POP-UP card with ALTENEW's Secret Garden Retreat!

Hi all!

I have another card here using the One-Go:Friendship Flowers stamp, die and stencil set from the Altenew Secret Garden retreat. I think I made 8 or 9 cards with this set alone, so I'm totally getting my money's worth out of it. It's a perfect set to use for the Just Us Girls Use a Die challenge too.

I been playing with pop-up and fun fold cards lately and the current Tic Tac Toe challenge has a fun fold square so I decided to do something fun with my new floral stamp, stencil and die set. I'm following the top line if you can't tell...

This card started off with the stamp set from the retreat, along with Altenew's Green Valley color family. I'm really enjoying making the monochromatic colored cards right now, and green is a fun color to play around with. Isn't it pretty? Wait until you see my final card later this week....swoon... The background for the front of the card was die cut using the Hearts A Plenty cover die. It's adorable!

I opted to keep the front of the card very simple, the inside is the star of the show. Green is one of my favorite colors, but the reason I had to make this a green door...that's the color of the door to my art studio! Yes...that crazy bright color green too.

To make the pop-up, I finally pulled out the Concord & 9th Pop-Up Die set to test it out....it's been in my stash for years and has never seen the light of day. I think the process intimidated me. This gave the card the fun-fold part of the challenge. This card is crazy thick, so it will have to be a hand-delivered card, I probably should have used thinner cardstock. Lesson learned.

Since I'm not great yet at making a pop-up card, there are a few mess-ups....so don't look too closely... That's ok...every failure is a way to figure out how to make it better next time!

That's it for now. I hope you have a colorful day...like the studio door!