It is nice to be back in the craft room. We just finished making Easter cards, and it is time to make Mother’s Day cards. Today’s card is the first card of my mother’s day series. Mother’s day cards are hard for me to make since my mother is not here to receive one. To get me in the mood to make mother’s day cards, I have to focus on the great mothers I have met. 

Material:

Card stock white and light pink

A small piece of dark pink card stock

Inks in green, yellow, pink, dark pink, and black

A floral spread with match die

A Gateway die

A label die

A Sentiment

Glue

Foam tape

A die cutting machine

I encourage you to use the materials you have.

Steps:

1. Take an 8 1/2′ by 11′ piece of card stock and cut it down to 5 1/2′ by 10′.
2. Run the pink card stock through a cutting machine with the gateway die on each end.
3. Clean up the pieces that the die-cut out and fold the two ends.
4. Cut the 8 1/2′ by 11′ white card stock in half and then cut the halves into 4 1/4′ by 5 1/2.
5. Run one of the white card stock through a die cutting machine with the matching floral die.
6. Line the other white card stock under the piece of card stock you just cut out.
7. Make some pencil marks so you will know where to stamp the floral image.
8. Remove the cutout piece and stamp the floral stamp.
9. Now add your inks to a block or your workspace and add a little water to it.
10. Color the stamped image with the ink mixture to give it a watercolor look.
11. Attach the stamp image to the gateway card base.
12. On the back of the cutout piece of card stock, add doubled foam tape to raise the cutout over the stamped image.
13. Stamp a sentiment onto a piece of dark pink card stock.
14. Run the stamped sentiment through the die cutting machine with a label die.
15. Attach the sentiment label to the front of the card base with two color gems.

Here another look at the card we just made.