Dream Valley Challenges #3 Mother’s Day

It’s challenge time again at Dream Valley Challenges. Thanks again to everyone that entered our last challenge, we had some amazing entries! Check the blog later for our prize winner and top 3 pick.

On to this fortnightly challenge, it’s an easy one!

MOTHER'S DAY

As here in the UK it is almost Mothering Sunday we would like to see a MUM creation! Remember this can be anything, doesn't have to be just a card!

This fortnight we are sponsored by Digi’s with Attitude and the prize is $10 Canadian to spend in their online store.

I have some lovely memories of Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday to give it it’s correct title. Where I live there is a road called ‘The Avenue’ which has daffodils planted all along the verges and under the lime trees. For as far back as I can remember the local children would pop up to Church for the morning service and on the way home to come via The Avenue and pick Mum a bunch of Mother’s Day Daffs. You could see when it was Mother’s Day, one day the verges would be full to bursting of bright yellow flowers and by the Monday, mainly just the green leaves. In all those years I don’t think there has been a year when the daffs were not out in time.  Nor have I ever heard of anyone complaining at the kids picking flowers. In fact when I was very small my local church used to have buckets of daffs in the church and you would be encouraged to go grab your Mum a handful! Perhaps they were trying to stop us picking the ones outside!!

So onto my creation.

Well sadly I no longer have a Mum as she died in 2000, and I haven’t made a Mother’s Day card since, but this is a challenge so I sorted through some stamps to see what might be suitable. Unfortunately I couldn’t use the Sponsor’s images as my printer was broken at the time. Anyhow a Rachelle Miller stamp seemed appropriate so I stamped it onto watercolour card and coloured it in with Inktense Watercolour Pencils.

The papers are mainly from Artylicious’ CD Essence of Nature, apart from the one with the hearts and that is a digital paper I’m afraid I printed a while back and cannot recall what set it comes from. Apologies to the designer. Note to self, pencil in the name of something on the back when you print and store!

The flowers are from my stash mostly from Wild Orchid Crafts, the turquoise coloured bits are actually white stamens which I took apart and dyed with Glimmer Mists, and the two porcelain embellishments are from K & Co and a set I have had for ages.

Inside is a sentiment which was appropriate for the image and so very true.

Apologies for the awful quality of the main picture but the light was absolutely dreadful yesterday and clearly I would never make a genius with the photo editing software!

I am entering this into the following challenges:-

Sparkles Forum Challenge – Mother’s Day

Craft Your Days Away – For Mum or a Special Lady

Easy Craft Projects-Challenges – For Mum

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge – Mother’s Day

The Stamp Man – Mother’s Day

Stampin’ For the Weekend – Mother’s Day

Digi Doodle Shop’s Best – Anything Goes

Sugar Creek Hollow – Anything Goes

Card Makin’ Mamas – Animals

See you back here Wednesday for the ABC Challenge