Hello, there! I am so excited to share today’s project with you – it’s simple to make card for Mom that can be used as a Mother’s Day card. I, however, intend to use this project as an encouragement piece to mail to my Mom in Ukraine to put a smile on her face (I have already made Mother’s Day cards for my Mom and Mother-in-law so I wanted to stretch my supplies and use them for something else).
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
I also wanted to share something rather cool and unique – a way to create jewel paper using stamps, embossing powder and Nuvo drops! Watch my video tutorial below to learn more. Or watch it on Youtube.
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CARD DETAILS
The card design I am sharing today can be easily turned into a Mother’s Day card, a Birthday card for Mom or even a simple I Love You or I Miss You for Mother or Mother in law.
I started working on my project by heat embossing a Flora 6×6 background stamp in white embossing powder onto kraft cardstock. This is a beautiful background that can be used for a variety of projects and there are lots of things you can do with this, too. You can heat emboss it in white or gold onto kraft paper; you can stamp it and partially color using pencils or markers; you can use it on watercolor paper and heat emboss over a nice watercolor background. Lots of options to explore.
I decided I wanted to color my background using pencils. I wanted the white heat embossing to pop here, so I picked kraft cardstock as my base and decided to go with Prismacolor pencils for my coloring. I picked just 3 colors and went with kraft, pink and green color combo – I think it is very feminine. The colors I used are PC929, PC1014 and PC989.
I will say I am very new to Prismacolor pencils – I got these for Christmas last year and I haven’t really had a lot of chances to use them, but I do love how they look on dark papers.
I used a dark pink pencil to add color to the flowers on my background (if you look closely you can see that this background is made up of individual flowers and leaves and they are all sort of interlock together). I also used a light pink pencil and colored the top of the flowers, I colored over the dark pink to soften the color and make the top parts of my florals appear lighter. You can also use a white pencil for this and simply layer it over the dark to get a softer, lighter color. This is what I love these prismacolor pencils for – you can easily lighten up a color using a lighter color pencil or white.
I also used a green pencil and colored all of the leaves. You can definitely keep your background white and pink only, but I really wanted to add that pop of green.
JEWEL PAPER
I wanted to create jewel paper. So I used my crystal drops from Tonic and added pink as well as white dots over my coloring. I used a neon Shocking Pink and Gloss White. I love that these drops do not take too long to dry, mine were all nice and stiff in just about 20 minutes. Although it is very hot where I live right now so that probably affects the drying time a little bit. If you don’t have these colors of Nuvo drops you can also add clear dots using Morning Dew color (clear) or even Glossy Accents. But Nuvo drops do dry much more dimensional.
For my sentiment, I used M and A letters from the Mom and Dad icons set and heat embossed two of each letter twice in white embossing powder onto white cardstock. The stamp set has letters to spell out words Mom and Dad, but I wanted to spell out Mama, this is what I call my mom, I call her Mama, so I used a letter A instead of O. I also heat embossed a sentiment that reads “So Happy You’re My” so that the sentiment together would read So Happy You’re My Momma.
I used Simon’s Hollyhock ink and mini round ink blending tool and added ombre inking onto my letters. I inked the bottom of each letter with lots of pink and left the top barely white. I also added a layer of ink over the small sentiment so that it looked as if it was embossed onto pink paper.
Next, I used my Platinum 6 die cutting and embossing machine and coordinating dies and cut my letters out.
I foam mounted my background onto an A2 top folding card base made out of white cardstock and foam mounted letters on top. I also decided to add a few sequins from Little Princess set – there are these super adorable little floral shaped sequins, I’ve never seen anything like that so I was excited to use them on my card.
ADDITIONAL INSPIRATION
See my previous post to find additional inspiration using new products. Click the image or HERE to see the full post.
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SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Flora Background Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Cora Background Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Star Flower Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Flower Medallion Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Mom and Dad Icons Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Mom and Dad Icons Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamps and Dies Mom and Dad Icons Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Hollyhock Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Clear Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Little Princess Sequins Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS |
 Prismacolor 150 Premier Colored Pencils Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 80 Solar White Paper Pack 250 Sheets Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah Classic Crest 80 Lb Smooth Desert Storm Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS |
 Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Mixed Media Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Be Creative Tape 3mm Sookwang Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Shocking Pink Nuvo Glow in the Dark Drops Shop at: SSS |
 White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS |
my mama passed away last november so mother’s day cards are a bit hard for me, won;t make any clearly but I still love your card, your sentiment made me giggle and the look is so elegant and easily adapted to any taste.
Love your color choice!!!
Gorgeous!!!
These are absolutely GORGEOUS!!! I especially love the first one – so pretty!
I love the colouring of the background stamps – it gives it a very elegant, stained glass look. Just beautiful!
Your cards as always are absolutely adorable!! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Beautiful as always
Such gorgeous colouring
The cards were beautiful. Love the colour choice, so soft and elegant looking!
Gorgeous cards. Love the colors.
Great color combo! Gorgeous card. Thank you for the inspiration!
Really cute card! Love the color and design. Great job.
Love the soft colors on this! Beautiful!
So pretty! Thank you for sharing and look forward in seeing how you made the card!
Both cards are so very lovely … and I love your coloring!
Beautiful color combination.
Such a lovely card.
Yana I cannot get enough of the techniques using the background stamps. Your card is beautiful. I cannot wait to play this weekend. I am so inspired!
Gorgeous card!!
Beautiful cards !
I love love love your cards! I love that you can use the letter stamps to say Mama instead of Mom since that is what we call my mom! Your background is fabulous also…
Thank you! It took me by surprise when your card said “MAMA”! I love it!!!! Thank you, I would of just done mom.
I really like how you make the white heat embossing on kraft cardstock pop with your colouring. Another gorgeous card to inspire me, thank you.
I’m a big fan of your work! As usual, these are lovely.
This is such a happy card! Spectacular color combo! Absolutely love the ombre inking on the letters and the colored pencils on craft – and as usual, taking it to the next level with the perfect embellishments! Love it!
Such pretty colors! Love the addition of the Nuvo drops as accents! TFS 🙂
Love your cards, especially the Mama one!
I love your creativity! Your designs are incredible!
Beautiful cards. Love your creativity.
Your cards are always soooo amazing!!
These cards are beautiful. So detailed, I love the colors.
Really pretty card. I love colored pencil on cardstock.
Gorgeous card! Thanks for the video! Awesome Release, Awesome Hop!
Beautiful card and I loved the idea of the ombre letters!
Love the idea with the Tonic drops, always looking for ways to use them. Very lovely card.
Your cards are gorgeous! Love the colored pencils on the kraft !
Love the colored pencils and white embossing on kraft card stock. Just gorgeous!
Such a beautiful card. Love the pink and green on kraft. The addition of Nuvo drops is lovely. The other samples you showed are lovely too.
So beautiful. I haven’t done the pencil on Kraft technique for ages. Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful card. Love how you colored it.
Wow!!!! What inspiration you just gave us!!! I love your card and this release from Simon Says Stamp!!
Stunning! Love how you used the Prismacolors. 🙂
Beautiful! The pink and green really pop against the white embossing.
Adorable color combo and design!! Perfect gift for MAMA.I also call my mom :Mama! Thanks for sharing!
Lovely, Yana! I’ve got to get those Prismacolor pencils.
Love this card! the pink and green on kraft cardstock looks so nice. And the Nuvo drops just add so much to the whole design. thanks for the video, Yana.
Absolutely gorgeous! Love technique of using the colored pencils to fill in the beautiful stamped image. You always do beautiful work with whatever company that you design for! Thanks for sharing Yana!
The background on the first card is simply stunning.
Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for the video!
Beautiful card! Love the soft design