Morning Glory Mother's Day Card

My mother-in-law is a wonderful person who has always been gracious and kind to me. The best thing she ever did for me was raising my husband to be such an amazing human being! Seriously, with Mother's Day coming up, I wanted to be sure to make her a special card because I appreciate her so much. 

I used Altenew's Build-A-Garden: Morning Glory set for the florals on this card. It comes with a coordinating die set and several sentiments like the "thankful for you" stamp I used here with its coordinating die. I stamped the florals in black ink and then ink blended them using the coordinating stencils that come in the set. The colors I used were all from Altenew: Whispering Woodland Fresh Dye Ink collection, Fresh Lemon Crisp Dye Ink, and Iceberg and Ultramarine Crisp Dye Inks. 

I decided I wanted a little texture in the background, so I added Altenew's Garden Trellis cover die that I die cut out of white cardstock to a white card base and then added my flowers using Altenew's new 1-inch wide and 1/16-inch thick foam tape, trimming off the excess parts of the flowers and leaves to fit the A2 card front. Before adding the sentiment, I put the card in my splatter box and used some of Altenew's Carbon Black gouache thinned with a little water to add splatters to the card. There were a few splatters that were larger than I wanted, so I decided to add some of Altenew's Whispering Woodland enamel dots and to put the sentiment over the biggest splatter. I added the sentiment using Altenew's 1/4-inch wide and 1/8-inch thick foam tape, so it's slightly higher than the flowers. 

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Inside the card:

 Challenges I'm entering: 

Stamping Sensations: Birds, flowers, animals, and nature or ATG (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

We Love Stamping: Favorite stamps with option to add ribbon or lace (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: Embossing and/or Flowers + a sentiment (I chose flowers and a sentiment) (1/5; ends at the end of the month) 

613 Avenue Create: ATG with option of splash of color (2/8; ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start: ATG with option of red, black, and white (2/8; ends at the end of the month)

A Cut Above: ATG with die cuts (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

fourseasons: ATG with spring theme (ends at the end of the month)

Inspiration Station: My card is a Mother's day card, and I think this photo looks like a mom and daughter sharing a hug like I hope to do with my mother-in-law on Mother's Day when I give her this card😊 (2/8; ends at the end of the month)

Paper Rocks Scissors: ATG with paper and/or scissors: I used scissors to trim the flowers that hung off the card panel, and I used papers to create this card. (3/5; ends at the end of the month)

The Diva's that cut ....paper!: Flowers (3/4; ends at the end of the month)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog: ATG (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

Classic Design Challenge Blog: ATG (ends 4/12/25)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (ends at the end of the month)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (ends 4/9/25)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with option of things beginning with "B" (I have blooms on my card) (3/6; ends at the end of the month)

Ellibelle's Corner: I spy with my little eye: The dawn of spring (4/5; ends 4/13/25)

Ellibelle's Corner: Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday: ATG (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

We Love to Create mixed media Challenge Blog...sponsored by Polkadoodles: ATG (3/4; ends 4/24/25)

Gem of A Craft Challenge: ATG (4/4; ends 4/17/25)

Allsorts challenge blog: Spring Flowers (4/5; ends 4/11/25)

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite: Cute of Floral and why? I gravitate toward floral cards because I love the beauty of flowers and have quite a few sets of floral layering stencils and floral layering dies (especially from Altenew) that I love using. (3/3; ends 4/17/25)

Craft Rocket Challenges: Layer it Up (unlimited; ends 4/28/25)

Moving Along With The Times: Spring Flowers (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge ...: ATG (2/3; ends 4/19/25)

AECP Homework for Layering 3 class: Lesson 4: add flowers over the edge of the card and trim the excess