Tanya Fox - Interactive Cards

If theres one thing that is certain in the world of card making, it is that there is always something new to learn. Sometimes its learning how to use a new tool or figuring out new ways to use an old tool. Other times you might challenge yourself to master the latest and greatest coloring technique. And then there are numerous ways to make your greeting cards truly unique by incorporating moveable parts.

With Interactive Cards, you will learn to create 25 cards that spin, slide, flip and swing, and with easy-to-follow instructions and helpful step-by-step photos, Im certain youll find exploring these card-making techniques as rewarding as I did when I first tried them. Our spinner cards are sure to delight youngsters, the sliders will have the young-at-heart grinning from ear to ear. Theres a wonderful variety of wiper-style cards just waiting to be discovered. Deliver an extra special birthday greeting in a peekaboo style card. The card making fun continues with pop-ups, quick-to-make hinged designs, cards with suspended components, waterfall-style designs and never-ending cards.

Another great aspect of creating cards with moveable parts is that you dont need to purchase any fancy or expensive tools. Most of the designs in this book can be created quickly and easily with a basic paper cutter, scoring tool, paper punches, craft knife and various adhesives. You add the paperwe supply the inspiration and ideas!

Happy card making,

• Card stock: ivory, green, white
• Clowns stamp set
• Watermark ink pad
• Black solvent ink pad
• Dye ink pads: yellow, orange, blue
• Fine black embossing powder
• Ultrafine glitter: green, orange
• 2 pennies
• Antistatic bag
• Water brush
• Sponge dauber
• Stipple brush
• Embossing heat tool
• Craft knife
• Adhesive foam dots
• Glue pen
• -inch-wide double-sided tape
• Adhesive foam tape

Cut a 6 5-inch piece of white card stock for card base. Stipple blue ink across upper half for the sky. Cut a 6 3-inch piece of green card stock for grass and tear across top edge. Adhere to card base.

Cut one 1-inch-wide and one -inch-wide strip from green card stock, each 6 inches long. Use scissors to fringe one long edge of each strip. Layer narrow strip on top of wider strip and set aside.

From white card stock, cut one small cloud. With sponge dauber, add blue ink around edges. Adhere to sky.

Stamp Just Clowning Around in blue ink and cut out as shown to create larger cloud. Ink edges as for small cloud and adhere to card as shown. Cut a piece of white card stock large enough to accommodate clown stamp. Swipe piece with antistatic bag. Ink clown stamp with watermark ink, and then black solvent ink; stamp onto card stock. Immediately heat emboss with black embossing powder.

To color clown, use water brush to pull color off dye ink pads. Note:Mix blue and yellow to make green for hair, and dilute orange to make color for face and hands.

Go over dots with glue pen and add orange glitter. Repeat with hair, using green glitter. Carefully trim out.

Use craft knife to carefully cut a 4 9/16-inch rectangle centered on front of card 2 inches from bottom (A). Note:Rectangle opening must be large enough for foam dot/penny to roll back and forth easily and small enough so foam dot/penny do not fall out. Test this before continuing.

Adhere foam dot to center of one penny. Carefully adhere second penny to opposite side of foam dot, taking care to center dot on penny (B).

Apply several small pieces of double-sided tape on top of second penny. Adhere clown to penny so penny is behind clowns head; press firmly to secure (C). Adhere layered grass strips to bottom of card front.

Cut a 6 5-inch piece of ivory card stock, and a 5 2-inch strip from green card stock. Adhere green strip centered on ivory piece 1 inches from bottom.

On back of card front, adhere strips of foam tape.

Center card front on ivory piece and press to adhere.

Source:Rubber stamps, ink pads, embossing powder, glitter, antistatic bag, glue pen and double-sided tape from Sparkle N Sprinkle.

• Card stock: blue, red, green, yellow, white
• Nanas Kids Mat Stack papers
• Jumping for Joy! stamp set
• Black dye ink pad
• Markers
• 3/16-inch colored brads
• 5/8-inch-wide grosgrain ribbon