Every day this week (except Wednesday, May 13) I will be posting birthday card tutorials! On the 13th this week will be my 28th birthday, so to inspire my readers into hand-making birthday cards for their friends and family, I’m posting at least one birthday card per day! So check back every day for some fun card ideas!

Today I’m featuring two cards for Mother’s Day. Yes I realize Mother’s Day was yesterday, but I made both of these for my Mom and my Mother-in-law and didn’t want them to see the cards before they opened them! The first idea is made of chipboard and is more of a package than a simple card. The second card I designed using DCWV’s “green” recycled paper! Let’s create!

Mother’s Day Tri-fold Card

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Materials

Instructions

  1. The make up of this project is very simple. Simply measure each panel, cut the cardstock to size and adhere. For this particular project I used the blue plain Caspia paper as the bottom layer then adhered the Samarkand patterned paper on the large right panel, and green patterned paper on the left smaller panel. For the inside I used the brown side of the Caspia paper on the small left panel layering Samarkand patterned paper over it. The middle panel has the green patterned paper adhered while the far right panel has a dark brown patterned cardstock with Caspia paper adhered to the center.
  2. The details of this album are fairly simple, but they take a bit of work. I used the Samarkand patterned paper for the majority of my detail embellishments, taking some of the mini blue flowers and die-cutting them out by hand using my little scissors. I also cut out two half-circles of the large ornamental pattern. After I cut those out I arranged them around some of the panels, adhering them with mini and large pop dots.
  3. The right inside panel of this card was for a gift card. I took a piece of the brown side of the Caspia cardstock, cut it to a 1/2 inch larger than the gift card and punched half circles in the two sides (measuring with the gift card so I could slide the gift card under the half circles.
  4. The middle panel of the card was designated for my personal message to my Mom so it doesn’t have much embellishment except a chipboard cutout stamped with “Happy Mother’s Day” in blue ink.
  5. The whole project was tied together with a patterned green ribbon on the smaller panel.

Recycled Mother’s Day Card

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Materials

Instructions

  1. Cut a piece of 12×5 from the red fern cardstock. Score and fold in half to make a 6×5 card. The card will have a portfolio orientation.
  2. Cut a piece of the Bear patterned cardstock measuring 4×5 (make sure the Bear holding the flower is in the bottom left corner). Punch holes in all four corners of the bear patterned paper and attach pewter brads in each corner. Adhere to the red patterned cardstock base.
  3. Stamp “Happy Mother’s Day” in black ink onto red patterned paper. Cut out around the stamped sentiment leaving a 1/8″ border around all edges. Adhere above the bear image using mini pop dots
  4. Cut out a yellow circle from the Wild Flowers patterned paper and adhere to the center of the flower the bear is holding using large pop dots.
  5. Stamp the flowers with owl image and “We love you Mom!” in black ink on the inside of the card

Thanks for creating with me! Come back tomorrow for the first birthday tutorial!