Hoppy Birthday - Waterfall Froggy

This is a Birthday Card I made for Him indoors's sister, both of us have younger sisters, and both of them are chefs and although they are not the same age they both have the same birthday!!! (Him indoors and I's birthday is a day apart, and the six years he has on me of course!!!!) seems we were destined to be together either that or destined to be broke!
anyway on with the card!



This cute little frog is from Stampin Up (Unfrogettable) he so cute!! I do love moving cards, anything with a little quirk really, The waterfall component is made using the Cricut Design Studio, and the George Cartridge

To make the frog "jump" I stamped him first with his head and body on the square and then on the next square using the same image, I just stamped his back legs as he jumps away


See the tiny little frog eyelets!! aren't they sweet!! no idea where i got them, I have loads of bitties in my stash that I have collected over the years, only problem is I don't want to use my stash in case i cant get any more!!! (hence the three paper rule, 1 to use, 1 to stroke and 1 to keep for ever)
To add the colour to this card, I used mostly my brand new bienfang watercolour self wicking water colour brushes, these are AMAZING, i have really enjoyed using them, and there are so many different ways to play with them! For my toadstool on the bottom square i used my sakura glaze pens for the red and my sakura souffle pen for the white spots,

After I made the waterfall component up and folded my card blank, i took the "Hoppy Birthday" stamp from the set and using dew drop VersaMagic in Aloe Vera and Sea Breeze i randomly stamped the card blank,
I tied a green gingham ribbon around the card

I love to make my inserts as eye catching as the main card, so in this card using the computer i typed in Hoppy Birthday, Hope your day is Unfrogetable (I know i know, him indoors groaned loud enough for you all but when the pun fits!!!!) the little image in the bottom corner is from a font would you believe, its a font called Komedy Kritters using the capital V and then painted with the bienfang pens

any questions or comments i would love to hear from you!

Amanda

boy spinner card

Using the same instructions as below, this time the spinner card is for boys, I have used an odd shapes dinosaur on my spinner this time, I found adhering a weight (I used a glass bead skittle thing) under the head helped the card spin better

Slider Card for the Baby Bug and George

Slider for Plantin and the Baby Bug

Slider for Expression and George

Spinner Card for a girl

Okay my little person was invited to a birthday party recently for a fellow five year old, I wanted to make something pink, but not get caught up in the hannah montanna, high school musical thing. This spinner card was made using a cut file i have for the design studio and is made using the cricut, the slider mechanism is actually two, one pence pieces stuck together the instructions are as follows

You will need,

300 gsm Card stock (it needs to be sturdy as it will get played with a lot)

Backing papers in contrasting colors/designs

George Cartridge (for the slider template and spinner)

Zooballoo (for the scalloped card and insert and envelope) - note the envelope is not on the baby bug cut file

Foam pads (small)

2: 1 penny or 1 cent pieces

Topper of your choice, I used the flower

The cut file has 5 labeled pages

The Slider Template: I cut this twice once in a heavy cardstock (300gsm) and then cut again in my patterned pink butterfly paper and glued it onto the first cut.

Card: I then cut the card again twice, once in sturdy 300gsm white cardstock and then again in a contrasting paper which I glued onto the card

Insert: I cut this from basic printing paper nothing to fancy, but you could use contrasting paper, or printed

Envelope: I cut the envelope from paper stock

The Spinner: I again used the 300 gsm cardstock to cut the spinner circle

Instructions:

Take your topper and attach it to the spinner (you can use a printed image that fits onto the spinner circle or as I have done use something slightly bigger,

lay your first penny down and in the middle of it attach a foam pad, carefully attach the second coin so it is directly over the first, then attach to the centre of the spinner circle using double tape or strong glue.

If you first lay the slider template over the card where you want it to go and mark where the tram lines are, you could stamp a greeting here to be seen through the slider if you like and have one small enough

on the reverse side of the slider template attach a double layer of foam pads ,ensuring they are not going to be near the tram lines very carefully ease the slider pennies into the tram lines then attach to the card front with the double layer of foam pads, (it needs to be double to allow the slider to slide freely)

you can also cut slider template down if you like, it does not need to be as big as i made it on the cut file, i just cut it down a bit for my needs, just make sure you leave room to attach the foam pads to attach it to the card

If you are using a larger topper than the spinner circle do not use permanent adhesive until you are sure of its placement for spinning.

attach the insert into the card (I always put the double sided sticky tape on the first page of the card so it opens with the card)

I hope these instructions are okay and I have not made them too complicated!!!! its such an easy card to make, and so much fun to see the kids faces (both little and large!)