Blossoms for Mother’s Day with Waffle Flower

 

Hello!  I just had a card sale for local friends and realized I didn’t have a lot of Mother's Day or Father’s Day cards, so I decided to add a few to the stash and started with these beautiful die cute blooms from Waffle Flower called  Painted Flowers Layering Die.  These have a really expressive beauty to them with lots of texture and layers.  I added some ink blending details on each petal, and then after I had glued/or put foam dots between the layers, I also added in some details with coloured pencil.  

I layered them on cardstock that I had ink blended with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink, splattered with water, with a little die cut circle as the “wreath” anchor.  I cut an extra blossom with the dies and chose to make a coordinating tag to go with the card.  It’s always nice when you can add something extra like that for gift packaging. 

It has a really fresh look with the pretty colour combination.  The sentiments are actually really old wood ones I had in my stash from Stampin’ Up!  I thought their simple fonts were a lovely touch for the designs.    Thanks for joining me today!  

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Blossoms for Mother’s Day with Waffle Flower

Mum

Today we have a brand new digi being released at Power Poppy!  It’s called Peony Love and it has a sweet Mother’s Day theme.  

Here in Canada like much of the world that has British ties we say Mum rather than Mom.  I don’t even know that we know we’re doing it, and we might even deny we say it that way, but we totally do :)  I call my mom - mum, always have. My kids call me Mum....ok, they drag it out and call me Moooom if they’re exasperated or something, but typically it’s Mum!  So Marcy was so sweet to create a special sentiment that has both versions of what we call our mothers for this set.  

I created a really simple design showcasing some of the single peony blooms that Marcy added to this set.  They were printed out on XPress It Blending card stock and then coloured with Inktense pencils (see I told you I was using them a lot).  I don’t think there are purple peonies, but my mum loves the colour purple....so that’s what I went with.  

I added them around the sentiment, popping a few of them up to create some dimension, and adding sequins, some purple seam binding and some twine to finish it off.  

Here’s what this beautiful digi looks like, and the alternate MUM spelling will be available as well!  

Pop on by to the Power Poppy Blog and also Cheryl and  Kathy’s blog to see more about this sweet set! 

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Mum

Flowering Branches

Oh MY...what a delicious new Instant Garden set we have to show off to you today!  

It’s brand new from Power Poppy and it’s called Flowering Branches.  It is a beauty!  One of my favourite things in the spring is to see my trees start to get blossoms.  We have a cheery tree and an apple tree and I also grew up with a crabapple tree at home.  Gorgeous!  Its brings such lightness to the outdoors.  When the blossoms come it’s almost a fluffy-ness that fills the area and those delicate blossoms are so inspiring.  I’m so glad Marcy illustrated this one, with some really meaningful sentiments for Mother’s Day.  

I was very inspired by the photo Marcy took in the Missouri Botanical Gardens and I really wanted to capture the feeling of this photo (below). I just LOVE the depth to the flowers and the soft bokeh in the background really makes the design :)  

So I actually printed out two of the flowering branches and coloured up both of them.  One one of the images I added pointillism in the background as well as some embossing paste in a Tim Holtz Stencil to mimic the bokeh in the photo.  

What I did with the second branch was fussy cut it out and then add it into the design to really give a fuller feel to the branches, and I also popped some up on the design as you can see above.  

I used an A2 Border die to cut out the left pinked edges and then simply added vellum and some silver cording to finish it off.  Because the design is so fussy, I didn’t want to add too much extra.  

Here is the inside of the design with the wonderful sentiment, as well as a little bit of the cut branch I added to it.  

Here’s the Copics I used.  

And here’s the gang showing off more of this beauty today.  

Allison Cope
Christine Okken (you are here)

Julie Koerber

Katie Sims

Stacy Morgan

Tosha Leyendekker

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Flowering Branches