Mother's Day Cards | Sizzix Post

We are observing Mother’s Day in India on the 14^th of this month and I came up with a couple of last minute mother’s day card ideas featuring the newly released dies from Sizzix—Butterfly Meadow by Debi Potter and the Sentiment Words Thin by Tim Holtz.

First One:-

Although this one was quick to put together after planning the design, it took a lot of time and brain-storming to finalize the card layout. Yeah, guess that happens when you’re low on creative ideas. I usually find it difficult to incorporate patterned papers on my cards. But I have a huge stock of pretty patterned papers kept in the drawers unused and it hurts me to see them getting dusty. So I challenged myself to try using PPs onto my card.  That beautiful die cut is a single piece with the butterfly, flowers and the leaves. I sponged the die cut using different colours of distress inks with the help of sponge daubers.

And now over to the second one:-

For this card, I wanted to try out a stenciling technique with my distress inks. I started by sponging three colours(abandoned coral, scattered straw, evergreen bough) of distress inks on a 4 by 5 ¼ inches sized Iris Sg card panel.

Then I chose my stencil I wished to use, sprayed some water over the stencil and placed it over the sponged card panel. I saw this technique in one of the recent card-making videos by Jennifer McGuire.

That gave me a beautiful background. The reason why this technique works so beautifully with distress inks (or even distress oxides) is the unique tendency of these inks to react with water.

And because I already had a colourful and striking background, I decided to keep the butterfly meadow die cut uncoloured.

How do you like these cards? Would love to know. :)

Products used:-

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine Only (white and gray)(#660020)

Sizzix Thinlits die set- Meadow Butterfly#2  by Debi Potter(661687)

Sizzix Thinlits die set 21 pk – Sentiment words, Thin by Tim Holtz(#661799)

Linking my cards to :-

Paru's Cardmaking Challenges- May-- Mother's Day

Love,

Jasleen.