With Mother's Day looming, I thought I should make my Mom a Mother's Day card. This pretty Lori Whitlock Mother's Day Pop-up card (SVG, Silhouette) with all those beautiful spring flowers was perfect. I used The Crafty Girl collection (mostly the solid papers) along with some American Crafts cardstock.
All of the Lori Whitlock Pop-up cards do fold flat for mailing in an A2 envelope. There are even YouTube tutorials to walk you through making them. What I love most about these pop-up cards is that they look so pretty displayed on a table or countertop!
With most people around the world right now sheltering in place to help reduce the spread of coronavirus, no birthday parties or wedding receptions or baby showers or celebrations of any kind involving groups of people are happening. I want to make sure some special people in my life still feel loved even if we cannot be together for special events. My Mother-in-law just turned 80 and I couldn't even give her a hug! I decided to make some little gift boxes to deliver to some special people with some goodies inside. I used two coordinating sheets of 12x12 of pattern papers from the beautiful Hey, Hello collection and decorated my boxes with tags that can be cut from pattern paper. Boxes are easy to make. I used a cut file from SVGcuts , but they can also be made without using a cutting machine.
The Hey, Hello collection is perfect for special occasions of all kinds, like birthdays.
There is plenty of room inside for cupcakes, donuts, or cookies.
Layer up a couple tags and a ribbon on the top to make your box so festive looking.
This next gift box could be used for a birthday as well, but I'm giving it to a girl who will be graduating from high school. Commencements have been canceled. I can put candy, gift cards, or cash inside.
I added a tag cut from pattern paper to the top along with a die cut phrase ephemera piece and some ribbon.
But don't think this collection is just for kids... This beautiful floral box went to my Mother-in-law. It would be perfect for Mother's Day too. There are lots of other beautiful floral papers that would make lovely gift boxes.
I put her favorite chocolates inside. Once again I adorned my box with ribbon, a tag, die cut ephemera, and cut paper leaves.
Do you have anyone special you can't be with right now? Why not create a special gift box for them. You don't need a special occasion to tell someone your thinking of them.
Marcia back today with my first Paper Issues layout for the May Issue Mom-O-Grams. Suggested ideas: create an altered paper project, use letters in a fun way, add a monogram, anything about Mother’s Day or grandmothers. I went with the Grandmothers theme. Every year my mother-in-law takes a picture of the grand kids at Thanksgiving for her Christmas card. I thought it would be fun to scrap one of these photos.
I used the gorgeous Wild At Heart collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studios which is available in the Paper Issues online store. Use my coupon code MARCIA20 to save 20%. Here are some detailed shots...
Link up your take on the Mom-O-Gram issue and you could win a gift card to the Paper Issues store!.
Thanks so much for stopping by today. Have a great week! ~Marcia
I know it's International Scrapbook Day, but my Clique Kits Scrap Your Heart out Challenge is for you to create a card. Any Card. If you want to play along, you have a week to post a card in the Clique Kits Facebook Scrap Your Heart Out Event Page. I used the Clique Spring Card Kitfeaturing the gorgeous My Mind's Eye On Trend 2 collection to create these. There are a few left in the Clique Store. Use coupon code Marcia10 to save 10% on your order! This first card is for an upcoming wedding I am attending. This shaker card was created using Top Dog Dies.
My next card I created for a graduation party. A little vellum over busy pattern paper makes the die cuts from the On Trend 2 collection really pop.
My last card could be used for Mother's Day or a Birthday I think...
I don't know if my gold fever will ever go away ... I just love the gold accents...
