CAS and Hippity Hop Combo Card

Happy Hippity Hop!!

Hope you had a nice weekend.  Mine was productive but otherwise a very draining and emotional one.  There are some things going on in my personal life that have forced some change in my life.  I will feel up to telling you all about it pretty soon. Until then, just suffice it to say that I realize I have not been as involved and active on the forums and in the galleries as I typically am, and for that I apologize.  But I promise that I will return to some sense of normalcy as soon as possible!  Everything will be just fine!!

Given the crazy weekend I had, I decided to do myself a favor and combine two cards I needed to make for two separate challenges into ONE card!  So my sample for today is a CAS card for this week's CAS65 Challenge that was to be based on the theme of Mother's Day or May Flowers.  (I chose both!)  And it also combines the Hippity Hop IHHC22 challenge based on the challenge that Lisa Arana has given us to incorporate stitching on our cards.

(Mom, it's OK for you to see this... this is not your Mother's Day Card!  LOL!)

I used the flower from the Because of You {ippity} stamp set and colored it with my Copic markers to match the adorable DP from Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl collection.  Do you see where I added the stitching?  You might not have detected it at first glance, but the grass was actually created by zig zag stitching underneath the flower with green thread!

In this shot you can get a closer look at the stitching. I purposely spaced the zigs and zags unevenly to make the strands of grass appear more random.  The sentiment is a Stampin Up stamp from 1999.  I had to mask the sentiment to apply it where I did on the card and I also had to stamp the word DAY separately.

One last thing to show you is that I popped up the flower and the leaf by stamping and coloring the image a second time and placing it on top of the first one with dimensional dots 

Well, there are a lot more blogs with some {ippity} goodness on them today, 

so to start the hop at the beginning, 

just head over the {ippity} blog for the complete list!

My apologies again for having been a little absent from SCS lately.  As I gain back the control in my own life, things will improve dramatically.  I appreciate your patience and prayers!

Enjoy the Hippity Hop!

I am so thankful that my bucket overflows with the joys of 

motherhood and kids that love me and support me!!