4th July pop up box project

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you my first project made working as a guest designer for Polkadoodles in the Digi Choosday team. The theme for this project was Red, White and Blue, 4th July and for it not to be a card.
 I decided I wanted to use some of the fantastic characters and other pieces available on the website to create a 3d pop up box that could be used as a decoration for the upcoming festivities on the 4th July.

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I would like to enter this project into the following challenges:

• Through the craft room door challenge - anything goes challenge 30th June - Through the craft room door -30/06
• Love to craft challenge blog Love to craft challenge blog - anything goes
• World wide open design team challenge blog - World wide open design team challenge blog #6
• Colour crazy craft challenge - Colour crazy craft challenge #week 25 - anything goes
• A bit more time to craft challenge blog - A bit more time to craft challenge blog
• A bit more time to craft extra challenge A bit more time to craft extra challenge
• Morgan's art world challenge blog - Morgan's art world
• Classic design challenge blog - Classic design challenge blog #7 July
• Craft-dee bowZ - Craft-Dee BowZ July challenge
• Always Fun challenges - Challenge #169 Patriotic
• Crafting happiness Challenge - CH #55 crafting happiness
• Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge #228 - all occasions
• Double Trouble Paper Crafting - Challenge #60 something, anything, everything

And finally here's my inspiration for this weeks Digi Choosday challenge blog #week26
Please see all instructions and products used below:

• To start with I have made my pop up box base on an A4 piece of paper I have measured out a guide to create the box - here are the dimensions 

• I have used this template to create two of these on 300gsm cardstock. I have cut and scored where appropriate then used the flaps to adhere the two panels together. Once I had the basic box, I then created three card pieces to slot inside the box to add the support. 
• Next I have downloaded and printed out all the elements from the Polkadoodles website I have used Miss USA, Fries, Burger, Fried chicken, Starfish Sandcastles characters I have coloured all the images using my Promarkers and Chameleon colour tone pens and fussy cut them out.
• I have then decorated the outside of the pop up box, to do this I have used red and blue card creating mats and layers to go on the out side panels, I have then used a star shaped die and cut this out using my cutting machine and white card stock and adhered to the front panel of the box.
• For the flap panels I have matted them with the red card then used another background star die cutting this out in the blue card and matting onto a white card stock piece I glued all these panels on to the outside flaps of the box using wet glue.
• To create some support for the pop up elements I have used the same background star die in red and backed in white card and attached them to each of the support sections inside the box.
• To add the characters and elements I have used strips of acetate, I have used red liner tape to add the elements and used the tape again to attach the acetate to the inside of the box.
• To fill out some of the space I have added some additional elements, I have used my heart and star shaped dies and some Digi papers from Polkadoodles 

Products used:

• Red and Blue card stock card stock pad
• All the characters and Digi stamps available on the website
• Star, background and heart dies are all from Hunkydory
•  coloured markers used are/:

Pro Markers - Satin, Putty, Almond, Coral, Soft peach, Pastel yellow Terracotta, Apricot, Blush, Pink rose

Chameleon colour tone pens - BV4 Blue violet, BL6 Royal blue, RD4 Crimson red, GR3 grass, PK3 Bubble-gum BR5 bark, BR2 Cocoa

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