Christmas spinner cards...

The challenge this week at http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ is to make a Christmas card. I also needed to make a spinning card for the monthly challenge competition in my MSN group so I decided to combine the two and have a go at making 'spinning' Christmas cards.

There are loads of brilliant blogs including ones with videos showing detailed instructions of how to make these cards. I watched the one at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEutQBxhxVI where a very talented crafter shows how to make a spinning owl card.






My first card uses some Christmas paper from my stash that already had 'Merry Christmas' printed across it - I also managed to put another strip under the slider mechanism so the message is repeated there too. The stamped Father Christmas is from a Studio G set of clear stamps.






My second card uses DCWV paper in my favourite theme 'black and white'! On this one a snowflake tumbles across the card. My daughter's 20 year old boyfriend thought these cards were great - it kept him busy for hours so maybe these are ideal cards for the boys and maybe even the men in our lives. It might just keep them out of mischief for a little while!




Spinning cards are reasonably easy to do, especially after completing your first one. I think it would be possible to make some fabulous variations for children's birthdays.

One tip I would like to pass on is make sure the foam pads you use to attach the whole spinning section to the card are thicker than your pop dots. I used some really thick ones that worked really well in allowing the spinning part to move freely.