Mother's Day Card with Petite Pansy

Hello Friends and welcome to Heartfelt Wednesday...
Today is 2nd Wednesday of the month so guess what...
Yes it is a new release day...

Burst of Spring Collection !

Celebrate the highly anticipated arrival of the upcoming spring season with the new Burst of Spring Collection from Heartfelt Creations! A favorite among flower enthusiasts, the delicate pansy flower is often one of the first florets to be added to the freshly worked soil as the glorious garden season arrives. The soft, velvety petals of these cheerful blossoms always invite a quick caress while being transplanted near the front of the garden bed, where they are sure to be admired by all! Awaken your senses dulled from the winter season with an enchanting and deeply hued decorative paper collection filled with sweet and amiable pansy flowers, along with whimsical fluttering butterflies! Beautiful blues, happy yellows and deep purples set the tone for charming pansy clusters and bouquets encompassed in finely illustrated details from lace like accents to intricate brocades! A wonderful compilation of beautifully detailed cling stamp sets and coordinating dies bring an assortment of sprightly pansy floral sprays, perky arrangements, as well as elegant pansy frames, perfect for adding a cheerful springtime feel to all of your handmade greeting cards, layouts and altered art pieces. The coordinating pansy flower stamp, die, and flower shaping mold come together to create several differing sized pansy flowers ideal for creating your very own dimensional pansy bouquets as realistic as those found in the flower bed! So, join together with us in craft rooms everywhere…before the frost is out of the ground and gardening season arrives…as we anticipate and create our very own version of the appearance of spring with the Burst of Spring Collection!

I am sharing a simple yet beautiful Mother's Day card made with Petite Pansy Frame Cling Stamp Set and  Diamonds & Lace Die.
Read till the end for the complete list of supplies and instructions for this card.




Heartfelt Creations Products:
HCPC-3846 Thank You Sentiments Cling Stamp Set
HCPC-3865 Petite Pansy Frame Cling Stamp Set
HCD1-7225 Petite Pansy Frame Die
HCD1-7229 Diamonds & Lace Die
HCPP3-452 12 x 12 Cardstock Pack of 25 - White
RACP468 Ranger Archival Ink Pad - Jet Black
159723 Designer Dries Clear Adhesive
352854 Metal Tip for Adhesive Bottles

Other Products:
Gansai Tambi watercolors, paint brush, watercolor cardstock  and pearls

Instructions:
Stamp the image from Petite Pansy Frame Cling Stamp Set on a piece of watercolor cardstock using Jet Black Archival Ink and color it using Gansai Tambi watercolors. Die cut this colored image using the Petite Pansy Frame Die. 

Die cut a piece of white cardstock using the largest die from Diamonds & Lace Die. Cut out the center so that it does not show from the gap inside the colored image from last step. Adhere the colored image on the die cut.

Take a 4 1/4" x ____" side folding card base and stamp the sentiment from Thank You Sentiments Cling Stamp Set using Jet Black Archival Ink in the center. Adhere the diecut from previous step above the card base as shown. Add few pearls t the die cut to add finishing touch.


Hope you like it...

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Mother's Day Explosion Box

Hi Everyone...

So are you ready to see the explosion box I made for my mom as a  mother's day gift this year...
I choose 'Garden' theme for this explosion box as my mom loves flowers...be it  real or artificial.... She has a whole cupboard full of artificial flowers made of different materials, types & sizes.... fabric flowers, crystals flowers, natural dried flowers, flowers with glitter on them... the list will go on..... & she keeps on changing the flower arrangement in our home every few months....
She also loves gardening.... we have many plants in our home....


Everything in this explosion box is handmade from scratch.... I have added some details below about the process that went into making it....So go on & enjoy....

I have kept the outside of the box very simple... I just dabbed some white & blue acrylic colour randomly  on the side panels with a sponge...to imitate the sky...  For the top I arranged some flower buds, leaves & a butterfly.

The box after the lid is removed...

The garden looks so real & amazing when the flowers & butterflies dance with the wind... In this picture you can see the butterflies in action.....  ^__^

The grass is made with  1cm strips of fringed paper... I had to fringe a whole A3 sheet to cover the entire base & side panels with grass.... My hands were aching badly after fringing  so much... but the end result was worth it... it looks so fantastic...

The flowers are made with baby pink paper disks cut from scalloped scissors & sprayed with homemade reddish-pink glimmer mist. The center is made with very small yellow beads I found in a local shop. The flowers look so real & beautiful .... 

The butterfly is hand painted with acrylic colour, water colour & some 3D outliner with pearl finish... it gives a very beautiful glittery effect to the butterfly... It is not very much visible in the images but in real life it looks beautiful... The antenna is made with very thin wires.. twisted at the ends & dipped in black acrylic paint.

Have you noticed my new watermark?? I was thinking of making one for quite sometime...The idea came from Tejal.... She has made some beautiful watermarks for herself  & some other bloggers... So, I thought of trying it myself..... & finally I made this one... 

Entering in the following challenges :

• Anything Goes Challenge blog - Things with wings
• CraftyJC Challenge - For a special lady
• The Paper Variety - Handmade flowers

Mother's Day Card

Today I want to share my new Mother's day card with you all.... Mothers are special and what can be a better way to make her feel extra special on Mother's day than a handmade greeting card. In India we celebrate Mother's day on 2nd Sunday of May... that is 13th May this year.... So I thought of making a few card designs for this special occasion....  So here is the 1st card that I made.... This card can be used as a Mother's Day card or Mother's Birthday card...

For the leaves I wanted to try something different than the ones I had already made.... I had never tried Combing technique before but I loved these leaves on Lin's Blog . These leaves are a slight variation of the combing technique by Anastasia Wahalatantiri ...  I used a small hair comb instead of Quilling comb to make the leaves and I love the effect... 

Supplies Used :

Tissue Tape

Linking this card in the following challenges... :-

One Stitch At A Time Challenge Blog - Bright colors or ideas
Beyond Grey Challenges - Colourful and flowery ...
Just Us Girls #133 - Color Challenge - Hot Pink, Lime green & Orange

P.S. : - I came in Top 3 in Beyond Grey Challenges - Colourful and flowery ... YAY.. ^__^