The Greatest Gift…..Really!

By KariV on April 18, 2018 in Mother's Day, Paper Crafting

Today I’m going to tell you all the reasons why I love this new set from Our Daily Bread Designs called “The Greatest Gift.”

It is a beautiful Mother’s Day set with GORGEOUS butterflies (just look at that detail in the wings!)
It has not only the butterfly stamps but also the matching DIES to cut out those butterflies (yes! The dies come with it!)
I love all the sentiments like: “A mother holds your hand for a while, but holds your HEART forever” and “To the World you are a Mother, but to your family you are the World”
The font on said sentiments is a fantastic blend of script and uppercase lettering
It makes beautiful cards so easy…

Here are my creations this week with this set:

I heat embossed the butterflies on VELLUM with glitter embossing powder. I thought the wings looked so beautiful on vellum. And there is that sentiment that I love! I used this set for the gate, which I embossed with Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

Here’s a closer look at those butterflies…look at that detail in the wings!

On this card, I also heat embossed onto vellum and then I added color to the back of the vellum using Distress Oxides. If you look closely, you will see where I stamped the butterflies using WATER onto the background to create a ghosted effect. So cool. I love that circle scalloped rectangle die…I just picked this up last month at the Stamp Convention.

For this last card, I thought the butterflies needed some flowers to complete the scene. If I were to mail this card, I would definitely need to make a larger envelope! This time I embossed with gold embossing powder onto white cardstock, then I added some color using a finger dauber and some Distress Oxides in three different colors: Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, and Squeezed Lemonade. I inked up the background with some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide and added another of my favorite sentiments from this set.