Sunday, May 12, 2013

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day.


This is my Mother's Day card for my Mother. She turned 93 this past March and we are so blessed to still have her with us. As I dressed for church this morning, I found myself wishing I had a red rose to wear. As a child growing up, my mother made sure each of her children wore a red rose on Mother's Day to signify life (if your mother was still alive, you wore a red rose, if your mother had passed on, you wore a white rose). She always wore a white rose since her mother passed away when she and her brothers were small children.


I needed a small container to place her gift in and made this Pillow Box. I wanted to coordinate it with her card so I used the color-washing technique on it after die-cutting it. I used one of the other framelits from the Secret Garden Framelets set and cut several flowers from SU! paper vellum and attached it to the front of the box.

Here are the two together


All supplies are from Stampin' Up!

Cardstock:Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Cardstock Vellum, Paper Vellum
Ink: Whisper White Pigment Ink, Midnight Muse Classic Ink, Signo Gel Pen
Embossing Folders: Finial Press, Square Lattice
Stamp Sets: Secret Garden, Field Flowers (Sentiment)
Other: Secret Garden Framelets, Stampin' Dimensionals, Half-Back Pears; Very Vanilla 5/8" Ribbon

4 comments:

Julie Gearinger said...

Wow!! What a perfect box/card combination!! Love the embossed butterfly and all of the details- thanks for sharing with us at SUO Challenges!!

Mary Brown said...

Oh my...these are just STUNNING!!! I love your butterfly and the wonderful technique you used on them. Thanks for joining the SUO challenge!

Karen Barber said...

Such a lovely work of labor for your mom....I am sure she must have LOVED it!! So beautiful!

Justin said...

WOW! What a great card! I love all of the layers! Thanks for playing with SUO Challenges!