Mother’s Day
June 5th, 2007 by sashafaith
I have been a bad blogger – but a busy and productive scrapper, card maker, sewist (so much more appealing than the other name sewing enthusiasts have “sewer”), and mom. I never did make a post about this, but I meant to! For Mother’s Day, when I was planning to visit my mother-in-law briefly before joining my paternal grandmother and all of my aunts for a Mother’s Day dinner hosted at my dear cousin Duane’s house, I made cards for all the moms (Grandma, Mom, Mother-in-law Jean, Aunts Doreen & Marilyn, Cousins Pam, Leslie & Camille) with all of the available photos of their maternal ancestors! They were a huge hit! I had a ball making them. Being able to spend a great deal of time Saturday and a little time Sunday making them was part of the way I celebrated Mother’s Day. If I had nothing else to do, I would love to spend my time sewing, scrapbooking or card making. I am endeavoring to do more of all of those things consistently every day! (For example, today I invited a friend over for the specific purpose of “babysitting” me so that I could focus on a few sewing projects – rather than puttering around the house or anything else.) We decided that we will do it again. She will bring a portable photo sorting/scrapping project, and I will sew in her company. Today I finished hemming three curtains for my mother-in-law, and made a seat cushion for my kids’ desk chair. (still have to finish by hand, so no pic yet!) Here are my lovely Mother’s Day Cards:
I used a few different coordinating scrapbook papers for these cards: Fiskar’s Heidi Grace Papers: one sheet of striped designs, and one solid, along with two or three of K & Company’s Photo Matting Papers.
Here is the one I made for my mom:
I embellished with glitter and pearly white buttons. Inside looks like this:
I used Adobe Photoshop to resize the pictures so that the faces would fit into the 1 1/4 inch circles I wanted to use. (Of course, it wasn’t until tediously cutting out all of these circles that I decided a correctly sized circle punch was a good investment!). Hope all you moms out there had a lovely Mother’s Day!