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 |
What a beautiful card! I love the vibrancy of the pencils on the kraft paper. Thank you for the inspiration. Take care, Kim 🙂
So very lovely!!
Beautiful, Yana! I love that you had it say “Mama” ♥
Amazing card.Can’t wait to try it.
What a lovely card and inspiration!
Very pretty! I love the colors.
You say it’s a simple design, but so elegant.
I would be thrilled to receive your MaMa card on
Mother’s Day. Both cards are wonderful.
thanks for sharing.
I love the background on this card. The prismacolor pencils show up so nicely! Beautiful work once again!
Beautiful!! Nice colors; they really pop off the kraft background.
I really like the use of the nuvo drops. Glad you like the prisma color pencils. I’ve used them for years because they layer so well.
Nice card, the background and colors are great, and I love the ombré letters and Nuvo dots enhancements.
Wonderful background colors & use of textures.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Using stencils and copic markers to work on this card shows a different perspective.
What lovely cards you made.
Love the versatility of these background stamps. Your card turned out beautiful
You are so talented and the results show it. Beautiful cards and ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful card
Thanks for the chance to win
Stunning. Just stunning
Absolutely stunning. The new background stamps are so gorgeous and you showcase it so beautifully in your card! Also love your clever idea to spell “Mama” from the set 🙂
Your beautiful card screams Spring. Love it and your color choices. The stamp backgrounds are wonderful
The Flora background is my favorite in this release and I adore your inspiration card. Especially love your play on the sentiment. In fact this whole release is fabulous.
nicely done with just the right amount of color
Gorgeous card! Love that background design! Pretty colors too!
I love this color scheme on this lovely background stamp! I also love the idea of using the nuvo drops on the coloring and the use of “MA MA” instead of mom or mother. This would be great for many occasions.
The card is so pretty. I’m sure your MaMa will love it.
Wow! So gorgeous – you make it look soooo easy to do. What a beautiful design! I really like how you used the prismacolor pencils – I have them and never think about using them to color my cards. Thanks for the inspiration!
This is such a beautiful. Love how you made it a “your are special” Mom card.
A lovely card Yana. Great use of the stamps and dies. I just got new colored pencils and you’ve inspired me to use them in this way. Thanks!
Thanks for a great Tutorial Love your Ideas. Have a Great Weekend.
Beautiful card that any MAMA would love to receive. Thanks for sharing your creativity
This is a great idea I absolutely love the back ground. Thankyou for being on the @SSS BLOG hop
Beautiful card. Really going to have to get some of the background stamps. Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful card and technique. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful card! I’m going to get my colored pencils out!
Gorgeous card Yana, I think your MaMa will love it! Great video tutorial, I think the way you used the novo drops on your card looks amazing!
Your card is beautiful. I love the Ma-Ma.. stunning card and love the use of color pencils.. Always enjoy seeing your cards.
so pretty on the Kraft. I love your second card too.
This is a gorgeous background stamp!
Beautiful card. I must try my Prismacolors on kraft and darker papers soon!
When you embossed it, it was so intricate but you made it look easy. Beautiful!
What a beautiful card
Gorgeous, Yana! I have recently played with the Tonic Studios Nuvo crystal drops and they are super fun!
Yana, this is such a sweet card to give your Mama! I just love the colors you chose, and the stamp is awesome!
Your card is so beautiful! I love the colors you used although I would have added some yellow. I love yellow! When I win I am buying some white embossing powder which I don’t have and then, even though big stamps are hard on my child sized hands because it’s hard to use them, I want one of those background stamps. I want to do what you did with your card and my mom would love to get that card for Mother’s Day . I call my mom mom and sometimes lately mommy but I could just do mom. I have those Nuvo drops and I love them too! I also have Prisma colored pencils and they are so fun to color with. I can’t wait to try making card! When I get it done, I will try to post it so you can see it. Thank you for showing me what you did!
Any MAMA would love to get this card. I know I would.
Such a lovely card & gorgeous color combination!
What a fun card!
A beautiful card, your Ma will love it! Thank you for sharing!
Stunning cards, I just love the first card and the gorgeous background!