Mother's Day Cards with an Old-Fashioned Flair

Happy Monday everyone!

Mother's Day is such a perfect day to pay tribute to moms everywhere -- with beautiful spring colors, gorgeous flowers and all things feminine! Today I'm featuring a couple of cards I made from Deena's Cocoa/Treat Envelope - Mom that really captures the essence of Mother's Day.

I printed this downloadable on white cardstock and then cut out the front and back of the envelope to use them on my cards. I love the colors in this downloadable -- so soft and pretty.

One of my goals this year was to make better use of my craft room supplies. I have a large supply of fabric squares that were given to me, and because I don't sew it's been a challenge to make use of them. Well today's cards presented the perfect opportunity to do so. This image is amazing without much embellishment but it looks great with the fabric square background. I simply stapled the fabric to a piece of cardboard and then glued that to the card. I then adhered the image onto the fabric panel and decorated it with a metallic embellishment.

I did the same with the second image and added a flower and "Happy Mother's Day" tag. I think the patterned fabric gives these cards an old-fashioned flair which is so sweet and charming for Mother's Day.

While I didn't use this downloadable as an envelope, I like the versatility of it. And, with one downloadable, I was able to make two cards!

I hope I've given you some inspiration when it comes to working with downloadable images. Please visit the Ewe-N-Me Printables website for this and more great images.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Beth

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Mother's Day Cards

This file is so cute, that I just had to play with it and for a change, I didn't do an invitation to tea.
You can find this file here.  You get 2 tea bag envelopes per page and you can print as many as you need.



 

I made 2 different but kind of the same cards.

 

 

The papers are all from DCWV. I cut the card, clipped the corners and added a piece of yellow ribbon to the fold side. The scalloped circle is a Spellbinder's die, I put the envelope on top of the circle. The envelope if perfect for slipping in a sample of your favorite tea to share with the recipient.

 

 

I decided to make this one a shaker card so I cut out the front part of the envelope and put the rest aside to use another day.

 

I put a couple of layers (scraps) under the shaker element and added a hat from plumpurdy.com which I stamped onto watercolor paper using StazOn ink. I colored it with watercolor pencils and did a fussy cut, adding it to the corner of the shaker element. To be honest, the hat was an after thought, I had been doing some experimenting and it was one of my useable experiments and still sitting in my work area.

 

I managed to use all scraps for both cards, but my scrap pile doesn't seem to have gone down very much. All of the papers are from DCWV's, "Flower Shower Spring Stack".

 

Thank you for stopping by to take a look.

 

Sue

www.suek86401.blogspot.com