tiddly inks challenge #48 mother's day flair

i haven't posted anything in the last several days. but it doesn't mean that i haven't been crafting. i have made a several scrapbook LO which i will post at a later date & i have been trying to figure out what to make for this week's TI challenge. we had to make a mother's day card with a shabby chic or vintage feel. and christy made this cute image that got my wheels spinning.

my problem is that i am not much of a doilly kinda of person. but vintage these days means anything over 20 years old. if i go to a consignment shop i could see stuff from the 80's & they call that vintage. or i am driving & i see a pinto with a vintage license plate. WHAT?!

so i ran with these two ideas made

do you remember the books that photos used to come in? do you remember posing & mom saying "oh i don't know if i took that right. or oh i forgot to take the flash bulb off. one more. PERFECT...hopefully." well i remember those days. & i remember when the photo place would stamp the date on the side of the photo. 

so for this card i used some kraft paper for the card. i used some hamptom arts stamps (on clearance at michael's) for the camera, sentiment, & date/place box. the doilly that i used was cut from a memory box die.(i figured out how to fit one in.)  i then used happy Q as the poor girl who had to continue to pose for the picture. i colored her with my copics. then i scanned her into my computer & took a photo of a part of the great wall of china that i got off of google images & photoshopped them. i blurred the first photo. the second had an over exposure & the third was perfect.

but then i got another idea

i used a crafty me stamp & embossed it on the card. i used distress inks to bring out the embossing. then i took a piece of corrugated cardboad & used some distress inks. then i used my cricut to cut out the hearts. i think that it came from lovestruck. on the hearts i added stickles & liquid pearls. next i stamped the compass from tim holtz. i distressed it & used some crackle medium. then i used love map and going swimming. i didn't do anything to the map & colored going swimming with copics. i used glossy accents on the inner tube & some stickles in the water. inside i wrote,

"thank you for being my compass as i navigate through life & for being my lifesaver when the waters got too rough."

i like them both. which one do you like more?

have a great scrapbooking weekend!!! & to all the moms, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!