Mother's Day Card and Shimelle

I recently came across an issue of Papercraft Inspirations and they had an article on making cards with flowers. One was a hyacinth made from brads and this tied in very nicely with the first prompt from Shimelle's class, to use up some metal embellishments.

I am not really a 'pink' person, though I often seem to end up making pink cards, but I have had these flower brads unused for ages in my stash supplies, along with several others! So I took inspiration from the mag' and made this card

It also uses up lots of scraps of card from my scraps box so I feel even better about using things up from the stash pile!

I would also like to enter it if possible into the challenge at Creative Craft World for the Mother's Day Challenge. My friend has just become part of the DT over there, so big Congrats to Oonie. Pop over to the blog to see the stamps you could winfor this competition and what they are all up to.

I have spent ages browsing the forum for the 'something out of almost nothing class' with Shimelle. There are so many talented scrapbookers out there and the hints/tips and designs from my fellow classmates are just as inspirational as the PDF's that the 'teacher' sends in prompts. Although the focus is on scrapbooking and layouts it is relevant for making cards too as I have shown today. It is hard for me to do any layouts at the moment as we are still out of ink! There are scrapbookers from around the world and it is just brilliant to share with so many talented people, I feel very lucky!