Spring is almost sprung!

I made this when the sun was shining and the garden began to spring into life.

The stamp set is from Joanna Sheen. I have stamped in Archival black ink and coloured using watercolour crayons.

Gatefold Pop-up Box Card

I have been making a few of these cards. They are great gift box/card all-in-ones! They have a deep enough expansion to fit tiny baby socks or mitts in for new babies or small jewellery items (earrings, sewn beadwork bracelets, key rings) or fridge magnets.

The baby stamp is from the Don and Daisy collection by Marianne Designs. I have coloured her with Promarkers. I think she is so cute. The wording stamps are the Woodware Baby Greetings set.

The wrap can be made as deep as required to allow for the gift inside: you will need to adjust the length of the wrap and the scoring measurements as required.

The instructions follow so have a go!

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For the base card:

            26cm x 18cm coloured card

            Two pieces 4.7cm x 9.7cm background paper

            One piece 7.7cm x 9.7cm background paper

            Greetings stamp and embellishments as desired

For the box wrap:

            4cm x 24cm card

            Icon stamp

Decorative mounts and ribbon punch as desired

Instructions

1. To make the base card:
   Measure and mark the long edges at 5, 9, 17 and 21cm. Score across the width of the card at these points.
   Measure and mark along the short edges at 4 and 14cm. Score down the length of the card at theses points.
2. Cut away the four corners from the card. With the card long sides top and bottom (landscape), cut along the top and bottom outer scored box shapes up to the first scored corner (the central top and bottom panels). Cut these side pieces like a tab shape.
3. Mark the midpoint of the top and bottom central panels (13cm from either end or 4cm within the panel margins). Score from this midpoint diagonally to the corners of the panel.

4. These diagonal score lines and the outer side panel score lines are mountain folds. All the other score lines are valley folds.
5. Decorate the inside panel and outer two side panels as required. Apply glue to the underside of the side tabs and attach them to the inside edges of the card pulling the card into a box shape.
6. To create the wrap:
   Score across the width of the card at 5cm, 6cm, 16.5cm, 17.5cm. Fold all the score lines as valley folds. Wrap loosely around the card.
   The two ends should overlap by about 1cm. Glue them together.
   Decorate the wrap as required.