PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Mother's Day Cards and the Very Best of Pinterest Pins

Erma Bombeck, a humorist and columnist once wrote, "The hardest part of being a mom is showing up for the job each day!" Happiest of Mother's Day to all of you who have not only shown up for the job each day, but who deserve the Employee of the Year award year after year!...and to my own two sons who are now young men, thank you for giving me the most wonderful job on the planet! Along with my DH, my life has been truly blessed thanks to the three most important men in my life ^_^

I've seen a lot of beautiful floral cards on Pinterest lately that would make lovely Mother's Day cards. These are some of my treasured finds and cards made for some of my favorite moms:

My Version:

Inside:

Another Card Made with SU's Set:

What I Love

My Version:

More What I Love Cards

that I MUST Make:

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: White Embossing and the Very Best of Recent Pins

I saw an idea on Pinterest that caught my eye using a flower stamp, Versamark clear ink and white embossing powder:

Original Pin HERE

I was drawn to the simplicity and lots of white space on this card....so I gave it a try:

STAMP SETS by SU:

Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Messages for Mom

Silhouette Sentiments
Wonderful Words

Yummy

I was just about to give this card away,
turned it over to put my HOMMARK CARD
sticker on the back...and when I turned it back
over, there was a hot pink smudge in the
white space! YIKES!...so adding a few flowers
in the white space let me fix it in a hurry!

How to make this card: Cut a 2" x 4 1/4" rectangle and do all of the stamping, embossing and sponging on that piece of white card stock before adhering it to the front of an A2 card. Those Itty Bitty Background dots added that final finishing touch! Be sure to wipe off any ink on the white embossed images with Kleenex because it will rub off onto your hands, the card base and the envelope!

Here are a few more white embossed pins:

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: The Very Best of Recent Pins on Pinterest

Multi-Faceted Boxes

I love this wonderful gift box idea that appeared on Pinterest thanks to a talented paper crafter named Pootles:

Original Pin HERE

She has a terrific video on her blog HERE, and the measurements posted on her blog with a pic from her video showing where to make your cuts are as follows:

Start with a medium weight card stock: 11 1/2 x 7 7/8″ 

Score on the SHORT (7 7/8") side first at 2 1/2, 4 5/8, 7 1/8″ 

Bring the narrowest horizontal line to the top and score to the SECOND score line (as per the video) at 2 1/2, 5,  7 1/2, 10″ 

ROTATE 180 degrees and score to the FIRST score line (as per video) at 1/4, 2 3/4, 5 1/4, 7 3/4, 10 1/4″ 

I also used tinyurl.com to make an easy url to remember for this project: tinyurl.com/pootlesbox. Another crafty SU demonstrator named Frenchie featured Pootles box this week and posted pics of the boxes she made:

 

This is my version:

I decided to switch out the gold flower on top

with a flower I made from the same paper:

HINT: I glued my flower to the lid so

the brad doesn't show when the

lid is lifted open.

The die used to make the rose on the lid is from

My Favorite Things and can be found HERE. 

My version of where to cut is shown below:

(HINT: Use red sticky tape on the half triangle

tab to ensure that the box will not come apart!)

I realized that my version is the mirror image of the

one Pootles showed in her video as shown below.

The difference is whether you're viewing the

inside vs. the print side of the paper!

Yet another project that I can't stop making...and

it looks so much more impressive IRL (in real life)!

One more box today for me with a hybrid flower:

People will not believe that you made this box! (I have proof of this fact!) It's perfect for Father's Day gift giving!

PIN FRIDAY FAVS: Last Post for Card in a Box

In a previous PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS post, I featured CARD IN A BOX projects. This past weekend, I finally had a chance to make up several of them for Mother's Day, a birthday and a get well card. Here's what I made and I have to say...WARNING!! Making these boxes can be addicting!

Back View

Jolee's bee stickers and their BLING flowers made the construction of this box go a lot quicker. The flowers have adhesive on the back and after I attached them to my handmade stems, I used face powder applied to the backs of the flowers which instantly takes away the stickiness! (The adhesive has to be removed so that the flowers don't stick to the back flap when it's collapse and placed in an envelope.)

My original post with instructions can be found HERE, but the basic measurements are as follows:

One 5.5" x 8.5" piece of  DSP:

Along the 5.5" side score at 2 3/4"

and

along the 8.5 side score at

1/2", 2.5", 4.5" and 6.5"

OR

2", 4", 6" and 8"

(Depending on the amount of the design

 desired for the back panel,

you may want to start your

scoring with 1/2 " or 2")

 ...and the nicest thing about this version --- these boxes collapse and fit into a standard A2 envelope!

I did make a modification to the instructions:  For the 3 flaps that open on the sides - NOT the very back flap - I trimmed those 3 flaps so they all measured 2" square as shown below so the base of the box can be seen better and I also liked the scale of them compared to the base and back panel:

Here are a few more pics I took to show how the center 3" pieces are inserted. I used 1/2" red sticky tape on the 1/2" flaps and I placed the 3" pieces about a 1/4" into the box so they wouldn't show as much:

I also made up an insert with a picture to include with the card that tells the recipient how to set up their box after they take the card out of the envelope. It says:

This is a card in a box!

Open it up and bend it to the

left to form a perfectly square

box with the three smaller

flaps extending out.

....and look at this beautiful creation from Pinterest:

Click HERE for the Original Pin

FAV COLOR COMBO

One of my favorite color combos:
Pink, black and green!

New background embossing
folder from Alice!