Cuttlebug Challenges Be Inspired #29 Mother's Day Cards

Good morning all and welcome to another Wednesday Cuttlebug Challenge Be Inspired post! Wow, I can't believe we're up to number 29 already! Just where do the weeks go?! Anyway, on to my card for this week, oh, and envelope too! This week we have been sponspored by My Grafico and the DT were given the cute Shopping Boutique digi stamps to work with to create a Mother's Day card and co-ordinating envelope. (Apologies for the quality of the photograph but the weather was dire when I took the picture!)


I decided to use the cute pair of boots in the set and printed them out onto some Bo Bunny Alissa paper, fussy cut around them, mounted them onto 3D foam pads and diamond glazed them. I also used the reverse of the paper to create a central panel for my card which I embossed with the little hearts folder from the Cuttlebug Love Language cut and emboss set, and trimmed the edges using my Fiskars Apron Lace punch. In a little more detail...

I cut and embossed the white panel with the Nestabilities Blossom die after I had printed the sentiment onto it. I love this, it's from The Cutting Cafe All about Mom set. You'll hopefully be able to see in the above photograph that I also embossed the 2 outer edges of my card blank with the little flowers from the With Love border set, which I then highlighted the centres with little dots of Stickles. They look so pretty in real life! Of course a card for Mum would not be complete without beautiful blooms and a beautiful bow!

Onto the co-ordinating envelope and I simply replicated the central panels and the little boots (but didn't mount these with 3D foam pads this time).

And as a final finishing touch I embossed the back flap of the envelope with the With Love border folder.

I really enjoyed making a matching envelope for this challenge and loved the impact that it had seeing both the card and the envelope together, I think I'll be doing this more often now! So I hope you'll feel inspired to join us this week and create your own card for Mum with a matching envelope too! I know Mother's Day has been and gone here in the UK but with a little careful planning and a choice sentiment (like the one above), I'm sure you'll be able to come up with something! Make sure you check out the gorgeous creations that the other DT girls have come up with, they are all stunning and will provide you with bags of inspiration! There is a prize of a set of digital stamps up for grabs from My Grafico so have a go, you might be lucky!

And just another reminder that there are only 2 days to go to the start of the Cuttlebug Challenge first annual Spa event. I do hope you'll be joining us!