• Wildflowers for Mother

Wildflowers for Mother

Inside detail shown above.

This delicate card designed by Debbie Olson is sure to be treasured. Debbie makes use of a variety of great card-crafting techniques, including using watercolor crayons to ink a rubber stamp and a sewing machine to add texture and attach an image. This card is sure to inspire you!

Design by Debbie Olson

Materials

• Cardstock: ivory, spring green
• Fleuriste 8 x 8-inch Paper Pad
• Ivory envelope to fit a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2-inch card
• Stamp sets: Silhouette Blooms I, Pond Life, Father Knows Best
• Ink pads: gray fine-detail, light brown distress
• Watercolor crayons
• Glitter pens
• Acrylic flat-back stones: 2 pink, 1 green
• 14 inches 1/4-inch-wide ivory silk ribbon
• Wizard Tags Trio dies (#S3-148)
• Die-cutting machine
• Sandpaper
• Corner rounder
• 1/4-inch hole punch
• Sewing machine with ivory thread
• Adhesive foam tape
• Paper glue

Form a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2-inch side-folded card from ivory cardstock; round upper and lower right corners. Cut a 4 1/8 x 5 3/8-inch rectangle from printed paper; cut a 4 1/8 x 2-inch strip from another printed paper. Place paper strip on rectangle 3/4 inch above bottom edge; using zigzag stitches, machine-sew strip to rectangle. Set aside.

Mist floral stamp with water and then add color to stamp with watercolor crayons. Mist stamp lightly once more and stamp onto a 2 1/4 x 4 1/4-inch piece of ivory cardstock. Ink edges light brown; distress edges. Accent flowers with glitter pens.

Adhere image to spring green cardstock; trim a small border and distress edges. Machine-sew randomly along edges of ivory rectangle. Punch a 1/4-inch hole near bottom of rectangle on each side of floral image; thread ribbon through holes. Adhere rectangle to left side of paper rectangle using foam tape. Wrap ribbon around rectangle and tie a bow on right side; trim ribbon ends. Round upper and lower right corners of rectangle; adhere to card front.

Adhere acrylic stones to upper right area of card front. Die-cut a small tag from ivory card stock; stamp "HAPPY Mother's day" on tag with gray ink. Tie tag onto ribbon bow with string; trim excess string. Secure tag with adhesive.

Use gray ink to stamp a sentiment inside card. In the same manner as for card front, stamp a small portion of floral image underneath sentiment.

Decorate envelope as desired.

Sources: Cardstock from Papertrey Ink and Prism Papers; printed papers from Cosmo Cricket; Silhouette Blooms I stamp set from Cornish Heritage Farms; Pond Life and Father Knows Best stamp sets from Papertrey Ink; fine-detail ink pad from Tsukineko Inc.; distress ink pad from Ranger Industries Inc.; Dew Drops acrylic stones from The Robin's Nest; dies and die-cutting machine from Spellbinders Paper Arts.

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