Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I'm back with a new Sliding
Window card,
another birthday themed one, featuring the cutest super heroes. I really love
to create those interactive cards because they're very easy to assemble, and
they're great to use your pattern papers, one thing I wish I'd do more often.
So, I started off by stamping my Super
Duper images on
110lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink,
I cut them using the coordinating dies, and colored everything using my Ohuhu
markers and Graph'it brush markers. I went for a fun green + aqua + blue +
yellow color palette that matches the super hero theme quite nicely, and once
the coloring was done, I added highlights and details to the images using a
white gel pen.
I stamped numbers and letters on 110lb
Neenah solar white cardstock using the Balloon
Numbers and
the Balloon
Alphabet. I first
stamped a "1" and a "0" using Lawn Fawn freshly cut grass
dye ink, and cut those numbers using the coordinating dies. Next I stamped
"HB2U" (happy birthday to you) using Lawn Fawn fish tank, freshly cut
grass, sunflower and mermaid dye inks, and I wanted those letters to be
real letters and not balloons, so before stamping them, I masked the balloon
details with washi tape, and after die cutting the letters, I trimmed
off the excess of paper below each letter with scissors. I set everything
aside and moved on to the Sliding
Window card.
I cut a 5 x 3,75 inches Surprise
Party Starry Blue panel using the largest Stitched
Rectangle, cut the Sliding
Window out of
it, as well as the notch at the very top, and also cut a 5 x 3,25 inches Heroic
Halftones Yellow panel.
I folded my Sliding
Window Starry Blue panel on the score lines, flipped it over, and added double sided tape to
the slim bottom tab. I peeled the backing paper off this tab, flipped my Yellow
panel over, and attached it at the back of my Sliding
Window Starry Blue panel, lining up the bottom edge of the Yellow panel with the edge of the slim
tab. And I wanted to frame my sliding starry blue panel nicely, so I cut a 5 x
3,75 inches Heroic
Halftones Black panel, cut a Sliding
Window out of
it, as well as the notch at the top, I trimmed the center of that panel to get
a frame, and stuck that frame to my Starry Blue panel using liquid glue.
Next I cut a Heroic
Halftones Green panel using the largest Stitched
Rectangle, I
flipped my Sliding
Window panel
over, and added foam strips along the bottom edge, on the long edges as well,
but not along the top edge. I peeled all the backing papers off, and attached
my sliding panel to the Green panel. Next I attached my sliding panel to a 5,25
x 4 inches holographic panel, and finally to a 5,5 x 4,25 inches Polka
Dot Parade Green panel.
And to complete my interactive panel, I
attached the remaining piece of Heroic
Halftones Black paper at the top of the Yellow pull tab panel, cut a green eyelet using
a Sliding
Window die, stuck that eyelet, pierced a hole through it, and added navy blue
thread twine with a green bead to be able to pull the interactive panel.
Next I decorated the front of my Sliding
Window panel. I
cut a 3 x 1/4 inch slim strip out of dark gray cardstock and attached it
at the very bottom of the interactive panel using 2mm foam squares. I cut
three Cityscape
borders out of
indigo blue cardstock, stuck each border to some lighter blue cardstock,
trimmed that lighter blue cardstock all around the buildings, added highlights
and details using a white gel pen, cut the borders to fit on the interactive
panel, and attached them using foam squares.
I cut a speech bubble out of black
cardstock using a Comic
Strip Speech Bubble die, white heat embossed "Have an incredible birthday" from Super
Duper on it,
and then attached the images and "HB2U" on the front of the card and
on the inside as well using 1mm and 2mm foam squares.
Next I stamped two balloon strings
from Balloon Alphabet, cut them and attached each of them to
an acetate strip using liquid glue. At the end of each string, I attached the
"1" and the "0" using 3mm glue dots, I stuck the strings in
the girl's hand using liquid glue again, and this way when the Sliding
Window card is
open, the balloons stay up in the air.
And that's it! I hope that you like this
extra fun and super bright interactive card. Thanks so much for stopping by,
and see you next week.
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