Pop up Elephant Box

 I can now share the Pop up box I made for my local swap group.   Our challenge was to make an interactive card.  I chose the pop up box. 

I had seen a Lawn Fawn die that made a long box - so decided to make a similar one by cutting my own template.  Took a few goes but finally got it to work with the scalloped edging the right way around!

I used a Lawn Fawn edge die to cut the scallops.  My little Elephants came from a stamp set I got from my daughter and grandsons.  They are super cute.  I stamped and fussy cut the Elephants and the puddles.  I used some lovely oriental style patterned paper with umbrellas.    This went to Suze - and she told me she didn't know how to make it work!  

Here's it folded up

Happy with how it turned out.   

Baby cards

One of my friends asked me to make a baby card for the son of another friend.  He and his partner had a little girl a little while ago.   So I made two cards for her to chose from. 

First card (the one she chose)

I saw a sketch on the web that I used for the base of my card.  It had a circle which I changed to an oval.  I used Gina K Master Layouts 1 to cut the oval and layer.  I stmaped the Elephants from Uniquely Creative's Hey Mama set onto some watercolour paper and used Altenew's Woodless watercolour pencils to add the colour.  I used the matching dies to cut Mama and Baba out.  The gingham paper was added to a pink punched edging.  I stamped the Kaisercraft sentiment directly onto the gingham piece.  A few pink enamal dots finished off my card. 

Second card.

For this card I started with sweet Patterned paper.  I then cut the circle and scallopped circle from Spellbinders.  My little bear is from Docrafts -Mini Thinking of You.  I use Uniti alcohol pens to colour my bear and then took a nubbly rag and some of the colourless blender to give the texture of fur.   I fussy cut it out and added to the layered circle.  I stamped the Kaisercraft sentiments directly over the patterned paper.  

Thanks for stopping by today.  I had my first COVID immunisation yesterday.  The jab site is a little tender but other than that, I'm feeling good.