April Flowers Will Bring May Flowers…
In tune with the Hero Arts theme this week, I am hoping that April showers will bring May flowers. This gloomy rainy weather is not for me! I decided to use that inspiration and all my happy flower-power feelings to make a Mother’s Day card. I miss my mom, besides the fact that Mother’s Day is coming up as well. I’m working on a package to send off…
Since I have piles of brown packing paper all over, I decided to use that in my card. I used it for the base of the flowers stamp in rainbow color, because I actually don’t have any markers with me in Italy to color with! I also used the brown paper to construct a flower-ish thingy in the upper left hand corner. I popped some recycled raffia ribbon on top and used a purple decorative button to secure it all down. The little note you see under that says, “Happy Mother’s Day” in Chinese and it’s printed onto tracing paper – the only other supply of paper I have with me here.
I also added some decorative clasps on top of the stamped area to add more dimension and texture. In the end, I distressed everything with gold by rubbing the ink pad over all the edges. I like the vintage look and really wanting to learn more techniques to create those types of effects. I am happy the way it turned out, although I still need to finish more items for the rest of the package I am sending out to my mom. Since the mail here in Italy is unpredictable when it comes to shipping times (and actual delivery sometimes) – I have to give it a big head start! Here is the finished card…
Posted on April 27, 2009 at 6:59 pm | Showcase
Wonderful card that you made for Mom, especially with the limited supplies of paper materials you have on hand!! Such a lovely card! Glad to see it in this site!