HRU and Mother's Day cards

And, finally the last Mother's Day card :) This one is kind of special one too - my oldest granddaughter and I made it together for her Mom. She really loves to come and stamp with me - especially when it comes to the glue part. LOL! She really likes glue runners - they are fascinating, aren't they?

I had die cut a bunch of white flowers with white centers before she came over to work on this card. I just love all the variation! We just hand cut the stems and she is the one who came up with the hill for them to bloom on!

The inside is probably difficult to read - but she wrote it ALL by herself - amazing for a just-turned-5 year old!! She signed her sister's name as well. LOVE YOU HRU!!

This is the card I sent to the sweetest Daughter-in-law a mom could ask for. Actually, she started the card when she was at my house in April - for her Mom and Dad's anniversary. But, my sweet grandson needed her attention - and because she has her priorities in the right places, she took care of him and said,"Another day there will be time." Love you Elly!!

I thought if she had decided on the layout and paper she liked - maybe she would enjoy receiving the card. So, I did the best I could to complete the beautiful card she had started - with just a little different theme. :)

This is a beautiful piece of DP - sage greens, browns and a little pink. I had been waiting for a good opportunity to use this great paper flower I purchased in a pack. Sorry, still on vacation - so do not have the brand name. I sponged just a little ink to give the flower the hint of pink. I layered it on a Spellbinders pinking circle and a slightly larger scallop circle. I used the EK Success mini-scallop border punch for the edge - it is so dainty. I finished the front by stamping Happy Mother's Day in chocolate brown on a Spellbinders scalloped rectangle in white and placing two pink pearls near the saying.
For the inside I made a vellum folding flower - again, TOO much work for the finished product in my opinion. I punched out the MS eyelet border in a matching pink, placed it mid-page and glued a large Spellbinders scalloped rectangle brushed with a little pink ink over the top. On the left hand side I put text again on a Spellbinders scalloped rectangle brushed with a little pink ink with a few tiny stamped flowers to keep it from being too plain on the page.

This is the card I made for my daughter - love you Anna!! She is the Mom of my two precious granddaughters - thus the two little ducklings. This is just a small piece of some older DP I had on hand. The letters are chip board that is painted with Making Memories paint and a little Ranger Distress ink. I put some matching bling on the letters. Love the Spellbinders butterfly die. I used both parts of the die and again put some bling in the wings. I used a swirl stamp to mark the flight of the butterfly. The scallop border punch is EK Success. And, amazingly I had some great glitter ribbon in my stash that matched to run along the bottom!
For the inside, I cut out two rectangles with Spellbinders scalloped rectangles and stamped Happy Mother's Day on one & wrote the saying on the other. I finished the inside with a punched section of the MS butterfly border punch and the small duck punch. Colored in the eyes and beak with Tombo markers. Added three MS square blings to give it a little sparkle.

This card was made for my precious Mom - love you Mom!! My Mom was a seamstress when I was a little girl. She made formals and wedding dresses for many young women. Till I was in high school, she made all my clothes except my underwear and jeans. She even made our winter coats - and they were beautiful. In the last 30 years she has become a master quilter. Thus this card has the sewing theme. I purchased the We R Memory Keepers tool with the scallop stitch piercer. Works great on an old piece of styrofoam. Did not have to buy the mat to go with the piercer. I also found some great DP that looks like a quilted fabric. I used the straight stitch on some of the "fabric" lines with two different shades of pink floss. Then I used the scallop piercer along the side. To add a little more color, I punched out two MS hearts and die cut a Spellbinders tag in the bright pink. I then stamped Happy Mother's Day on the tag in white craft ink and embossed it with clear powder.
On the inside I again used the Spellbinders heart circles and punched the two hearts out of the "quilt" designer paper. I used a JustRite Stamper - Stitched with Love to stay in the quilting theme. I really like that set. Mother's Day cards are FUN to make!!

Back sooner this time!!

I am actually writing this from my son's home in Washington. I have been here for 2 days and had more time to relax than I have at home - even with a sweet 6 month old grandson! He does take good naps! Today I am going to share the Mother's Day cards I made this year - several actually if I have time.

The first card I want to share is the last one I will ever have the opportunity to send my Mother-in-law. She passed from this world into heaven just days after Mother's Day. She loved the color red and roses - she even had carpet at one time with red roses on it - so I decided to make a card with red and roses.

I used my favorite deep red cardstock. I kind of got into the removable "corsage" cards for a while. Love that the "corsage" can be removed and worn by the person on their special day. For the corsage, I used the spellbinders heart circles and layered them with a 3-d folded flower made with the Sizzix Tim Holtz flower die - since I am not home, I don't have the official names of the dies. This was punched out of rose printed designer paper. The top white piece is a scalloped circle from SU. I punched holes in each of the scallops and wrote MOM on the front. Layered all the pieces with dimensional glue dots. I also used several kinds of ribbon in the "corsage." I then put it on a clasp and punched holes in the front of the card to insert the pin through until it could be worn. On the bottom of the front I layered a punched piece on white cardstock. This is a Martha Stewart large border punch that I LOVE. It is SO decorative and beautiful.

The inside was WAY more complicated. I was intrigued with the 7 petal folding flower - took me FOREVER to get it figured out. This was made out of the same rose DP used on the front. Only did this for two of my Mother's Day cards - too much work!! I layered the folding flower on the eyelet punch - also MS. Love this punch too. Added the decorative Spellbinders tag and stamped it with red ink to match. Really liked how this card turned out. My Mother-in-law did too...

A YEAR?

Yes, I cannot believe it, but it has been almost a year since I posted. WOW! Life has been complex, no doubt. I have added a precious grandson - and lost my mother-in-law. God has done this type of thing twice in my life already. The year my Dad died, my first grandchild was born. Thankful we have a God who is provident over all things! Gives us joy in the midst of sadness. SO, enough of that!

My last post was Father's Day cards 2010. Today is a Father's Day 2011 card.

I really like this card. I made it for my son-in-law. I had been looking at some of the really nice wooden sign post pieces at Archiever's - but they were $3.99 apiece. Not a chance I was going to buy that for one card. Then I came across this die cut. It is "sign post" from Sizzix. I love it! I have used it for a couple of things already. Going to have to get more jump rings though!! This card is on ivory linen cardstock. The sign is embossed with a Tim Holtz embossing folder - the wood one.

Now, I have to tell you I took the saying in this card from a great HALLMARK card I saw and modified it some. I really liked the idea. I DID put a note on the back of this card with the HALLMARK notification!!

The saying on the inside is layered on a darker piece of cardstock that was embossed with the brick pattern from the Tim Holtz collection.

Hopefully time for another post before a year is up!