MOM - Don't read this!

Strange title for a post, right?  Well, my Mom gets the posts via email and since we are coming up on Mother's Day, there just might be a few things I don;t want her to see!  Then again, given my history of forgetting to actually MAIL the cards I make for her, maybe this will be her only chance....  let's keep our fingers crossed that (a) she doesn't read this and (b) I remember to mail it this time.

I had fun making this, with my daughter advising me the whole way!  I had a fun spool of fuchsia ribbon on clearance from Michael's so I started with that as my color.  I wanted to keep it a little simple so rather than use patterned paper, I embossed the background and then simply stamped a pattern onto the flower I cut on my Cricut (the flower pattern is an SVG cutting file from Platypus Creek Digitals).  I created the title in MTC using Brinlea font and embossed that as well, using a button for the "o".  Both buttons are recycled from my daughter's old clothes; the white, fuchsia, and little piece of light pink cardstock is scraps from other projects.

Challenges (I know - list looks crazy but there were so many Mother's Day challenges...)

EDIT - somehow I left out Creative Cutter Room challenge!  I linked up myu project to their site but neglected to call them out here.  Sorry, ladies!

• Platypus Creek Digitals - # 5 Bling it Up
• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog - Recycled Item (the buttons)
• Tuesday Alchemy - Inspried by May Day (flowers)
• My Sheri Crafts - Mother's Day (Flowers)
• Hiding in My Craft Room - Mother's Day
• CARDZ TV # 107 - Mother's Day
• Delightful Sketches - Mother's Day
• DoubleClick (aka aBusyBee) - Mother's Day
• My Craft Spot # 54 - Mother's Day
• Cooking with Cricut/Paper Crafting World - Mother's Day
• Shopping our Stash # 50 - Mother's Day
• Crafty Ribbons # 18 - Pink, Yellow, Orange (fuchsia)
• Totally Papercrafts - Saturated Colors (fuchsia)
• Card Patterns - Sketch 163
• The Cuttlebug Spot - Flowers for Mom
• Paper Variety - handmade flowers
• Little Scrap Pieces - Use a bow (bow in the center of the button)
• My Sketch World - Majo's Button Card challenge
• Crazy 4 Challenges - Paper Piecing (the title and the flower, of course)
• 4 Crafty Chicks - Favorite Embellishment (embossing and flowers)

The sketch I adapted from Card Patterns is below.  I substituted the title for the banner, used the flower rather than the bow, and omitted the flower tag in favor of the button in the title.