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 hearts. 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!!