Lilypad & Pop-up Frog Card

I don't know about you, but I could use some cuteness around here! My daughter and I are both quite ill with some sort of horrible virus, so I will have to make this short. (ETA: Dan came home with it after school, too… sigh. I have a feeling poor Mike is doomed). But since I can't get in the stamp room to make something pretty today to cheer myself up, I will do the next best thing–talk about stamping with my blog readers!
I copied this card almost entirely from a convention swap by my fellow demonstrator Chi Nyugen. The outside is hand-cut, with the folded edge at the top. It is a regularly-sized card so it fits in a normal envelope, super nice! Here's the adorable inside…

Now, isn't he just too precious? Here's a side view so you can see that it is two punches that create his torso and attach to both sides of the card, so that when you open it, he sits in the middle of the two lilypad halves.The two Extra-Large Oval punches are connected at the top with a mini glue dot, and the bottoms are folded and attached to the two halves of the card, also with mini glue dots.

Super cute, huh? Punch art is hard to beat when you want to make a truly special card. Let me know if you need the Wide Oval punch or any of these other punches in order to get started making your Lilypad & Pop-up Frog card at home! You can also order 24/7 on my shopping website, www.lyssa.stampinup.net

• Extra Large Oval Punch (main body mechanism) #119859
• Large Oval Punch (head, legs, stomach accent color) #119855
• Modern Label Punch (feet) #119849
• 3/4 inch circle punch (eyelids) #119873
• 1/2 inch circle punch (white of eyes) #119869
• Itty Bitty Punch Pack–circle (pupils) #118309
• Blossom Punch (lilypad bloom) #125603
• 1.25 inch Scallop Circle Punch (center of bloom) #127811–Holiday Catalog
• Basic Black Stampin' Write marker (hand-drawn mouth and freckles) #100082
• Wild Wasabi, Certainly Celery, Whisper White and Pink Pirouette cardstocks
• Mini Glue Dots #103683