My Melody Birthday

I recently made this My Melody birthday card and gift card holder for a very special friend.

The svg cutting files for all the My Melody images I used for this card were created in Make the Cut Design Studio from coloring book page images I found online. I cut a round window into the front of the card and added an image of My Melody with a watering can. Then I added flowers and leaves that had been die cut from Spellbinders "Be Bold Blooms", "Mini Blooms and Sprigs", and "Club Blooms" as well as Karen Burniston "Fence Add Ons" dies to decorate the lower half of the window.

On the inside, I used Karen Burniston's "Little Twist Panel Pop Up" mechanism die to create a fun

pop up panel of flowers that twists and pops forward as the card is opened.

Karen Burniston Design Team Member Sandy Diller explains how to create this fun pop up using the "Little Twist Panel Pop Up" die here. I added a second image of My Melody behind the flowers and used Benson font to create a shadowed cut file for the "Celebrate" sentiment. 

This view from the side shows the twist panel arms to which the flowers have been glued on.

A third image of My Melody was used for the front of the gift card holder. Grassy border was cut using Karen Burniston "Curved Edges" die, and flowers were cut using an old Punch Bunch mini punch. Sentiments were print and cut on the Silhouette and foiled using a Minc hot foiler.