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!!  

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Wednesday's have turned into one of my favorite days of the week because I get to showcase another one of my Sweet Sketch Wednesday cards! Arlana has come up with a fabulous sketch that I know you will love using. So please head on over to the SSW blog and copy the sketch for you to use.

Remember last week I mentioned that it was my mom's birthday? You might remember me saying that I couldn't show the card I made for her since she follows my blog, well also I couldn't release it until today to coincide with the release of this new sketch.

Here is the sketch that I based my mom's birthday card from...

And here is the card that I made for her...

The DP is from Imaginisce (All Kinds of Happy), The swinging girl stamp is from Stampin' Up's "A Kind Word" set. The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farms Birthday Centers. I colored the stamped image in with my Copic Markers. The flowers are from Petaloo and the ribbon I am not sure about.

At first I worried that this card would be to juvenile for her, but I have always loved this adorable little girl from this Stampin' Up set. It makes me think of the stories that I have heard my mom talk about that seem similar to the days when she grew up on the farm. I can just picture her as this girl (not too many years ago) swinging away in a tree swing probably being pushed by her little sister, my Aunt Cindy!

I realized that it also brought back memories for her when she immediately broke out in poem as soon as she saw the stamped image. This is the poem that began quoting, it is one that she used to say as a child and also the one that her mother said to her when she was little...

How do you like to go up in a swing
up in the air so blue.
Oh, I do think it's the pleasantest thing
ever a girl can do.
Up in the air & over the wall
till I can see so wide,
rivers and trees and cattle and all
over the country side.

Isn't that just the cutest little poem you ever did hear? I was so happy that the card had a special meaning to her, because my mom Sharon certainly has special meaning to me!

It was so fun having lunch with you last week mom... let's do it again soon!!

Now using the links on my side bar or by visiting the Sweet Sketch Wednesday blog, you can click on the rest of the DT members names or pictures to see what else was created for this week's sketch. We have a couple of new DT members that you definitely want to check out. You won't be disappointed!!

A second post will follow a little later with a Sneak Peek of the next two digistamps for the upcoming release at Whimsie Doodles! So, please come back!!

Have a beautiful day and may your bucket overflow with happy memories from your childhood!