Hello friends! One of my favorite holidays is right around the corner! It’s Anya here today and I would like to share a card I made for Mother’s Day.
Whenever I make cards for Moms, I always pick a soft color palette and some type of flowers. From the “Girl Cousins” Mini Themes collection, I picked the Lovely Floral pattern paper and based my color choices off of this piece.
I love adding flowers to my cards and wanted to share a quick tutorial on how to make simple paper flowers using Echo Park’s Coordinating Solids paper and your favorite punch or die. I love using Echo Park’s Coordinating Solids paper because it eliminates the inking or coloring step. For the white flowers on the card I used Ultra White Felt Cardstock by Carta Bella and for the pink ones I used the Pink/Lt. Pink paper from the “Easter” collection.
For each flower, you need to cut three to four sets of petals in two different sizes using your favorite punch or dies. Fold a piece of paper towel, wet it, squeeze all the water out and set it by your working place. Take each flower petal, press it into the damp paper towel for a few seconds, and transfer it onto a soft working surface (I used a small pillow).
Using a large sized Stylus tool, work around all of the petal’s edges, pressing firmly, which will let them curl a little. Set aside to dry. After all the petals are dry, combine three to four petals to create one flower. To create small flowers, I used only two smaller sized petals. You can decorate the center of the flower with half pearls, brads, buttons or stamens.
Here are a few more fun options of Coordinating Solids paper to consider for your next handmade flowers:
Lt. Pink/Pink from the Wedding Bliss Collection
Dark Pink/Orange from the Summer Dreams collection
Dk. Purple/Lt. Purple from the Once Upon a Time - Princess collection
Pink/Lt. Pink from the Easter collection
Red/Pink from the Happy Summer collection
Blue/Lt. Blue from the “Let’s be Mermaids” collection
Pink/Lt Pink from the Petticoats collection
Orange/Yellow form the Petticoats collection
Sometimes, a small detail can make a big difference:) I wanted my envelope to match my card, so I cut a piece of the Tea Time paper the size of the envelope and covered the back panel with it. Now it looks complete!
To create this card I used following products:
“Girl Cousins” Lovely Floral pattern paper
“Happiness is Homemade” Tea Time pattern paper
“Summer Fun” Sweet Treat pattern paper
“Summer Fun” Tropical Floral pattern paper
“Rock-a-Bye Baby Girl” Mother Goose and Bows paper
Pink/Lt. Pink Coordinating Solids from the “Easter” collection
“Summer Dreams” Decorative Brads
“Once Upon a Time – Princess” Decorative Brads
“Rock-a-Bye Baby Girl” Element Stickers
“Happiness is Homemade” element Stickers
Ultra White Felt Cardstock by Carta Bella
Autumn Leaves Die Set
Heart Doily Designer Die
Christmas Tag Designer Die Set
Autumn Leaves Designer Die Set
Joyful Pine Designer Die Set
Pop dots, aqua ribbon, stamens and flower dies
