Mother's Day Cascading card

Over at Ginger Snap Scraps, the DT is posting Mother's Day inspired projects.
I recently saw a tutorial for a cascading card here at My Crafty Life. It looked fairly straight forward so thought I would give it a try. It was so easy to follow. The hard part was decorating it.

Looks Like a bouquet of flowers

When the card is flat to mail

I am pretty happy with how it turned out for the first time.
I am stuck on using these great papers from the Lawn Fawn Paper pack. Can't seem to get enough of them.
This and the twine from Twinery can be found in the Ginger Snap Scraps store.


I am also linking this up to the following...Hope you stop over at all these great blogs and join in.
My Paper Craft World Mothers Day Challenge
Fantabulous Cricut 
My Sheri Crafts
More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday
Cardz TV- Mothers Day 

Side view showing how it unfolds

Here's How I did it...
Pink base paper from Bazzill
All pattern papers for flowers from Lawn Fawn 6x6 stack
Flowers cut at various sizes ( 1.35" - 1.65") from Sweet Treats cart
Leaves cut .5" from Walk in My Garden cart
Mat/layers cut from Elegant Edges cart
Mothers Day cut at 2.17" from Mothers Day 2010 cart
EK border punch
Stickles and Twine from the Twinery

Spring is Almost Here!

Wow- what a change in temperature this week. The snow in MN is melting quickly. Temps are expected to be near 50 today so that will help melt more of the snow. This means that my flowers will soon be peeking through the ground. I love spring. Everything is new and fresh. 

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Emma at My Creative Time has a Throwback Thursday challenge posted today. The challenge is to use the Walk in My Garden Cartridge. How fitting as I am thinking about my flowers. I am also submitting this card for this challenge over at Queen of my Craftroom and Cardz TV Challenge.

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This was a bit tricky to get the base of the card to line up correctly so when folded the front and back will match.

Using my Gypsy, I used the shadow blackout button and welded the flower pot and flowers together and then added a square behind the flowers for more stability. I then Sized it to an close A2 size card. 

Once all that was sized and all welded together, I copied it and positioned it to the left  side of the first one, then flipped it horizontally. This is very important or your card may not match up exactly when folded. I welded another square between the two parts so when folded it was not folding on the corner of the flower pot. I also used pop dots on the top layer of the flower pot for some dimension

Then I got to work cutting the fun stuff... all the layers.

All cuts are from Walk in My Garden Cricut Cartridge.

Here's how I did it....

Blue paper base and white card stock from Bazzill

All other paper is from my scrap stash

Cricut cuts from Walk in My Garden using my Gypsey

• Flower Pot/layers cut at 4"x1.75", p.91
• Daffodil/Iris and layers cut at 1"x 2.54", p.96
• Crocus/layers cut at 1.25"x2.54", p.95
• Tulips/layers cut at 1.41" x 3.36", p.99
• caterpillar/layers cut at 1.90"x.7", p.120
• Garden tools/layers cut at 2.67"x2.3", p.106

Cuttlebug Swirls embossing folder for base layer

Sentiment From Scrappy Moms Designers Choice stamp set

A piece of twine and a cute button from  my stash

Chalk, and doodles with my pens

Be sure to stop over and check out all the other creations for the Throwback Thursday Challenge with this oldie but goodie cartridge as well as Cardz TV Challenge and  Queen of my Craftroom

Have a springy day!!