Happy Mother's Day

To all of the Mothers that are reading this, I hope you've had a great day :)

I'll start with a layout I think this evening (which is a lovely evening here may I add, Mum and Dad are just outside finishing off from their productive day gardening and it's still a lovely temperature outside).
For this LO I have used the Sketchy Thursdays sketch and Emilie's colour challenge #4. I seem to be doing only LO based on sketches at the mo, since Mum's been part of blog land we've both stumbled across loads of lovely challenges. I might have to take a break from sketches soon, as I'm worried that I wont be able to scrap without a sketch soon!!
Anyway, here is my LO.

I'm really pleased with it. I loved the colour combination Emilie gave us but was stuck as to which photos to use with it. I'm glad I settled with these, the colours suit a grungy masculine page. I've taken a lot of inspiration for this page from this blog. I absolutely love her work and realised that the reason I loved her most recent page was the black mat behind each piece of paper, so that's what I've attempted here and I think it's worked well :)
Here's a few close ups.

Here's the sketch and colour scheme I've used.

I hope you like it.

Now, onto Mother's day.

I had great fun making Mum's card earlier this week, I would've posted it earlier but I never know when she's peeking on here. I was really pleased with the card, and she loved it which is always the most important thing.

I stippled around two hearts with Tim Holtz distress inks (I love those inks :D), then tied some bakers twine around the card and added the sentiment and button. The templates/stencils I had used for the hearts looked too good to throw away once I'd finished this card, so I used them on another. I made this card into an Anniversary card as I don't send many valentine cards so thought it'd be more use as an Anniversary card.

At my Rangers group, we made marzipan fruits for Mothers day and decorated a glass bowl for them to go in. I ran the Marzipan fruits evening, as even though I haven't tried marzipan fruits before I've worked with marzipan. The evening went really well and I was very pleased with my results.

Even though the hour and a bit we spent making them wasn't enough to make many, those that I did make I was really pleased with. they looked great in their little bowl.

Here is a compilation of photos of the individual fruits. I was pleased with the clementine and apple the most :)

Hope you all have a great evening and thanks for popping by. It's our last week at school this week and then we are off for 2 and a bit weeks for Easter, which will be lovely :)

Bye for now, Hannah :)