Up, Up, and Away!

I enjoyed putting together the  re-vamped large hexagonal pop up style card for our granddaughter at Easter so much that I couldn't wait to try another. This one was for a sweet niece's birthday, with  a scene set high in the sky with glittery clouds and a rainbow.

To create the cutfile for this card, I lengthened the front and back sides of a regular hexagon pop up card base and added a back panel in Make the Cut Design program. Once the card base was assembled, all the fun was in decorating to create the scene inside.

 Teddy bears were die cut from Marianne Design Eline's Collectables "Arctic Bear" and "Baby Animals" dies. An old Quickutz "Banana Split" alpha die was used to cut the letters for "Up, Up and Away".  "Happy Birthday" fishtail banner was hot foiled and die cut using Spellbinders "Hexi-Gems Sentiments".

I used Marjorie Ann Designs "Baby Ellies" cutfile to cut the clouds and rainbow; and a freebie cutfile from SVG Cuts for the hot air balloon.  Glitter cardstock was used to cut a few of the clouds and tiny hearts. The edges of the remaining clouds were traced with glitter glue.

Here's a view from the top  which shows where the struts that hold the embellishments are positioned inside the hexagon. I attached the hot air balloon to the cloud border on the last strut with a strip of acetate to give the illusion of it floating in air.

Lots of space on the behind the back panel to add a birthday sentiment.

I like how this card folds down completely flat to fit into an envelope. In this case it had to be a very large envelope because the flattened card measured 7.75" x 7"! Yup, I'm sure everyone agrees the price of postage to mail these oversized cards can be quite disheartening but knowing my niece enjoys getting these crazy cards makes it all worthwhile.

This is the matching gift card holder I sent along with the card.

Cherry Blossom Wave Card

Enjoyed making the Stadium Wave Card for our granddaughter so much that I decided I should do another. I thought a floral one would be fun to do so I chose to do one with die cut cherry blossoms as a Mothers Day card.

Happy to finally have had the chance to use my iCrafter Cherry Blossom Bursts die to cut and piece together all the flowers for this card. Sentiment on the card front was cut from gold foil board, using Brisk font and shadow on the Silhouette for "Mom" and a Gemini Swash Sentiment die for "love you".

Finally remembered to do a short video showing the Stadium Wave Card in action.

On the inside, I added more cherry blossoms and leaves onto each of the eight accordion panels of the stadium wave mechanism.

Side view of the card shows the strips of cardstock folded and adhered together that create the fun stadium wave effect for this pop up card.

Lots of room on the left side of the card to add our sentiment, matted with gold foil board. 

 

Before closing, I want to also share this fabulous Mothers Day card I received in the mail from my very dear friend, Bev.

Bev added a beautiful bouquet of flowers tied with a bow onto a rubberband activated pop up ball for a fun pop up surprise card. Love, love, love everything about this card, and especially how she perfectly matched the colors of the flowers in the bouquet to the flowers in the patterned paper!

The fun pop up floral bouquet was collapsed and hidden in this lovely gatefold card with dry embossed panels and kept closed with a belly band  embellished with flowers and a cute medallion. I'm truly blessed to have such creative and thoughtful friends! Thank you for stopping by today. Hope you're having an enjoyable, relaxing day.

A Spa-tacular Birthday

Our granddaughter decided she wanted to have a "Spa Day" themed  7th birthday celebration with her friends so this is the card her gramma created for her. I heard the little girls had a great time spending the day playing grown up; getting pampered with mani-pedis, foot soaks, facials and having their hair styled while snacking from a charcuterie board. 

The cute paper pieced bathrobed little girl on the front of  the card comes from a file called "I Need A Spa Day" from Marjorie Ann Designs. After putting her together and adhering her to the card, I added a few fun flat back acrylic cabochons that looked like sparkly bubbles. The punny birthday sentiment was created as a print and cut and I added a shadow layer.

On the inside, I added a Stadium Wave Pop Up, adding different paper pieced cosmetics to each of the pop up panels.

I really like that the Stadium Wave Pop Up has such a big "wow factor", requires no special dies, and is so easy to put together.  This pop up mechanism is basically just strips of cardstock folded and glued together like an accordion. To create my card, I used the measurements and instructions given by Sam Calcott's You Tube tutorial here.

I had fun using dies from MFT's Iconic Beauty DieNamics and Karen Burniston's Dolled Up Charms Set together with lots of glitter and metallic cardstock to create the lipstick, perfume bottles, eye shadow compact and nail polish to add to the pop up panels.

Here's a side view which shows all the strips of cardstock adhered together to create the cascading effect of the stadium wave card. Hope our granddaughter enjoyed her card as much as I had fun putting it together!