Oven Pop Up Birthday

We have a very dear friend who enjoys baking and always spoils us with delicious fresh from her oven goodies. So for her birthday this year, I made a kitchen themed card.                                                          I used "Happy Birthday word die" from Hello Bluebird for the sentiment on the front of the card as well as Karen Burniston "Baking Charms" dies for the mixing bowl and implements. Oval panels were cut on my Silhouette Cameo and I ran the smaller oval through The Paper Studio's "A2 Bricks" embossing folder. For the wood panel mat, I printed a photo of  a vinyl wood floor sample from an online flooring site.  I also used this for the kitchen flooring inside the card, and to die cut the wooden spoons and rolling pins used to decorate.                                                   

Inside the card, I used Karen Burniston's "Oven Pop Up" and "Oven Extras" die sets to add a fun pop up kitchen. Although this is a very simple and basic pop up mechanism that could be easily created without a die, I chose to purchase these die sets mostly because of all the tiny,  detailed and perfectly sized to fit extras included. 

Without a doubt, attempting to cut the tiny little gas burners, oven knobs and even the baking racks from metallic cardstock would have been a struggle on the Silhouette. It was so much easier to die cut them! I also loved how the oven door opens so you can get a peek inside to see what's baking . . . look, it's our favorite cranberry scones!

The cranberry scones our friend bakes are deliciously rich, buttery and to die for! Of course they had to be baking  in her oven! These were done as a print and cut.

I used a previously created cutfile for the bracket style label, "Hello Valentica" font, and more die cut kitchen utensils for the sentiment box.

For a gift, I pieced together a duplicate set of kitchen charms to decorate and embellish the top of this slider box.

As the drawer is pulled open to reveal the gift card inside, the embellished panel on top pops forward to an upright position. The svg cutfile for this fun pop up sliderbox was purchased from the Lori Whitlock Shop.  These boxes really make it fun to gift and receive gift cards.