Craft-A-Flower: Bearded Iris Pop Up Card for Altenew

Yesterday was my oldest daughter's 26th birthday, and I wanted to make her a special card using the Craft-A-Flower: Bearded Iris set I was blessed to play with as a Guest Designer for Altenew's February release.  Here I decided to feature the smaller of the two flowers in the set (mostly because the larger one was too long to fit on the pop outs!), so I die cut and assembled them using white cardstock I had sprayed with distress spray (the purple flower) and shimmer spray (the orange flower). I added some leaves that I trimmed a bit (the leaves in this set are very long and look great when there's a larger area to arrange the flowers) and set them aside to create the other parts of the card. 

For the card design, I followed Connie Stewart's instructions to create a Double Floating Pop Out card found here: Double Floating Pop Out Card Tutorial: Birthday and Christmas Designs. Connie has a lot of great fun fold designs, and she makes them easy to create with her videos and downloads. I adjusted her measurements a bit to make the card larger. 

I had some yellow alcohol ink backgrounds I had created recently, so I thought I would use them for the inside of this card. I cut them to size and then adhered them in place. Then I added my Bearded Iris flowers to the pop outs with foam tape and stamped and die cut "happy birthday" from Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Splendid Bouquet project kit. I used the coordinating die to die cut a piece of black foam to adhere behind the sentiment for some dimension. 

My daughter loved the card when I gave it to her yesterday on our way to lunch at one of her favorite restaurants. It was too big for a regular envelope, so I tucked it inside the box with all her birthday gifts. Normally this card design will fit into an A2 envelope, but I adjusted the measurements to create a bigger card, and my leaves stand out too far at the top to fit even a 5X7 envelope. This card needs to stay out on display rather than being tucked away in an envelope! 😂

I've recently become an affiliate for Altenew, so if you are interested in ordering something lovely from Altenew and would like to use my link, thank you very much! Here's the link: Carrie's Altenew affiliate page 

Challenges I'm entering: 

Creative Creases Challenge: ATG with a fun fold (ends 2/6/25) 

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (ends 2/12/25)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog: ATG (ends at the end of the month)

My Time To Craft!: Use a sentiment (ends 1/23/25)

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: ATG  (ends 1/22/25)

Craft Rocket Challenges: Something new (the Bearded Iris dies are new) (ends at the end of the month)

Creative Inspiration Challenges: ATG (ends at the end of the month)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (1/4; ends 2/15/25)

Ellibelle's Corner: Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday: ATG (ends at the end of the month

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with optional twist of monochrome (ends at the end of the month)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 1/10 for the challenge; ends 1/28/25)

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

Crafter's Cafe: ATG, twist of birthday (ends 2/7/25)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog: ATG (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

The Diva's that cut ....paper!: Use something new (the Bearded Iris dies are new) (2/4; ends at the end of the month)

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie...: ATG (ends at the end of the month)

Mix It Up Challenge Blog: ATG with option of monochrome (ends mid-February)

Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog: Something old, something new (the die set is new and the alcohol inks I used are old) (ends at the end of the month)

Triple B: ATG with birds, blooms, and/or butterflies (ends at the end of the month)

A Cut Above: ATG with die cuts (ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start: ATG with option of adding a balloon (ends at the end of the month)

613 Avenue Create: ATG with optional twist of monotone magic (ends at the end of the month)

We Love to Create mixed media Challenge Blog...sponsored by Polkadoodles: ATG (ends 1/24/25)

Gem of A Craft Challenge: ATB (1/17/25)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (ends 2/6/25)