A Morning of Making Cardstock Flowers with Mom...plus a Mother's Day Card...without Mom!!

This morning I showed my mom how to make cardstock flowers.  We used the Cricut Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge and paper from Me & My Big Ideas Specialty Cardstock and Pressed Petals Tropical Life cardstock pack.  The flowers were cut ranging in size from 3-5 inches and glued together using a hot glue gun.  We then added floral wire stems.  I plan to make more of these to decorate for Memorial Day at the cemetery were my grandparents are buried....as it is tradition in the south to decorate the cemetery on what we call "Decoration Day".  I have a link on an earlier blog (see archive: February) to a YouTube video that demonstrates how to make these flowers. 

This weekend, I also created a Mother's Day card.  I found these nice, little, chipboard embellishments appropriate for Mother's Day (they came from a seasonal chipboard collection that can be found at Hobby Lobby).  I used layered red cardstock with print cardstock from the Wild Asparagus pad from My Mind's Eye.  I used a scrap of brown ribbon from a box of chocolates I had received as a recent gift and I also glitzed up the card with some red sequins.  I used the Cricut Spring Holiday Cards cartridge to cut the background for the card (cut at 6 inches) and I also made small 2 inch and 2.5 inch backgrounds and layered them for my "Wishing You A Very" embellishments.  I finished the card off with some matching brown, metal brads.....Hope you like the card and the flowers.....now I am off to eat lunch with mom.

Gardening Time!!

I love to work in my garden just about as much as I love to work in my craft room!  The warm weather the last few days has found me playing in the dirt.  Just this afternoon, my garden was plowed by my wonderful father-in-law and I was able to plant some seeds.  I started with just a few lettuce, radish, and carrot seeds but ended up planting two rows of onions and a row of red potatoes!  I also sprinkled a few beans in the dirt.....I know its a little early so I didn't want to put out too many beans (still a danger of frost until late April)!! Anyway, back to my most recent card.  I incorporated my love of gardening into this birthday card and hopefully the recipient will find great enjoyment from it!  I used a precut, cream-colored card and cut a piece of brilliant blue scrapbook paper to fit the front.  I then used my recently purchase Serenade and Mother's Day Bouquet Cricut cartridges to cut the flower pot and overlay(3 inches) and the leaves(2 inches).  The overlay for the flower pot is made from paper from the DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack.  This pad has 180 sheets of the most bright and cheery 12X12 scrapbook paper.  I used some jute twine to create my ribbon and bow. I used Glue Dots to adhere my flower pot to the card, but was careful not to glue the top of the pot.  This allowed me to insert my seed packet so that the recipient would have no trouble removing it. The seed packet fits just snugly enough that it won't fall out.  I found the diecut stamp in my Martha Stewart School Days Multimedia pad.  I used a single-hole punch and adhered it to the jute.  The tiny glitzy butterfly is one of those little objects that I had "saved for later" and I thought it looked very nice for this card.  The inside of the card includes a nice little stamped message.  The stamp was found in one of those wonderful dollar bins at Michael's.  Hope this card puts in you in the mood for some gardening......Have a great week!  Patty