember our beloved Mom's whether they are still with us or perhaps smiling down on us from heaven above.  And it is also a day to remember Aunt's, Grandmother's and other wonderful female's that perhaps have played a motherly role in our lives!  I know that I feel very blessed by the many women that are part of my life each day and some that are angels in my life that I miss so very much! I hope that you will join in this month's challenge along with me and the rest of the Paper Sweeties team.

I love this sweet inspiration photo and the kraft, pink and mint colors.  Here is what I came up with:

When I looked at the photo I immediately thought of a party!  And what better party to have with our sweet Mom's than a Tea Party!  So I set to work with the lovely colors and the "Tea for Two" stamps and sweet cuts dies.  I made three different items:  - a card, a teapot enclosure card or tag, and a teapot box to hold some teabags.  I embossed the teapot stamp onto each of the die cuts with some "Blush" Zing embossing powder.

 Here is a picture of the card.  The sentiment is from two different stamp sets.  The "I (heart) You" is from the "I love you" stamp set.  And the word "Mother" is from the "You are the most Wonderful" stamp set. I stamped them in some slate gray ink and then colored the heart with a pink marker.  A bit of lace, half of a kraft paper doily and a paper flower finishes this card.

My Mother loves to receive crocheted washcloths for her kitchen.  I made several for her as part of her Mother's Day gift and topped them with a sweet teapot shaped tag that opens so I can write a little note inside:

Here's a picture of it opened part way....on top of the crocheted washcloth....

 Last but not least is a sweet teapot shaped box filled with some lovely organic "green tea" from Trader Joe's.

I love the shabby feel of the Tilda paper I used combined with the "Blush" embossing powder.  It has a rustic antique feeling that I absolutely adore!  I used my Versamark embossing pen to add some extra embossing powder on the teabag box.  I am going to experiment with this some more.  I like the rustic and shabby feeling you can create by making thicker hand-drawn lines. It is especially fun to do this on shabby chic style papers.

Here is one final shot of all three of my projects:...

  Unfortunately I was hoping to have a sunny day to take pictures but it is pouring rain today and gray and cloudy!  So I set up my OTT-Lites and took these photos indoors.  I apologize that the colors are not as bright and pretty as they should be even after some serious photo editing!  I am hoping for some sun over the next two days so I can re-take them before this post goes live!  But one never knows with our Seattle weather! 

Whoo!  That was a lot of pictures! If you are still with me I am ready to send you off to my Paper Sweeties Design Team Mates:

Annette Witherspoon

Cheryl Lea

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

 Emily Frasier

Jill Norwood (You are here)

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Kathy Schweinfurth

Larissa Heskett

Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala
Mynnette Kitchen

Nancy Penir

Tammy Hobbs 

May Guest Designer:  Dawn

I want to give a special welcome to our guest designer for the May Challenge - Dawn who blogs at "Designs by Dragonfly"  We are so happy to have her joining us today! Please give her a warm welcome!

Thanks,
:) Jill

Tea for Two Bundle - Paper Sweeties

I Love You Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

You Are The Most Wonderful Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties