Mother's Day Card

Good Morning one and all.  I hope you had a good weekend.  We had a family get together yesterday which was lovely, my nieces are growing so fast.

Today im sharing the card i made for my mum for Mothering Sunday.  As my regular followers know we love nature and mums veranda over looks the paddock where you can sit and watch the rabbits, pheasants and other wildlife.  Although we don't get many hares in this part of the world, when i saw these amazing lino cut style hares from hobbycraft they fell into my basket.

I wanted a way to get all three hares onto a card and all the extra foliage stamps.  I came up with this tall lean box card.  Full details at the end of the post for it.  I did a topper panel for 2 sides so that it can be rotated to display the other side.  

After making the base card (see below)   I die cut 2 large ovals from white card. On one i first inked through a crazy paving style stencil in an ombre effect in greens and blues with oxide inks.  I love the smooth look the oxides give through a stencil. Starting at the bottom twisted citron, cracked pistachio, peacock feathers & touch of salty ocean at the top.  I then stamped my 2 hares with black archival ink.  I then built a scene around them with the various other stamps in the large set again with black archival ink. 

They are sitting in the meadow under the trees where the tree blossom is falling upon them. Mounted onto a larger black oval die cut. 

A close up on the topper.  For my flower i inked white card with the peacock and salty ocean oxide inks, and then stenciled a pattern over it with the same inks.  This i then die cut into a dimensional flower.  A couple of leaves added behind.  Large black gem to finish and a few glitter highlights on my topper panel.

For the 4 side panels, i cut strips of white and black card to fit each side of the box.  I then used the same oxide inks used throughout to make little scenes using various stamps from the set.  I lightly inked around the edge of the panel, mounted it onto the black and then the side of the box.  I did 2 sides with the green/blue combo and 2 sides with the orange/red combo.

and onto the other side of my box..

I did my topper the same way as the blue one, just using a different stencil with squeezed lemonade,fossilized amber, spiced marmalade & candied apple oxide inks.  This time i started with the lightest shade in the middle, working out to the darkest.  This stencil leaves a circle in the middle so it looked like the setting sun to me, so i went with the warm orange & reds of sunset.  Again i stamped the hare and extras with black archival ink. Flower made the same way.  

I attached each oval opposite each other on the base.  I attached one side and then turned over and flattened the base so i could easily line up on the opposite side.

Just a close up, i added red glitter glue highlights on this side.  

Another side panel, using different stamps.  There are so many stamps in this set so plenty of different ways to build up a scene.  You can see the Hare stamps as clean and beautifully in the oxides as it did the black archival.  Ive left the middle of the panel pale so that i can write my greeting.   Ive also kept the card sentiment free on purpose so that mum can display it for longer if she so wishes, so its kind of a little gift and card in one. 

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And heres how i made the box base

This shows from the top the box.  I took a sheet of white A4 cardstock, have it landscape, i scored 4 score lines at 2.5" mark, this gives you 4 panels and you have a bit left over for the tab.  Fold all 4 score lines and and form your cube shape and glue the tab to the other side.  Simple really.  Can easily be made any size of height.  I kept the full A4 height so that i had plenty of room.  The benefit is that this card is completely free standing and folds up to fit in an envelope. 

This just shows that it folds flat for posting and it easily pops open again.  p.s She loved it, as did my dad😀

Items Used:

Hobby Art Stamps - CS208D Lino Cut Hares

Spellbinders Grand Oval Dies

Flower & Foliage dies

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks

Plastic Stencils

Payper box black card

CraftUk Ltd Smooth white card

Ranger stickles glitter glue

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a lovely week whatever your plans are.  Emmax

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