making cards.....

The kids are making mother's day cards. While they colored, so did I.

I wanted to make my Mom a card too. 

My master pieces were brought home. They got a squirt of my spray paint.

One became an envelope.....

...the other got cut up. It was about then I remembered tractor joe's mom!

I needed to make two.

The outside of the cards were painted yellow and orange. My tool of choice is a sponge that I cut up into small sections...and use over and over again. 

I was going to make the black and white fabric a border, but.... at the last minute, it became the stems for the flowers. It just seemed right.

Two cards, I needed another envelope. I found a scrap paper....and added more spray paint.

My envelopes are pretty basic.....

After cutting it square, I fold it in half, pinching only the very edges.

It should be cut at a nice 45 degree angle, I eyeball it and snip.

All the flaps are folded in. Here I decide which way will be up.

......and then glue down three of the flaps.

Wasn't sure what I wanted on the inside. I ended up with a heart, black &white fabric strip and cut out letters from the newspaper ads.

Found some stickers to add, and flowers that were cut from an ad selling flower arrangements.

When I had cut them out, I had no idea where I would use them, they became the perfect thing here.

The 'happy' is black letter stickers and I made a frame with a white ink pen.

This took me most of the morning to finish.

Here they are in the mailbox! They left this afternoon!

Mother's Day sure does seem early this year.