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Side Tower Pop-Up Flower Vase Card

I have been wanting to make one of these Side Tower pop up card but it took me a bit to figure out what I wanted to use the make it and then I remembered the vase and flower dies I got from the Spellbinders Advent Calendar 2024 and decided that would be perfect for this card along with the Countryside Inn designer series paper would go perfect with it. I received the Spellbinders Advent Calendar from one of my close friends and it was so much fun and there were so many wonderful dies, sequins, stamps and stencils (24 days worth), I had a blast opening it each morning.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Boho Blue card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Countryside Inn designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
Night of Navy ink (Stampin’ Up)
Vase and flower dies (Spellbinders Advent Calendar 2024 but Stampin’ Up has similar sets)
Embellishments for the flower centers
Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

Take a piece of Boho Blue card stock to 4 ¼” x 9 ¼”, scoring at 5 ½”, 6”, 8” and 9”. Cut a second piece to 3” x 5 ¼”, scoring at 4” and 5”. With your white card stock cut two pieces to 2” x 3”. With the Night of Navy card stock cut a piece to 2 ½” x 3 ½”. From the Countryside Inn designer series paper, find the floral piece and also the piece in dark blue with the tiny flowers. With the floral piece cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼”. From the dark piece with the tiny flowers cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 2 ¾”, a piece to 1 ¼” x 5 ¼” and two pieces to ¾” x 5 ¼”.

With a spare piece of Boho Blue and your dies, cut the vase, two full flowers and one of the half flower. With the Night of Navy cut the stems which the die cuts two, and two of the small leaves.

With your two pieces of white card stock cut to 2” x 3”, take the “Wishing you ridiculous amounts of happiness” on the upper right side of one in the Night of Navy ink. On the second piece stamp the “You are Amazing!”.

Take your Boho Blue card base that is 4 ¼” x 9 ¼” and fold all of your small pieces scored upwards for form your pop up tower to the right side of your card. With one of your floral pieces adhere that to the front 4 1/4 “ x 5 ½” part of the card. Take the three strips of the dark blue designer series paper and adhere to each of the folds on the back side, then adhere your ¼” end piece to the front of your card, forming your tower on the left. Make sure when you go to adhere the ¼” strip you fold the square down flat so your are sure your card will fold flat properly.

Now take the other scored piece of Boho Blue and fold the scores down. Adhere the dark blue designer series paper to the center of the large portion and the white one stamped with the “Wishing You Ridiculous Amounts of Happiness to the center of that. Put adhesive on the ¼” strip and fold both scored section in and align to the right side of your card so that you know that is aligned to not go over the edge when your card is folded flat. Then fold both sections down and adhere the other end to your tower.

With one of the flowers, put an embellishment in the center of one of the full flowers and adhere it to the right lower corner of the front top of your card. Then adhere your other two flowers to the two stems and add the leaves to the stems as well. Adhere to the upper left of the front of your tower and then adhere your vase over the stems.

For the back of your card, adhere the other piece of floral paper. Adhere your white stamped piece to the Night of Navy piece and adhere that to the center of the back.

That is the Side Tower Pop Up card made with the flowers and vase.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com. Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Countryside Inn Foxy Tri-Fold Card

February 28, 2025 No Comments

This elegant foxy tri-fold card made with the Countryside Inn designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is just adorable and easy to make.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Night of Navy card stock
Balmy Blue card stock
White card stock
Countryside Inn designer series paper
Three stacked Oblong Nested dies
Sizzix Forest Friends (not sure on the name) dies
Small floral dies
Framed Florets stamps
Night of Navy ink
Embellishments to decorate the center of the flowers
Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

With the Night of Navy card stock cut a piece to 3” x 9” and another to 3” x 4 ¼”. Score the 3” x 9” piece at 4 ¼” and at 8 ½”. Fold the 9” piece in half and then fold the half inch piece in the opposite direction. Put adhesive on the ½” piece and adhere the 3” x 4 ¼” piece to make a z-fold. Find the blue striped piece from the Countryside Inn designer series paper pack. Cut three pieces to 2 ¾” x 4” and adhere to each panel of the z-folded card base.

With your Night of Navy card stock die cut three of the largest panels which are about 4 ½” long. In the Countryside Inn designer series paper pack find the paper that has the foxes on it, use the middle size die or next size down to cut three of these. With White card stock us the next size down cut two. Cut out one each of the fox and the racoon (which looks like a fox) with Night of Navy card stock and Balmy Blue card stock and adhere the pieces together. For the racoon version, just take the Balmy Blue tail and cut it with a jagged edge instead of the double stripes for the racoon. With Night of Navy, Balmy Blue and White card stock scraps cut some flowers for decoration.

With the two white oblong octagons, Night of Navy ink and the “wishes for a beautiful birthday” and stamp that on one toward the top, then with the “for a special person on a special day” stamp that onto the other white one toward the top as well.

Now take all the oblong octagon pieces and adhere the three fox designer series paper to the three Night of Navy pieces. Add the two white ones to two of the pieces. Take the back one with the “for a special person on a special day” and put adhesive slightly less than half way up from the bottom and adhere to the back panel. You want it to measure 5 ½” in total so that it is the proper size for an envelope. Put adhesive about 1/3 of the way up for the piece that doesn’t have a white panel, line it up face down on the back one and fold the middle panel down so that they line up perfectly. Now put adhesive on the front panel about 1/3 of the way up and with the card folded, align with the other panels so that when the card is folded it should only show the front panel.

This now gives you the Countryside Inn Foxy tri-fold card with this beautiful fox paper in these elegant blues.