Mothers Day Hearts

Written and Created by PaperCraftCentral Susan

Make a Mothers Day hearts card with an embossing folder twist.

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
~Henry Ward Beecher

This  card is a cinch to make if you have a nice, closely woven embossing folder (such as the Stampin' Up!  Square Lattice embossing folder which is sadly now retired, but there are others to consider in the SusanSalutations shop online) and a few paper punches in your stash. You wind up with such a pretty, quilted effect.

Mothers appreciate hearing from their children on Mother's Day. As I have lived longer on this planet, the one thing I looke forward to every time this special day comes around is a greeting from the children and grandchildren. I no longer value gifts as much, but I sure do value a handmade greeting card filled with a personal message from my loved ones. 

How to Make Mothers Day Hearts Cards

The process for making the example card is as follows. Feel free to make your card your own way and do check for similar supply items in your stash. 

Here's how I assembled my card:

• To make the embossed embellishment, first punch out three small flower shapes in different colours of cardstock or designer series paper.
• Punch out a large heart shape from cardstock with a paper shaper tool and glue or use double sided tape to attach the flowers to the front of the heart. You just want them to stay in place for the next step.
• Now take a closely woven embossing folder and your Stampin' Cut and Embossing Machine and decide if you want your heart embellishment to be embossed or debossed (decide which side will have a raised pattern) and place the embellished heart inside your embossing folder.
• Then run your sandwich of cutting plate, folder and cardstock, then cutting plate through your machine. I used the Stampin' Up! Textured Impressions embossing folder but any closely patterned folder would work. You need it to be a dense pattern for the flowers to be embedded in the heart properly.
• Because of the glue and the pressing of the embossing folder, your heart will be melded together with the flower shapes and look quilted, just as though it was all printed together in the first place.
  
• Now you can use your heart embellishment as desired on your handmade card.

The rest of my card was easy to complete.

I started with Blushing Bride cardstock (retired - try Petal Pink cardstock instead)  as a base and stamped flowers from the Stampin' Up! Always Elegant stamp set (retired) on the top half of the card with Elegant Eggplant ink (retired. Try Blackberry Bliss Ink and cardstock). I added some retired designer paper to the bottom half and tied a piece of white 5/8" (1.6cm) organza ribbon around the card.

Next I stamped the flourish from the Always Elegant stamp set on a piece of Basic White cardstock with Elegant Eggplant (or Blackberry Bliss) ink. I matted it with a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock, then popped up my finished embellishment with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Finally I stamped my sentiment on the front with a stamp from the Always Elegant stamp set in Elegant Eggplant (or Blackberry Bliss) ink and voila. It was all done.

I got carried away and made a whole group of these cards to send to special family members and girlfriends. A Mothers Day Heart card can be used for all sorts of other special occasions too. Just change up the sentiment or change the colours to suit your occasion.I think they would make fantastic Valentines Day cards, for example.

If you have a card with this type of embossing on it, I would really love to see it. Please do share it with me by filling out the easy form below and uploading a photo from your gallery. It could become a feature page on PaperCraftCentral.com. 

I have some other examples of cards I have made to make my mother's day special. My cards for this occasion don't always have hearts on them but one do have flowers. I found one of these card layouts on the 'web but some I created without that inspiration. Both of them have die cut elements on them.

Here's the one I designed myself:

Another one I made was made with a very large stamped and die cut butterfly. I just hinged it at the top so there was another butterfly behind the colourful one for me to write my message on. 

You might like to see other Mother's Day card ideas that I have published on PaperCraftCentral.com. I hope they inspire you in making something unique and meaningful for your Mum!

• Mother's Day cards for the troups
• Mother's Day Butterfly Card using that big butterfly above in a different way
• Loving greeting card

Or search for more Mother's Day card ideas on Pintrest. Use Stampin' Up! with Mother's Day to find as many cards using supplies you may already have.

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