Double Z-Fold Card… with a Twist (Wiper Card)

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Double Z-Fold Card… with a Twist (Wiper Card)

This “double z-fold” card with a fun pop-up panel is another project I designed for the course I am teaching.

I recently saw digital cut files, designed by Lori Whitlock, for cute Valentine’s Day cards with this type of pop-up mechanism. She called them wiper cards. I started thinking about other elements that would work well on this type of card base and thought this large image from the “Cup of Thanks” stamp set by Studio Katia fit nicely and would be a fun one to color. I watched Lori’s assembly video to get a better idea of how the mechanism worked, and I figured out how to create an A2 size card using a trimmer and score board (instead of the Silhouette). I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me to look on YouTube to see if wiper card tutorials existed – they do. Nothing like “reinventing the wheel!” It’s a good thing I like playing with paper – LOL!! (Anyway, if you wish to see how I made my pop-up card base, look HERE.)

For this next version, I “smooshed” Memento “Danube Blue” ink spritzed with water onto white card stock. I love this technique because it is quick and easy to do, it looks great (I think), and it allows you to customize your panels to match your image with the inks you have on hand. I inked the edges so the panels would stand out against the white card base.

I colored the stamped image with Bic Marking Fashion Permanent alcohol markers (harvest orange, adobe orange, summer melon, ocean view blue, misty blue, deep sea blue, traquil teal, cloud nine grey, and tiki hut tan), and a blender pen.

Double Z-fold cards fold flat for mailing, and this one fits in a regular A2 size envelope.

Here is one more CAS card design I came up with while playing with this image:

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1Dec2018

‘Tis The Season Shaker Card

Posted in Cards, Christmas, Holiday Cards, Interactive by lisababitz

‘Tis The Season Shaker Card

I had purchased a BUNCH of holiday paper packs at Michaels a few years back. Although I’ve used a few sheets here and there, I still have quite a bit of it left! (I know… it seems like I tried to use ALL of it on this card – LOL!! I don’t usually make such busy cards, but once I started playing with this cute paper, I just couldn’t seem to stop – YIKES!!)

I did try to tone it down a bit on this one…

HERE is a video tutorial by Gina K showing how to make the shaker panel. After showing some products she sells on her site and how she created her focal panel, she shows the shaker panel assembly (at the 8:26 mark of the video). She uses foam tape in this video. To see how to use pop dots or foam pieces, HERE is another video that may be helpful.

Gina uses dies to create her frame. I used my paper trimmer to create the frame for my shaker panel. (HERE is a tutorial showing how this is done.)

I let the paper do most of the work on my card – from the focal panel to the greeting!

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5Nov2018

Surfing Penguin Birthday Card

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Surfing Penguin Birthday Card

I think this surfing penguin image is adorable as is, but adding an action wobble spring to the back of the panel makes this card even more fun!

he background border was created with a stamp from the “Timeless Textures” set from Stampin’ Up and was repeatedly stamped with Tim Holtz Salty Ocean distress ink. The penguin image is from the “Penguin Paradise” stamp set (retired?) also from Stampin’ Up. I colored him in using Bic Alcohol Markers.

The spring is plastic and has adhesive on both sides which makes it is easy to adhere your “moving/wobbling” item to your project. The action wobble spring is from Hampton Arts and comes in two sizes. I used a larger one for this project because the panel was big enough to cover the spring, but if you were putting the spring behind a smaller image (like the head of something for a bobble-head effect), the smaller (mini) one may work better.

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10Apr2018

Interactive Birthday Cake Card

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Interactive Birthday Cake Card

(Inside: Wishing you the Best on your Special Day)

This card was made with the Die-namics “Interactive Birthday Cake” die set that was part of the “Twice the Wishes” card kit (retired?) from My Favorite Things. When the tab is pulled, the single layer cake becomes a double layer cake.

Next time, I would probably position the cake a little higher and would put the greeting either under the cake or on the hidden top layer so you would see it when the tab is pulled. I like the greeting above the cake when the top layer is hidden, but I’m not crazy about it being covered when the top layer is pulled up. As I said, next time…

HERE is a video by Jennifer McGuire showing the die set and how to use it to create an interactive card. (She also talks about how to make some of the elements by hand for a slider card like this without the dies.)

If you watch the tutorial video I just mentioned, you will see that MFT has these plastic slider elements that sandwich between the pull tab and the top cake layer which allow them to slide up and down smoothly in the die cut channel behind the cake. These slider elements do not have adhesive on them, and the glue I was using didn’t seem to want to stick to the plastic very will, so I used foam pop dots (1/4 inch diameter and 1/8 inch thick) instead.

I tried fun foam on one card and foam tape on the other to raise the front panels to allow the slider tabs to slide. Both worked well.

The greeting is from the “Notable Notes” set from Stampin’ Up and was heat embossed with versamark ink and Gina K white embossing powder. The stamp originally had a cake with the words, and I cut the stamp apart (creating two separate stamps) so I could just stamp the greeting on this card.

The sentiment on the inside of the card is from the “Birthday Sentiments” set from Honey Doo Crafts.

The brown and white striped card stock is called “Party Time” from the Spring Fling Collection from Pebbles (#733104). The tan mat is called “Nutmeg Boy Southwest Paper” from the Indie Chic collection from My Mind’s Eye (#IC0187). I used Recollections heavy weight white for the card base, and either Gina K Blue Denim or Stampin’ Up Mint Macaron for the main panel behind the cake. On the mint card, I used Recollections Printable Glitter Paper for the candles, flames, and cake trim. I colored the flames with Copic E35 marker.

I tried to make the tab obvious for the recipient by making it extend over the top of the card. As a result, I ended up creating a card that no longer fit in my standard A2 sized envelopes, so I needed to create a custom envelope with my We R Memory Keepers envelope punch board. I started with an 8 3/8 inch square of heavy printer paper. Normally, when using this punch board, you measure the first “punch and score line” and then use the notch on the tool and the previous line to create the next line. Instead, for this envelope, I “punched and scored” the 1st and 3rd sides at 3 3/4 inches, and the 2nd and 4th sides at the 4 5/8 inch mark. This created the perfect envelope (not too big, and not too small) to accommodate the tab.

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7Apr2018

Penn Shaker Thank You Card

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Penn Shaker Thank You Card

I’ve designed several Penn-themed thank you cards over the past few years and found myself needing another one recently. I decided to go with a shaker card design for this one.

I hand-cut the split P from a piece of a rubber sheet (used to make custom gaskets) and mounted the pieces on EZ Mount Foam. I stamped the two parts of my hand-made stamp on Gina K ivory card stock with Gina K In the Navy and Cranberry Tart ink. I used a Tim Holtz Chipped Sapphire distress marker and the Tim Holtz marker spritzer tool to create the speckles.

The “thanks” was cut with the “In A Word: Thanks Cutaway” die (#WW031CA) from Winnie & Walter.

I used the “Die-namics Gift Card Window & Frame” die set and a plastic “Gift Card Pouch” to create the shaker portion of the card.

The red and blue paper is called “Patriotic Stripe” from Hot Off The Press and coordinated nicely with the red and blue sequins I found online. Gina K Ivory and In the Navy card stock was also used.