Mothers Day Freesia and Card

Happy Mothers Day! I hope all you mothers had a great day!

Here is what my Mom got today! A potted Freesia flower with a few hand made accessories! I do not think I have ever seen or smelt a Freesia before and they are so pretty and smell so good!

I picked up the flower at a store and then came home and re-potted it into a bigger pit and added a few accessories to make it cute! First I added the 5/8" Black Grosgrain ribbon around the pot and tied it in a bow.
Then I die cut a few butterflies from the Beautiful Butterfly Bigz die and the Beautiful Wings Embosslit die using my Big Shot and Basic Black and Vellum card stocks. I also ran the Vellum through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing folder. I put a few butterflies together using mini glue dots ans adhered then to green "sticks" and stuck them into the pot.

Here is a close up of one of the butterflies. Nothing fancy, just a little something to give it a home made touch!

Here is the card I made for my Mom. I knew she liked this stamp set, so I used it on her card!

The stamp set if the the Occasions Mini catalog and is called Messages for Mom. I took the flower image and stamped it multiple time onto Watercolor paper using Black StazOn. I took the Rose Red, Apricot Appeal and Old Olive Stampin' Write markers and highlighted the image using the appropriate colors.

Then I took the Aqua Painter Pen and painted over the places I had colored to give it a softer look. I didn't color perfectly so that way the color would flow out of the line a little bit to fill the white spaces on the Watercolor paper.

I added a piece of Very Vanilla ribbon, a bow and a sentiment from the same stamp set to finish it off.

Thanks for looking!

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