Spinner Card – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends! Really hope your week is going well. My thoughts go out to all of those that are experiencing difficulties in their life and hope things turn better for you very soon. I hope to bring a smile for you today.

I’ve really had such a fun time playing around as a guest designer this month for Inky Stamper and this will be my final project for them this month. Chelsea has some really cute stamps and I hope you’ll check them out! (I have the badge on the sidebar of this blog if you need to come back later to find it. Just click on the badge to get to the store.)

For my final project, I’ve decided to create a mini slimline card with an interactive component! If you’re not familiar with a “mini slimline” size, you take a piece of cardstock measuring 6″ x 7″ and then fold it in half on the 7″ side so that your card base is 6″ x 3.5″. I really don’t mind any size of card really as I have been known to make my own envelopes too. But I first learned about this “mini slimline” size from Taylored Expressions as she has many products in this size including the envelopes. (I have used one of the “slimline stitched dies” from TE to cut one of my panels on this card.)

I’ve used BOTH of the Chaise Lounge stamp set with “Freida the Frog” (as she is named) as well as the Splash stamp set with “Rosie” (as she is named) from Inky Stamper on my card here today! I think they’re so CUTE! Ever have those moments with a friend floating around in the swimming pool and just soaking in the sun and some secrets?!! LOL! That sounds like a fantastic Summer event to me!

For the “water” background, I took some Bristol Smooth cardstock and white heat embossed the “water wave” image (both stamp sets have one of these images in it). I took out some of the Nuvo Shimmer powders from my stash and made a fun watercolor panel with them. I haven’t used these in quite some time, so it was fun to play with and I forgot how shimmery they are! Obviously, the white embossed waves resisted the watercolor.

I cut out the panel with the TE slimline stitched die and mounted it over a piece of dotted paper from the Doodlebug Swiss Dot Paper Pad. I stamped and colored the images, die cut them out and popped them up over the floaty tubes. (Remember the tip about using a white gel pen to go around the edges to get rid of those lines you see when you cut them out.) I then punched a hole on this watercolor panel where I wanted the images to be so they weren’t too close to each other to freely spin around! Inky Stamper has these awesome interactive elements called “Clear Move-Its” and I LOVE them! They snap together and viola!

You can see bits of the shimmer from the watercolor background here too!

I popped up this panel with foam tape and then layered it over my black mini slimline card base so the spinners could move freely. I’ve also added a black sentiment banner that was white heat embossed with the Chaise Lounge stamp set.

I couldn’t resist adding a bit more “bling” so I also pulled out the Picket Fence Mermaid Water sequins being careful not to interfere with the spinners and then filled the centers with some Stickles from my stash. I could just keep spinning these all day long! LOL!

Really hope that you’ve enjoyed my projects this month as a guest designer for Inky Stamper and you’ll pop by to check them out! Super fun stuff! (Be sure to join the InkyStamper Inkspiration FB Group for more fun!) I’m sure I’ll play with their stuff again in the future!

Thanks for popping in today and finding my posts! Glad you’re here!

Challenges to play in for fun:

Dragonfly Dreams – Summer Fun
Penny’s Paper-Crafty – Anything Goes using Paper

Hello friends! Really feeling the cold air around here, so I’m still thinking in winter mode and have another interactive winter card to share with you again today! (Please be sure to check out THIS POST to see another interactive winter card and video tutorial if you’ve missed my last posting!)

What’s a better way to embrace the cold than to create interactive cards in your nice warm crafty space, right?! So sit back, have a warm sip and get creative with me today!

This cute little guy is so fun to watch him spin around doing his cool ice skating trick! I’ve used the Foxy Skater image from Digi Doodle Studios for my card here along with the Winter Plaids N’ Patterns Digi Paper Pack and Snow Days Sentiments set as well!

I’ve used several dies from My Favorite Things for the front of the card! I’ve cut out the plaid papers with the A2 Stiched Rectangle die and mounted it over an A2 sized side folding white card base. The spinner “window” was cut out with a Circle die that was also used to cut the center for the Scallop Stitched Circle frame around the opening. The sentiment was printed out and cut with the MFT Slanted Banners die (not finding link in store). I’ve also used MFT dies for the snowflakes (also not shown in store), that was cut from some Brutus Monroe Fallen Snow Glitterstock. I’ve added some silver Stickles to the centers of the snowflakes and dotted around the front of the card.

I’ve also used some snowflake papers for the inside area of the card from the Candy Land Paper Pack from MFT as well!

Check him out below as he spins around:

What’s different about this particular spinner card is how I’ve used a single digital image to create the front AND back of this Foxy Skater guy!

To see how I’ve put together this card for the spinner action, check it out in my video below or you can watch it on You Tube HERE:

I still have this card along with the other interactive card from my last post sitting here on my desk playing around with them! Not sure I can give them up quite yet as I’m having fun!! LOL!

Here’s a closer look at the cute “Foxy Skater” guy that twirls around on the card. I was going for a bit of a textured look on his fur, so I also used a white gel pen to mix in some white fur on his cheeks, chest and tail areas. I’ve also used a gel pn for the cheeks and a metallic gel pen for his skate blades. It was a little more time consuming to color in two fox images, but as you can see, it’s totally worth having both sides for this spinner action design! 🙂

To flip the image in the opposite direction, I used Word doc. on my computer, copied the orignal image so that it was the exact size, pasted him again and then used the “rotate” setting to flip him in the opposite direction.

Check out the video to see how I was able to fussy cut him down for my card design.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my spinner card today and that the video is helpful for you to create your own fun version during the wintry cold months ahead of us!

I’d love to see your take on one of my video tutorials! Please let me know if you do something so I can come and see it! 🙂

Thanks so much for stopping in today my friend and I’ll be seeing you soon!

Digi Doodle Studio Products used on my card today – Click on the photos below to view/purchase: