Crazy for Challenges C4C94 & Daring Card Makers Challenge- Waterlilies

This is a card that I made to combine two challenges.  Crazy for Challenges has a challenge to make a "center step card" this week and Daring Card Makers has a challenge to use a water lily or larkspur flower.  

 The water lily flower is made using the Cricut.  Just cut the flower in varying sizes, layer them and curl the petals up.

 Click here for instructions on how to make a center step card.  It's not very hard and it's a very clever card fold.  

 And here's the inside.

Flower Pot Card

Today I have something really cool to share with you.  I was surfing the internet and came across a flower pot card.  I really loved the idea and decided to try it.  Here it is:

As you can see from the picture below, this card is two pieces and when you pull up the flowers, it reveals the "inside" of the card.  How cool is that?!
I found directions to make this card on Stephanie Luman's website (click here).  My card is made a bit larger than the directions indicate because I knew with the three dimensional flowers that it wouldn't fit in an envelope anyway.
I created the flowers and leaves with my Cricut.  The flowers are with the George and Basic Shapes cartridge and then embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.  The leaves are cut with the Accent Essentials cartridge.  The pearl brads are from the Brides line at Michaels.
This card was pretty time consuming to make but now that I did it once, I think it will be easier and quicker to make more.  It's almost too pretty to give away so I guess I better make another!

I was browsing online and came across the blog Paper, Scissors, Ink (click here) and they have cut files (both DS and SCAL) to make a flower pot card with your Cricut.   This might be helpful to those of you that have those programs.

I hope you enjoyed this post... I really enjoyed making it!  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!