Welcome Fur Baby Basket

Recently my good friend welcomed an adorable Maltese puppy into her home. Just so happens her new puppy shares the same papa as my 2 year old Maltese; so being that they're half sisters, we're hoping they too will become good friends like their owners.

New puppy's name is "Jaz", and this is the pop up basket card I put together for her using Karen Burniston's Pop Up Woven Basket and Wide Woven Basket Box Card dies. 

The woven basket itself is pretty easy to assemble, but the really fun part is in filling and decorating the basket. The "Welcome Fur Baby" sign was designed in Make the Cut Design Program using Hello Valentica and Expose fonts. A strip of acetate was glued onto the back of the sign and attached to one of the struts inside the basket. Grassy borders and flowers were cut using dies that are included in the Woven Basket die set.

Sweet little Maltese pup was paper pieced using cuts from Marianne Design Eline's Puppy Die Set. Puppy's bone, bowl, duckie and ball were pieced using older svg cutting files I had created in the past just for these type of dog themed cards I love to make.

I added a personalized label to the front of the basket using an older lacy scallop oval shape cut file. Hard to tell from the photos but I used white glitter cardstock for both the sign and label for the basket and Stickles glitter glue on the flower centers for a little sparkle.

View from the side shows the depth of the basket; I used the smaller Woven Basket dies for the sides and the Wide Woven Basket dies for the front and back.

Then just for a little excitement, I added two Bam Boxes underneath so the basket would automatically pop open on its own as the recipient removes it from the envelope. If you look carefully, you can see where the two Bam Boxes were glued in to the right front and left back corners of the basket.

Here's the basket being held in it's flat position, ready to be slid into an envelope.

I used a cute paw and heart icon to stencil cut the front for a simple gift card holder to go along with the card.

And of course, last but not least I couldn't go without sharing a pic of the adorable little "Jaz"!