Flower Pot Card

A card made from a sheet folded in quarters: on the front is a pocket flower pot with three flowers peeking out. Pull the little bouquet up — the flowers grow, and a message appears under the bow.

• Easy
• 2 Letter sheets
• 2 pieces
• 2 cm — the flowers slide up

Make it with your phone cameraLesson code: 2685

On VanGami the template appears over your sheet through your phone camera — no printer needed. Trace it, cut, fold and glue. Below are all the steps in text.

What you’ll need

• 2 Letter sheets — office paper, 80 gsm (20 lb)
• Markers
• Pencil — and eraser
• Scissors — small
• Glue stick — or PVA glue
• Glass — phone stand

Steps

Sheet 1

1. Sheet 1: white sheet. The white sheet should be under the camera now. The template has 1 sheets.
2. Pot. Trace the pot: a wide rim on top and, below it, a body that gets narrower toward the bottom.
3. Pot: drawing. Draw the line under the rim and a little heart in the middle.
4. Bouquet. Trace the three round flower heads, the stem, and the wide bottom in one line, like a sticker with a white border. The wide bottom keeps the bouquet from falling out.
5. Bouquet: drawing. Copy a tulip, two flowers, stems with little leaves, and a bow. Under the bow is a frame: the spot for a message.
6. Pot: coloring. Pot — orange; little heart — pink. Leave the line under the rim in pencil.
7. Bouquet: coloring. Tulip — red; flowers — pink and yellow; centers — yellow and orange; stems and little leaves — green; bow — pink. Don’t color the frame.

Sheet 2

8. Sheet 2: sheet for the base. Take the sheet for the base. You don’t need the camera here — follow the diagram on the screen.
9. Base: diagram. The second sheet is the card base. You’ll fold it into quarters at the “Base” step: first along line 1, then along line 2. You don’t need to draw the lines.

Cut

10. Cut out: pot. Cut out the pot along the solid line.
11. Cut out: bouquet. Cut out the bouquet along the solid line, going smoothly around the flower heads.

Base

12. Fold the sheet in half. Take the second sheet and fold it in half: top edge to bottom edge, edge to edge. Crease the fold with your fingernail.
13. In half again. Fold it in half again: left edge to right edge. Now you have a 4⅛ × 5⅞ in card with the fold on the left, like a book.

Glue

14. Glue along the edge of the pot. Turn the pot face down. Put glue in a strip along the edge: down both sides and along the bottom. Don’t put glue on the top edge — that’s the opening of the pocket.
15. Pot onto the card. Glue the pot to the front of the card, centered at the bottom: ⅜ in from the bottom edge. Press the edges down with your fingers, but don’t press the middle.
16. Put in the flowers. Slide the bouquet into the pocket stem first, all the way in: the wide bottom will sit in the narrow part of the pot, and the flower heads and bow will stay above the rim.
17. Narrow the opening. Lift the top corners of the rim, dab glue under each one — ¾ in in from the edge — and press down. The opening gets narrower: the stem slides freely, but the wide bottom won’t pop out.

Check

18. The word. Pull the bouquet up by the flower heads as far as it goes — a frame will appear. Write a name or “for you” in it and slide the flowers back down.
19. The flowers grow. Stand the card up slightly open. Pull the flowers up — they grow out of the pot, and the message shows. Write a wish inside the card.

Done. Your card is done. Pull the flowers up by their heads to reveal the message; inside the card there’s room for a whole wish.

Make it with your phone camera

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