Daisy Fan Pop Up Bouquet

I have a fun birthday pop up card made for a special friend to share today.  I used dies from Karen Burniston's "Flower Pot Pop Up" die set to cut and assemble the daisies and leaves, adding flower centers cut using Spellbinders "Be Bold Blooms" die set. 

 For some sparkle, I added Stickles glitter to the flower centers and a few randomly placed AB sequins. Pink Fresh Studio's "Perfect Sentiments" was used for the hot foiled happy birthday sentiment and I created a shadow layer in Make the Cut Design studio to place behind it.

        

Inside, I used Karen Burniston's "Photo Fan Pop Up" die again to create this bouquet of daisies in a vase. The idea and inspiration for this comes from member R Daina Andretto who posted a beautiful card she made for Mothers Day using this technique on the Karen Burniston Pop Up Peeps Facebook Group.

In her card, R. Daina Andretto had her bouquet of daisies tied with a gold bow. I decided to put mine in a vase by creating a cut file for a tall vase with a crease in the center and tabs on its sides to glue it in place. I adhered strips of green cardstock to look like stems onto my white vase, then glued another vase cut from vellum over it to give it the appearance of a frosted glass vase. I also created a cut file for a simple bow to add to the front of the vase.

I really had fun putting this together. The mechanism for this pop up is made up of a half circle with 6 spokes to which the two sizes of daisies and leaf branches were attached. Checking for catch points by opening and closing the card each time a daisy or leaf was glued on assured that the finished card would pop open smoothly without snagging on anything. Although it's called the "Photo Fan Pop Up" die, I am loving all the different kinds of cards I've been able to create by gluing different embellishments other than photos to this pop up mechanism.