50th Birthday

Well here is another one of the latest things a pop up box card. These are just great for posting that is depending how much 3d  stuff you put on and in them. Well here is my latest effort at one, this one is for my niece who will be celebrating her 50th birthday in May.

For the flowers I have used
Stampin Up : Flower Shop and Petite Flowers Stamps plus the punches that go with them.
 Leaves are made with  the Bird Builder Punch.
Labels of Love Stamps plus the Artisan Label Punch used for the greeting label.
Butterflies are stamped using Stampin Up Papillon Pot Pourri  Stamps and punched out with  S.U Elegant Butterfly Punch and Bitty Butterfly Punch
The ink colours I have used are Stampin Up Regal Rose, Strawberry Slush , Certain Celery and Pistachio Pudding.
The numbers were Silver Glitter Card cut with Die-namics Number Dies.
Diamante gems used fro centre of flowers and butterflies.
The ribbon some silver ribbon I had in my stash.

Rose Ball Topiary

I would like to share with you my latest projects these topiary style rose ball trees.

I used the Stampin Up Spiral Flower Die to make roughly 85 roses for each tree. Once these were made and shaped they were stuck on to a solid polystyrene ball size 120mm using a glue gun. A 12mm wide dowel was coloured with Early Expresso Ink and Alway Artichoke ink from Stampin Up then inserted into the polystyrene ball.  I used  10cm tall metal buckets in beige for both trees The trees were set into plaster  of  paris  casting powder, held whilst dry this took about 20 minutes to set I then decorated over the plaster with cream decorative gravel. Finished off making satin ribbon bows to match with the colours of the trees.