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The blog hop this month is celebrating Mother’s Day, to me nothing could possibly be better than spending the entire day outside…..hopefully it is a beautiful day! I am born and bred a Kentucky girl – you can take the girl out of Kentucky, but you cannot take Kentucky out of the girl! No truer words to be spoken especially in the month of May. I am not just from Kentucky, I am from Louisville Kentucky. May + Louisville + Mother’s Day = The Kentucky Derby “the Run for the Roses”. I will always and forever get a little bit giddy seeing a horse, I love how beautiful they truly are. Kentucky Derby in a week long event including “Chow Wagon” tents set up throughout the week that serve Burgoo – Kentukcy’s most famous stew, Governor’s Breakfast – by invitation only, a Hot Air Balloon race, Steam Boat Race on the Ohio River, so many festivals and festivities. When I moved out of the state of Kentucky, I had no idea that THE KENTUCKY DERBY was pretty much just a big deal in Kentucky only – aside from the enormous number of Celebrities that attend the Derby. All that to say Kentucky Derby, outdoor parties and Mothers Day all go hand in hand, so Mother’s Day is a week long Pre or After the day party outdoors!

This Mother’s Day card uses a good bit of the Dandy Garden Suite – The Garden Wishes Bundle (Dandelions), The Dragonfly Garden Bundle (Dragonfly image and the Wildflower background images), the Ladybug Trinkets and the Dandy Garden Designer Series Paper. On the Basic White front panel, I used an image from the My Meadow stamp set to create a Balmy Blue Sky, using 2nd generation stamping. There is a lot of Gold embossing to this front panel, the wildflower and dragonfly images are Gold heat embossed on Basic White Cardstock and Vellum. The heat embossed front panel is dry embossed with the Tasteful Texture 3D Embossing Folder, it is very subtle but is just the texture an outdoor based card needs. From the Dandy Wishes dies I cut the layers of the dandelion flower from vellum and attached them to an Old Olive card stem. The Dandelion leaves are also die cut in Old Olive.

I wrapped the Linen thread around the front panel 3 times to anchor the wildflowers. Then attached the dandelion with thin strips of foam tape, attached the leaves and vellum dandelion flower with dimensionals. To attach the vellum flower bud layers, I have found a trick to seems to work pretty well. I didn’t use glue dots because I didn’t want the elevation and those still seem to show through. I put a bit of glue on my Silicone craft mat, dab the tip of my pinky finger in the glue then on the vellum, attach the pieces and the glue “spot” can not be seen! The dandelion is attached with some clear “foam” tape that is extremely handy. The front panel is attached with glue to the Designer Series Paper, then attached to a piece of foam adhesive sheet, then attached to the Old Olive Cardbase. The Greeting “you are an inspiration” is from the Dragonfly Garden Stamp set and stamped in Old Olive on a Basic White Many Messages die.

Inside of the card is lined with a piece of Basic White card, stamped with a dandelion image from Garden Wishes and the sentiment “hope you have a wonderful Mother’s Day” which comes from the Welcoming Windows stamp set.

Thanks again for stopping by and spending a bit of your time with me. I hope you enjoyed learning about how this card came together. Hopefully you were even inspired just a bit. Below are pictured links to all the items used for this card, click the link of the item to be taken to my online store where you can learn more about each item. Don’t forget to comment in the comment section below for a chance to win the item pictured above. I will return soon with something new. Until then, stay safe, stay healthy and without doubt, keep on crafting, exploring and creating.

Product List

Dandy Garden Suite Collection (English) [155981] $145.50	Garden Wishes Bundle (English) [156220] $51.25	Garden Wishes Cling Stamp Set [154408] $22.00	Dandy Wishes Dies [154315] $35.00
Dragonfly Garden Bundle (English) [156224] $36.75	Dragonfly Garden Cling Stamp Set [154411] $23.00	Dragonflies Punch [154240] $18.00	Ladybug Trinkets [154299] $7.50
Linen Thread [104199] $5.00	Dandy Garden 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [154297] $11.50	Welcoming Window Photopolymer Stamp Set [154504] $22.00	My Meadow Photopolymer Stamp Set [151650] $21.00
Messages Die [154422] $34.00	Tasteful Textile 3 D Embossing Folder [152718] $9.00	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin’ Pad [147105] $7.50	Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad [147090] $7.50
Basic White 8 1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [159276] $9.75	Old Olive 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [100702] $8.75	Vellum 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [101856] $10.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $9.50
Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder [109129] $6.00	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $30.00	Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $120.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $25.00
Foam Adhesive Sheets [152815] $8.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $4.00	Clear Block C [118486] $7.00
Clear Block D [118485] $8.50	Clear Block I [118488] $12.00