Mother's Day Teepee Card for Creative Creases #81

It's time for a new challenge over on the Creative Creases Challenge blog, and I'm back as a Guest Designer. If you'd like to join the fun by entering a fun-fold creation of your own, please add your link here: Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #81 (secretstamper.com)

I've been working on Mother's Day cards over the past few weeks, and this one is for my lovely daughter-in-law. Allie is an excellent mom, so I wanted to make her a very special Mother's Day card. She and my son have a 21-month-old son and another baby due in October. We are so excited about the new baby! 

This teepee card is composed of (3) 4 inch by 4 inch squares I scored on the diagonal and assembled to create the teepee. I used  velcro dots to close the final flap to make the card stand up, but the card will fold flat if the velcro dots are separated. If you'd like to watch a tutorial about how to create a teepee card, here's one by Sam Calcott of Mixed Up Craft. Hers uses 5 inch squares but otherwise is the same type of card design: Teepee Fun Fold Cards Any Size You Want! - YouTube. I used a pair of velcro dots to keep the flap closed when the card is in its teepee shape. This one I'm going to hand deliver, but it does fold flat when the velcro dots are separated from each other. 

After creating the card base for the teepee, I added some pretty floral pattern paper and then created 2 flowers and 4 leaves from Altenew's CAF: Peony Dream layering die set. Some of the card stock I used for the flowers I created myself using Lindy's Magicals, water colors, and some shimmery sprays. It's so much fun to play with mixed media!

I stamped the "Happy Mother's Day" sentiment using a retired CTMH stamp and die cut it along with a larger stitched circle die to put behind it. 

To finish the card, I added some blue sequins and pink translucent sequins and shapes for a bit of sparkle. 

Close up of the flower I die cut using the water color cardstock I had created with water colors, Lindy's Magicals, and shimmer sprays:

Close up of the flower I created with different shades of plain pink card stock. There's a bit of shimmer to the leaf bases because those I die cut out of water color cardstock I had used water colors and shimmer sprays on:

Those are tiny, translucent pink hearts by the sentiment: 

Challenges I'm entering: 

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 1/10 for the challenge; ends 5/8/24)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG (1/5; ends 5/1/24)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 4/30/24)

Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge Blog: Mother's Day Card (ends 5/6/24) C13

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG with option of adding one or more flowers (ends at the end of the month)

613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com): ATG with option to add a splash of color (ends at the end of the month) April Honors Pick 5/5/25

Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com): ATG (1/2; ends 5/3/24)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 5/3/24)

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG (1/3; ends 5/3/24)

As You Like It Challenge: Clean or Fussy and why: I am definitely Team Fussy! The more layers the better 😂! I love to add fun layers and create a lot of dimension on my cards because I think it looks extra special that way! (And possibly because I'm not very good at CAS 😅!) (1/3; ends 5/1/24)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (2/6; ends 5/15/24)

The Diva's that cut ....paper! (die-cut-divas.blogspot.com): Make a spring card (ends at the end of the month) Die Cut Divas Favorite 5/4/24

Doodle Challenge (rabiscochallenge.blogspot.com): ATG (ends at the end of the month)

No more challenges.