Butterfly Mom

I was browsing my local Pat Catan’s, which had a bunch of embossing folders on clearance and when I came across the wildflower one for $0.50, I couldn’t pass it up.

As for the butterfly reveal wheel add-on, I was purchasing something else and just decided to throw it on my order to reach the free shipping limit. Who knew that these two spontaneous purchases would pair together so nicely.

The color scheme was ultimately decided by the gold foiled blue paper I found in one of my Hot Buy paper pads from Michaels.

From there I added the scripty “Happy” I cut out using my Scan ‘N Cut and colored it with a coordinating Copic marker. I used the same Copic marker to color the blue banner as well.

I used white cardstock in the embossing folder, layered it onto a rectangle of the gold foiled patterned paper, and adhered it to a black A2 card base.

I used “Mother’s Day” from Lawn Fawn’s Happy Happy Happy stamp set and heat embossed it onto a black banner under the “Happy”. All of the banners were cut using Lawn Fawn Everyday Sentiment Banner dies.

I die cut some of the butterflies out of gold foil cardstock to match the patterned paper and bent the wings up.

To finish the card, I ended up popping up the "Happy" sentiment and covering it with clear wink of Stella for some extra shimmer .

Thanks for stopping by!

-Jenni

Watercolor Flowers

I took a watercolor class from Kristina Werner online in July of 2018 and decided to use some of my practice paintings on these Mother’s day cards.

Because of the size of the flowers, the card sizes are not in the typical A2 format. I didn’t want to cut off parts of the flowers, so they turned out quite large.

I started by cutting out the words “Mom” and “Grandma” from 110 lb. black cardstock with my Scan ‘N Cut in a scripty brush font.

Then I looked through my dies for some large shapes that would look nice cut out of vellum. I chose a large heart from Studio Katia and a stitched scalloped oval from Mama Elephant. I added an adhesive sheet to a sheet of vellum and cut out the heart and oval. I used the negative of the diecut vellum and cut down them down to the sizes of the card fronts.

I layered those onto a combination of black and pink cardstock and the very last step was adding black rhinestones and pearl embellishments.

I just love how these turned out.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Jenni

Clean & Simple Mother's Day

These Mother’s day cards are made up of subtle white diecut backgrounds and bright colored images.

I stamped the flower, stem, vase images from the Stampendous stamp set Bouquet for You onto some Canson watercolor paper, and used Zig cleancolor real brush markers to color them.

For the backgrounds I used Lawn Fawn’s Quilted Backdrop and Lil Inker Designs Stitched So Sunny background dies. I added some light pink cardstock to create a slight border to one of the cards and a tablecloth to the other using Lawn Fawn Lacy Borders.

Lil Inker Designs Quilted Stitched So Sunny Die

For this one, I thought it needed a little something more because it seemed to be just floating there. Adding a sentiment to the light yellow tag looked better to me, I felt like it balanced out the green leaves on the other side of the vase.

Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop

When assembling the flower images onto the vases, I used foam tape to pop up the flowers in front. After that I attached the card panels to the corresponding card bases.

The owl image is from Lawn Fawn’s Mom+Me stamp set, colored on 65 lb. Recollections cardstock with alcohol markers.

For the focal panel, I die cut a circle out of some bright blue cardstock, previously embossed with some stitched clouds. I also cut the same circle out of some green cardstock and then ran that through the die cutter with a Lawn Fawn stitched border die to create the ground. I pieced the sky and the ground together onto a Sizzix scalloped circle I cut out of pink cardstock. Before I attached the colored image, I die cut some small clouds and added them behind the owls.

Lil Inker Designs Quilted Stitched Pattern Die

I used Lil Inker Designs Quilted Stitched Pattern Die for the background and matted it onto the pink cardstock to leave a 1/16” border. I also die cut a small bow and ½” strip out of the pink cardstock to place towards the bottom of the card.

I popped up the focal piece with fun foam using an ATG gun, completing the card front. I then attached the whole thing to a 5 9/16” x 4 5/16” card base.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Jenni