In some of my previous blogs I've talked about how some of the female images resemble our girlfriends, which makes it a lot of fun to create cards for them specifically using the matching images. Likewise I think Art Impression (AI) does a fantastic job imitating the male gender and their the hobbies or habits of their daily lives.
Monday (March 4th) my Dad celebrated his 83rd birthday; and for that occasion I selected AI's The Lawn Ranger rubber stamp. Wanting the card to be exceptional for my special guy, I also chose the Whimsy Kinetic dies to make the card a No See Slider.
Here's my finished card, then the step by step details to make this project card.
The AI Lawn Ranger imaged was stamped on Neenah 110# card stock and Copic colored *(referenced below), then hand cut out. I determined I was going to use a 6" white card base, so the blue sky piece is cut 5 3/4" square. Both green pieces are die cut with the Whimsy Kinetic Curved Hill die across the 5 3/4" width. One is 3" from the tallest point to the bottom and the other is 2" from the tallest point to the bottom. I also cut the curved fence out of brown card stock and glued it to the back of the larger piece of green. That piece (the larger) is then glued to the blue sky piece, aligning at the bottom of the 5 3/4" square. Determine where you want your tractor to ride. I used the middle size of the three arch thin cutting strips in the Curved Basic die set. Die cut the BACK piece (sky with the grass attached). The arch will look like an upside down smile. Using the cut out small circles and two small foam dots, attach one circle on each side of the slider hole, with the foam in the center of this hole. Then die cut two (or three) of the longest straight die- No See Basic Set, (in this card using green) for the pull tab. Glue these together so green is showing on both sides. Glue this to the back of the card - to the circle on the slider. Once dried, pull the tab to be sure it will slide easily with nothing in it's way. Watch the path of the pull tab so you see how high or low it goes... pulling it straight. Now put foam tape around the slider keeping that path open, but close enough to keep the slider going straight. Then add more foam tape around the edge and supporting areas to make your card strong. Keep the back of the foam tape ON at this point. Flip over and first take the small piece that will connect the image to the slider, it has score lines on it. I also cut two of these and glued together, keeping the green side outward. Now lay the front piece on the card in the position it would go - take the mower and work it with the pull tab to imagine if they were connected, if the path will work. This is the point where you can adjust the front grass piece. It might need to go up or down on the card to put the mower in the right place. On my card I had to trim 1/2" off the bottom of the front to push the mower up on the card more. Once you're happy with it, then you add the foam tape on the back of the first piece, making sure you aren't putting any in the path of the slider movement. You still have the connecting piece sticking straight up on the back piece. You can carefully fold at the score lines an attach with glue to the wide area of the image. Aim for the center or a balanced part of the image. Then remove the back of the foam tape and align from the bottom of the card. Each time pull the slider to be sure you have everything aligned. If it pushes in too far, it's okay to put an extra piece of foam tape as a 'stop' before putting together, to keep the tab end out enough to grasp it. Jennifer Dove has a great YouTube video on using the Kinetic dies if watching is easier for you than following step by step directions. When you get it all together it is so cool! And the more you use the Whimsy dies, the more comfortable you will be with them.
Thanks for stopping by - your comments are always welcome!
Serving a Risen Savior
Pam
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