Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week. It's the middle of March and its definitely beginning to look a lot like Spring here - buds on the trees starting to burst open, beautiful fragrant almond blossom and there's a definite buzz in the garden now.
It's that time of the week to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads!
Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!
One of my crafting goals this year, as you know is to use my ScanNCut machine more so I set myself the challenge to use one of the wonderful Digital Print and Cut Files and make a 3D pop up card. Two completely new things for me to learn and I am so happy with the end result.
I started off with the Files from the Spring is Here download and worked out how to print these and use the Cut file included to cut out the images....
The really simple way was was to print out the coloured image file, scan in the image and then use this direct to cut tool, but I discovered that the detailed cuts were missing. 
Not a huge problem I know and the elements as still beautiful as they are but I wanted to get the detailed cuts too. It took me a few attempts to work out which files to use with my ScanNCut machine but I did it in the end using the high quality png file and the dxf cut line only was the combination that worked for me.
But then I wanted to push myself further as the coloured images didn't match the colour palette Nikky had asked us to use. So I set to work again, working out which file I needed to use that I could edit and alter the colours, I also wanted extra copies of the butterflies and tulips for my design. Once I was happy I recreated the cut file, using the original version to suit my new image.
I'm so happy it worked - took me a few hours to work out what I was doing but it was so worth it and will be quicker next time !
Next I designed my Pop Up Box in the Brother CanvasWorkspace and once cut out set to decorating my Spring card.
The finished card folds flat and fits an A6 or 6" x 4" envelope.
I adhered some of the wood grain paper from the Udderly Cute collection to the card inserts - I think they look like benches in a little greenhouse. The back Arched panel of the pop up was covered with one of the lilac papers from the Flower Meadow bundle.
I assembled all the cut out elements, adding a little distress ink here and there to emphasise the shadows etc.
To finish off the card I added confetti around the design and added some clear sparkle to the butterflies.
Hasta luego 👋
Enjoy the rest of your day !
Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital Print & Cut File - Spring is HerePolkadoodles digital paper - Udderly Cute Cows - Paper Pack 5
Polkadoodles digital paper - Flower Meadow bundlePolkadoodles digital print & cut SVG file - Spring is Here
distress ink - shaded lilac, wilted violet, mustard seed, twisted citron, mowed lawn, salty ocean
Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear
Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum
Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment.
Wendy x
