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 |
Yana,
I love your card and your videos are so well done!!! Great inspiration, thank you so much!!!
OMG!!! Love your gorgeous card!!! Stunning background and colors!!!
Lovely, as always!
Yana, this card is so pretty. Your colour pallet is classic. I love the background stamp.
This is simply beautiful!
Gorgeous cards Yana and what a fabulous SSS release. Thank you for your time.
WOW your cards are beautiful!! Love them and this new release:)
SO Gorgeous!!!!!
so beautiful. love the softness of the colors
What a sweet card to send to your Mother! Using the colored pencils is a lovely way to hightlight segments ofthe stamp. Your result is so pretty, I hope to try that when I get my order! 🙂
Love the soft, romantic tones of the cards!
Oh, this card is so beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
So cool cards. And I must learn to color better with my pencils. Wonderful!
Gorgeous and classy. I love the use of the nuvo drops. The color theme is fantastic.
Really like how you added the green – not everywhere and it made the card pop but also kept it very soft.
Adorable cards, especially the MA-MA one….so sweet!
So stunning
Love your create cards. You always inspire.
very soft colors and yet so beautiful.
Thank you for sharing – beautiful designs!
Your card is so pretty. I am sure your mom will love it. I love the new background stamps.
What sweet, sweet cards, and beautiful too!
Gorgeous card!
Love these cards! Nice use of the Nuvo drops. I have bottles of them and I’m a little intimidated. I think I’ll pull them out and it give them a try! Thanks!
Very nice! I love your cards!
Beautiful cards! Love the pretty pinks & green colors you used on the first card. And
that stamp is just wonderful! I’ve been seriously thinking about getting some Prismacolor
pencils … even though I’m not much of a colorer.
Wow! This is amazing…..created with white embossing powder, craft card stock and three colored pencils! Oh, and a great background design. Great video!
Beautiful! Love this new release!
beautiful wow love it and the way you use the colors are fabulous.
Lovely card! I think the Flora Background stamp is gorgeous.
Beautiful cards, I enjoyed your video, the coloring is amazing! TFS
Love your beautiful card. The colors are gorgeous on the kraft card stock. Your “Mama” is a lucky lady! Thanks so much for sharing your talent today.
Love your gorgeous card!!! Stunning background and colors!!!
Amazing colors! I love this release, and can’t wait to get some.
Your card is gorgeous. Love the colours and how nice they look on the kraft cardstock. Thanks for all the inspiration.
These are so wonderful on Kraft cardstock. The addition of the Nuvo dots is just right. I do love these stamps.
Thank you for the inspiration! Beautiful cards too!
Love the customization of using the dies to write “mama”! And such beautiful colors!
Another beautiful card! Great video. I just love your work.
Wow! Another beautiful card by you. The background is gorgeous and has so much detail!
Such beautiful cards. Love the first card with the soft colors and embossing:)
This card is simply gorgeous, Yana! That is my fave bg stamp of the release.
Your card is beautiful. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
I love the idea of having cards like these beauties handy for Mom any time of the year. My interest in drawing and coloring mandalas was what led me to card making, so your post reminds me of how much I enjoy coloring these kinds of designs. Thank you for continuing to inspire me.
Very beautiful card. Great colors.
I really like the look of the coloring on kraft cardstock. The colors you chose are very pretty and I’m sure your mom will love getting this card someday!
Beautiful cards! Great video.
Love how you colored your beautiful background. TFS
Great card!! I love that you used the sentiment to create another word! I am going to use it for WOW!
Amazing card. Love the colors you chose. Your mom will love it.