Photo Bookmarks

For Mother's Day and Father's Day this year I created bookmarks of my kids to send to our parents.  I found the idea over at Creative Family Moments. 

I followed her tutorial pretty close and ended up with some pretty cute bookmarks.  We sent the one of my daughter to our moms and the one of my son to our dads.

I followed the tutorial from her site.  Here's the link to the tutorial. 

I took photos of my kids outside with their hands up in the air.  I printed them 5 x 7 sized to get a good sized bookmark.

Here are the finished bookmarks.  I liked them so much I even made a couple for myself.

Mother's Day Corsage

I copied my girlfriend, Julie's, valentines (remember the party?) and made fabric corsages for Mother's Day gifts.

There are a ton of tutorials on how to singe fabric and make flowers so I didn't do one. I'll just show you my end products. Basically, they are singed layers of fabric, sewn on beads, a little bling on the back and a pin hot glued on. These are the two I made for my mother and mother-in-law.
Then I made a couple for myself while I was at it. They'd be cute on a hair clip as well.

Plantable Paper Cards

I saw this idea few years ago in Family Fun Magazine to make home made paper cards with flower seeds in them to plant. This year we carried out the idea.

First my son cut up paper. He loves to cut so this was a perfect job for him.
We soaked it all day in water to soften it.
I blended it up then he poured it in.
My neighbor had a paper making kit we borrowed to do all of the steps but there are plenty of tutorials and videos out there on how to make it with just a screen.
I added perennial seeds to the wet paper and then we let it dry.
When all was dry he drew on them and we mailed them off to his grandmas for Mother's Day.