April Club Projects: Mother's Day

One more post away from getting caught up with my past club projects! :o)  But here are the projects we did in my April club which was geared towards Mother's Day:

First was a very cute tea bag holder, completely inspired and cased from fellow demonstrator Heidi Baks.  You can find her full instructions for this here.

I used the Tea Shoppe stamp set from the 2012 Annual Catalog (digital is still available) as well as the Tea for Two DSP.  And if you missed this beautiful pattern from the Occasions catalog, you can get it in a whole new color scheme in the Afternoon Picnic DSP from the new Annual Catalog or get the digital version!

As our second project, we made a very classy Mother's Day card using the Dress Up framelits and the Flowering Flourishes and Friendly Phrases (retired but still available in digital) stamp sets:

The "Happy Mother's Day" sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set:

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April Club Projects - Mother's Day

We did some great Mother's Day projects for our May hostess club!

First, we had some fun with acetate and made these awesomely simple pentagon treat tubes!  I absolutely love working with acetate for treat boxes, because it makes choosing the treat for the inside so much fun!

Click here for a tutorial on SCS on how to make these goodies!

Secondly, we made a lovely collapsible card where we utilized the dryer sheet technique on the front:

We used the Word Play stamp set as well as the "Something to Celebrate" hostess set and "Easter Blossoms" stamp set from the Occasions mini.  

I designed the card to write a childhood memory on the middle circle (hence, the "Remember When..." on the front of the card) :o)

April Club Projects

Here are the April Club project we completed for Mother's Day!

A simple, but beautiful card using the Awash with Flowers Stamp set:

And some very fun flower pins which I learned to make from my upline, Alecia Connelly!

The technique is super simple... punch your desired colors out of card stock using the scallop circle punch, spray the pieces with water and crumple them up, then open them up and put them on a brad. Finally, arrange each layer and let dry!

Personally, I have made several of these and I love to wear them on headbands! :o)

Mother's Day/Easter Swap

Last month I participated in a swap with some of my fellow demos... sorry I'm just getting around to posting these... but I just had to share! :o) I love them all!!!

Big Shot/Felt Gift Bags

I recently made these cute felt bags for a Mother's Day swap with some fellow SU demos using the Baskets & Blooms XL Die. I trimmed off the extra "tab" and sewed them together on my machine using a gradiated thread. I used the extra large flower punch for the tag after stamping a background with the French Filigree background stamp and the "Wonderful Mother" stamp from the Well Scripted stamp set.

These little bags are perfect for holding small gifts (like jewelry & gift cards) and they were super-fast and super-fun to make!