I love you mom

Today's my husband's birthday and I took the day off to be with him.  We hope to also celebrate with a get together tomorrow.  Let's celebrate life!

 But don't have anything related to his bday to show you today... don't wanna ruin the surprise for him.  I'm sharing another Mother's Day card I haven't shown.  It's the one my husband chose for my mother in law.  I used several patterned papers to end up with multiple layers I just loved.

I first covered the base with two different patterned papers.

Then used this same paper to stamp the image and sentiment and also a piece from the other side.

Placed them like this and also added stamped lace in vellum.  Love the effect of the stamped vellum and specially in this stamp to simulate lace.

Then added the big butterfly, flowers and pearls.  Very delicate and feminine.

Hope you love it as much as my husband loved it for his mom.

I am going to link this to Unity Stamp Co.'s Friday Friends with Flair... so leave a comment for the opportunity to win beautiful stamps.

Friday - MAMI layout

Happy weekend!  It is officially Friday!  Let's party!!!!  LOL.

Hope you have a wonderful time!

For today's Friday Friends with Flair I am going to show you a layout that was published at the "Papeles y Más" magazine.  It is dedicated to my mom, since we are already in May... I guess it is very appropriate.  Mother's Day is coming up soon.

I used several stamps as main elements in the page.  This bird in the close up here for example...  I stamped the image in the paper and part of the photo, and separately with pink ink in cardstock and cut to place on it and create some dimension.

These delicate hearts also stamped directly on paper in different ink colors and added pearls to simulate they are hanging.

The sentiment in vellum and the hexagons distributed for balance, are also stamped.

I hand-wrote my journaling at left, aligned with ribbon... It says:  Mom has always been a strong woman, willing to fight to go forward.  God bless her!.

Hope you liked it...   Go find it in the magazine.  This magazine is getting better and better in every edition...  Don't miss it.

(Note:  In the magazine, there was an error, and my friend Anya Lynet, from Maia Ink, was mentioned as the author of this layout.  Hope she doesn't mind.  I don't.  Have you seen some of her work?  Check it out HERE.)

Car Nightmare

Isn't it a nightmare when you go to buy a car? Not necessarily, I know... It could be a little stressful when gathering information to make the right choice according to budget and needs... but it should also be fun. And when you finally have decided to buy the car, then you should be happy, don't you?

Well... my mom has had a horrible experience. She went for a used car because she cannot pay a high monthly debt, so after some research, she bought a used car. Then the very first week she had problems with it and had to return it to the dealer...

Long story short... she has been given about 5 cars as replacement in the last two months while the dealer "fix" the car she bought and she has been paying to the bank.... What a nightmare...

Finally, after some fights... she ended up with a new car, and a debt I'm not really sure how she will be able to pay... :(... what a crazy end!

Anyway... it's a stressful situation... and I admit I can sometimes be unhelpful, since when she tell me about these things I also get frustrated and would love to help, but you know... there are some things I cannot decide for her. So it's been tough...

And since finally she has her car, that hopefully won't give her any problems, I made her this card...

The card can look kind of childish, but knowing her... she'll love it! Since she has had several cars of different colors lately, I cut these from "Graphically Speaking" cartridge, with the Cricut Expression.

The road is totally handmade paper piecing... I did want to have the childish look for her...

And the sentiment means "Smile". And I have to say... she's awesome... Even though she has struggled in all this process... she's always smiled and made fun about the fact that she has had more cars than anyone else in such a short amount of time!!!! LOL!

Have you had a bad experience when buying a car? How about a house, or maybe any other simple article that you've had to return endlessly? Tell me about it friend... be imperfect and tell me... :)