Explosion box card with 3D tulips in a vase

Today I am featuring an explosion box card with 3-dimensional tulips in a vase.

It is so easy to give 3-dimensional shape and make lots of flowers in a short time with the 3D moulds.

I used a ready-made explosion box template and cut 10 squares of printed papers from the Tulip Time paper pack.  Four squares were adhered to the four sides of the outside of the box. five squares were adhered to the inside bottom and sides of the box. The last square was adhered to the lid, after the lid had been assembled.

A wooden chipboard vase was assembled to use inside the box.

To make the flowers, I used my Misti stamping tool to stamp several tulips and leaves, using Carnation red archival ink. I use archival ink when I intend colouring the stamped images because the archival ink does not smudge. The carnation red, blaze Artistry ink and twisted citron distress oxide inks were used to colour the stamped flowers and leaves. I like colouring the flowers with a dauber and inks before die-cutting the flowers with the co-ordinating dies, because it is an easy colouring technique that saves lots of time too.

 

The co-ordinating mould was used to shape the petals before assembling the flowers.

You may watch the video to learn how to shape petals and assemble the tulips: https://www.heartfeltcreations.us/video/222/how-to-create-tulips-with-the-tulip-time-collection

The completed flowers and leaves were arranged in the pot. I used a bit of hot glue to attach them to each other in a few places, so they would stay in place. The pot was adhered to the explosion box with some hot glue.

Here you see the completed explosion box and lid.

The next pictures show some details.

 

 

Thank you for taking time to visit. I hope that you enjoyed. I so appreciate your comments ... thank you for taking time to write something short. You are also welcome to ask questions about this project.

Have an awesome day.

Marie Smith