Happy Mother’s Day Floral Wreath Card

Posted on 26th February 2016 by Angela Dodson
Filed under Card Making Ideas, Seasonal Crafts, Mothers Day Crafts, Projects And Cards By Type

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Hello it’s Angela here to share a Mother’s Day card with you. This week I’m using a variety of coloured cardstocks from Papermilldirect’s lovely colours range, and teaming it with ‘Coniston Blue’ which is this week’s Special Offer card.

I cut the layered floral design on my Cricut Explore using images free from within the Design Space subscription. I have sized it to fit a 6x6 card but you can of course adjust the size to suit your requirements.

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If you don’t have a Cricut then why not use the coloured cardstocks as inspiration to die cut or punch a variety of flower shapes and leaves to form a wreath shape onto a card front. I am using the ‘Coniston Blue’ as the backdrop and shadow for my ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ sentiment, as it is the perfect shade of blue to set off those lovely bright colours.

The flowers and leaves in my design are very dimensional and this is simply by layering up the shapes and gluing them on top of each other, using a wet clear drying glue such as Cosmic Shimmer allows some ‘wriggle time’ to line them up and not leave any glue marks.

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For the Plain White Card panel I have embossed it with a Basket Weave effect embossing folder through my Big Shot to add some extra detail and texture, but it could also be left plain. The card blank is also PMD Plain White card.

To add some extra sparkle I applied some of the Nuvo glitters by first using the Nuvo glue pen on the area to glitter and then sprinkling the glitter onto it from the bottle, when dry you can gently tap the excess off and pop it back into the bottle. (I used a small clean paintbrush to gently brush away any stray glitter afterwards)

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You can add different adhesive gems, pearls or enamel dots to the centres of the flowers to make them ‘pop’ and / or add some die cut butterflies as I have done here to accent the sentiment.

Although I designed this one as a greeting card, it would work well mounted in a little box frame too, perhaps as a Mother’s Day Gift? You could even use different sentiments in the centre or perhaps a photograph to make it an extra special gift.

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