Hello crafty friends, Marine here
with you today! I'm so happy to be back with this fun and bright
interactive Sliding
Window card featuring three cute Fabulous
Flamingos in a tropical scenery. Oh how I love to make tropical
cards!
As very often I started off with the
coloring and stamped all my images on 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock using
an alcohol marker friendly black ink. I cut them all using the coordinating
dies, and colored everything using my alcohol markers using corals for the
flamingos, red for the flowers and different greens for the leaves. Here is a
detailed list of the products I used: • Fabulous
Flamingos - flamingos, hearts • Tropical
Birds - ivy, leaves, flowers • Silly
Sloths - flowers, leaves.
I cut a 5 x 3,75 inches Strathmore
bristol smooth panel using the largest Stitched
Rectangle, and colored it using oxide inks. I started off by
covering it with cracked pistachio oxide ink to create a nice and even base. I
added and blended some lucky clover oxide ink on the four edges, and then
brought more interest to this background using a leafy stencil from my stash
along with lucky clover oxide ink. I splattered clear water all over my panel
and dried it using a paper towel. Next I mixed some pine needle oxide ink with
water, used a small brush to make splatters on my panel, and then did the same
with black soot oxide ink and with copic opaque white ink.
Next I cut and colored two additional
Strathmore bristol smooth panels. The first one measures 5 x 3,25 inches, I cut
the second one using the largest Stitched
Rectangle die, and colored them both using the same colors. I
first covered them with tattered rose oxide ink, and used the same leafy
background stencil as before along with saltwater taffy oxide ink.
Once my leafy green panel was dry, I cut
my Sliding
Window out of it, as well as the notch at the top, folded my
panel on the score lines, flipped it over, and added double sided tape on the
slim bottom tab. I peeled the backing paper off this tab, flipped my 5 x 3,25
inches leafy pink panel over, and attached it at the back of my leafy green
panel, lining up the bottom edge of the leafy green panel with the slim tab. I
glued the small tab piece at the top of my leafy green panel, pierced a hole
through that tab, cut a green eyelet using a die from Sliding
Window, attached this eyelet to the tab, and added red twine to
create a handle and be able to pull the interactive panel.
I flipped my leafy green panel over, and
added foam strips along the bottom edge, on the side edges as well, but not
along the top edge. I peeled all the backing papers off, and attached my leafy
green panel to the remaining leafy pink panel to complete the whole interactive
process. Next I cut a 5,25 x 4 inches white panel that I attached to a 5,5 x
4,25 inches Polka
Dot Parade red pattern paper, and then stuck this whole panel to a
white card base.
At the inside bottom of the card, I
stamped "You're flamazing" from Fabulous
Flamingos in black, added a few extra images, and did the same
at the inside top of the pull tab. I also white heat embossed the banner
from Little
Birdie on vellum, embossed "Hello friend" from Chubby
Bunny and Bighearted Bears inside
the banner, cut it using the matching die, and attached it below the flamingos
using clear foam squares. As always I finished my card by adding highlights and
details to the images using a white gel pen.
And that's it! I hope that you like this
lovely tropical card! Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next week.
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