Hi there and happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there! I hope your kids and family are spoiling you rotten today!!!
I'm sharing a sweet but not-too-frilly card that I made for my own mom for today. I used Card Patterns' sketch #112 from a couple weeks ago since it was perfect for the idea I had in mind.
I can't get enough of Market Street's So Happy set, so here are those wonderful daisy-like flowers again. I did some simple masking to create a little grouping of them. Then added that adorable butterfly popped up on dimensionals and his trail behind him.
My sentiment is from March's new set Hippie Chic. I love how all of Market Streets sets just work together. The sentiments and images are so interchangeable. It really gives you a lot of bang for your buck.
My favourite part of the card is the hidden pocket behind my main image panel. I tucked a tiny tag that I made out of the same decorative paper I used on my card behind the image panel and stuffed it with a gift. You can see it peeking out in the first photo above.
Here's a brief tutorial on how to achieve that:
- Mount your main image panel up on dimensionals. Make sure you only put one small dimensional in each corner of your image panel.
- Make a tag out of decorative paper or cardstock about 1 inch longer than your image panel.
- Fold up the bottom at the 1-inch mark to make a pocket. Staple or tape the sides closed.
- Insert money into the pocket you just made.
- Round or notch the corners of your tag.
- Punch a hole in the top of your tag.
- Insert a snippet of ribbon so the tag can be removed easily.
- Insert the entire tag behind your image panel, peeking out ever so slightly. [But not so much that the money shows. You just want to pique your receiver's interest!]