Flower your mother with love by making this colorful MOM card for Mother's Day! This card was inspired by this great package of flowers: Color Me Crazy by Petaloo. There are 80 flowers in the package, in 2 sizes: 1/2" and 1". The flowers all have white petals and a variety of colored jewel centers. When I bought them, I thought they had adhesive on them -- like stickers -- but they don't. So you will need to use your own adhesive, like I did. … [Read more...]
For this Mother's Day card (which could also be used as a Birthday card), I used up some star-shaped letter embellishments that I have been wanting to use. Mine are made of a thin silver metal with a hole punched in it for an eyelet. They came in a kit complete with 100 silver stars and 100 silver eyelets. You can achieve the same effect with a star punch and letter stickers -- which might actually be better, because you can make paper stars especially to match your … [Read more...]
These cards were both made using the Walk in My Garden cartridge on my Cricut Expression. Here is an excellent video describing how to use the card feature on this cartridge (thank you My Pink Stamper!): The Paper Sets The Tone For starters, let's talk about the paper used with both of these cards. I love this pink flower paper and thought it was perfect for this card style. I paired it with pink and green … [Read more...]
Mother's Day is right around the corner. Do you know what you're going to give your mom? How about a true gift from the heart? A scrapbook for mom! If you don't have time to put together an entire scrapbook, then what about devoting a 1- or 2-page layout in your own scrapbook to your mom instead? Or, you could always frame your 1- or 2-page scrapbook layout and give that to your mother as a gift. Here are some basic tips for a scrapbooker to make the perfect Mother's Day gift... … [Read more...]
What says spring more than a wheelbarrow full of flowers?! I decided to use this card as my Mother's Day card. It takes a lot of patience to work with the tiny pieces on a card like this. Thankfully, there are some tools that can help you. Here's how I made this wheelbarrow card... First, The Cover All the flowers, the sun, and the wheelbarrow were made using the Walking in My Garden cartridge from my Cricut Expression. … [Read more...]
Recipe scrapbook pages are some of the more fun pages to create in my opinion. I have several recipes that have been handed down from my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother that I've made scrapbook pages for. And doing so really stirred my creative juices! Following are some great tips for making your own recipe scrapbook pages... … [Read more...]
These 3 cards were completely inspired by the pretty flower paper that I used for the envelopes. The papers I used:Flower paper = 3 sheets, 12x12 DCWV value paper pack (from JoAnne's) All other paper = 8.5x11 cardstock from The Paper Company value packs (from Michael's) Each card is 6x6, and I made the envelopes to fit.For the embellishments:The flowers were cut on my Cricut Expression using the Walking in my Garden cartridge, daisy 2.5", with handcut … [Read more...]
This card was for a colleague who is leaving for a new job. I have now been recruited to make a card for every event in my office! I started this handmade farewell card with a 5-inch flower cut from my Cricut Expression using the Walking in my Garden cartridge. I also used the "shadow" feature to get the dark blue background. The yellow center is another cut feature. I cut the ladybug from the same cartridge at 1-inch, and the letters are 1-inch from the Plantin Schoolbook … [Read more...]
Easter is over and it's now time to think about Mother's Day cards. Fortunately, you don't need a special stamp set for these cards. Mother's Day cards can be made using any 'pretty' stamp or supplies. … [Read more...]
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