Envelope box card

I have recently got back into making Shaped cards, flowers, using different textured papers and other beady embellishments. I also get ideas and inspiration from Pinterest and when I saw the envelope box card I knew I had to make one, You Tube has also got some great tutorials 

I am enjoying doing them again, this one I made for a very dear friend of mine.

There was a bit of measuring cutting and pasting to do so I got that all together and adhered the Backing paper I used dusty pink card stock for the base and the Backing Paper was from my stash

this was it put together I misjudged the side bit but that will be covered with flowers

The back is only half covered, as the white card was just that to write on and to hinge

I made an assortment of flowers one of the white flowers is made of toilet paper the other with a handi (paper )towel, three flowers were made with flower crepe paper, it is a bit firmer than normal crepe paper, the other flowers were made of card stock I cut an assortment of leaves with the cuttle bug and a bunch of hearts there was also some artificial flowers and a string of silver thick thread

I then had a play around to see how my flowers would be placed then took a photo to give myself a guide line

I put it together by using the oasis ( the grey block) I cut it to fit the box My flowers all had a wire stem, I tried using florist tape around the wire but they didn't go in the oasis very well so I just put them in without the tape Once I was happy with the flowers I added some leaves It needed a bit more so I put some small carnation flowers underneath the larger flowers and a string of hearts to the back of the box 

The front finished finally

there was also a hinge at the back to help the box stand upright the hinge was made with card

I really enjoyed making this card, although it did take a while putting all the bits together and building the card, but to me it was well worth the effort it took. 

My friend just loved it she has it on show for everyone to see