I had previously posted in July that they had penguins, and you see they do! Sorry I forgot to take a picture of the inside, but it's in the video below. The video also gives a better idea of how cool and "real" and "active" the snowglobe part is:
I found a picture of a card like this online and decided I wanted to make it. However, there was no tutorial just a picture. I had to trial and error most of it and search online for tutorials for various aspects like the snow part (which is actually sugar). The best tutorial I found for making a "shaker card" that was doable for what I was making and easy to follow is the one by Splitcoaststampers. The part of the video that addresses the snowglobe part I made with the foam tape is at 2:40 in.
I am not writing a full step-by-step tutorial for these because that would take me almost as long as making the cards! Okay, that's not exactly true considering I made 50 cards and started in July. I will say a few things about making them that might help those who want to copy:
- START EARLY (okay, had to get that out of the way)
- I did use the Cricut software to do these, but it is not necessary. I did this for two main reasons: to smush the designs closer to save paper, and to make the penguin with his layering and different colored parts easier to manage (as a note I paid around $20 for my software...last I checked Amazon there were only third party sellers charging over $90....it was well worth $20, not worth $90)
- the penguin is using the Christmas Cheer Cricut cartridge
- I did the penguin shadow in white, and that's what makes his belly white and his eyes white
- I did the body in black and took out the black belly so you can see the white through
- I opted not to print his hat because I couldn't decide what paper to use and thought it was still super cute without a hat
- the snowglobe is also from the Christmas Cheer cartridge
- I did the shadow in green and the snowglobe in the patterned paper
- I cut a small ribbon and just taped it on around the "stem/base" of the globe. I used ribbon I already had and decided it matched close enough. The double-stick tape was good enough considering that I then attached the whole snowglobe to the card - that helped it stay on.
- 1/2 teaspoon of sugar went into the "well" of the snowglobe. I did a picture of a snowglobe "in progress" to show you a little of how I did the snowglobe:
When I attached the snowglobe to the card, I used double-sided tape for the globe part, then I used the foam tape for the base so that the entire snowglobe would stick out equally from the card.
A couple other notes:
- the papers you use for the front can look like anything you want - just be sure to tape them all on, THEN cut the circle out of the front of the card (so you can see the penguin through it)
- for the background of the penguin (which is the inside of the card) I used a color like water (keep with the snowglobe theme!) and then imprinted snowflakes onto it with my embossing purse.
- I did them assembly-line style (did all the penguins, then all the snowglobes, then all the card fronts, etc. That worked really well.
- Measure twice, cut once. It takes some careful measurement to make sure the circles of the snow globe and the card will match up. Once you get it, making multiples is easy!
1 comments:
We're looking forward to even COOLER cards next year! Heck, I can't wait to see what my birthday card will do!
In all seriousness though, you really did a bang up job with the cards this year, especially since you kind of had to come up with the workflow yourself. And they're very decorative AND interactive. Everyone who has seen ours has complemented it, and as you know, we know have requests to have you teach classes and/or charge for your cards.
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