An Interactive Slimline!

Hey there friends - if you're in the Northern Hemisphere, hope you're staying warm! It was minus 22F when I woke up this morning - brrrr! We'll be out of the below zero temperature range by Tuesday, they say. Anyway, I watched Craft Roulette Episode #303 tonight and made a card after the show. My internet was down part of the night so I was watching via cellular on my phone. I couldn't upload until later in the evening.

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White;

Momenta prints; scraps;

Spellbinders Betterpress Porcelain

Stamps - Hero Arts Going and 

Life is Not Perfect (both retired)

Press Plate w/die - Spellbinders You Are Everything Sentiments

Dies - Lawn Fawn Small Slimline with Lift the Flaps

Stencil - Concord & 9th Confetti Dots Turnabout

Other - Hero Arts & Altenew inks; foam tape; 

EKSuccess star gems; Copic C3

Host Mary Gunn had Amanda Stevens (‪@PearBlossomPress‬), queen of the light-up card, as her guest. Amanda also helped plan Paperganza last year & she and Mary are busily planning a 2026 event! Unlike last year, they plan to offer a virtual option for those unable to travel to Kansas City. Details should be out in a few weeks.

As usual, Mary spun the roulette wheel four times for the necessary parameters on our cards. The wheel bewildered me at first but I figured it out!

• Project - Interactive Card: I made a slimline with flaps that lift. 
• Colors - Spice Cabinet: I used Red/Orange for paprika, Green for Basil & cream for White Pepper (neutrals white/black allowed). 
• Element - Transportation: I stamped car images under two of the flaps. 
• Random - Confetti: I stenciled confetti on each of the flaps. 

I started one card then went totally in a different direction! I had die cut an entire gnome car from Spellbinders but then wasn't in the mood to try to build a channel for it to move across the card. So, I shuffled through my Lawn Fawn die sets, knowing I'd find something interactive. I landed on the one with lifting flaps which I've owned for ages (released in 2020) but hadn't used until now!! Here's a view with the flaps open:

I die cut the slimline layer with the flap die inserted from a green watercolor print. Next I cut one from a creamy color without the flap die. Then I cut a piece of printer paper with the flap die and folded back the flaps. That way I could see where to stamp and also used it to mask off the green panel when I went to stencil the flaps. The star die comes in the flap set (along with a heart and a scalloped circle). Die cut two stars from orange scraps. The pressed sentiment was in the stash.

Stenciled only three turns of confetti using green, red and orange inks on just the flaps. Before I adhered the green flap piece to the cream layer I stamped two cars and a sentiment in the openings. Shaded with a Copic C3 for "road". Looking at it, I might stencil some confetti in spots above the stamping - can't decide... Assembled everything onto a slimline card base and added star gems. Done!

Since my dies are newly used, I'll add this card to Darnell's January NBUS Challenge #82. I will also play at Just Us Girls Challenge #807 where it's Anything Goes Stencil Week.

Check out Craft Roulette if you want to challenge your brain! We always say "Kiss Your Brain" at the end of the episode - it works hard!!

Thanks for visiting and happy crafting!!