Potted Plant Pop-Up Cards

        This way to grow and display paper flowers for your window sill, mantle or bedroom dresser is designed by Margaret Sanders. A novel card for children to craft and give to their mother on Mother's Day or maybe even on her birthday.

How to cut and fold three potted plants for Mother's Day Card: daisy, tulip and geranium.

a lavender garden

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       An authentic Art Nouveau funeral design; it has been restored to it's former color. Print it on a bright white, heavy rag paper and include it inside a white envelope lined with foil or marbled paper.

More Funeral Card Designs:

• Free Cross with scroll paper embroidery pattern
• In Sympathy by DRSdesigns

Quotes/Scripture/Verse:

"Hopefully, earth to earth, and dust to dust,

We did commit his body to the ground:

Heaven grant that with the spirits of the just,

His soul may safe in Paradise be found!"

 or

"At thy command I meekly yield

My body to the dust--

Savior, I trust in Thee alone,

And know in whom I trust." 

or

"That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him." 1 Corinthians 2:9

More Links To Explore:

• Appropriate sympathy messages to send with flowers to a funeral 
• Funeral Sympathy Words from e-flowers uk

romantic garden greetings

Lacy blue garden trellis graphic.

       "And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. "But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!"

Matthew 6:28-30

       These card designs, available in blue, red and purple, may be printed first then carefully cut out with an Exacto knife. Then mount it on top of a darker colored paper with tiny glue dots in order to give your card a three dimensional look.

Quotes:

• "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." by Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honorable Defeat 
•  "For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.  Bricks to all greenhouses!  Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!" by Edward Abbey 

Story Illustration: In one of the earlier chapters of his "Les Miserables," Victor Hugo tells how a good bishop answered his housekeeper once. She expostulated with his lordship for giving a full quarter of his garden to flowers, saying that it would be better and wiser to grow lettuce there than bouquets. "Ah, Madame Magloire, " replied the bishop, "the beautiful is as useful as it is beautiful."

       The ministry of beauty is one of the overflowings of the divine mind and heart, and serves God's purpose in common with the utilities of His works.

Lacey red garden trellis graphic.

Lacy lavender garden trellis graphic.

Dawn, from Stampin' Up!, shows how to make her version of a card designed around a lattice design motif. 

More Garden Lattice Card Designs:

• Spiral roses arch shaped card and pop up card honeycomb flower
• Cherry Blossom Trellis Card
• Dream Garden Stamp set
  

botanical floral fancies

"For the word of the Lord is right, And all His work is done in truth. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." Psalm 33:4-6

Illustration:    The tenor of Scripture is that if we are in tune with the divine mind, and so are receptive of the secret whispers and suggestions of the Spirit of God, then that Spirit will first inspire in us the prayers which our Heavenly Father will consistently answer.

      "Every prayer is a transaction with order. You go home with a packet of seeds for your little girl, and you take her out, and say: "This little plot shall be yours. Whatever comes of this packet of seeds shall be yours." Now, what can come of a penny packet of seeds in all this infinite universe, with stars and systems whirling round? Beauty can come of it! Life can come of it! Why? Because your little gardener is transacting with order. She is dealing with law, and law will deal with her, and out of the seed she sows there shall come beauty to gladden her. When she kneels an hour or two later, and breathes forth from a pure heart a prayer to the eternal God for blessing upon herself and you, will you say, "What good can come of it?" good can come of where law rules, where right is triumphant. Prayer is not a dip into a lucky bag. It is dealing with eternal law." author unknown.

The following prints have been restored for visitors to use in their card crafts by kathy grimm, enjoy!

Botanical print featuring a red and white spotted carnation.

Botanical print featuring a passion flower.

Botanical print featuring a red poppy.

Botanical print featuring a white rose.

What kinds of written things might I include along with the card?

Quotes:

• "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into." by Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858
• "Earth laughs in flowers." by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"
• "I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." by Emma Goldman

Scripture - "The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God." Isaiah 35

Poetry:

 The works of God, above, below

Within us and around,

Are pages in that Book to show

How God Himself is found.

Thou who hast given me eyes to see

And love this sight so fair,

Give me a heart to find out Thee

And read Thee everywhere.

-Keble

More Botanical Printing Techniques:

• Hammered Botanical Prints
• Flower Fairy Fashions
• Sun Printing