Mother’s Day Card

Delight your mum or loved one with a gorgeous greeting card that has a fun interactive surprise!

Who doesn’t love a pop-up card? Here are three fabulous kinetic creations to try – a 'twist and pop' design, an 'exploding box' and a

Helping Hand Kit List

◆ The Paper Pantry: Cutting Files with Papers USB Vol 4 (to purchase this head to createandcraft.com and type in product code 314370); USB Paper Collection Vol 9 (286996)

◆ The Paper Boutique Essential Nesting Dies Vol 1 Collection

◆ World Of Paper: Snow Leopard White Card 12" x 12" 250gsm 25 Sheets (321588);

◆ World of Paper Box of 250 A4 Sheets of White Card 250gsm, for printing the designs

◆ Card blank, white: 6" x 6"; 5" x 7"

◆ Die cutting machine

◆ Printer

◆ Scoreboard

◆ Paper trimmer

◆ Scissors

◆ Adhesives: glue, tape runner, red liner tape, foam pads

Mother's Day

1 Using Cutting Files Vol 4, cut out all of the elements for the pop-up box project using the die cutting machine.

2 Fold all the vertical and horizontal score lines on the pop-up box base and the support tabs [1]. Add adhesive to the tabs and glue the elements in place [2]. Note, there is an instruction sheet on the USB to construct the pop-up box if you need extra help. We have only used three supports in our pop-up box.

3 Print the desired designs on 250gsm paper from the Sweet Tweets Collection on The Paper Pantry – USB Paper Collection Vol 9 (we printed: one feathers decorative paper, one solid dark purple, a topper sheet with large image of birds in a nest, and one floral decorative paper, which was resized to fit the whole of the printing page so the flowers were enlarged).

Versatile greetings

◆ When fussy cutting, try to keep your scissors still and move the card instead, this will make cutting easier

◆ Check the printer settings that you are printing on best quality; this will give a better finish to printed papers

◆ Always read all instructions before starting a project, so you know exactly what to expect

4 Use the solid purple paper to die cut the Box Base Matts Layers. Then resize the Box Base Matts Layers images to 90%, now die cut these from the feathers decorative papers. Also die cut the sentiment Happy Mother’s Day from the Cutting Files USB. This will create all the matts and layers to decorate the pop-up box. Fussy cut the birds in nest and flowers in vase from one of the topper or embellishment sheets, and several flowers from the enlarged floral decorative paper [3]. Adhere all the matts and layers to the pop-up box [4]

5 Start to adhere white card strips to the back of the fussy cut flowers, then use them to adhere them to the supports in the pop-up box. Position the large image of the birds on foam pads on the back panel of the pop-up box. Adhere the Happy Mother’s Day sentiment on the front of the box with foam pads.