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As promised, here is the how~to to go with the lurvely Mother’s Day card I made for my amazing mother.

Just why is she so amazing?

Well, apart from giving birth to moi, she’s the most loving, giving, caring person I’ve ever met. Patient too.

You can tell she is because I made it to adulthood.

You will need:

• Coloured cardboard ~ 10×20cm (4×8in)
• Coloured paper ~ 9×19cm (3½x7½in)
• Patterned tissue paper
• Thin ribbon ~ 30cm (12in)
• Tiny heart button
• Needle & thread
• Tiny flower button

What to do:

Making the card itself.

• Fold cardboard and paper in half.
• Using needle, lightly mark the spine of the cardboard at 5 points: Centre and once at both 1cm and 2cm on either side of the centre. Pierce holes.
• Position paper neatly inside cardboard, hold tightly while open (to prevent paper moving) and pierce paper.
• Using threaded needle, go out through the centre hole, in the nearest hole above, out the last hole above. Then go back in the second hole and out the centre hole. Now repeat with the holes below the centre hole.
• Tie a neat knot in the centre of the card.

Decorating the front.

• Trace a small circle onto your tissue paper ~ I used a fat cotton spool. Cut and glue onto the front of your card in the centre.

• I got the idea for the cute flower from Pink Paper Peppermints, where Melissa is featuring 31 Crafty Flowers during May. Each day she will be showing how to create a different crafty flower, and her directions are so detailed (photos even!) that even yours truly could follow them. Use your little heart button for this.

• After creating your ribbon flower, sew it onto your card in the centre of the circle. Take care not to bend the cardboard or mark it. Don’t sew through the paper yet, and don’t cut your thread.

Decorating the inside.

• Mark the centre of your paper lightly and continue sewing through the paper to attach the little flower button. Pass through each hole once only to avoid tearing the paper. Again, take care not to bend or mark it.

• Push the needle back through the cardboard and finish the thread securely within the ribbon flower.

• You can hand~write ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ or print and glue it on. I tried hand~writing it but hated it, so I then fell back on ‘print & glue’.

Other Thoughts:

• Use colours that your mum loves. My Mum’s favourite colour is blue, so I chose blue cardboard & paper and ribbon, buttons & tissue in colours that contrast or match.