Fancy Mother's Day Card

Here is the fancy card I made for my mom

for Mother's Day this year !

Inspired in part by one seen in an

Anna Griffin advertisement. 

Note: This is a bulky card and would require

extra postage for a bubble wrap envelope with extra

padding around the flowers to mail.

The flowers were made with the new Spiral Flower die,

Triple Layer Flower punch and Scallop Circle punch,

 all from Stampin' Up!

The leaves are a portion of a flower punch cut off

and the the two larger multi leaf pieces were from the 

Two Step Bird punch and Leaves die, also from Stampin' Up!

Pink Pirouette and Mellow Moss card stocks

sponged with Blushing Bride and Always Artichoke inks.

The hand made paper flowers could easily be replaced by store bought,

 premade artificial flowers.

Sorry, I did not take step by step photos of the process 

of making the flowers.

Tutorials can easily be found online for 

all sorts of handmade paper flowers.

(I might even have one elsewhere on my blog!).

The pink embossed lacy pieces were created with the

Delicate Designs embossing folder and coordinating Large Scallop Edge die

 from Stampin' Up!

The white pieces are some of the many scraps cut off of

the bottoms of premade eyelet Thank You cards

I repurposed into Thank You cards for Veterans

on an Honor Flight a couple of years ago. 

You could easily substitute pieces paper punched with border punches.

With so many designs available, think of the possibilities:

snowflakes for holiday cards, birthday cards and more !

Change the greeting to coordinate with the punched pieces.

Sentiment was computer generated.

Unfortunately my color ink has dried up,

I rarely use it, so I couldn't print it in pink.

It pops more in the black anyway.

Tulip Border embossing folder around the edge

of the white layer is from Stampin' Up!

I thought about going over the raised portions 

with some light pink chalk........ but was afraid I may ruin it 

now that it was assembled !

Notice that I cut a slit in the center of the top fold

to run the ribbon through so I could wrap it around 

all the layers of the front of the card then

tie it into a bow. 

This is how it looked before adding the flowers.

I couldn't decide if I wanted to add them or not.....

really happy I did !

Stamp image is from All Year Cheer 2 stamp set by Stampin' Up!

Die cut scallop rectangle, Nestabilities die

ink sponged around white rectangle cut with a paper timmer

7/8" satin pink ribbon

pop dots/dimensionals

This is a time consuming card,

especially making the flowers from scratch,

but our Moms are worth it =)

Thanks for looking and 

Happy Mother's Day !