Helmar - Mother's Day Special

Good Morning Everyone,

Today I am posting for Helmar Worldwide, I would like to share with you a card I made for a friend for his wife - a special request card.

Here is my special project

I used two different Helmar products on my project, Acid Free and Scrap Dots - of course my two favourite products haha.

You must excuse the state of my poor little Scrap Dots, I've been squeezing every last little bit of adhesive out of him - you must make use of the last little bit right :-)

Let's talk our way through the project.. I started with a Couture Creations Card Base (I purchased these in bulk quite a while ago, they come with matching envelopes and I love a square card).

There is two sections to my card as I played with colours, before finally coming to the final layout.

I cut a piece of patterned paper down from a very old Mother's Day Paper Pad that I had purchased from Kmart (I'm talking ancient hoarding here). I used this to base my layout around as I knew I wanted to go a little simplicity but still pretty.

I had my Dad print out some photos that my friend had sent me of him, Bub and beautiful Wife, I got him to print them small enough that they would be centred on my card but not huge. This one that I ended up using on my project I ran through my Sizzix Big Shot using a Polaroid Shaker Frame from MFT Stamps, I only needed the centre piece as I waned the polaroid frame in white. I then ran the die through again a few times using some leftovers of white cardstock, the top piece ended up being some leftover X-Press It Blending Cardstock so it has that nice smooth finish. (I posted all the extra photos off to my friend)

Using Helmar Acid Free I began adhering all the frames together, for the bottom I adhered two of the centre pieces and adhered them on opposite corners (on the back of the polaroids) so I was able to inlay my photo piece that I had already cut and it wouldn't move or fall through.

I really should have done this before adhering all the layers but it turned out all ok in the end so that's all that matters I guess.. I decided to emboss a "Mother's Day" sentiment onto the bottom of the polaroid. I grabbed my SSS Mother's Day Sentiment set and actually carefully cut the Happy part from the sentiment - yep I cut my stamp in half! I used my EK Success Scissors so it was a super straight cut and if I ever want to use it all together again they will go back together on a stamping block perfectly. It's ok to do this :-)

I prepared the card using an embossing buddy (powder tool) and used Ink On 3 Embossing Ink, Ranger Super Fine White Embossing Powder and my heat gun to emboss the sentiment.

Using Lawn Fawn Scripty Happy I ran it through my Big Shot using some scrap cardstock (I went in later on in the video and coated the sentiment with Embossing Ink and gold embossing powder and heated it up to melt the embossing powder and turn the word gold).

I cut the number 1 from Paper Rose Jumbo Numbers and the ST is from Concord & 9th Tall Type Numbers, I did the same process as mentioned above to turn everything gold.

The flowers are from MFT Stamps Stitched Flowers and the leaves are from MFT Stamps Layered Leaves. I cut the flowers from some Kaisercraft Bow & Arrow patterned paper and the leaves are from some leftover white cardstock. (I originally cut all the flowers using some leftover pink cardstock but changed up the colours).

I layered the flowers using Helmar Acid Free, the top layer I used Scrap Dots to make them pop off the flowers a little big extra then I finished the flowers off using Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops in Mustard Gold - such a stunning colour.

I grabbed my card base and adhered a doily, the patterned paper over top and began adhering all my layers down using Acid Free.

Once my card layers were all added I used some more of the Nuvo Drops to add a few enamel dots around the card.

I hope you have enjoyed my post today, if you have any questions feel free to send me a message or contact me via facebook (all links can be found below).

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Thanks for stopping by, Deni

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