Popout Flower Vase Card ⭐ Card Making Countdown 2026

Make easy popout cards that fold flat for posting.

Welcome to Day 10 of the 2026 Card Making Countdown.

Today we’re making a fun flower vase card. The vase pops out and is really dimensional but it folds flat for postage.

The beautiful flowers on top are a lovely extra touch and this is a great card for using up your patterned paper.

After seeing how to put the flower vase together, I’ll show how to design your own cards in a similar style from within Cricut Design Space.

Flower vase card supply list

Here is a list of the materials that are used to make this project.

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• Cricut machine
• Light blue Cricut cutting mat
• Coloured cardstock (any thickness)
• Thin cardstock, coloured paper or patterned paper (for the popout parts)
• Patterned paper (optional – for the background)
• Glue (I like Bearly Art Glue and Collall)
• Foam squares
• Cricut scoring wheel or stylus (optional)

This project is suitable for the following types of Cricut machines: Explore series, Maker series, Joy Xtra, Joy and Joy 2.

Foundation learning

If you're new to making papercrafts with your cutting machine, check out these links to get you started.

They include videos on topics such as: which file to use with your type of cutting machine, how to load the files into your cutting machine's software, how to cut cardstock with your type of cutting machine, how to recolor and modify/customize the cut files and tips for displaying your projects.

• Help guides for Cricut machines
• Help guides for Silhouette machines
• Help guides for ScanNCut machines

The following tutorials are Cricut-specific, but many of the ideas will work similarly with a Silhouette or ScanNCut machine and any cut files that are shared in them are compatible with all types of cutting machine.

• How to score with a Cricut (even without scoring tools)
• Print then cut tutorial
• Design Space tools (Combine, Attach, Slice, Weld, Flatten, etc.)
• Pattern fill tutorial (for making backgrounds & cutting images to a specific shape/size)
• Free envelope SVGs that can be sized to fit any card
• Presentation boxes for handmade cards
• How to write inside cards with Cricut pens
• How to cut layered designs at a small size
• Design Space tips & tricks
• Cricut pens tutorial
• How to mount multiple designs in the same frame with magic guides

Popout flower vase video tutorial

Watch the video below to see how to make this project. Keep scrolling for a written tutorial.

PART 1: Flower vase card

Step 1) Download the cutting files & upload to Design Space

Get the files using the box below.

Before you upload the SVGs to Design Space, you need to unzip the download folder that they come in.

• How to unzip a folder on Windows computer
• How to unzip a folder on a Mac
• How to unzip a folder on an iPad/iPhone
• How to unzip a folder on an Android device

After unzipping, upload the SVG file(s) into your cutting machine software.

Not sure how to use cut files with your type of machine? The following links lead to videos on how to open cut files in:

• Cricut Design Space
• Silhouette Studio
• CanvasWorkspace (for ScanNCut machines)

The download folder also contains printable PDF versions of the templates for hand cutting.

If you are using Cricut Design Space, start a new project and then click the “Upload” button on the left of the screen.

You can then either click “Browse” to find the files on your computer, or drag-and-drop them in.

Upload the file in the “01 Cricut Version” folder called svg-01-vase-card-craftwithsarah.svg

Press “Upload” on the next screen.

After uploading, the design should be automatically inserted onto your Canvas.

To hide the left sidebar (to give you more space for designing!), click the arrow that’s about half way down the page.

If the design doesn’t get inserted onto your Canvas, it will show under “Uploads” in your “Recently Uploaded Images”. Click on it and then press “Add to Canvas” to put it onto your Project.

Need help uploading SVGs? Get step-by-step instructions here in our detailed help guides for Cricut, Silhouette and ScanNCut.

Here is what the design looks like loaded into Design Space.

Step 2) Project setup

Check the design has loaded in at 8.5 inches wide and 5.5 inches tall.

It will make an A2 sized card, which is 5.5 inches tall and 4.25 inches wide.

The card comes in ready to cut, but you may wish to add some score lines to make assembly easier.

To do this, first click the design and press “Ungroup”.

Move the base card over the side so it’s easier to work with.

Click “Shapes” and insert a score line.

Make it 5.5 inches tall.

Select the score line and based card and press “Align > Center” to put the score line in the middle of the card.

With both layers still selected, press the “Attach” button at the bottom of the layers panel.

This tells the Cricut to do the scoring on top of the base card.

You can add score lines to the vase shapes too.

Delete all but one vase shape.

Insert a score line and size it to match the height of the vase.

Align it to the middle of the vase shape and Attach the layers together.

Duplicate the vase shape until you have 8 in total.

Put four in one colour and four in another.

Step 3) Cut the project

When you’re happy with how the project is looking in Design Space, click “Make” and follow the instructions on-screen to cut out all the pieces.

The flower vase pieces work best when cut from paper, not cardstock. Very thin cardstock would be ok.

To change the paper size, go into the dropdowns over on the left side of the screen and choose the paper size that you want to use. You need to change it for every single colour.

To save space on your cardstock, you can move things around by clicking and dragging. Make sure when you’re moving things about that nothing overlaps because otherwise, it won’t cut out properly.

However, be careful NOT to rotate any patterned paper pieces, otherwise they will not cut with the pattern the correct way up when you put the card together.

TIP: New to using cardstock with your cutting machine? Check out these machine help guides for Cricut, Silhouette and ScanNCut that go through every step of the process, including tips for getting the best quality cuts from your machine.

Step 4) Build the flowers

My favourite glues to use on papercraft projects are Bearly Art Glue and Collall All Purpose Glue.

These are great because they don’t “warp” or bend the cardstock like some glues do. You can use as much of it as you want and the card stays perfect – and it dries perfectly clear too!

Bearly Art Glue comes with a tiny nozzle to make it easy to apply glue to small areas of card. The Collall glue doesn’t come with this, so it’s easiest to decant it into needle tip applicator bottles so that you have more control.

The foam squares I’m using are from Dot and Dab, but any will do.

Stick the flowers together using the below assembly guide.

Step 5) Finish the card

Fold the base card in half down the score line and glue the rectangle of patterned paper to the front.

Glue the flowers into the middle.

Fold all the vases in half.

Lie them out in the order you want to stick them together, with alternating patterns.

Select one of the vases and hold it flat, folded in half.

Add glue to the back side.

Glue the next piece on top. I am working from the back/end of the shapes along the top of the photo.

Repeat until all vase shapes are stuck together.

It will then open up like this:

Add glue to the vase shape on the front of the card.

Flatten out the vase popout so that it’s fairly evenly spread in the middle and then glue the backs of the very back shapes to the card.

Your card is now finished!

PART 2: Design your own cards

Here’s how to design your own similar cards in Cricut Design Space.

For more detail on each of these steps, watch the video near the top of this page.

Step 1) Choose your image

Choose a simple image with a large, filled-in shape, such as these pumpkins.

To make the popout cards, the images must be completely symmetrical on both sides. However, these images are tricky to find, so I’ll show how to tweak non-symmetrical images to make them work.

This pumpkin has a gap at the top once the stalk is removed.

If your image has something similar, fill in those gaps as best as you can with other shapes.

Weld the new shapes to the image to turn them into one layer.

Add a rectangle that covers half of your image.

Select the image and rectangle and click “Slice”.

This will cut the rectangle out from the pumpkin.

Delete the slice results so you have one half of the image remaining.

Duplicate it and flip it horizontal.

Line up the two shapes so that there is a very slight overlap, then Weld them together to make a symmetrical image.

If your image has parts that you don’t want to use on the popout pieces, use shapes to Slice off the parts you don’t want to keep.

Duplicate the popout shape, then build up a base card with shapes.

Save your project, cut it out and then assemble the pieces together.

Easy popout cards to make today

And there you have it – your premade flower vase card AND bespoke popup card in your chosen theme are both complete.

These cards have so much possibility, for all different themes and occasions.

The popup effect is simple to put together, but is sure to impress anyone who sees the card.

Put it in a custom envelope or 3D presentation box to make it even more special.

Happy crafting,
Sarah x