Mother's Day for My Youngest Daughter

Our family decided to celebrate Mothers' Day and Father's Day together for several reasons. . .not everyone's double COVID vaccine would be optimally effective, plus there were so many mothers to celebrate, it just seemed the best solution to make it easier on everyone!  Here's the problem. . .did I remember this particularly important fact when it came to making the cards needed for this celebration?  NO!  I had just finished my third Father's Day card when I realized I should have made three Mother's Day cards as well.  Simultaneously, I also realized that I just had no time to fit them in before the week-end!  

Not the optimum solution, but this is how I solved my dilemma with no time to make three more cards. . .  My  youngest daughter, Jackie, lives the furthest away, and therefore, not as easy to just pop over to make a belated card delivery, which was my plan for the other two.  My oldest daughter and daughter-in-law live within a 10-minute drive from me.  So, I focused on at least getting Jackie's card done and delivered at our family barbeque event.  Another reason I chose her is that Jackie will be celebrating her third Mother's Day, and I have not yet been able to spend this holiday with her as I have with the other two. 

 

Back in May when we delayed our Mother's Day celebrations, I had already decided to do a flower garden theme for all my family Moms.  I had just bought a new Mother's Day die that I was anxious to incorporate in some manner.  For Jackie's card, I decided to use some papers and florals from Stampin' Up's Made to Bloom card kit from the 2019 Occasions catalog.  One thing that I've noticed is that there haven't been many who have branched out and made other alternative designs than those provided in the original kit.  But, if you've followed me at all, you know that I just can't make the card designs provided in the kits.  I usually make alternative designs before the kit designs, and this card is no exception.

For my card front design, I love layers, so I added a Blackberry Bliss cardbase and a gold foil mat layer before adding a third layer of one of the patterned papers provided in the kit.  I added a gold foil horizontal band to anchor the kit-provided gold-edged floral bouquet, plus I ink-distressed its edges.  My finishing touch was to sprinkle on a few gems for interest.  I decided to incorporate that new Mother's Day die on the inside as the sentiment and "verse" combined...how pretty it is in the gold foil!  Take a look below at the inside and outside finished card.  I think my youngest daughter will enjoy her card.

Ingredients:  Stampin' Up products:  Made to Bloom Card Kit (2019 Occ./ retired)--BG patterned paper, Gold foil-edged flowers.  Cardstocks--Blackberry Bliss, Calypso Coral, Gold Foil.  Ink--Crumb Cake (ink distressing).  Gems--Glitter Enamel Dots.  Punch--Curvy Corner Trio (retired).  Other: Sargent Art--Acrylic Glitter Glaze (flower centers).  Papertrey Ink die--To Die for Sentiments--Happy Mother's Day die.  Size--4-3/4 x 6 inches.

A Little Happy Birthday!

I bought a kit, Made to Bloom, from the Stampin' Up 2019 Jan-Mar Mini catalog and had not opened it.  Here it is in late March 2020, and I thought it was about time.  I'm not having much mojo with the Covid-19 isolation requirements, so thought I'd try to see if kit pictures would give me any incentive.  I did find that though there were ready made pictures to follow, I was inspired to use the parts to make something totally different.  What a relief...some sort of creative mojo going on!

First of all, since I like card more closely in size to A7 (4-1/2" x 6-1/4") than the more common A2 (4-1/4" x 5-1/2"), I was able to cut the card bases, which were patterned on front and back in half, giving myself the opportunity for twice as many cards.  I used a white iridescent oval with a patterned edge creative when making a frame with an inside scalloped edge to host one of the gold foil, yellow floral die-cuts that I cut down to fit inside the oval and added blushing pink pearl embellishments.  I add a new cardbase and a Blushing Pink patterned dsp below the Calypso Coral, white flecked card front paper.  I used the same Blushing Pink pattern with double fishtails for the stamped happy birthday sentiment.  Voila, a card is completed with my own design using the card kit parts.  Take a peek below:

Ingredients:  Stampin' Up:  "Made to Bloom" Card Kit parts--Calypso Coral dsp, yellow/ foil die-cut floral (fussy cut to size).  Papers--Whisper White cardstock, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer, 2018-2020 Subtles Color Collection dsp/ Blushing Bride Lattice.  Ink--Blackberry Bliss.  Pearls (Copic-colored).  Other:  ColorBox Cat Eye--Chestnut Road ink distressed edges.  Scrap: oval negative die-cut leftover.  Size: 4-3/4" x 6".