Mother’s Day Card Tutorial |

Mother’s Day Card

I had dual inspiration for this card.

The first was using resist technique for the flower, which I found on Pinterest:

And the second was ombre paint swatch cards:

When I saw the flower, it made me think of the flower design that came with my Silhouette Stamping Kit.

So I made a run to the Home Hardware down the street and we were in business!

First I had to cut the stamp. It was super easy. I just loaded the mat the same as I would a regular one and set the blade on 9 like it told me to when I selected the media type.

Unfortunately it doesn’t quite fit on the biggest acrylic block that came with the kit, but I wanted it off the edge anyways for the card. I did a couple of test stamps:

Yuck. But it got better. I cleaned the stamp with stamp cleaner and then tried again. A little bit better. After reading up on stamps, I learned about something called “priming” a stamp where you have to stamp a couple of times before it starts looking good.

Here is it a couple stamps later with embossing powder on it:

Looking MUCH better.

And here it is stamped and embossed with clear powder on the card:

PERFECT!

Then I used some of my test stamps to try the resist technique:

Not a fan. I busted out my watercolors instead.

We’re getting there! Copy paper is an in-ideal medium for watercolors though.

There, that was what I was envisioning!

Now for the letters. I didn’t have any letter punches like they used for the dragonfly card, but I do have a Silhouette and PicScan mat which are even better.

Originally this was going to be a thank you card but as I was working with it, it really felt more like a Mother’s day card. Plus the paint swatch had 7 colors and thank you has 8 letters, while mother has only 6.

I chose a courier font as I wanted the letters to be the same width, (originally I was going to make this a vertical card….visions change!). I found it a tad too thin so I did what I always do when I want to cut out a word in a thin font: I ungrouped the word and then did an external offset on each letter so that they were all a tiny bit thicker.

I cut them all out (cardstock setting works perfectly) and glued them on.

TIP: use white glue/mod podge and a little paintbrush or adhesive roller on the paint swatch letters. I made paint swatch cards before where I used glue stick and they kept falling off.