Mothers Day

Written and Created by PaperCraftCentral Susan

Mothers Day is the second Sunday in May in Australia. You can find out more about this special day at this history page. 

Here are some card ideas including a lovely paper bag card to make for her and fill with photos and/or special tickets, gift cards and notes.

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love."
~Mildred B. Vermont

Garden Wishes for Mothers Day

I hope you celebrate Mother's Day by showing appreciation to the one who gave you life or who nurtured you while you were growing up. Treasure your Mothers while you can. Life is short.

The Garden wishes stamp set and dies is such a pretty set. I think the flowers and foliage make a beautiful Mother's day card idea.

For this Mothers Day card I embossed the Basic White background with the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder.

Then I brushed Tombow Multi glue onto certain areas of the embossed cardstock and added Gilded Leafing to it. I brushed away the excess Gilded Leafing with a stiff paintbrush once the glue was dry.

TIP: I found placing a piece of scrap paper over the leafing and pressing it into the cardstock a little also helped it take hold of the glue.

The rest of the card is made up of some designer series paper I had, then I stamped out some dandelions and coloured them with blends, and then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. They are popped up on the front if my card with Stampin' Dimensionals.

I added a little Hello sentiment in Memento Black ink but you could choose your own sentiment for this card. Make it about love and appreciation for your Mother in a way that speaks to her. Mums mostly need to know they are loved!

This following project on this page was a special one. My siblings and I took our mother out to dinner and a show and then out to a special ocean trip the next day. I needed to store her tickets and itinerary safely and leave space for her to insert photos and other memorabilia later. So I made a paper bag card. The instructions are below.

Another year I made her a handmade humourous Mothers Day card. You can see this project by scrolling down past the paper bag album and can have the instructions for making that as well.

How to Make a Mothers Day Paper Bag Card

I saw how to make a very sweet paper bag card on a blog and immediately thought how perfect it would be for my project. In this case, the family wanted to give our mother tickets to some special events. A paper bag card would have pockets and flaps, perfect for storing the vouchers and tickets till the time to give them to her arrived.

Here's How I Made The Card

• I took an ordinary brown paper bag and folded the bottom flap inwards to form a pocket, and paper pierced then hand stitched the edges of the flap down. I used a set of coordinating designer series papers from Stampin' Up! so it was not difficult to create a well put together effect.

There's still a pocket in the front section formed by the top of the paper bag. I put the vouchers and tickets in that and the journaling tags in the bottom flap pocket. I made a tag for each of my siblings to write their special messages on, too, since this was a joint gift between us all.

I was not sure I had finished decorating the card. In the end I took a picture of all of us helping her to celebrate and added it to the card the day after Mother's Day. I made some tags for each person at the party to write on so she had a pocket full of cards to read over and over.

Of course I added ribbon and pearls and a little bling and a sentiment and some loving words in my own handwriting...

After all, you can't really do enough to celebrate a special Mothers Day now can you :)

As another idea, you may enjoy making a Mother's Day Hearts card

Make a Humourous Mothers Day Card

Maybe your mother loves jokes? I made a humourous card for mine with the Pun Intended stamp set (now retired) one year. It did make her laugh!

On the card front I made a lighted lamp by laying down a circle of Daffodil Delight ink with a sponge on some Whisper white cardstock. Then I stamped the lamp in Basic Black over the top.

Next I added a sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments stamp set (now retired) and heat embossed it in gold. Some of the embossing powder stuck to the light switch! I thought that was a happy accident and made the lamp look really special. So I added some rhinestones to the neck of the lamp as well to really bling it up. I also coloured the shape under the light in Melon Mambo ink.

Now I turned to my card base which I made from Emerald Envy cardstock (retired). I wanted a feature along the bottom so I scallop punched the front, adding a strip of So Saffron behind it to line up with the back of the card. I stamped little hearts along the base in Emerald Envy and used my Paper Piercing tool to add some little holes in a line.

Next I mounted my image on Basic Black cardstock and then onto the card base.

The inside of the card has the punchline. I think you can figure out how I made it:

I thought it was a cute card!

You can also get inspiration from the Cards For Troops drive. We made hundreds of cards for the military to send home to their Mums!

If you have a special project you are making for Mother's Day I would love to see it. Please do share.