Mother's Day Cards

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• We R Memory Keepers Revolution Die Cut Machine Dies
• Stamps
• Cardstock: navy, pink, white, gray, green, mustard
• Glue stick
• 1/4" dotted Washi Tape White & Black Relief Ink Brayer
• Small sheet of glass
• Vegetable oil (for cleaning oil-based relief ink)
• Paper towels

DIRECTIONS:

You Make Me Smile Flower Card:

1. Cut cardstock to roughly 3"x 5".
2. Squirt small size of black Relief Ink onto glass sheet and roll into an even layer of ink across the glass surface with the brayer.
3. Roll inked brayer over the surface of a flower stamp, then press stamp onto 3"x 5" piece of cardstock. Set aside to dry.
4. Cut another matching piece of cardstock to roughly 2"x 3".
5. Prepare to use Revolution Die Cut Machine by stacking sheets and die in this order - Platform, Magnetic Board, Die, Cardstock, Acrylic Die Cut Sheet.
6. Arrange the Smile die to the lower right of the cardstock, leaving room for stamped letters at the top, and send through the die cut machine by pulling the crank.
7. Take die-cut 2"x 3" cardstock over to your inking area. Roll inked brayer over 'You Make Me' stamp, and press stamp onto upper left 2"x 3" cardstock. Set aside to dry.
8. Cut 2"x 3 1/2" inch piece of white cardstock and fold the 1/2" over to create another 2"x 3" piece of cardstock.
9. Once inks have dried, assemble card by gluing folded white cardstock to the bottom of the flower-stamped 3 x 5 cardstock. Lastly, glue the stamped and die-cut 2"x 3" cardstock to the folded-over tab of the white cardstock.



Smile Die-Cut Double Flower Card:

10. Fold navy cardstock and cut into 4"x 5" piece. Cut piece of pink cardstock to fit through die cut machine.
11. Prepare to use Revolution Die Cut Machine by stacking sheets and die in this order - Platform, Magnetic Board, Floral Die, Pink Cardstock, Acrylic Die Cut Sheet.
12. Send through the die cut machine by pulling the crank. Repeat to get two floral die-cut pieces.
13. Cut piece of white cardstock to fit through die cut machine.
14. Place Smile die onto magnetic board and assemble in the same order as before - Platform, Magnetic Board, Smile Die, White Cardstock, Acrylic Die Cut Sheet.
15. Send through the die cut machine by pulling the crank.
16. Assemble card by gluing the pink flower on its side on the left side, and flipping the other pink flower and gluing it on the right side, allowing the stems of the flowers to intertwine. Lastly, glue the Smile card in the center.



Hello Bee-autiful Card:

17. Squirt small size of white Relief Ink onto glass sheet and roll into an even layer of ink across the glass surface with the brayer.
18. Roll inked brayer over the surface of floral stamp, then press stamp onto the top of your 12"x 12" sheet of navy cardstock.
19. Roll inked brayer over the surface of 'hello' and 'bee-autiful' stamps, then press stamps into center of the floral image. Set aside to dry.
20. Once dry, measure out 1/2" from the bottom of stamped floral image and fold. Trim the card to 5"x 7". This will leave an additional 1/2" on the bottom layer of the folded card.
21. Cut piece of white cardstock to fit through die cut machine.
22. Place Bee die onto magnetic board and assemble in the same order as before - Platform, Magnetic Board, Bee Die, White Cardstock, Acrylic Die.
23. Cut Sheet.
24. Send through the die cut machine by pulling the crank. Repeat for a second die-cut bee, and repeat two more times to create additional bee shapes to give a more thickness to assembled bees on the card.
25. Clean white ink off brayer with vegetable oil and paper towels. Squirt small amount of black ink on glass sheet and even out with brayer. Roll inked brayer over bee stamp, and press onto die-cut bee shape. Repeat for second bee and set aside to dry.
26. Assemble card by adding dotted ¼ inch washi tape to the top and bottom. Then glue together inked bee shape to additional layer of die-cut bee shape, repeat for second bee. Position bees onto the card and glue.



Hey Mum! card:

27. Fold green card stock and cut into 5"x 7".
28. Squirt small size of black Relief Ink onto glass sheet and roll into an even layer of ink across the glass surface with the brayer.
29. Roll inked brayer over the surface of a 'Hey Mum!' stamp, then press stamp onto piece of white cardstock. Set aside to dry.
30. Cut pink cardstock to fit into die cut machine.
31. Prepare to use Revolution Die Cut Machine by stacking sheets and die in this order - Platform, Magnetic Board, Floral Die, Pink Cardstock, Acrylic Die Cut Sheet.
32. Send through die cut machine by pulling the crank. Repeat for second floral shape.
33. Roll inked brayer over the surface of a floral stamp, then press stamp onto pink floral shapes. Set aside to dry.
34. Cut dried 'Hey Mum!' white cardstock into a roughly 2"x 3" rectangle.
35. Assemble card by gluing white rectangle slightly above center, gluing one stamped flower on bottom, and the second stamped flower upside-down on top, trimming excess stem.

JOANN HACKS:

• Check the grain direction of the cardstock before folding. Try a very, very light fold (do not crease) in one direction and then the other. One direction will be much more pliable than the other. Folding in the pliable direction will give a clean fold without crinkles.