Colorful Flower Punchout Card Line Gemstone Mother’s Day Card

Step 1: I took a piece of white cardstock and cut to 4 ¼” x 11”.  I took my scoreboard and scored down the center and folded card in half to measure 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  I took a piece of black cardstock and cut a piece to 4 x 5 ¼”.  I took a piece of white cardstock and cut to 3 ¾” x 5”.

Step 2: I took the white piece I just cut and grabbed my cuttlebug.  I used a thinlit metal flower die (unknown brand) and determined where I wanted my flowers to be.  I used a pencil and marked where each flower was and cut out using the die and cuttlebug.

Step 3: I took several scrap pieces of cardstock (sun yellow, true blue, candy pink, lime green) and cut a small square to go under each flower cutout on the white piece of paper.

Step 4: I took the black piece of cardstock and using double-sided adhesive tape added to the white cardstock card base.  I took the white cardstock and placed ontop of the card and determined where I needed to place each color square.  I adhered the color pieces to the black cardstock using double-sided adhesive tape.  I then took the white cardstock piece with flower the cutouts and adhered to the card using double-sided adhesive tape.

Step 5: I took a 02 black micro pigma pigment pen and a t-ruler and created the horizontal lines that go through each of the flower cutouts.

Step 6: I used Queen & co. rhinestones (pretty in pink, purple, yellow, mint green, and baby blue) and added to the lines.

Step 7: I took Stickles in black diamond and created a center for each flower.

Step 8: I printed out a poem with my printer and trimmed to fit the inside of the card and applied using double-sided adhesive tape.

 

Purple Flower Happy Mother’s Day Card

Step 1: I took a piece of purple cardstock and cut to 10” x 6 ½”.  I took my scoreboard and scored the center line so the card would be 5” x 6 ½”. I took a white piece of cardstock and cut it to 4 ½” x 6”.

Step 2: I took the white piece of cardstock I just cut and found the center and drew a very light pencil line.  The top half I took my hero arts floral filigree stencil and applied the design using a Versamark ink pad.  I covered the embossing ink with ranger puff embossing power in purple and set with a heat tool.

Step 3: I took some twine and cut enough to wrap around the card three times.  I colored the twine using Lindy’s starburst spray in tea pot purple. I took one white prima flower from the innocence 2 package and also colored it in Lindy’s starburst spray in tea pot purple.  I assisted the drying time by using a heat tool.

Step 4: For the bottom half of the white cardstock I stamped my saying.  I used Technique Tuesday say it happy stamps and used the mother’s day stamp and stamped it in Colorbox violet pigment ink and a stamping block.  The word happy I hand wrote using a Crazeart colored pencil in pretty plum.

Step 5: I took the white cardstock and wrapped the twine around three times and adhered on the backside using double-sided adhesive tape.  I glued the prima flower using quickdry glue. I adhered that white cardstock to the purple card base using double-sided adhesive tape.

Step 6: I printed out a poem with my printer and trimmed to fit the inside of the card and applied using double-sided adhesive tape.

 

Merry Christmas Cardinal Card

Step 1: I took red cardstock and measured 9” x 6” and cut.  I folded the card in half so it measures 4 ½” x 6”. I took some gray cardstock and wooden image cardstock.  I cut the gray cardstock to 4 ¼” x 3 ½”.  I cut the wooden image cardstock to 4 ¼” x 3 ½”. I adhered using tacky glue.

Step 2: I took a leaf branch stencil I have and stenciled the image onto the gray cardstock using forest moss Distress ink pad.

Step 3: I created the cardinal using the winter wonderland Cricut cartridge.  I distressed the edges of the cardinal using fired brick Distress ink pad. 

Step 4: I cut out the label for the Merry Christmas saying using the Sweetheart/Amoureaux Cricut Cartridge.  The saying is from Hampton Art/Janet Dunn 2010 Merry Christmas stamp set and was stamped using Staz-on jet black ink.

Step 5: the snow on the card was created using my homemade modeling paste.

Merry Christmas Ornament Die Cut Card

Step 1: I took beige cardstock and cut 9” x 6” and folded in half so the card measures 4 ½” x 6”.

Step 2: I took the polka dot cardstock from My Minds Eye Vintage Christmas Cardstock and cut to 4 ¼” x 5 ¾”. I took another piece of beige cardstock and cut that to 4” by 5”.  I took my inkadinkado mini snowflake stamps and stamped a background of snowflakes using Distress Ink Pad in faded jeans.

Step 3: I took some beige cardstock and my Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval Bliss Dies and using my cuttlebug cut out the oval.  I took a strip of the beige cardstock and using my Merry Christmas stamp from Tim Holtz Simple Sayings Word Stamp set I stamped the saying in Distress Ink peeled paint.

Step 4: I took some red florist wire and my embossing tool and poked a hole in the saying and tied the wire.  I adhered the wire to the back of the polka dot cardstock before adhereing down with tacky glue.

Step 5: I cutout the ornament using beige and brown cardstock and my gingerbread Cricut Cartridge.  I used the same snowflake stamps and faded jeans ink and stamped the images all over the beige ornament cutout.  I adhered using dimensional dots and used red florist wire to hang the ornament.

Step 6: I adhered cranberry stickles around the oval and to the snowflakes on the ornament.

Merry Christmas Button Ornament Card

Step 1: I took some beige cardstock and cut to 9’ x 6’.  I folded the card in half the long way.  I sprayed the cardstock with blazing sun glitz spritz by Lindy’s.

Step 2: I stamped the Merry Christmas saying in distress ink pad black soot.  The stamp is from Tim Holtz Stamper Anonymous Simple Sayings stamp set.

Step 3: I took some buttons in red and green and adhered using tacky glue.  I took my pigment pen in black and drew the strings for the ornaments.

Merry Christmas Heart Tree Card

Step 1: I took a piece of white cardstock and cut to 9” x 6” and folded in half to create a card that measures 4 ½” x 6”.

Step 2: I took green cardstock and cut out hearts using the Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge.  I took the mowed lawn distress ink marker and added some dots on the hearts.  I used a pencil to determine the placement of the hearts to create the tree.  I adhered using tacky glue.  I added some silver queen and co. rhinestones, one red rhinestone and a red ribbon.

Step 3: The sentiment is from Tim Holtz simple sayings word stamps and I stamped the Merry Christmas saying in distress ink pad mowed lawn. The planter for the tree was drawn using mowed lawn distress marker.

Merry Christmas Ribbon Tree Card

Step 1: I took some white cardstock and measured 9” x 6” and folded in half so the card measures 4 ½” x 6”.  I took some brown cardstock and cut a piece to 4 ½” x 6”.

Step 2: I took the brown cardstock and stamped Merry Christmas with my Hampton art stamp and staz-on jet black ink.  I took white ribbon and adhered using adhesive tape.  I wrapped the back of the ribbon to the back of the brown cardstock.

Step 3: I took another piece of brown cardstock and free-handed the tree outline and cut out with an exacto knife.  You can also use your cricut/a punch or die cut.

Step 4: I added red queen and co rhinestones to the tree for ornaments.  The gold star was made using gold star stickers and I layered 6 together.  I also heat embossed the star with gold embossing powder.