Birthday Card - Spinner - Bear

Birthday Bear Spinner Card

I found some images I'd stamped and watercolored using STA Aquarelle Brush Markers (a review for which can be found here) some time ago. They were pictures of the front and back of animals so perfect for spinner cards. Couple that with the fact that I needed to make some birthday cards in preparation for upcoming family birthday, this card was a good way to use up some of my crafty stash whilst making a card I'd have a use for!

In my internet travels, I stumbled across the Addicted to Stamps and More 'Make Your Mark' card challenge, since this card fit the rules as I used watercolor markers to water color the bear I thought I'd enter it for fun! You can find details of the challenge here.

 

My crafty stash also contains a bunch of die cut words that I've kept from the time I went crazy when I first got my Big Shot die cut machine. I don't like the idea of waste so I'm going to aim to use up as much of these as possible in future cards too.

I found a happy dies cut with matching shadow and placed that at the top of a purple notecard. I left it floating there so I could position the square diecut for the spinner element window. Once I'd decided on the position for the window I used masking tape to tape temporarily tape the notecard to a matching card base then run it through my die cut machine a couple of times (each layer separately to make sure I got a nice clean cutout).

I used my stamping platform to stamp the word 'BIRTHDAY' underneath 'Happy' with clear embossing ink. Then used black embossing powder to heat emboss it.

Then I used a toothpick to pickup little amounts of PVA glue to dot on the back of the black 'happy' diecut to stick it to its matching shadow cutout. Then did the same to adhere both to the card front.

Next was making the spinner element. I fussy cut around the bear images and went around the outside with a black alcohol marker to tidy up the edges. I then sandwiched some thin red string (clear nylon or fishing line would be better but I didn't have any) between the two images and stick them together using doubled sided tape. I taped down the ends of the string to the back of the notecard making sure to line up the bear inside the window and making sure the string is taught.

Using double-sided tape I adhered the front notecard to the card base, making sure to windows lined up. 

Trimmed the outside edges to make it look tidy and added a strip of masking tape to the fold of the card to give it a bit of reinforcing (unfortunately, I used quite low quality card stock and it felt quite flimsy without it - please don't judge me, I'm new to this card making thing, having lots of fun doing it but I'm still learning!)

And we are all done.

For a process video on how I make another spinner card check out the link below:

 

Happy Crafting!

Mel Crafting.