Garden Explosion Birthday Card

Here is another explosion card that I made. It was a birthday card for my Mother-In-Law who loves to garden. Unfortunately this is not a card that you can throw together in just a few minutes, but I think it is really really cute! This is the outside.

Here is the inside of the lid. I used the same paper as I did on all my other explosion cards, K & Company Berry Sweet.

This is the opened card. I used the Walk In My Garden Cart and the border function on the flowers.

This is a close up of the sign that I cut from Walk In My Garden and just wrote Happy Birthday on it.

I hand cut the grass using a grass die cut as a pattern, but discovered later that there is a grass cut on the Sportsmania cart. I also chalked the grass with a darker green chalk to make it look more realistic.

Here is where it gets a little tricky to explain how I attached the flowers to the card. I folded a brown piece of card stock that was measured to fit the lenght of each item. This is a picture of what I started out with. I then mounted the flowers to it and cut around the flowers so I would not have any brown showing on the card.

If you look closely you can see that I cut a small slit in the bottom of the card and slid the flowers (after they were mounted to the brown card stock) through the slit. I had hoped to make a video to post showing how I did this, but I am still working on that idea. If you have any questions just leave a comment for me and I will answer any questions that you have. One thing you will need to keep in mind if you are using several items as I did is to place them in offsetting locations so when the box is folded up they will not touch each other. I should have taken a picture looking into the box to show this, but did not think of that until I gave the card away. Again, if you have any questions, just leave a comment and I will get back to you with the answer.


I also mounted the watering can the same way.

Here is a close up of the section I saved to write a sentiment on. The turtle was cut from the same cart. Isn't he cute!