A n interactive card. Peek-A-Boo/Slider/Push Tab type.
Project Recipe
Card Base: Thick Whisper White
Cut a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" piece
Score at 4-1/4"
Set aside until the assembly steps.
Front Mat: Whisper White
Cut a piece 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" and set it aside for the moment. (If you want a border around the mat, cut the piece 5-1/4" x 4" instead)
This is the piece you will be stamping the landscape on.
Deer: Stamp the deer on a separate piece of Whisper White cardstock with Crumb Cake ink.
Color and cut it out.
I fussy cut the deer (after coloring) including cutting part of the base design off to get the size I needed.
Color the deer using an Aqua Painter filled with isopropyl alcohol instead of water, and Crumb Cake ink. Or, Stampin' Blends would work great too. (my original was colored, but it was sent out before I took pics for this tutorial.)
Tip -You don't want isopropyl alcohol getting in your stamp pads from using the lids to pick up the ink, so tap a small Clear Block on the pad to pick up ink and use as a palette. I used a separate one for each color, but just one works, cleaning it between colors. Tada, no alcohol in your stamp pads.
Push Tab: Cut two strips of Whisper White for the pull tab, mine are 3/4" x 4" You will layer the two pieces for strength in a later step.
You want them a bit longer than the distance between your deer stop point and the opposite edge of the card. When you measure be sure the tab is behind your deer to allow for attaching the deer.
If needed trim the tab strip so it doesn't show. I also marked where the other edge of the deer falls with a pencil.
Cut your sentiment piece. Often this is one of the last things you do, but it matters for the placement of the push tab openings, so you want to have it at the beginning.
The piece I used is the second to the smallest size of the Stitched Nested Label Dies.
The sentiment I used is from the Tea Together stamp set Stamped in Early Espresso ink.
Before stamping the foreground (trees etc.) Gauge where you want the deer to be when the tab is slid all the way. I didn't want mine to overlap off the edge of the card.
-Place the deer on the card in that spot.
Remember! The outer edges of the card front will need to adhere to the card base, so leave room for that.
- Determine where you want to stamp the main tree (or trees).
I placed mine slightly overlapping the deer legs to keep it from catching when sliding the deer back into the opening. I also approximately centered the tree between the top and bottom edges of the card.
- Next, move your deer out of your way and stamp the tree in Shaded Spruce ink.
Cut the opening by partial die cutting the large tree with the matching die from the In The Woods die set.
*Partial Die Cutting - do this by lining up the die on the stamped image as usual, but when you place the top plate, *only* cover the portion of the die you want to cut; like in the photo.
I also cut a line straight down from the die cut opening, leaving 1/2" from the end of the cut to the bottom edge of the card. Tear & Tape is 1/4" wide so that gives me 1/4" not adhered to allow the tab to slide.
To determine the final length of your tab piece and where to cut the second slot for the tab; you need to know the stopping point that you already chose for the deer, and also how far in it needs to go to be hidden.
- Be sure the bottom of the deer is at the height it will be when it is assembled, as the slope and placement of the tree will affect how
The first mountains I stamped are the ones closest to the top of the card, using the solid side of the Mountain Air stamp and Seaside Spray ink.
Then, still using Seaside Spray add in more mountains as you like, working toward the bottom.
I used different parts of the stamp and different angles to get the effect I liked. Keep in mind where they overlap the ink will be darker.
I also used Pool Party ink on the detailed side of the same stamp for a bit of, well, detail.
Lightly sponge the sky on the top part of the **Front Mat** piece of the card using sponges or daubers with Pretty Peacock. I used a -very- light hand with this color, blending first on scrap in order to get this light shade with it.