Pop Up Flower Pot Card

I needed to make a couple of birthday cards for my stamping friends so I decided to make these adorable pop up flower pot cards.  I saw them on SplitcoastStampers & there is an excellent tutorial which includes step-by-step instructions & a video by Chris Slogar.  They are easy to make but a little time consuming.

The bases & bands are SU Certainly Celery & sponged with the same color ink.  The sentiment is from SU Petite Pairs stamped with Versafine black ink & punched out using SU's oval & scalloped oval punches.

The flowers pots are SU Really Rust cardstock & then dabbed with a sponge in the same color ink to give it a little texture.

The flowers are Tim Holtz Tattered Florals & I had to cut 12 for each card.  Two die cuts are stacked for each flower & there are 3 flowers on each side of the flower pot.  So a total of 24 dies cuts!!  The flowers were cut from SU Wisteria Wonder, So Saffron, Crisp Cantaloupe cardstock then stamped in their coordinating ink using Impression Obsession Min Patterns #3 Stamp Set.  The center of the flower is SU Early Espresso punched with a 1/2" circle punch & popped up with a 3D foam squares.

The leaves are from Tim Holtz Garden Greens & die cut from SU Certainly Celery.

The flowers & leaves are attached to some window sheet material with glue dots.

Check out the link above to the tutorial to see how easy it is to put these together!!

TFL!!

Three Little Pigs

I love putting my favorite recipes on 6X6 scrapbook style cards.  I can't remember where I found this recipe but it just needed a farm scene!

I didn't want to pop any of the images up so I did a lot of masking using Gina K Designs Masking Magic Sheets. The stamp set is an old SU set, On The Farm, I found at a flea market!

I started by stamping 3 pigs & the barn on the masking sheets & cut them out just inside the line.  If you do this, when you stamp over the masked image you won't have any gaps in your stamping.  But if you do just use a marker to touch up the lines.

On white cardstock cut 5 1/2 X 5 1/2, I stamped the pigs with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink then placed the making sheets over the images.  Then I stamped the barn over the 1st masked pig so it appears it is walking in front of the barn.  Next I placed the mask over the barn & stamped the tree from Tim Holtz Just Believe Stamp Set several times so it appears the trees are behind the barn image.  The trees were inked with Peeled Paint, wiped the trunk off & added ink using a Frayed Burlap marker for the left tree.

Leaving masking on the pigs & barn, I used a mini ink blending tool to carefully add the background colors in Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint & Squeezed Lemonade.  I did the sun before the sky.

After removing the masking, I colored the barn & pigs using Copic markers & added glossy accents to the roof.  The base is 6X6 SU Cherry Cobbler cardstock & the 5 3/4 X 5 3/4 cardstock mat is white.

TFL at my Three Little Pigs & hope you give masking a try!