Mothers are the Best!

 Hello Everyone:  Mother's Day will be here soon - a bit earlier than I realized!  Time to get a card made for that special Mom in  your life.

One of my favorite things to do is to rummage through my scrap patterned paper file and challenge myself to make a card with the scraps.  Another favorite thing is to coordinate Creative Impressions flowers and ribbon to the colors in the scraps.  Fortunately it is quite easy to do!

I knew I wanted to pick up the pinks and blues in the paper so I chose some lovely Creative Impressions Blossoms in similar colors.  I used  Sheer Blossoms and Leaves in Pastel and Tropical (60601 and 60700) along with a small and larger Iridescent and Transparent Blossom in Tropical and Pastel (6100 and 6120)  One of the great things about using these precut shaped Blossoms  is that they come in such wonderful materials such as the Sheer and Iridescent that would be very difficult (if at all) to die cut.  These are ready to go, just add a Pastel Round Brad (90673) and you are done!

Then I stamped the sentiment from Creative Impressions polymer stamp set #4215 Mother's Day Innies and Outies onto a piece of scrap white cardstock, inked around the edges with pink ink and then matted the piece to a scrap blue cardstock.  This was set aside while I finished the rest of the card.   

I began by adhering the pieces of pattern paper to a black mat.  I punched a border from white cardstock using one of my punches.  This was adhered to the border of where the two patterned pieces met.  I then wrapped a piece of 1/2" Dot  Ribbon (70422 Aqua with Yellow) and some Mustard Thin Twine (80611) above the border.  Once finished, I adhered the whole piece onto a white card.

To finish the card, adhere the sentiment towards the bottom of the card and position the flower slightly over the top left edge of the matted sentiment piece.  Glue down the flower. (Note: the flower can also be attached to the back of the black mat before adhering to the card.  Just punch a small hole and thread the brad from the flower center through to the back. 

What could be easier.? CI's polymer stamp set has a ton of wonderful sentiments to use on your Mother's Day card.  Enjoy!