Tag: Mother’s Day card

Flowers for Sparkles Monthly!

Hello friends!  I hope that you’re enjoying this month so far!  The weather has really started to warm up now and it’s been nice and sunny to be outside.  I have so many projects that I’m working on, so my blog has been a bit neglected lately.  I will be able to share with you all of the things that I’ve been working on later…but for now, let’s talk about flowers!

Today starts a new challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and this time it’s my turn to pick a theme and I have chosen “FLOWER(S)”  for this month.  Flowers seem to work for so many occasions which is why I chose it.  Here’s the project that I came up with:

I needed a card for Mother’s Day this last weekend, so I thought I’d pull out my stash of die cut flowers from Taylored Expressions and create several pieces in different colors to place inside my wheel barrow.

I’ve die cut several pieces from the Fresh Cut Flowers die set in pineapple, guava, dried fig, chocolate truffle (centers) and green tea (stems and leaves).  I used the same color of ink to sponge a bit of dimension over the centers and then splattered some white Copic ink over just the flowers and the toffee background that was stamped in toffee ink with the Weathered Words Background stamp.  

I arranged all of the die cut flowers and leaves behind the Farmhouse Wheelbarrow die cut from chocolate truffle, toffee and woodgrain textured cardstock.  I also used the Building Blocks Happy Additions to white heat emboss over a piece of chocolate truffle and cut out with the coordinating die.  The toffee background was placed over an A2 sized top folding white card base and then I added a white frame die cut from the A2 Thin Frame Cutting Plate for an “anchor/ground” for the wheelbarrow to sit on.  The sentiment greeting was popped up with a foam strip and then I’ve added a few enamel dots including in the center of the wheel.

  • Thank you so much for stopping in today!  Hope you’ve enjoyed my card and that you will stop by the challenge blog to see the rest of the inspiration from the team.  I look forward to seeing what floral creations you share in the gallery with us!

Challenges:

  1. Craft Rocket – Flowers
  2. 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes with optional: Floral Delight
  3. Creative Friday – Spring
  4. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2519 Anything goes
  5. Simply Create Too – Anything for a Woman
  6. Little Red Wagon – ‘D’ is for diecut

Mother’s Day Flowers

Hello friends!  Sending a happy Mother’s Day to all of the celebrating moms this weekend!  It’s a beautiful day out today and tomorrow will be too, so I’m going out to plant some flowers that I’ve been wanting to do!   I hope that you’re having a nice weekend in whatever you’re doing.

I just wanted to share a card that I had made just for Mother’s Day:

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I love how this turned out with all of those blooms bursting out from the antique pail!  I’m in the middle of going back over some classes that I’m doing, and this was one of them that I’ve switched up to fit this occasion.   The original card had carrots as a base and I didn’t have the flower dies they used, so I made my own version with what I had.

The antique pail, flowers, leaves, bow and foiled sentiment dies all came from Taylored Expressions.  The scallop rectangle frame came from My Favorite Things and some of the design papers I’ve used came from Scrapbook.com.

The background papers and large flower came from the same pattern papers as a couple of other flowers and dark green leaves.  I used some light pink ink to sponge some of the other flowers and center of bow.  The center of the scallop frame has some light green blending, so that it wasn’t so stark white behind the flowers.  I also sponged around the antique pail.

I arranged the flowers inside the pail and turned it over to attach with glue over the center of the scallop panel.  I popped up the front flower and added some colored gem dots to the center of the flowers and bow.  I attached some mirror cardstock to the back of the scallop frame panel to match the foiled sentiment.  The sentiment was attached over the pail at the bottom.

It took a little bit of time to cut and arrange all of it, but it was fun to fiddle with.  

Thanks for taking some time to stop by and I hope you’ve enjoyed this pail of flowers for Mother’s Day!  Have a fabulous weekend whatever you do! 🌼🏵️

Challenges:

  1. Creative Inspirations – Feminine
  2. The Paper Funday – Anything Goes optional: Flower Shoppe
  3. Craft Rocket – Flowers
  4. Cardz 4 Galz – Celebration (Mother’s Day or other)
  5. My time to Craft – Mother’s Day or Friendship
  6. A Place to Start – Anything Goes optional: For a Lady
  7. Aud Sentiments – Foiling and/or Flowers + sentiment
  8. Unicorn – For the Girls
  9. Get Creative – Ladies Only