Bright pink and orange Mother's Day

This card just makes me happy. I don't usually pair together hot pink and orange but I'm going to start doing it more often! I wanted to make a fun Mother's Day card for my mother-in-law this year.

The ribbon has been in my stash forever but it always seems to wide for me to use it. It worked perfectly here and I picked up the colors from it to use in the rest of the card. I've been trying to use my millions (OK, really dozens) of embossing folders more often so I used this one as the entire background panel. I think it's made my Darice as most of mine are. I used the Ranger Blending Tool to lightly blend Tangerine Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink to emphasize the flowers and circles. I rounded the corners with my Corner Chomper (I have the aqua one), ran it through my Xyron, wrapped a piece of ribbon around the edges and attached the panel to a hot pink card.

I stamped the sentiment (a little crookedly) on white cardstock with the tangerine ink then mounted it on hot pink cardstock. I sprayed a white Prima flower with Stephanie Barnard Colorbox dye spray ink in Guava, attached it to the card with a Zot glue dot after it dried, layered on a white flower and topped it with an orange gem. I added a gem to the other end of the sentiment strip after I glued it under the ribbon. Finally I tied a bow and adhered it over the ribbon with a glue dot. The bow would probably have been to lumpy to mail but thankfully we were delivering it by hand!

Mother's Day hexagon card

So I may have gone a little crazy with the hexagons, buying not only one but all three sizes of the Fiskars squeeze punches and a Darice embossing folder. So I had to make use of them on this Mother's Day card. If you haven't used the Fiskars squeeze punches before, check them out. They do really make punching easy. You can even make chevrons with the hexagon so they're pretty versatile.

On to the card. I used kraft colored cardstock that I ran through my Texture Boutique using a the chevron embossing plate. Then I punched six patterned paper scraps that were on my desk with the largest sized hexagon punch. I stamped the sentiment with pink chalk ink onto white cardstock then trimmed the edge by putting the strip through the punch from the top, so that it just cut one side. I adhered it with foam tape over one of the hexagons. Then I punched flowers from three of the papers, adhered with with foam tape and topped each one with a pink pearl.