Tropical spinning card.

Jan 23, 2024

By Design Team

This week we all showcasing you our interpretation of an interactive card, and today it is my (Debby) turn. In this blog I show you how I created this fun and easy tropical spinning card.

Spinnercard, crafty meraki

As always I started with coloring the stamps with my copic markers and for this card I picked out this fabulous “birds of paradise” set. I colored the flying ara twice, because these birds are going to be the centerpiece. After diecutting all the stamps I gave them some highlights with a white gelpen and put them aside.

For the front I used a blue toned pattern paper, where I diecutted a circle out. (Make sure the bird fits in the middle). The inside is easy, I folded an a4 paper and cut this in the same size as the front. From the left panel I also diecut a circle at the the same place as the front, so they fit perfectly. Inside this card I glued a rectangle a6 (same as the front) . Before I glued this I blend in a distress oxide in the color “speckled egg” and some splashes of “saltwater taffy”.

Now it time to create the flying birds, and therefore I diecut the ara twice (only the die )extra on blue paper. On the back of one of the blue ara’s I taped some transparent tread very very well, and taped and glued all birds together. I put the bird in the middle of the circle and taped and glued also the treads on the front of our left panel. After some pulling I was happy with the place and cut the tread and taped the front on top.

After I placed the rest of the stamps I finished this card with the “happy birthday” sentiment from the “little green thumbs” stampset.

Before you send this card twist the bird a few times, do the birds will spin around when someone open it.