Love Blossoms for Mom

Happy Mothers Day! Here's the card I made up for the two most special ladies in our lives, my mom and mil. Of course it had be extra special to show how much we love them! I immediately knew that this was the card I wanted to do when Cricut message board member Carla Schenk shared her beautiful and ingenious pop up bouquet card on the Design Studio forum. Carla had seen this video tutorial on making a seven flower pop up card on the Wonder How To site and was inspired to create her own cut file in Design Studio for it.

Just check out this very cool surprise pop-up when the card is opened ...


The video tutorial at the Wonder How To site shows how to make this card without the use of any die cut machines. The tutorial goes pretty quickly so you'll probably need to pause it several times along the way to get all the steps, but it really isn't too hard and is definitely worth trying. You may also want to scale down the size of the flowers a bit because the resulting pop up is quite large. And if you like pop ups and paper engineering as much as I do, you'll be excited to find lots of other tutorials for some unique paper engineering projects on this site.

For my Mothers Day cards, I used the pop up bouquet Design Studio cutfile created and so generously shared by Carla on her blog, Scrapped Lives. Thank you, Carla! If you are interested in getting a copy of her amazing cutfile (created with the George cart), leave a message for Carla on her post and she will email you the cut file, as well as detailed step by step photo instructions on how to assemble the pop up.

In addition to the George cart to do the inside pop up bouquet, I also used Plantin Schoolbook (flowers on front), Dreams Come True (leaves), Beyond Birthdays ("mom" on front) and Home Accents (top notch frame). Here are the additonal deets: DCWV Sweet Glitter Stack (front & inside); Bazzill Bling ("mom"); Lasting Impressions Dot CS (flowers); BoBunny Double Dot CS (leaves); Pearlized Pink Text wt paper from Creations Unlimited (inside); and silk flowers, rhinestones (Doodlebug), Copics, & glitter glue to embellish flowers. Font is LamboHmk.
And for their Mothers Day gifts, I made these little purses...

I always have such a hard time deciding on what to get our moms for gifts on Mothers Day. Decided to take the easy way out this year with monetary gifts so they could spend it however they pleased. With the pop up cards I had created, there really wasn't anywhere to put the cash, so I made these handbags from the Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cart.

I chose a chocolate glittered cardstock from the DCWV Sweet stack for the front flap of the bag, added a grosgrain ribbon handle and rhinestone faux fastener. Magnetic strips were glued behind the front flap and to the inside front of the bag to keep it nicely closed. Thought it turned out looking pretty chic for a couple of fashionably mature ladies. Hope they like it!