Mother's Day 3D Heart Flower Card

It’s the countdown to Mother’s Day this week and it’s a busy busy week for us. We thought the best thing to start off with is a card because that’s what we are pros at. ;)

Nicole came across a cool idea for a framed picture of  3D heart flowers. Take a look at the link here http://wonderfuldiy.com/wonderful-diy-paper-flower-heart-wall-art/3d-paper-flower-heart-wonderfuldiy2/. She thought that this would look good as a card for Mother’s Day and I agreed. Instead of making these 3D heart flowers into the shape of a heart, Nicole is making a flowery design because a big heart on a card is a bit tricky to do.

It does take some time and prep and to make because you need to punch out a bunch of hearts, but it’s not too difficult of a design.

We’re doing a bright and cheerful yellow and white card with a splash of light green. Perfect for Spring and perfect for Mother’s Day.

All you really need to do for this card is cut out a card and then punch a variety of mini to medium hearts and then fold them in half and arrange them in a circle with the points in the middle and all facing the same way. We’ve done our flowers all the same shade of yellow for each and then added the mini green hearts as vines/leaves.

Take a look at our creation.

Give one a go and personalize it for your mom or make her a framed big heart picture like the one we showed you earlier.

Crafty Springtime Flower

We are kicking April off with a new theme...Spring. This month we are going to do crafts and make treats all with Spring in mind.

Today we are making a really simple and cute kids flower craft. This is perfect for a Mother’s Day gift or for a decoration around the house to bring in the Spring.

You need just a few easy to find things like scissors, a green straw (we used the hard fancy kind with polka dots), glue or glue tape, a few sheets of construction paper in the colour you want your flower to be, some yellow construction paper for the centre, hot glue, and tape if you want it.

First of all cut your centre out of yellow construction paper, about a 2 inch circle or you can punch one if you have a punch that size.

Then cut your “petals.” We chose pink and we used our leftover card strips so we didn’t have to cut. Roughly make these strips 6 ¾ inches x ¾ inches. You’ll need about 16 strips per flower.

Glue the ends of the strips together, so they kinda look like teardrops.

Once the “petals” are ready, start gluing them to the back of the yellow circle like this...

Then keep gluing them at 90 degree angles, then in between each other until all of the strips are used up and your flower looks full.

Hot glue the straw to the back and if you want, you can secure it with clear tape or some fancy decorated tape.

Now you have a beautiful Spring flower that you can keep forever!