Birthday Wishes for a "Deer" Friend

Today I'm sharing a birthday card and matching gift card holder set created for a special friend. 
 

Recently, I've been challenging myself to start making use of more of the dies I've been collecting over the years. I met the challenge with this card by using dies to cut nearly all the decorative elements except three...  the round lacy circle on the front, and the sentiment and oval on the inside were cut on my Silhouette Cameo. I used dies from Marianne Designs Collectable Deer set, MFT Stamps Grassy Edges, Memory Box Butterfly Delights, Cheery Lynn Babies Breath, and Gemini Birthday Celebrations for all the rest of the embellishments.

On the inside of the card I installed two sets of  the mechanism from Karen Burniston's Spinner Square Pop Up die side by side to get a double pop up effect.

As the recipient opens the card, the two center panels with the deer pop forward and arms with the words, "Deer Friend" swing down into view.

This was my first time making a double spinner square pop up card with the two spinners side by side. I really like how the pop up and moving arms really make for a fun card. The video tutorial I used for this can be found here. Love that Karen Burniston always comes up with multiple ways to use her fun pop up dies!

I used the same dies that I used for the card to decorate and embellish a simple pocket style matching gift card holder. This time I used a svg cut file I created a while ago in Make the Cut to cut the base card.