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.
GIVEAWAY
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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 |
Love the colouring on the Kraft cardstock!
Your cards are always so creative and beautiful that they make me ooh and ah! Love!
Beautiful cards!
Love the sentiment of MaMa. So personal and fun.
So very pretty!! I love both!!
gorgeous cards!!
these are such pretty cards and so beautifully colored too!
I LOVE this card! When I reached your blog I went “wow!” I love the colors you used. I also like the look of the pencil on the craft. I will be trying this technique . Also love how you sponged the lettering. The second card is very pretty too! I love roses.
These are beautiful cards for moms! I love that pink color!
Lovely…
I love the look of colored pencils on Kraft card stock. Beautiful card.
I like how you took advantage of the “starburst” for centering your sentiment. Love your coloring.
Very pretty card, lovely coloring. I like this entire Simon release.
Such a variety of new products.
Love your card! I call my mother Mama as well so this card is perfect! So beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration and giveaways.
Beautiful cards great coloring thanks for the tutorial
I love what you did with this card, I just kept staring at it, so stunning!
Beautiful card. I’m sure your ma ma is going to love it. Thanks for sharing.
Yana this is gorgeous! Love how you used “MaMa in place of “Mom”! 🙂
Wow this card is beautiful! Love the color combination you used.
Such a lovely card and color scheme. Thanks for sharing!
Love this awesome card & your Mothers Day card is gorgeous as well! Thanks for the Nuvo Drops tips!
Beautiful cards! Awesome jewel background!
Love the color combination. Very striking!
Gorgeous cards!
Love the cards, thanks for sharing!
Very beautiful. My Mama was also “Mama” to me too.
Of course the cards are awesome-because you made them! I really like how you spelled out MAMA. I never would have thought of recombining the letters from Mom and Dad to make a new word. Great job!
Oh, my! I love the colors you chose with this lovely background stamp! I’m sure your mama will adore this beautiful card! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Any Mama would love getting this card!!
Absolutely gorgeous!
WOW! This is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing.
I love pink and these cards just made my heart sing!!
WOW YANA! This is WONDERFUL! I LOOOOVE ALL OF THE COLOR! AND ALL OF THE DETAILS you’ve added! THIS IS TOTALLY GORGEOUS!!! Our son calls me, “MaMa” too & he is grown. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! 😉 I’m SURE your mom does too! 😉
Yana, your card is beautiful. Thank you for sharing with us.
Oh how gorgeous this
card is! Fabulous
embossing and coloring.
Carla from Utah
Lovely cards. I could not stop staring at your first card. The pencil colors you chose look wonderful on the kraft cardstock. They make that background stamp pop.
DebbieC
As always, your cards are beautiful! And I love the jewel technique!
Both of your cards are really great, but I love that you switched it up and put “Ma Ma” instead of Mom.
Wow that is gorgeous. I adore the color combo on that background stamp
Really pretty and I just love the “Ma Ma”.
This card is so beautiful–my favorite so far. I love the background stamp you used. The colors really pop on kraft.
Beautiful cards, love the color pencils on kraft. Thanks for another great and inspiring video!
Very cute card, thanks for sharing!!
Beautiful background, love the way you used the prisma pencils.
I really like the overall look!
That is a beautiful card and I am in love with just about everything from this release.
This is such a pretty card with florals, nice colors, and a pop of dimension…perfect for any mom.
such pretty cards! LOVE!
Such a cute card! Love this card!