Greenhouse Card for Creative Creases #76

It's time for another challenge over at the Creative Creases blog where it's always anything goes with a fun fold, and I'm back with another guest design card. Please join the fun with your fun fold projects here: https://wp.me/p4bS0N-byD. 

The card design I used for this card came from a free Altenew tutorial in their All About Layering series. I really liked the look of the acetate window over the base making the flowers look like they are in a greenhouse. To create the card, cut a piece of acetate to 4 1/4 by 11 inches. Score at 5 1/2 inches. Then, on a piece of 4 ¼” x 5 ½” cardstock (I used black but you can use any color), score at ¾”, 1 ½”, 2 ¾”, 4”, 4 ¾”. Fold it in half first, then fold the next fold up, then the other ones back down to get mountain folds. Apply super sticky tape to the front and the back little flaps. This is where the acetate window will be attached.  Adhere one side of this flap onto the acetate and then start arranging the floral images and adhere them to the inside card. Then adhere the other acetate flap onto the acetate. Finally, cut two strips of 4 ¼” by ¾” card stock and cover both the front and back of the card to hide the sticky adhesive from showing. I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder onto one of these pieces before adhering it to the front of the card. 

The floral stamps I used for this card came from Altenew's Build-A-Flower: Canterbury Bells. I stamped the multi-layer stamps in shades of orange, pink, and purple. That stamp set comes with 2 smaller flower branches that don't have any layering stamps (just the outlines), so I stamped and die cut those smaller stamped images and colored them with my Ohuhu alcohol ink markers. 

 

To finish the card, I added a butterfly I die cut out of pink vellum. 

Side views:

Close up of the florals:

I created a jig to place the die cut pieces in so I could stamp several of the die cuts all in one session. This stamp set has the outline stamp, 3 layers of stamps for the flowers and 3 layers of stamps for the leaves, so having a jig helped me with perfect placement for each layer. 

This time Creative Creases is partnering with Double Trouble, so you can double the fun by entering both challenges! Here's a link to Double Trouble's challenge and the details about the theme this time: Double Trouble Paper Crafting (doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com)

Challenges I'm entering: 

Double Trouble Paper Crafting (doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com): see graphic above Thing 1: fun fold Thing 3: I'm the GD over at Creative Creases this time Prize Winner 3/1/24 MFT clear stamp set and Crafter's Companion rubber stamp set arrived 3/14/24

Butterfly Challenge (butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com): Playing in the first prize category: 3 colors: burnt orange, bud green, and baby pink, birthday theme, butterfly (ends 2/21/24)
 

Inspiration Challenge February 2024 | Mother's Bouquet (altenew.com): 

TIME OUT Challenges: C5

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Anything floral goes (2/6; ends 3/12/24)

No more challenges.