Slider Card

Sliding cards are so much fun! I love cards that are interactive and different.  This card was definitely appealing to me when I saw it at the Scrapbook Expo!  There were so many cool examples of what to do with this kit I had to buy it.  There are also pages you can purchase to make this card that are printed and will fit perfectly, otherwise, you can design your own like I did.

 

I made this adorable frog slidding card using a kit I recently purchased from the Scrapbook Expo in Anaheim.  This kit was created by Pinecone Press Design and comes with just about everything you need.  One kit has enough materials to make 4 cards!  I wish I had bought more of these. I loved this project! 

The kit comes in a few choices of colors. I chose white since I planned on decorating my backgrounds and didn't have a specific design in mind at the time.  The cream color also looked very appealing. Pinecone Press also sells the paper to decorate the slider card which are already created to fit perfectly in the project. Their designs are very adorable, but for me, I wanted to create my own. 

My favorite part was that this card kit came with a tutorial of how to put the pieces together. I am super visual so this was an enormous help to me.  I also has writen instructions that came in the kit to follow along which has pictures and is well written.  The assembly is very simple which makes this project fun. 

I started this card by pulling out a bunch of paper. I wasn't sure what patterns to put together. The frogs ended up drawing my attention as well as the butterflies. 

To start, I decorated the outside first. Using green distressed ink I smushed the ink pad onto my craft mat and then spritzed it with water. Using a sponge blending tool, I created the green background using a circular motion. I did this to the front and back of the outside piece as well as the two slider pieces.   Then I trimmed down some cardstock to create the brown borders. Next I cut my patterned paper about 1/2 " smaller than my background piece. Using my ATG I attached my pieces together. 

I punched out the flowers with my Martha Stewart flower punch and layered one orange and one yellow on each end. Then I stamped the happy birthday image from a Stampin' Up set that coordinates with the scallop punch onto white cardstock. Then I punched it using the Stampin' Up scallop punch. 

Using a dimensional I popped up the scallop sentiment on top of some brown ribbon.  

For the center of the flowers I added one sequin in green and then one rhinestone on top to finish them off. Finally, I added a few yellow hearts. 

I have seen examples of this card where you can out a gift card on one of the slidding tabs. I am excited to do this for the next birthday I attend.  I attached the link to their YouTube video so you can see the assembly of the card. I love the magic of this slider card! 

 

Happy crafting!  Thanks for stopping by! 

Pinecone Press Design link

Mini Scrapbook

Scrapbook pages are fun to do but for some reason my brain goes blank when it comes to designing a whole page.

My friend bought me this kit at the Scrapbook Expo in Anaheim and I love it!

 

The kit came with all the paper already die cut and the brads.  The small picture in the middle tells you were everything goes.  It didn't have any written instructions which I thought would be helpful, but I still thoroughly enjoyed putting these pages together. 

The background is 8x8 ( a little larger since I backed it on dark purple cardstock.). I loved the bushes, sunshine and letters!  I was able to glue them together easily. You do have to freehand the face of hello kitty but everything else was already cut and done for you.  I really loved who everything had a black shadow behind it, I think it made the page look a little more complete. It also helped things like the sun and the words to pop off the page more with the black outline.

This project took me some time to put together but overall I really enjoyed it!  I am hesitating putting a picture in the squares because I want them to be perfect!  

 I'm not a great scrapbooker but after making this project I wanted to start!  It was nice to have a layout that was already thought through that I could just enjoy putting together. Thanks my friend!  :) 

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you come visit again soon! Have a crafty day!!!  

Gorjuss

Hello and thanks for stopping by! :) Today I wanted to share this adorable stamp with you!

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 am in love with the this stamp designers Gorjuss line.  This little girl is so fun to color and I love the endless options of coloring!  Today I just wanted to color and create a few stamped images that I could use later on cards.

I stamped these with Momento tuxedo black ink and colored the images using Copic markers. 

I used E51, E02 and E00 for the flesh colors. 

I colored one girl with a pink and purple dress.

The other little girl I colored in yellow and green. 

Here are the finished products.  I used a black marker to go around the edges of the girls after I fussy cut them out. I am looking forward to creating cards with these! 

I hope you have a wonderful day!  Go out there and create!!! Thanks for stopping by!