Showing posts with label Spinner Card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spinner Card. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2022

A TEE-rific Bridge Spinner

Happy Monday Scrapping Cottage friends!  Kris here, and I hope you had a wonderful summer weekend!  I'm actually looking forward to the cooler crisp Fall season which makes it much nicer to get outside and do more...like golfing!  

This is another fun fold card & it's interactive!!  I combined the bridge fold card and a spinner!  And Don't forget - the newest release is BASEBALL & GOLF themed and the individual dies are 30% off! 


Here's a short clip of the golf ball spinning ☺ 
 (You can click  in the bottom right corner to make it larger!)

All the dies I've used are pictured and linked at the end of my post.

Design Steps:

I cut my yellow card base at 10" x 5" 
Scored at 1-1/2", 3", 7" and 8-1/2"

 (When it's all put together, it will collapse to a 5" x 7" card.) 

Next, I used a sun stencil from La-La Land Crafts and blended classic ink in the same color as the cardstock. 


Next, I fold-n-burnished my score lines as pictured below... outter scores are mountain folds, and inner scores are valley folds.  

I then cut a piece of green cardstock to 3-1/4" x 7" and cut the top with a die from the Hills Slimline set.  I scored 1-1/2" in from each side and adhered to the inside as shown below.  


Once I folded the card, I saw that my green ends were slightly over-hanging, so I used my scissors to trim so they were flush with the fold.  (see below).


Next, I cut 2 pieces of green cardstock the same size at 2-1/4" x 7" and cut the top of each with the straightest die from the Hills Slimline set - making sure that the 2nd piece has the die exactly in the same position as the first piece.  These will serve as my front spinner piece. 

I die cut the Putting Green in same green color, then ink blended Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink to make it a bit darker so it stands out.  


I then glued my Putting Green to the left side of one of my spinner pieces, with the hole on the left.

Next I die cut my spinner channel using the smallest die from the Nested Rectangles Slimline set.  It fit PAR-fectly (there's so many great golf puns!) except that it was a li'l too tall for the size golf ball I was using, so I manipulated the die a bit.  I taped the die as shown below, leaving space on the right for my foam tape, and put the top cutting plate down just so it covers the top HALF of my die.  And ran it through machine. 


Then, I turned my piece around and moved my die down so it was lined up on the sides, and you can see where it cut the first time (see photo below) Then covered just the top HALF again with my top cutting plate and ran it through.


I'm left with a nicely cut narrower rectangle - you can see the difference in the photo below. 


I then stacked that top piece onto the 2nd green piece - I did not attach it, just laid it on top.  Then I glued that strip that was die cut out back into the opening and lifted off the top piece.  (see photo below)

Using the smallest die from the Pierced Circle set, I die cut 2 white circles.  I added some grey divots with my Copic marker to make it look like a golf ball.  

I turned my top green piece upside down, placed my golf ball centered on the channel opening, and added 1/8" foam strips all around as shown.  You don't want to get too close to the ball or it won't spin.  (the ball laying there just serves as a spacer so I don't get my foam strips too close to the opening.)


I then added some glue to a small spinner disc and attached it to the backside of my golf ball.  I then turned it upside down so the disc is sticking up and laid my front green piece so that the disc is popping up through the rectangle opening.  then I added more glue to the top of the disc and attached my 2nd circle on top, lining it up exactly with the front circle (golf ball).  Sorry I don't have a photo of this.  If you don't have a spinner disc, you can stack 2 foam circles on top of each other.

I peeled my backing off of my foam strips and attached my back green piece to complete my spinner.

I then die cut the TEE (from the Golf Ball & Tee die), colored it red with my Copic marker and glued it on the far right of spinner, under the ball and cut off the remainder of tee.  (see photo below)

I die cut the Fall Tree, the Golfer Silhouette and the clouds from the Stitched Sun, Clouds & Umbrella set. I colored the tree with Copic markers, and die cut the golfer from Espresso brown cardstock.  I glued all die cuts onto card as shown below.  For the sentiment, I printed one I made on computer, adding a red block behind it and making the font white.  Then I cut it out with the smallest die from the Nested Wacky Stitched Rectangles set, and attached it to the right panel of card.


I then added glue to the bottom side panels only and attached my spinner piece.


 Voilà and done!  ☺



and YES!  It folds flat to fit into a 5 x 7 envelope! ☺


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I hope I inspired you somehow today to get crafty with your CottageCutz dies!

~Kristine

Saturday, July 09, 2022

Bee Happy - Spinner Card

Happy Saturday friends! 

Kris here with a fun interactive card!  Have you gotten your hands on this ADORABLE Strawberries & Bees Release yet?!  It's so fun to piece together and make really fun cards....and they're all 30% off for a limited time 😀

I've used the cute Bee Gnome and the Bee Phrases to create this fun spinner card!


How I made it:

1.  I cut a piece of thick white cardstock 11" x 5-1/2" and scored it at 5-1/2" to make a square card base and set it aside.

*Next... if you already have some honeycomb papers - Great!  I did not, so I used some paper stencils.

2.  I cut 2 pieces of 80 lb. white cardstock:  the first one 5-1/4" square and the second 5" square.

3.  I sponged wild honey distress oxide ink with a honeycomb stencil onto the 5-1/4" square

4.  I sponged salty ocean distress oxide ink with a larger honeycomb stencil onto the 5" square.

5.  I die-cut my Bee Gnome and Bee Phrases  from white cardstock and colored with Copics.

6.  I laid (most of) my images onto the blue honeycomb piece and figured out my placement for the spinner.  Then I laid the 2nd and 3rd smallest dies from the Nested Wacky Stitched Circles die set onto the upper middle part of the card and taped them with a low-tack tape and removed the die-cut elements before cutting.  


7.  Next, I needed a small circle that is bigger than the opening for spinner, so I die-cut the smallest from the Pierced Wide Circle Frame die set  and I used the very center circle that was cut from the middle of that die.  (see photo below).

8.  I sponged that small circle with the wild honey distress oxide ink so it would blend in with the paper showing thru the channel, and glued a tiny spinner element to the middle of it.  If you don't have that, you could use a tiny button or stack 2 circle foam dots together.... as long as it's round and smaller than the spinner channel. (see photo below)

***Note:  this is the same concept as the penny spinner, however, a penny will show thru the channel as it's larger than the largest bee in these sets, so if you want to add weight,  you can add a magnet or washer, maybe even a dime? (I didn't try that) etc. to the back of your yellow circle which will help it spin better!  ☺


9.  Next, I added foam strips to the back of the blue cardstock (around all edges and some pieces closer to the circle opening, but not too close that it prevents the circle spinner from passing) and center circle piece and adhered to the yellow honeycomb piece.

10.  I placed the spinner circle piece in between the 2 blue layers as shown above and added a tiny bit of glue to the top of the white spinner and centered my bee onto it.  

11.  I glued the sentiment and white honeycomb grouping to the blue layer, and popped everything else up with foam dots.

12.  Lastly, I adhered that whole piece onto my white card base, making sure there's equal amount of white border all around and Voilà!!  


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I hope I've inspired you to try this or your own creation using the new

~Kristine