Cards for Mothers and others

A close-up on Mother's Day cards

The Mother's Day cards have the same simple look. I chose the two similar papers from the Rosie's studio's Stillwater paper pad. The pad had pretty papers and it was inexpensive. I used the Marianne design's die to cut the white lace. The cardstock was too thin and didn't look so special on the patterned paper, so I glued together three layers of lace diecuts. Before gluing them onto the card I put a thin gold glitter tape close to edge. I didn't want to mess with glitter glue or gems. I planned to add a chipboard or a stamped sentiment but I didn't have any suitable to choose from.

Mother's Day cards

Below is another fairly easy card to make. The background paper is from a Studiolight's paper pad. I added the same gold glitter tape than I did on the mother's Day cards. Took the text stamp from an Altenew's stamp set and stamped the text with the black Versafine ink. The Whiff of joy's Henry the mouse was stamped with some black ink and then colored with a pink marker and wooden color pencils. The heart has also some red glitter on it.

Birthday card with Henry the mouse

For the rose card below I used the same Marianne design's die set as I did with the Easter cards. The rose image was on a Joanna Sheen paper. It was as a free downloadable zip file published alongside with the issue 162 of Papercraft essentials. You can get the file from here. I printed out the page which had that rose image onto a plain printer paper (80 gsm). My laser printer doesn't accept any papers thicker than that even though it's claimed to do so. I used the oval die to cut the rose image. I don't remember if I had adhered a double-sided sticky sheet behind it before diecutting. I might have because of those bubbles near the edges. Once the sticky surface clings onto the other surface, you can't move it without tearing the thin paper. I added slightly too much glitter glue on the rose image. I also glued a backing paper to the card. To make that I used the vector graphic program after a long while. I should use it more often.

Birthday card with roses

The backing for the rose card

The Get well card below was also quick to make. The vintage image is from an old postcard. I added glitter glue to edge of the oval shape and to the image itself. This one too had a backing paper glued on it but I don't a picture of it.

Get well card