Your Friendship is a Gift from God

The closer it gets to Mother's Day, the more I think about the many women I know who deserve a Mother's Day card for a variety of reasons. I know two mothers who may be sad on Mother's Day because their older children have reached that stage of independence where they've moved out of the house in rebellion and treat their mothers like dirt - so sad, but true. I know they won't be receiving cards from those children for Mother's Day. This card is for one of them. Most cards sing the praises of motherhood and most mothers love that. But when the pain is recent and deep, I fear that some of those platitudes only rub salt in the wound. So I'm sending a special friendship card for that day, because they can know that our friendship is true. I want the recipient of this card to know how glad I am to have her as a Christian friend and that God heals wounds.

I was attracted to the sketch this week at Sketchy Colors. I thought it would work well with my image from Clear Dollar Stamps that I colored with Copics.  The flower image comes from the set "Spring Trimmings" and the sentiment comes from "Christian Friendship." To accompany the flower basket, I used papers from Basic Grey's Oh, Baby Girl and Graphic 45's Secret Garden.

 

 

I used the following Copic markers to color the image:

E21, E34, E43

BV02, BV04, B95, BG78

YG23, YG63, Y21

N0 

 

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:

All Sorts #205 - sparkle (CTMH blue/green sparkle collection)

Clear It Out - anything goes / stash item: use two or more pattened papers

Cutie Pie Challenge #43 - lots of layers

Love to Create #64 - for a mom or special lady

Marker Pop #22 - May Flowers (colored with Copic markers)

Order of the Opus Gluei #156 - Bouquet for you

Sketchy Colors #162 - sketch

Whoopsi Daisy - for a special lady

2 Sisters #142 - Bingo (bottom row across: die cut, sentiment, flowers )