It was Mothers Day here in the UK yesterday and have been saving making a flower pot card just for it, flower pot cards just scream Mothers Day to me. I followed Beate’s tutorial which you can find here, I love her tutorials they are so clear and easy to follow and this card is just the same in fact it came together in no time at all.

I wanted my card to be nice and bright so I picked some zingy pink and green cardstock. My flowers came from 2 extra dies in a Cuttlebug alphabet set and the fern is a sizzix sizzlit, I only had pale pink snaps for the flower centers so I used a couple of bright pink eyelets too. Also I used a scalloped long rectangle die from spellbinders to add the scallop to the pot rim and tied a 1/2 inch pink ribbon round it.

Here’s the card I sent to my other half today. Gosh, it’s hard to do a masculine valentines card when hearts and flowers all things frilly immediately come to mind isn’t it?

I made a circle card by using the largest circle die in my spellbinders set and positioning it so it overhangs the fold in the card slightly. I typed the sentiment onto some white card stock leaving a suitable gap for my topper which is a mini king of hearts playing card from a pack that I had in one of my Christmas crackers this year, this is why I never throw anything away as you never know when it might come in handy.

I wanted to play with my new prismacolor pencils so I decided to use a silhouette flower stamp and create 3 different skies for 3 different times of day: midday, sunset and twilight. I stamped the flowers onto some white card stock and roughly coloured over the area with varying shades of pencils, I dipped a cottonbud into the sansodor and swiped it across the image sideways blending the pencils.