Wiggly Spinner

Another Partytime related post, this one is a card I made based on something demonstrated at Partytime. Technically it's two somethings since I made two cards that are slightly different...

They probably look like pretty standard cards, but have a look from side on:

The ever fabulous Teneale Williams showed us a variation of the spinner card, where part of the card wiggles rather than spins across the card. Mine is also a variation on her demonstration, where the mechanism was behind a large panel. Having made a few spinner cards in the past, I know how many dimensionals you can go through to make them - especially if you are like me and worried about them getting squished in transit so put them on it lots of places... What I thought with this one is: if the hole that allows the movement is completely hidden, there's no reason you can't have the supporting layer also be hidden.

These shots should give you an indication of the range of movement. Would you like to know how it's done?

These are the basic pieces: your moving part, the supporting layer, and a piece that stops the moving part from going through the hole in the supporting layer. As Teneale demonstrated, it's just a piece of cardstock folded with a coin attached at the bottom so it's weighted. Thinking about it afterward, you could possibly make it like a regular spinner card with just a disc (typically also a coin) being attached on the other side of the supporting layer. I think doing that way would give it the ability to spin right round on the spot, but since I planned on having the balloon string attached to the card that wasn't necessary for this card.

See how the circle in the supporting layer is larger than the dimensional? Room to move! The larger the hole the more movement you will get, and the more careful you will need to be with the placement of everything so the supporting layer isn't exposed.

And then with the pendulum piece in place. I trimmed the corners on this one to make certain it also wasn't going to be exposed, although I could have also just attached it a little higher.

Moving the supporting layer around to show the range of movement. It's limited by the size of the circle, and with a pendulum on the back that also bumps into the dimensions for attaching the supporting layer. In theory just having a coin on the back this wouldn't happen.

Well within the edge of the balloon - shouldn't have a problem with it showing from the front once attached to the card!

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Irresistibly Rainbow

Happy New Year everyone! Hope your year is off to a great start :D

I've shared a couple of projects that use the Celebrate Today set from the up-coming Occasions catalogue, and now it's time to show you something from the Sale-a-bration catalogue that also launches on January 6th.

I have once again used Celebrate Today, but how about that background paper? It's from a pack called Irresistibly Yours, which you can get for free during Sale-a-bration when you place a qualifying order. The fantastic thing about this paper is it is clear glossy designs printed on white, so you can colour it any way you want to coordinate with whatever colours you have in your project (essentially, you can do emboss resist without the embossing!). Although for this I sponged the background first and then sorted out what I was going to put with it, hehehehe. I decided I didn't want much on the front, to let the background show off... and the background is pretty busy, so I kept it pretty simple again. It's probably hard to tell from the photo (had a bit of trouble getting a good shot!), but the dots on the balloon are rhinestones that I coloured with Blendabilities.

When I make a card I usually make two at the same time, I feel it's a bit quicker than creating two cards from scratch. Invariably I am making a card for an up-coming need, and by making two I have one to use straight away and then one on hand. This time however, the card was actually the secondary idea for this background. My original thought was this:

Yay, awesome new phone cover! When I first got my phone years ago I got a clear case for it with the idea that I could use patterned paper under it and have something unique (and a bit fancy). I hadn't changed it for a while, but once I saw this paper in the Sale-a-bration catalogues I thought I would just have to do it now, and have something truly unique (well, unless someone CASEs it!)

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Whisper White
Stamp set: Celebrate Today
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Rose Red, Melon Mambo, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz, Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Tempting Turquoise, Marina Mist, Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant (phew!)
Accessories: Irresistibly Yours DSP, Balloon Framelit dies, Rhinestone jewels, Rich Razzleberry Blendabilities, Melon Mambo Blendabilities, Daffodil Delight Blendabilities, Wild Wasabi Blendabilities, Coastal Cabana Blendabilities, Marina Mist Blendabilities, Wisteria Wonder Blendabilities, sponge dauber, dimensionals,Whisper White Baker's Twine (again, phew!)

Celebrate With Balloons

I'm having a lot of fun creating things with the upcoming Celebrate Today set. This colourful card was inspired by a card from a Stampin' Up! demonstrator publication. As is often the case when something inspires me, when I start creating more ideas come to me and sometimes the finished result can come out completely different to the idea I had at the start! With this card I hadn't planned changing too much, but I had come up with this colour scheme so had to tweak things to work that in and ultimately it became a bit of a stepped-up version, with more steps and embellishments than the original.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Coastal Cabana, Whisper White
Stamp set: Celebrate Today
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay, Pear Pizzazz, Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana
Accessories: 1 3/4" circle punch, Balloon Framelit dies, Starburst dies, dimensionals,Whisper White Baker's Twine