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Morning All!

Hope you're feeling well today.  We've had a bit of rain today - the garden will definitely be thankful, I can almost here the grass pleading for more.

As usual, on Fridays it's Daring Cardmakers day and we're in a prickly kind of mood this time!

It’s me, Miri, bringing you a new challenge and I would love to see a cactus or several cacti on your card!
cactus/cacti
Cacti always remind me of summer, sunshine, deserts and holidays… and I just can’t wait for our summer holidays to begin and for the sunshine and heat to come back again.
Luckily cacti are a huge trend at the moment and you can find them on many stamps and patterned papers. 
Click HERE to see what the team made this week
 

I made a window box card this time.  The lower edge of the front of the card blank is folded to make a kind of box shape, which folds flat to go in an envelope but when opened up stands out. The back of the card needs to be trimmed down accordingly.
To make the little plants stand out, I made a separate section for the 'sandy' base with slits cut into it to tuck the plants into.  I added  scrap pieces of card to the lower edges of the little plants and poked these tabs through the slits, then folded and glued the tabs to the underside.  When they were all in place I used double sided tape to secure the whole plant section to the window box/

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White card blank folded to create shape, back section trimmed to match.
The background was inked in blue and the front of the window box was made from a piece of yellow card.  I used an EK Success border punch to create the fancy edge
A strip of sandy coloured card was used to make the base for the plants.
The plants are die cut in various scraps of green card using a Spellbinders die set, some of the flowers are dies from the same set, others are made using a small punch

On this photo you can see the box effect and how the plants are standing 'proud' better.
To finish I tied strands of Bakers Twine around the front section of the box and added a multi loop bow.

We'd love to have you join in with us this week, just click on the Daring Cardmakers link to find out more

Thanks for looking in today

Happy Crafting!