simon says stamp - slimline friends box card again

A bit ago I made a pop up box card in primary colors. DD actually asked me to make one for her friend and then another one for another friend! She loves the idea of all those kids showing love and support for each other. And I love that ;)

For this gal I decided to go with pastel colors. I love the result. So did she and DD. I hear it's displayed on her dresser :)

SSS Better Together Slimline Friends stamp

 Pinkfresh Live More puffy stickers

Pinkfresh Adore Alpha die 

Action Deutschland - PP, Copics, stickers

Cut and scored PP to make a 7x7x7 cm pop up box. Added more PP to inside flaps. Added puffy stickers to the box as well as the "K" for the gal's initial.

Then on to the gang. I stamped and colored them in colors to match the stickers. Fussy cut them. Adhered them to the box (or plastic strips which I adhered to the inserts inside the box). Also added balloons with the tiny messages. And finally some more puffy stickers in between the kiddos.

Adds such a fun factor to card sending, don't you think?

I'm joining the fun at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Favorite Technique (lately pop up box cards!)

Pinkfresh Studio February Challenge - Alphas/Words

Just Add Ink - 542 (loved the pastel, tropical vibe)

Happy Little Stampers - Feb AG with Dies

simon says stamp - better together slimline friends

There's a new release from Simon Says Stamp called Love You, Too and there's lots to inspire cards to spread love around the world during these strange times. Check it out here.

One of the stamp sets in the new release is called Better Together Slimline Friends, although it's not just for slimline cards I must say. Had to think a bit on this one since I'm not a colorer. Here's what I did. First, a slimline.

 SSS Better Together Slimline Friends stamp

 SSS Holiday Shapes die

STAMPlorations Clouds stencil

distress ink, Copics, white embossing powder

Stamped the gang, colored small sections of each kid to bring in color, die cut matching balloons and heat embossed them with tiny sentiments and added "strings" and added a spot of distress ink to hint at grass and sky. Voila!

And since I've been bit by the pop up box card bug lately (check this out), I figured I'd make one with this gang.

 SSS Better Together Slimline Friends stamp

 SSS Holiday Shapes die

SSS Balloons die

SSS Dachshund die

SSS Love die

PP, Copics, herb scissors

Adds such a fun factor to card sending, don't you think?

Cut and scored white CS to make a 7x7x7 cm pop up box. Stamped it with a couple of the sentiments from the set. Added PP squares to the inside flaps, as well as a couple die cut elements to add to the love/fun factor.

Then on to the gang. I stamped and colored them like for my slimline card. Fussy cut them. Adhered them to plastic strips which I adhered to the inserts inside the box. Also added balloons with the tiny messages. And finally some "grass" (so glad I bought the herb scissors at Aldi last year! ;))

Check out all the makes with the products from the Love You, Too release in the gallery here. And don't miss the blog hops this weekend. Thanks for visiting.

I'm adding my card to:

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Layer it Up 

Time Out - You (one thing about me... I'm really not afraid to try any technique, even though I'm not always the first on the bandwagon)

flowers for oma - pop up box card

A little story for you... My MIL turned 85. She's amazing, still going strong. But saddened/maddened that she couldn't celebrate her big day this year. We even decided not to drive up to see her cuz her area is worse Covid-wise than ours at the moment. Only one visitor from another household permitted in your house - that's the current recommendation.

We had presents to take. But since that wasn't going to be happening and mailing wouldn't get them to her on time, I suggested to DH that he order flowers to be delivered on her birthday. Something special, ya know? I mean - 85! I'm not actually sure that that ordering flowers would have been possible given the lockdown, but I didn't get to find out. "NO. That's ridiculous. She'd say so too." was his response.

I'm curious. Is your husband a flower guy or does he think flowers are money out the window? Like mine. 

So what'd I do? I headed to my craft room to make the most expensive paper flower bouquet known to man. In man-hours, that is ;)

Altenew Rose Flurries 3D die

Altenew Virginia Rose 3D die

Pinkfresh Leafy Branch die

Rayher Alles Gute die

Waffle Flower Cutaway numbers die

patterned paper, paper scraps, recycled plastic packaging, glue dots

They've been around for a long time, but I've never made a pop up box card before. It just seemed to me to be the best design for containing "flowers for Oma." So I watched this video to figure out how they worked. Turns out it's pretty simple. Just fiddly.

I must say I'm impressed with this design. Simple to create the box which pops up and can be displayed nicely when the recipient receives it. A truly interactive design. And what a way to achieve depth in a scene. Certainly can't achieve that on a card. Yet it can be mailed flat.

Anyhoo, briefly, here's what I did:

1. Made box from double-sided PP since I didn't want to "decorate" the flaps other than the 85.

2. Pulled out Altenew floral dies cuz they're just the prettiest.

3. Spent hours sorting through scraps and making flowers.

4. Spent more hours attaching flowers to plastic stems and fitting them into the box.

5. Adhered personal message to the back side of the box.

6. Made envelope out of 12x12 PP.

Got a smile out of DH. Will be very curious to hear what Oma thinks.

And since it was so much fun I proceeded to spend another few hours making another bouquet of flowers! And a more detailed tutorial of my process. You can find that here.

I had actually taken a look at the January Inspiration Challenge at Altenew and was going for the pinks and reds with silver color scheme (it is a winter birthday!) but my bouquet building took me a bit off the mark. I'm hooking up at the challenge anyway!

And SSS Wednesday challenge is looking for Layers. With all my layered die cuts I'm joining in over there too. Thanks for coming by.

spotlight on pop up box cards

Hi friends. Late to the party, I recently discovered pop up box cards! Such fun and what a way to make a handmade card interactive. I love the depth of scene you can achieve too... so many possibilities.

I'm over at STAMPlorations today with a tutorial for my flower-filled pop up box card.

And it's about Squares over at Country View so I'm hooking up there. My box is a7x7x7cm square. And I pepped up the flaps with squares cut out of cover plate die cuts, then framed with square frames to hide the rough edges... So since it's about Frames over at Divas that Die Cut, I'm joining in there too.

SSS Wednesday wants us to Layer it Up. Not sure if I've technically done that, or just "gone deeper" but I'm heading over there.