Birthday Somethings...

Don't you just love it when daughters tell you how talented you are and how much their friends love your cards? Hmmmmm anyone with any sense knows that all that buttering up is leading somewhere!

Sure enough Laura (my eldest daughter) wanted a card making. A card for a man (never a good request) and one who has just left University -loves the city of Liverpool and would probably be really happy with a card on a Liverpool theme. This was further complicated by the addition that the card would be even better if it had the Super Lamb Banana on it!!! No she wasn't asking for much. Have you seen the Super Lamb Banana???

If you're wondering what it is check out this website...

http://www.superlambbanana.com/home.php?/home .

Anyway I decided, remembering how much Shelley's boyfriend enjoyed playing with the Christmas spinner cards, that perhaps a spinning super lamb banana might be the best option. Laura thought it was great and I'm hoping Anthony does too when he receives it.

As it is a 'birthday something' it also fits with the challenge at http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/.

Materials used:

• map of Liverpool and small picture of the Super Lamb Banana
• navy blue corrugated card
• yellow card
• heavy weight white card as base card
• 2 pennies and pop dots to create spinning mechanism
• computer generated birthday message

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.