You're The Best Teepee Card

I just want to say that I have the best mom in the world, and I'm so grateful God blessed me with such a loving Christian mother who is also an amazing grandmother and great-grandmother. I try to let her know how much I appreciate her frequently, but since I'm a card maker, I also make special cards for her on a regular basis. Last week she came up from Indiana (I live in Michigan) to take me out to a movie and then stayed the night and treated me to some shopping and eating out along with my daughter who lives locally and my daughter-in-law while my husband, sons, and soon-to-be son-in-law were away on a wilderness camping adventure. That was so sweet of her, and I definitely needed to make a special card to thank her for all the fun, so I took out my new Tonic Splendiforous Corsage stamp, die, and stencil set and got busy in my craft room! 

I've been wanting to make a teepee card for some time now, and one of the card designers I follow on YouTube and FB just posted her take on this card style, so I decided to give it a try. Her FB group is called Di's Den for Stamping Crafting and Tutorials, and the video tutorial for this card is here: (2) #195 (23)Teepee Card - YouTube. Di posts free written tutorials for all her cards in the FB group, also. I generally print the written tutorials, cut and score the card pieces according to the instructions, and then craft along with the videos the first time I make one of her cards. Thanks, Di! 

I wanted to play in the Colorful Options Challenge this month, and the color of the month is "Outrageous Orange." I used two shades of orange card stock for the base and layers and then chose shades of orange inks to stencil the flowers on the stamped image. I used the same stamp to do some tone-on-tone stamping of the teepee layers, also. I added some orange Crystal Drops and Glitter Drops from Tonic Studios for some of the detail layers of the stenciled flowers to give them a bit of dimension and shine.

The tiny die cut hearts and most of the sentiments were made with elements from the same Tonic Studios Splendiforous Corsage set, and the set comes with coordinating dies and tags to cut out the sentiments. The "You are Such a Blessing to Me" sentiment is from a Simon Hurley stamp set and was die cut with a SU! die from the Painted Poppies bundle. There's also a puffy heart sticker at the top of the second side of the teepee and a few butterflies I die cut from Papertrey Ink's Color Pop: Butterflies set. I used foam tape to pop up the "Thanks" sentiment on the front of the card, and I also used foam tape on some of the layers where I needed to hide the magnets that I used to keep the sides of the card together so the card stands up. I was debating between Velcro dots or magnets, but I went with the tiny magnets I had purchased on Amazon because I could hide them completely.  

To complete the card, I added 2 jeweled butterflies and 3 orange gems to the centers of the flowers on the front of the card.

Front of the card:

                                   

Close up of the stamping, stenciling, and embellishments:

Second side of the teepee:

Third side of the teepee:

View of the back:

View from above:

When the card is flat:

 Challenges I'm entering: 

Anything Goes With A Fun Fold for Creative Creases #66 (secretstamper.com): ATG with a fun fold (unlimited entries; ends 9/29/23)

Colorful Options: Outrageous Orange (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (3/5 for the week; 3/10 for the challenge; ends 9/27/23)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (2/2; ends 9/19/23)

Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! (stencilfun.blogspot.com): ATG with a stencil with the option of Fall (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG Option: All that glitters (I used some scraps of orange glitter card stock for some of the die cut hearts and some glitter drops in the centers of the flowers) (unlimited entries; at the end of the month) Rising Star Pick for 9/11-9/17

Butterfly Challenge (butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com): ATG with butterflies (I have butterflies on all three sides of the card😀) (unlimited entries; ends 10/3/23)

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: Thank you card (1/5; ends at the end of the month)

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG (3/3; ends 9/22/23)

The Paper Shelter: Autumn Colors (2/2; ends 9/20/23)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (ends at the end of the month)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focal point (1/6; ends 10/14/23)

Double Trouble Paper Crafting (doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com): Thing 1: yellow, orange and green from the color palette Thing 3: entered Inspiration Challenge (ends 9/18/23)

Inspiration Station (inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com): The photo prompt includes yellows, oranges, and greens, which I have used in my card (1/8; ends at the end of the month)

Classic Design Challenge Blog:ATG (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog (cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge -1st to the 25th every month: Colors of autumn +/or not a square or rectangle. CLOSES SEPT 30th 2023.: Colors of Autumn and/or non-square/rectangle card (3/5; ends at the end of the month)

Triple B (dd-tripleb.blogspot.com): ATG with birds, blooms, and/or butterflies (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/: Take flight (1/5; ends 9/18/23)