Big Heart for Mother's Day

It's Mother's Day shortly and this year my Mother is away abroad with my Dad, enjoying the sunshine so I made her card in December so she could take it with her when they flew out in January.  The card above I made for my lovely Mother In Law.  She loves my hand made cards and keeps them all in a big box.  She went mad the year I presented her with a gorgeous and very expensive shop bought one, I had to go home and make her another one so that year she had two.  I have used my favourite ever Lili of the Valley Stamp called James - Big Heart.  I keep using this stamp over and over, James is so cute.  Here I have coloured him with Pro-markers, added some liquid pearl dots to the heart and added the image to a die cut frame, I think it's a Sizzix one.  I have layered up some patterned papers from my scraps bag with some red cardstock, added some red ribbon tied with a bow then die cut some flowers and leaves, curling up the edges before inking around the edges and then I have added a half pearl to the centre of each flower.  I finished it off with a little sentiment and a couple of smaller pearls.

The inspiration for this card came from the monthly challenge over on the Lili of the Valley blog.  This month it is a crafty bingo challenge, with a 3 x 3 square grid, each grid containing the name of a type of embellishment and you have to create a card using a line from the grid, I chose the top line which was ribbon, pearls and flowers.