Floral Mother's Day Card for the Brutus Monroe Blog Hop (with PRIZES!)

Good morning friends

***NOTE:  This is my second post today. Because this is an International Blog Hop, we all wanted to post our cards at the same time. Which for me is 10pm. But this morning I posted a cool Tent Pop-Up SNEAK PEEK card using a bunch of dies from Karen Burniston's upcoming release. Scroll up if you missed that one, or click HERE.

This week the Karen Burniston Riley Design Team is doing a collaboration with the folks at Brutus Monroe. You can see more at the Brutus Monroe BLOG, and today our team is doing a Blog Hop WITH PRIZES!! You should have arrived here from Karen Burniston's Blog!

I made a Pop-Up Mother's Day card for my Mom. Let's talk about the front first.

I'm really proud of how this card turned out, as I used the Brutus Monroe stamps in different ways to inspire you. This patterned paper was a 'free with purchase' - white with white embossed doily's on the front. I stamped the Brutus Monroe Cloud Background with dye inks then smeared them around with my finger as the embossed areas created a resist. It made such a cool looking background!

To get an ombre ribbon, I simply scribbled with a marker on a plastic palette and picked up the colour with a water brush. Then I just touched the ribbon where I wanted the darker colour and it seeped up the ribbon getting lighter as it went. Note, I did protect the patterned paper underneath until the ribbon was dry.

Here is a look at the inside, where I used the same technique and patterned paper inside. The Pop-Up base was created with the Cupcake Pop-Up, and I used the flower pot from the Flower Pot Pop-Up as the pot that the flowers are in. The flowers themselves were stamped, coloured with markers and a water brush, then fussy cut. I used a textured embossing powder on the flower pot to give it some dimension and added a few leafy sprigs as well.

Of course I added a bee and some glitter too as well as sparkle at the flower centres. The bee ties in with the Queen Bee sentiment below the pot of flowers.

The Word Set 5 Royalty works perfectly for Mother's day, and the words on the little banner are in the Brutus Monroe flower set (Conservatory of Quotes). It says "You are AMAZING, always remember that".

The Cupcake Pop-Up makes a great generic Pop-Up card, and since I use it so much that is what I'm offering for a PRIZE! Simply leave me a comment telling me why you like my card and be sure your email address is valid so I can contact you if you win. I will use Random.org to choose a random number from the comments and will draw for the Cupcake Pop-Up Prize on Thursday May 24th.

Next stop on the Blog Hop is Frances Byrne

If you aren't sure of the order for the hop, I'll list everyone here:

Karen Burniston
Karen Aicken (that's me!)
Frances Byrne 
Helen Cryer
Fran Sabad
Kelly Booth
Summer Hills-Painter

I'll be back tomorrow afternoon with my fourth Karen Burniston/Brutus Monroe collaboration card.

Supplies:

Conservatory of Quotes - Brutus Monroe

Bristol Smooth Card Stock

Zig clean colour markers

Water brush

MISTI - My Sweet Petunia

Spectrum Noir Glitter Pen

1010 Flower Pot Pop-Up (pot and vines) - Karen Burniston

Green, white and kraft card stocks

1026 Flowers and Bee - Karen Burniston

Weather wood embossing powder - Emerald Creek

Cloud background - Brutus Monroe

Crochet Doiley's patterned paper - Kaisercraft

1008 Cupcake Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

1006 Nature Edges - Karen Burniston

1034 Word Set 5 Royalty - Karen Burniston

Fun foam

Stickles

Seam Binding

Card size - 5-1/2 x 6"

Thanks for stopping by today