Flower Garden Pots - Tutorial

This is a card I made for a monthly challenge a while ago. The subject was "flowers" and this was my entry. Which I am very proud to say won that month!

So, here, I am going to share the instructions with you on how I made my flower pots card..... 

I used: Dovecraft Flower Muse paper, FE Foliage Die, FE pots and vases die, heart shaped die, strip of lace, die cut flowers.

1. Cut 8 flower pots with the largest FE pots and vases die out of Dovecraft Flower Muse paper.

2. Cut a strip from the same paper (long enough to go along the top of all the pots and allowing for folds)

3. Fold strip of paper into quarters (accordian fold)

4. Glue a pot shape along the front of each quarter (the other 4 pot shapes are stuck to the back side later)

5. Cut the "tree" shape foliage die from heavy weight green card (4 times).

6. Glue the trunk section behind each flower pot, so that the top foliage part shows above the pots.

7. Now glue the other 4 flower pots to the back (this hides the trunk section and adds firmness to each of the pots).

8. Stick flowers randomly to each foliage section. (I stuck them to the front and back)

9. Stick lace around each pot.

10. Stamp a sentiment to each heart and ink the edges. Glue to the pots with a strip of acetate.

I also added a bit of coloured pencil shading to the pots to give them a slightly more "rounded" look.

Note -- if you fold the concertina both sides (to bend either way) it allows the card to be displayed quite flexibly (see photos).

Doggy Diner

This card was so much fun to design and make.

It was inspired by a challenge called "Come Dine With Me", which is currently running on the Craftworld web site.

First I sketched out my idea into a note book.

It was originally going to be a simple pop up box style card in the shape of a table. However, after taking measurements of the envelope and before deciding what size table it needed to be, an idea came to mind for including a couple of chairs either side of the table.

I was really chuffed with how it turned out. Very happy to discover that the chairs could be made smaller than the table on all sides and even more so, when I worked out that the construction would still all collapse down, to fit in the envelope.

The table and chairs are 3D and will stand alone in their own right. But I decided to add a wooden fence style backing wall. So now the table is attached at the back, to the fence with dimensional foam tape (not the chairs though, because they are narrower than the table and still need to fold inwards to fit into the envelope).

I may write a tutorial for the card in the near future.