 Hi everyone and welcome back to another card making video. Today I will be making a Mother's Day card and for that I will use a new product from the latest release by Simon's Stump. By the way, this video is actually part of a blog hop as we celebrate this release. Make sure to visit my blog as there are lots of giveaways along the way of the blog hop. For my card I will be working with this lovely stencil, this is the Moom Mom Love. I have a piece of white cardstock here and I'm going to secure the stencil on top of it with some purple tape at the back. I want the word mom to be centered on this white cardstock, I'm just eyeballing it but of course you can use a ruler to make sure that everything is super neat. With a piece of tape I'm also going to mask off the areas of the other words just to make sure that I won't do any mistakes, sometimes when I do blending I forget all about the other openings on my stencil and I make a mess. So now I'm safe and I will go ahead and do the blending. For that I'm using two Distress Oxide Ink colors and I'm going for an ombre look. So first of all I'm going to apply my lighter color and this is one lipstick. I'm using my blending brushes and just because they are so soft they don't go underneath the stencil and then I will add a picked raspberry only at the bottom of the letters. Of course you can have the contrast even more, the colors that I'm using here are very close to one another so I will have a very soft and smooth gradient result. I will peel off the stencil and see the result and I absolutely love the soft look that I got. Of course you can use any color combo that you like and you can even have each letter colored differently. Now I went ahead and cut out tiny little flowers and leaves I used dies that I had on my stars and I will also use a tool set by Tonic Studios. This is a lovely set that you can use to add some dimension on paper flowers but if you don't have such tools you can always use a mouse pad and just the back of a pencil or the back of a brush. Now I'm going to add some dimension just by going all around the flowers. These are going to curl up and with a tinier tool I'm going to poke only at the center. Now I have also cut out tiny little flowers in white and I'm just going to make a combination of those two, the yellows and the whites and I'm going to stick one inside the other. You can do any color combination that you like or if you have ready paper flowers you can use those as well. And I'm sure you all have tiny dies in your stars that you can use to decorate a lovely Mother's Day card. In Greece we celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May. I know it is different in different parts of the world but in any case I'm sure it is in spring so a lovely Mother's Day card with flowers on top I think it's perfect. And you see I'm using the same tools to add some dimension on the tiny little flowers and now I'm ready to stick everything on top of my card. I'm going to stick my three flowers along the line for that I'm using my Nouveau de Luxe glue and I'm also going to tuck underneath the flowers a couple of leaves for each of the flowers. Now again I'm using my Nouveau de Luxe glue but if you can see those tiny flowers that I have cut out have a tiny little stem which is making it more difficult for me so I'm going to chop it off with my scissors and now it's easier to place it under there. I will repeat the same process for all the flowers, just two leaves for each one of them and I think this little detail makes it cuter, it adds more dimension which is something that I love, I think it makes my cards look more special. For my sentiment I went with I love you that I have white embossed on a piece of pink card stook and I just die cut it with one of those banner dies and my card base is made out of this pink card stook and now I'm going to finish it off by adding three crystal gems at the center of my flowers just to add some extra bling. It's a design that is super easy to recreate, make it in your mom's favorite colors, here are some close-up photos on the card that I made for today, don't forget this is part of a blog hop with lots of giveaways and inspirations so make sure to go to my blog. I hope that you had fun today that you got inspired, thank you all for watching and I'll see you all next time.