Happy Mother's Day

Today's card features the Take Heart set released over at Unity Stamp Co. this month.

 When I first saw this marigold I thought of my Mom! She always puts marigolds in her garden each year  and I thought this would make a perfect Mother's Day card for her!

 Here's a plantable card that I made up for Mother's Day this year.

 I am up on the Studio Katia Blog today with my first shaker card project! I am fairly new to the world of shaker cards and let me tell you, Studio Katia is the perfect spot to get all of your shaker card needs! With Mother's Day coming up soon, I wanted to make some personalized cards for both my Mom and my Mother-in-Law. What do you call your grandmother? Grandma? Nana? Nonna? Gigi? Oma? This written tutorial will detail how I made the 'Grandma' card and my YouTube video tutorial will show how I made the 'Nana' card. Supplies for both cards are listed and linked below.

 I am up on the Studio Katia Blog today with a new project! To start off Earth week, I thought it would be fitting to showcase a zero waste card using plantable paper! This biodegradable paper is made in Canada using post-consumer paper waste and embedded with wildflower seeds. Because this card can be planted, I wanted to keep it one layer and not use any adhesives or embellishments. I took out the Gladiolus stamp set and stamped it in the middle of my card with black ink using my stamping platform. Next, I created a mask on a piece of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 masking paper by stamping the flowers in the same spot using my stamping platform. I cut this mask out and saved the negative. I trimmed off the stems but kept them to use.

This plantable card was made for Mother's Day to honour those who should be with us but are not. 

Always and forever loved and thought of, especially on this day.

Paper: Wildflower seed mix (Botanical Paperworks)
Ink: Black, New England Ivy, Olive (CTMH)
Stamps: Love Is, Mini Boxwood Heart Stamp + Cut Combo (The Greetery)

 I wanted to try no-line colouring with the Studio Katia Spring Bouquet for Mother's Day. I stamped the image in Milled Lavender distress oxide ink and then coloured it with my Tombow markers. I tried a few different colour combinations and I think the purples are my favourite!

One of my creative, card-making friends had a great idea this Mother's Day - let's make each other cards for our husbands to use! This was such a fun project to work on. Since we both love sunflowers I decided to take out my BotaniCuts Sunflower dies from The Greetery. Using tips from Betsy Veldman and Kay Miller, I diecut the pieces using watercolour paper and then painted them up with distress oxide inks.

It's that time to start making Mother's Day cards, so I thought I would start with some plantable ones! I wanted to see what a group of daisies might look like on a single layer card, so I tried out two different colour combinations. I tried out black in the centre this time for something different!

It is the Spring & Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop! This is one of my favourite crafty online events of the year. I, myself, prefer tea, and when I saw this beautiful tea cup from Studio Katia I could not wait to colour it up! I decided to create a blue hue behind the image to help it pop and love how it turned out. My favourite tea would have to be Earl Grey in a London Fog or the Zen Blend by local tea maker, Meadowsweet, in Kimberley.

Today I have a set of simple Mother's Day cards using this fun set of quotes from an older Close To My Heart set. Today and tomorrow are the last two days to order items out of our current Seasonal Expressions 1 catalogue - our new catalogue goes live on Wednesday, May 1 with lots of exciting products to offer!

Check out these wooden tags! My Dad made these for me from fallen branches from their orchard and forest, sanded them a bit, and drilled a little hole in them for me so that I could thread some twine through and stamp them how I wanted. I love how they turned out!

I am SO EXCITED to show my first handmade card made completely out of plantable paper! Even the envelope is plantable, too! I've been wanting to explore papercrafting with plantable paper for awhile now and was so excited to come across a Canadian company that makes this paper from post-consumer paper waste collected from schools and businesses and embeds it with wildflower seeds. This wildflower seed mix grows a blend of colourful wildflowers including Bird's Eye, Clarkia, Black Eyed Susan, Sweet Alyssum, Catchfly, and Snapdragon. The card and envelope can be planted in 1/8" of soil. It should be watered thoroughly and placed in a sunny spot that will also be kept moist during germination. I will be documenting my own trials with planting this paper on my instagram account!

I decided to make up some Mother's Day tags for the shoppe and of course I couldn't resist doing some watercolour with these sweet peas. The spring mood board over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge has so many spring feels one cannot help but be inspired! I used my favourite Simon Says Stamp tag die and topped these tags off with some gingham ribbon. Watercolouring definitely makes me happy so I am also linking up with the "happy times" challenge over at Heart2Heart. These gorgeous flowers were arranged by our local florists at MJ's Florals and the lovely Vancouver Candle Co. candle can be found at Lane and Meadow along with these tags!

Here is the card design I created to celebrate Mother's Day this year. I was stoked to find some of this older Close To My Heart paper collection that was a favourite of mine and then to use it with this beautiful quilt die. I am linking up with the Mother's Day challenge over at Heart2Heart.