This is for Ceal's Dare to Get Dirty challenge. I wanted to make a special card for a friend's upcoming birthday. After thinking about it for a while & looking through my birthday-themed stamps, I got the idea for an interactive card. My first idea was to have the bird descend with the balloon onto the hippo from clouds in the sky. That ended up being a disaster of a card design, though, since I couldn't get the slider mechanism to work right. So I had to fall back & regroup. To get a better idea how to proceed, I watched an old YouTube video by Karolyn Loncon on making a double-slider card. While mine is not quite the same, it did give me some pointers on how to fix my design. So, instead of white clouds, I inked those pieces with green inks & glued them together to create a tree canopy.
I stamped the hippo, bird, & party hat onto a scrap of vellum bristol paper with Tuxedo Black ink, & colored them with my Prismacolor pencils. I then die cut them out. I also die cut the grass pieces from a couple of scraps of green "Watercolor" patterned paper. To help the foreground grass stand out against the background, I inked along the top of the former with Evergreen Bough Distress ink.
I used the "Cloud" stencil & Broken China Distress ink to do the sky. I embossed a scrap of brown cardstock with the "Woodgrain" folder, & cut a tree trunk out of that. Then came the fun part!
I glued the background grass directly to my panel, then glued the hippo on top. For the slider mechanism, I punched two 1/2" slits towards the left side of my background. I cut a strip from a plastic bread bag, threaded that through the slits, & adhered the ends to create a loop. I cut 2 pull tab strips from heavyweight cardstock, & glued them together to make a thicker, more durable tab. I started off just adhering the pull tab to the bread bag loop with double-sided tape, but ended up supplementing that with 4 staples with my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher, just to keep them from pulling apart.
Even though there is a "Hippo Birdie to You!" stamp in the "Wish Big" set, it was too big to fit on the balloon I was using. So I wrote it by hand with a black felt-tip pen. I die cut a second bird & balloon from white cardstock. I adhered the string behind the main die cuts, and glued the second die cuts to the back for added strength. I also sandwiched a strip of acetate between the 2 die cuts for each. After I determined where the bird & balloon needed to go, I adhered the other end of the acetate strips to the bread bag strip.
I adhered my tree trunk & canopy pieces to the card panel with foam tape, making sure not to put adhesive where it would interfere with the slider and/or the bird/balloon. I also added the foreground grass with foam tape, to keep it level with the tree trunk behind it. I added my panel to a white card base, & stamped "pull" onto the end of the pull tab. I am SO proud of how this card came out, and so glad I persisted with it, even when I "failed" on the first go-around!
Dare to Get Dirty is our annual celebration of creativity where we strive to inspire members of the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club community to create with a series of challenges and a week of celebration. Fan Club members help support our free content site with a small annual subscription and receive some fun perks in exchange! This year, as we pass a significant milestone of 15 years, we are inviting friends and guests of the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club to join the fun.
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