Stampin Friends April Blog Hop - All about Flowers and Mom

Welcome to the Stampin Friends Blog Hop!

This month’s theme is All About Flowers and Mom's of course! If you are following along the hop, you have arrived from Teri's blog. Be sure to read through my blog, comment below and continue to Kim Q's blog. If you get lost along the way, you can find a list of Blog Hoppers at the end of each Blog. 

This month we are preparing for a wonderful Holiday here in the US that occurs next month, Mothers Day.  Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society.  It is only fitting that I would use our blog hop theme to celebrate Mom. 

I am very fascinated in anything made with paper, so you can bet I was extremely excited when I found a way to make butterflies and flowers out of paper. Actually, if you search Pinterest or the Web you will find a ton of paper flower tutorials, however the flower I made is fairly easy to do.  Let’s get to the card and project.

 

The card has a very delicate look which Stampin’ Up! made very easy to do with their Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards.  I layered a piece of Petal Pink cardstock behind the laser cut front panel.

I then die cut the 2” wide Nestled Labels Die out of Very Vanilla card stock and snailed it in the center of the card.

From the stamp set Forever Blossoms, I stamped the large flower image, small flower and double leaf image.  I colored them using Stampin’ Up!’s water color pencils and blended them with blender pens.  I die cut these images using the coordinating dies from the Cherry Blossoms die set. The large flower image is adhered with dimensionals while the smaller flower image is snailed.

Lastly, I pulled out an old Paper Pumpkin kit for the Happy Mother’s Day sentiment.  The kit is April’s 2019 Sentimental Rose.  I stamped the sentiment on a piece of Sahara Sand card stock in Momento Black ink and then die cut it out using the larger label die from Painted Labels Dies.

Quick Glance Supply List

·      Forever Blossoms Stamp Set

·      April 2019 Sentimental Rose Paper Pumpkin Stamp set

·      Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards & Tin

·      Petal Pink Card Stock

·      Very Vanilla Card Stock

·      Sahara Sand Card Stock

·      Whisper White Card Stock

·      Cherry Blossoms Die Set

·      Nestled Labels Die Set

·      Painted Labels Die Set

·      Dimensionals

·      Snail

·      Momento Black Ink

·      Stampin’ Up! Water Color Pencils

·      Blender Pens

I don’t know about your Mom, but my Mom has everything you think of.  The best gift for her is usually some flowers and scratch tickets.  Yes, my Mom loves scratch tickets.  However, I am not a fan of giving flowers.  They just cost way to much for their limited life span.  However, I am one that will make them out of paper and they will last forever.  Trust me, if you gift someone paper flowers they will be in awe.  In addition to paper flowers, I also found a video on how to make origami butterflies.  No adhesive is needed to put these together, but I used just a little bit to hold the point down since I was putting them on wire.  

Let’s get to the project. I could try to type up instructions for the flowers and butterflies, but that would take me weeks or months to do, lol. So instead I will direct you to a couple of links that are very easy to follow.     

I found the butterfly here:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/62980094776981109/

It’s super easy to put together.  I got it on the first try and I never get anything on the first try!

I found the flower here:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/62980094763941869/

I’ll admit, this wasn’t super easy to put together.  However, once you get the hang of it, they come together very easily.

What I will tell you about flowers and butterflies that I made is the following.

  

Butterflies:

The smaller one I used a 4 ½”x 4 ½” piece of origami paper and for the larger one I used a piece of 6”x6” piece of origami paper.  You can use any paper you like, I think they would look really neat with pretty designer series paper.

Flowers:

The smaller one, each petal is made with a piece of 3”x3” piece of paper.  You can’t tell what type of paper I used here, but this is another reason why I love making paper flowers.  I used an old Idea Book and Catalog from Stampin’ Up!, time to up-cycle! Each flower takes five petals. 

The larger flower I used pages from the book the The Tao of Pooh.  I am a Winnie the Pooh fan and believe it or not, I

have about five copies of this book.  So the older paperback went into making flowers!

To finish off the flowers I die cut some leaves from Stampin’ Up!’s Leaflets Framelets and Rose Garden Thinlits.  The top of the smaller flowers have ½” circle punched out of Calypso Coral card stock and an embellishment (yikes I don’t remember where I got that from, but any will do).  The top of the larger flower has a ¾” circle punched out of Calypso Coral card stock and a retired Stampin’ Up! embellishment.  Like stated earlier any embellishment will work, even a large pearl or rhinestone. 

Lastly, I decorated the vase with some ribbon and a tag.

Tag:

The tag base is a piece of 1¾”x3” Very Vanilla card stock. The next layer is a piece of 1½”x2¾” Petal Pink card stock.  For both pieces I used the tag corner punch from Stampin’ Up! (retired). 

Then from the Forever Blossoms stamp set, I stamped two of the smaller flower stamp and two of the double leaf stamp.  Again, I colored these using Stampin’ Up!’s Water Color pencils and blended them with Stampin’ Up!’s blender pens.  I die cut these out using the coordinating dies from the Cherry Blossoms Die set.

The sentiment also came from April’s 2019 Paper Pumpkin kit Sentimental Rose.  I stamped the words in Momento black ink onto Sahara Sand card stock.  This was then punched out using Stampin’ Up!’s Classic Label Punch.

I punched a hole in the top and ran some twine through the hole.  I then attached this to the vase using a piece of Peekaboo Peach ruched ribbon.

Quick Glance Supply List

·      Forever Blossoms Stamp Set

·      April 2019 Sentimental Rose Paper Pumpkin Stamp set

·      Petal Pink Card Stock

·      Very Vanilla Card Stock

·      Sahara Sand Card Stock

·      Whisper White Card Stock

·      Calypso Coral

·      Origami Paper

·      Cherry Blossoms Die Set

·      Classic Label Punch

·      Tag Corner Punch

·      ½” Circle Punch

·      ¾” Circle Punch

·      Peekaboo Peach Ruched Ribbon

·      Twine

·      Dimensionals

·      Snail

·      Momento Black Ink

·      Stampin’ Up! Water Color Pencils

·      Blender Pens

Phew, well that was a lot to take in.  Hope you like my card and project for this month.  If you have any questions on anything you’ve seen here, please let me know.  I know there is a lot of information to take in, lol.

So without further ado…please visit the other bloggers in this awesome Blog Hop featuring flowers and Moms.  There are lots of very creative people in this hop, so enjoy!

Stephanie Jandrow

Jo Blackman

Jean Bolen Beaulieu

Teri Pocock

Tiziana Milano - You are here

Kim Quade

Heidi Collins

Katja Ettig

Rachael Rife USA

Maureen Rauchfuss USA

Kim Lamos

Barbara Welch

Anne Marie Hile

Melissa Thomas