Mother's Day Card

Mother's Day is that special day where we get to show our mothers how very important they are to us and how better to show that, than to make the card yourself! I can't tell you the last time I bought a greeting card in the store. I love all the different ways to make cards!
 My sisters and I used to make them years ago, when stamping first became popular. These days, there is so many new tools and gadgets,  and I want them all! Of course, that isn't going to happen, so, I just have to use what I have!
So this Mother's Day, I made cards for my mom and my mother in law. I used a stamp that I have had for many years , Iris. I stamped it on water color paper using Staz-on ink pad.

Once I had the card stamped, I colored it using the Stamping' Up water color pencils and blending pens. This allows you to  have a gentle blend in your colors. 

I then, placed the card on the Cricut cutting mat. Now in order to know where the letters were going to fall, I used a scrap piece of paper the same size as my card, moved the cutting blade part way down the card and cut it. When I was happy with the placement of the letters, I cut them on my card. 

 After removing the card front from the Cricut mat, I used Tom-Bow glue and mounted it to my card stock. I choose a shade of purple that matched as close to the flower color as possible.

 You can see here, that now the word MOM is cut out, I lined up the "O" and filled in the center.

 Now with the positive letters, I placed small pieces of 3M double stick mounting tape to the back side. I want the card to have a little dimension, but not be super obvious!

 I could have left the card like this, and it still would have been loved by both of the mom's!

 This is the end result of the letters, you still see the whole stamp and the beauty of it, but mom is there, blending in! Try this technique on some of the cards you are making.


Put a little homespun and comfort in your projects!