Thursday, October 16, 2008

Flowerbox for the Holidays


The hardest part about making this card? It's the envelope. Because this uses a rubberband mechanism, the envelope needs to be strong, like a rigid photo mailer. Unfortunately the premade ones for CDs are too small.

4 comments:

  1. Does the mechanism pull the flowers into the box when this is flattened? About how big is this?

    Great card!

    Carol
    Extreme Cards and Papercrafting
    http://extremecards.blogspot.com

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  2. cpeep - the mechanism pulls the two opposite corners together to form a box shape. The flowers are not pulling in. I do have to be careful when selecting the flowers to only pick ones that will lie flat. When flattened it will fit into a 6" square envelope.

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  3. Got to skip the ones with the hard plastic centers I guess :)

    On my wedding cake pop up I had to take the centers out of the flowers and replace them with gems. Even so, it wouldn't have mailed well.

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