Fun fold Friday Beautiful Balloons

 On Monday I mentioned that we had held an even using the fabulous Bright and Beautiful memories and more card pack and the coordinating Card's and envelopes. These are  amazing products that as the name say's are for more than memory making! They coordinate with the beautiful balloons bundle and pattern paper beautifully. 

They make fantastic quick cards and can be used for fun folds too... as I'm sharing today!

My card today has no stamping!!! 😱😱 I know it was a shock for me too! 🤣 but it was just the way it happened. I don't know about you but sometime cards just come together with out me being in charge  😉 .

So what have I made for you today? Well it's called a pop up box card. There are many tutorials around but this is my metric version. 

It all starts with a piece of cardstock measuring 14.85cm x 21cm scored at 5cm, 10cm, 15cm and 20cm. Then turn the cardstock and score at 7cm. You'll also need 3 pieces of cardstock measuring 2cm x 7cm each scored at 1cm and 6cm.

As you can see in the photo above you have to cut up the score lines and remove the bottom 1cm panel. The top part of this narrow strip becomes the tab which you adhere the sides together with. 

Now select 1 of the panels to be the back and fold the rest down. Now it's time to add the 2 strips on the inside. Do this by applying adhesive to the 2 narrow panels and gently folding them so that they slot into the inside of the box. These panels become the anchor points for your decorations.

The first thing I did was to decorate the panels on the outside at the bottom of the box and the flaps.

The great thing with this card is that it folds flat and fits a standard C6 envelope. 

Just make sure that your decorations don't go ourside the box area too much.

 Then the fun began as I used the stickers from the memories and more cards pack to decorate the inside. 

I used some acetate to act as the carrier for the fun parts. I used glue dots to adhere the ends of the acetate to the inner panels.

I love how the elements dance around.

I added a panel  on the back as an area to write on but had to decorate it with some more of the stickers 😄 

All in all this is fun card came together quickly and with lits of smiles... which is what I hope it does for the recipient and you, the reader.

Here's another shot of the card.

Well that's all folks... for this week from me that is. Please join me here next week when Gill will be sharing her inspiration with us all.

Have fun

Cary xxx