Hello Creative Friends,

Several of my friends have made “flowerpot” cards and there was a challenge for them over at Splitcoast Stampers not too long ago.  With the 4th of July coming up, I decided I’d try one with a patriotic flair.

I did change my dimensions some from what they suggested for the challenge and I made mine a little differently.   You can find the original challenge for them here. 

I wanted more room on the top so I made the flowerpot base a little smaller.  Also I wanted dimension on my flowerpot so I needed to add the rim around the top separately instead of folding it down as they suggested.

Here’s my basic directions.

For the patriotic base:
Start with a 3 1/2 x 6 piece of cardstock (Real Red).  Score at 3 inches on the 6 inch side and fold so you end up with a 3 x 3 1/2 folded piece.

Cut 1/2 inch in  from the bottom of each side up to the top side edge of each.  This forms the angles for your flowerpot base.

Cut three 1/2 inch x 3 inch strips out of  White Cardstock and adhere evenly spaced across the front of the flowerpot base vertically.  See photo for placement. 

For The Rim:
Cut a 3 3/4 x 1 inch strip of cardstock (Brilliant Blue).  Round the corners on this piece. 

Adhere 3  stars of White Card Stock punched from the Star Punch evenly on the blue strip.    Add the blue strip with stars across the top of the base with foam mounts.  I used foam mounts to put on the stars as well.

For The Pull Out Card:
I used the same measurements for this as suggested for the Splitcoast challenge. 

Cut a piece of  2/ 1/2 x 4 1/2  Red Card Stock and layer with a piece of 2 1/3 x 4 1/4 White Card Stock.

I used mine as an invitation using the Please Come stamp set from Stampin’ Up!

Decoration For Pull Out:
Stampin’ Up! Little Leaves Sizzlit, Flower Daisies #2 Die t, and  Star Punch.

Finishing Touches:
I added a Mini Glue Dot to each inside top corner of the flowerpot base to hold it together.  The original directions were to put ribbon around it and hold it together that way, but with the patriotic bottom it seemed like any ribbon I used took away from the look of it so I went with glue dots instead.

To keep mine  at the right size for the envelope,  l laid it out on a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 piece of cardstock before I adhered the decoration to my pull out card so that I wouldn’t go over.

You can browse through lots of these flowerpot cards over at Splitcoast Stampers in their gallery for this technique here.  Grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable.  There’s 42 pages of them that had been submitted last I looked:)

Need another patriotic craft?  Find my ”fireworks” (sparkler) decoration here.

Have a creative day,

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