Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Box of flowers

 Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps Built and this week it is a fun one: Fun Fold.

 And here is the card I created for your inspiration:

I decided to create a box card filled with flowers for my best friend's birthday.  The actual construction of a box card is really easy and then filling it with whatever you choose is the fun part!  I used this tutorial, but I'm sure there are many out there on the internet.  My thought was to do a card in black and white with pops of red.  But as I was looking for papers, I found these really fun colorful papers that also had those colors in them.  It created a card that is more "fun".  I stamped a LOT of flowers, leaves and stems, colored them and fussy cut them out, then I created a bouquet and adhered them all in place.
I heat embossed the sentiment on black card stock, cut fishtail ends and adhered it to the front flap along with some extra flowers that didn't fit into the bouquet.  On the back, I stamped a birthday sentiment; this is also the place I will write a little note.
There are a lot of flowers and they stick up all over the place, but the card does fold flat(ish) and will fit in an envelope just a little bit bigger than an A2 sized envelope.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the House blog to see the rest of the DT's creations and then get inky and play along with us.  And if you need any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your ENTIRE order coupon code over in my left sidebar.

Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Pattie's Flower Outline", "Daisy Outline, Large", "Daisy Outline Small", "Leaf Outline Large", "Stem Outline", "Happy Birthday" and "Happy Moments"

Challenges:
Alphabet Challenge--X is for Xtra folds
Cardz TV #135--anything goes
A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes
Scor-pal Challenge #79--anything goes with optional twist: St. Patty's or Easter (I did not use the optional twist)
Unicorn Challenge #63--make it feminine
Cards Galore #85--anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper
Crafty Calendar--feminine
Dare 2B Artzy--anything goes
Penny's Challenge #491--anything goes
Pixie's Crafty Workshop #398--anything goes with snippets (I always save all my white card scraps and use them for times such as this when I am going to stamp and fussy cut images--you don't need a very large snippet for flowers like these.  So, all of the parts of the stamped images were cut from little white snippets.)



17 comments:

crafty-stamper said...

Gorgeous box card and love all the beautiful flowers
Carol x

Donna said...

This is gorgeous, beautiful coloring and design! Your bestie will love it!

Patti J said...

Holy cow! Heather, you scored a home run on this one. What a gorgeous box card! I know your bestie will cherish it forever! Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

Carol L said...

This is such a beautiful surprise when opened!! A friend made one of these for me several years ago and it's still displayed on an end table in my living room! Those little banners look so sweet with all those festive, vibrant flowers! NJ

Laurie Unger said...

I have a die that does this box and haven't used it for a while. I like how tall yours is - awesome job!

Glittered Paws said...

Absolutely stunning - I am sure your best friend will love her special card. Great job on the special fold this week.

Kelly Schelske said...

What a delightful creation Heather! It's so very pretty!

Thank you for playing along with us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- good luck!

Stacey said...

What a fun and colorful card. Thanks for sharing at Penny's.

DT Stacey
www.butterflycreations.blog

Witchcrafted Life said...

Magnificently pretty card! The vibrancy and eye-catching elegance here are both truly lovely.

Autumn Zenith 🧡 Witchcrafted Life

Janis Lewis said...

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing your art with us at Crafting Happiness Challenges. Hope you'll link up again! We always have two challenge options: 1) weekly theme OR 2) Anything Goes for those who don't want to use the theme. All craft types welcome, and Unlimited entries!
Smiles,
:) Janis, Owner & Design Team

Marga bisschops said...

Prachtige box en de bloemen mooi ingekleurd! Dank je wel voor je deelname bij The Unicorn Challenge. Succes met je inzending.
Groetjes Marga

Joy Wilson said...

wow! This is so much fun! Thanks for joining our Anything Goes Challenge. Please join us again real soon!Hugs, Joy
JoyWilsonInk
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Owner and Coordinator

Maria Valente said...

Your project is awesome! Thanks for joining our Penny's challenges. Looking forward to hearing from you again.
Hugs

Helen said...

Fabulous design - love all those flowers.

Thanks for joining us at Penny's.

Helen x

MS Kraft Store said...

So stunning flower box card. Beautiful.Thanks for sharing with us at Love To Craft Challenge.
Hope to see you again next challenge.
Hugs,
Mifta.

Gale said...

This is a gorgeous box card Heather. Beautiful flowers. Thank you for sharing with us over here at the Crafty Calendar Challenge and best of luck with your entry. Love to see you join in each month. Thank you.
Gale DT for
http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/

cass said...

Love the box cards and this one is great. Thanks for joining us at CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge this month.