blossoming pop up mothers day card

This fun fold card packs a Wow factor that will bloom right in front of the person that receives this beautiful card!

Start with a 8 1/2″ x 11″ piece of copy paper and with a sponge brayer (retiring this month) (#141714) lightly (to minimize the lines somtimes created by a brayer – a light touch helps!) brayer color on both sides of paper!

Using your Stampin’ Trimmer cut the copy paper into 2 3/4″ square pieces.

Fold each square in half on the diagonal and then in half towards the other diagonal.

Then fold it in half and in half again!

After the folding is complete and you open the colored copy paper it should look like the picture below!

Using a Sponge Dauber burnish color in a circular motion in the center of the square.

Refold the square and starting at the folded edge cut the top to resemble a snow cone starting low on the folded side and arching up to the top of the paper and angling back down to the other edge.

Fold and cut 7 squares. Once the squares are cut open them up and cut one petal from the flower and using mono adhesive glue glue the petals on either side of the removed piece together!

Fold the flowers flat and begin to glue as shown below take the first flower the 3 petal bumps facing upward and put a glue dot on the left and right petals as shown.

Place 2 petals on top of the glue dots 3 petal bumps facing outwards with the glue dot adhering to the top and middle petals as shown below!

Then place three glue dots as shown and place one petal 3 bumps facing upwards over the glue.

Repeat the four dots of glue and the 2 petals on the side as above and the three dots of glue on the top and the one petal with the three bumps facing upward to finish the petal stack off. The final order is one petal facing upward two petals on the sides – then one facing upward 2 on the sides and one last one up top! Watch the video it is easier to show it on a video then trying to explain in pictures LOL!

Set aside to dry and finish front of card anyway you like – I added some black and white True Love DSP and colored it with Stampin’ Blending Brushes and Granny Apple Green and Calypso coral inks!

Once the glue is dry from the petals being glued together I added a piece of True Love DSP tot he inside left panel of the card and added a dot of glue to the middle petal and positioned so the open area of the petals was about 1/8″ from the card score line. Close the card and hold in place for about 30 seconds to allow the glue to set. repeat on the other side of the card with the petal grouping – place one dot of glue on the middle petal and close the card so that the florer petals adhere