Love your mum Gorgeous makes to celebrate Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is on the horizon but there’s still plenty of time to create pretty projects your mum will love and keep

handcrafted for your mum, your nan or even yourself, these delightful flowery projects are a cinch to make with a cutting machine. The arty canvas and wreath can be made by hand, but you’ll find them easier – and faster – if you use a Cricut cutting machine to create the shapes involved. It’s a one-time investment that will leave you wondering how you ever got by without it. Happy crafting!

1 ART IN BLOOM

Big, bold and bountiful, hydrangeas are a firm favourite in bouquets, but since they don’t bloom all year, you might like to make and gi this eye-catching ‘still life’ with its cluster of globe-like paper hydrangeas. Here, a cu ing machine makes the myriad of florets and vinyl ‘vase’.

2 WREATH OF BEAUTY

Not just for the festive season, everlasting wreaths are perfect for year-round decoration. So this year, celebrate Mother’s Day with a wreath dripping in purple, lilac or pink paper wisterias with colour-coordinated hydrangeas. It will look wonderful on a shelf in your dining room.

3 HELLO ROSY PLACEMAT

Dress up your mum’s breakfast tray with a delicate card placemat featuring rose cut-outs along one edge. Borrow the idea for disposable table placemats or use faux leather sheets, which come in a range of stylish colours, for special occasions.

4 PUT A (NAPKIN) RING ON IT!

Feed a faux leather sheet into your cu ing machine and let it do all the hard work for you. The centred cut-out design of these intricate napkin rings is designed to pair perfectly with the rosy placemats.

PAD OUT A SKIMPY FAUX EUCALYPTUS WREATH WITH WISPY CLUMPS OF PRESERVED SPANISH MOSS FOR AN ORGANIC FEEL THE FAUX LEATHER OF THESE NAPKIN RINGS HAS JUST THE RIGHT TEXTURE AND THICKNESS 2 4

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