June 2009
Pop-up Garden Party Invitation
by
Amy Kinsch


Flower Garden MJ-1302N
3 3/4" x 3 1/2"
Swirled Leaves 1086P
5 1/4" x 3 3/4"


40's Alphabet 946R  3 1/4" x 5 1/4"
Offered Unmounted Only

Sentiments 1309 3 3/4" x 5"
Offered Unmounted Only

Supplies:  rubber stamps, acrylic blocks, cling foam, scissors, A6 card, colored paper, black ink pad, green ink pad, colored pencils, glue stick, scratch paper for masking.


Stamp the Swirled Leaves around the inside edges of your A6 card.  Ink the larger leaves on the stamp and mask off as you go around the card edges.
Color the leaves in with colored pencils.
Stamp the You're Invited and the Flower Garden on the front of your card and color in the flowers.
With a square piece of colored paper, fold diagonally corner to corner, then unfold and fold the opposite direction.
Flip your paper over and fold it in half one time.
Your paper should now look like this.
Collapse your paper into a triangle and place it inside your card with the triangle tip up against the fold of your card.  Mark off where the top and bottom of the paper meets the card and also mark off about a half inch in from the outer edge in the center (directly across from the triangle tip) so you have three marks. 
With your paper still folded, cut a scallop shape cutting a total of four scallops.  Use that center mark to cut two below it and two above it.
Open your flower so the larger sides will lay against each side of your card.
Using about a 2 1/2" square piece of colored paper, fold it the same as you did the large flower.  Cut the large edge off into one scallop.  Then fringe cut the scalloped edge making sure not to cut too close together.
Flip over the flower center and glue the back with your glue stick.  Be careful not to get glue on the fringing so it sticks up a bit after it's glued in.
Using your alphabet, stamp the individual letters to form whatever you would like your card to say inside.
Fold up your large flower and glue the back left side.  Place it back inside the open card with the tip of the flower back up against the fold and fold the front of the card onto the glued flower.
Open the card and now glue the back side of the flower.  Fold the back side of the card onto the glued back of the flower.
You now have an easy pop-up flower card.  You can also use the Happy Birthday or the Get Well Soon off the Sentiments stamp to make this into a different card.