Sliding Sk8teboarder

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you've had a good weekend.

Just popping in with a birthday card I made with a slider element. 

Christmas Ribbon Slider

Hello lovely peeps

Before I start, thank you to the people who left comments for me yesterday - they were very much appreciated. It was a lovely service and Treverva Male Voice Choir did Uncle Paul proud with very powerful performances. They were a hard act to follow but I managed to read out Paul's poem OK (luckily they finished with an uplifting number so I was able to compose myself 🙂)

I've just got a quick post today to share the ribbon slider Christmas card I started at our club session last Thursday (I took Christmas papers but no Christmas sentiments, oops).

Ribbon Slider Card

Hello lovely peeps

I've got a ribbon slider card for you today, which we'll be doing at our cardmaking club on Thursday.  I saw these on Liz's blog last weekend (one of my Crafty Calendar teamies). 

Design Collective - Frosty Fun

Hello lovely peeps.

Here's my second August card for the Lili of the Valley Design Collective.

The stamp is called Frosty Fun and the papers are from the Simple Joys 8x8 paper pad.

First I stamped Frosty Fun onto white card, cut it out with a circle die and then coloured him in with Promarkers and Graph'Its. I sprinkled Shabby White frantage powder around the edges of the circle and then heated from underneath.
 

 

 To make the slider mechanism I first cut a slot into a piece of card (diagonal because he's going downhill). It's about 1.25cm wide. I also cut a quarter circle out of the corner of my card.

I cut a piece of matching card 2.5cm by 21cm and folded it in half. This is the 'pull' bit of the mechanism.

Draw lines on the back of the card where this will sit and attach strips of 3D foam either side - this will keep the slider from straying out of position.

Slide the 'pull' strip in place and then turn the card over. The end should poke out from the corner so you can pull it. Put some 3D foam on the other end of the 'pull' strip. This stops the pull strip going too far back in/coming too far out, and is also where you attach your topper.

I added some die cut trees to my card before I attached my topper - I used two different sized Bigz dies. The tree edges were distressed with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink and more frantage powder.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Papertake Weekly - To die for

Crafting by designs -  Get ready for Christmas

 Moving along with times - Snow in Summertime

Graph It Colour Challenge - Palette/Anything goes

Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra  - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes with a stamp and a die

Sweet Stampin Christmas - Penguins and/or Polar Bears

Dies R Us Challenge Blog - THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Little Claire's - Christmas in August

Not Just Cards - Anything Goes

ABC Christmas - Q is for Quantum Leap (C - Colourful, D - Die Cuts, O - Off the Edge)

That's all for now folks, but I'll be back in a couple of days.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x