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Interactive Waving Card



Another interactive card adventure.


The hand waves as the card is opened and closed.

 A co-worker asked if I could make some Thank You cards that had his son waving as the card was opened.  I told him "well, I can try".  This is what I came up with.

Supplies

·        Stamps:  Stampin Up For Being You

·        Punch:  small circle

·        Inks: VersaMark

·        Cardstock: Stampin Up Whisper White, Basic Black

·        Pattern Paper:  non-Stampin Up patriotic

·        Misc: stampin' dimensional or disc, small brad, Stampin Up Gold embossing powder, sheet of acetate

Steps

·        Using Word, I printed a photo, 4 to a page on Whisper White cardstock using my color laser printer.  I cut the lower left corner (where the mechanism will pass through) off the picture.

·        I found a .jpg of a hand waving and added a checked pattern to it with PhotoShop.  Using Word, I printed 9 edited arms to a page on Whisper White cardstock and fussy cut the arms out.

·        I cut an A2 (4.25" x 5.5") cardbase from Whisper White cardstock.

·        I punched a hole in the arm of the picture and glued a disc to the back of the waving arm.  Instead of a disc, I could have used a dimensional that was small enough to fit in the punched hole.

·        I turned the picture over and stuck the disc on the waving arm through the hole.

·        I cut some acetate into a 1/2" strip and poked a hole in one end with my paper piercer.  The strip needed to be long enough to reach from the disc past the folded edge of the card.  I attached a small piece of thin ribbon to the acetate strip with tear tape about 1/2" in on the none hole side.  With the arm in the desired position when the card is fully open, the ribbon plus acetate strip should be able to reach past the card fold to the other side of the card base.

·        I cut a 1/2" strip of cardstock long enough to span disc and acetate strip mechanism and poked a hole in one end with my paper piercer.  I attached the 1/2" strips of cardstock and acetate together with a loosely fastened brad.
 

·        Using temporary adhesive, I played with the lengths of the 1/2" strips until the mechanism worked properly when the cardstock strip is glued to the disc and the ribbon is glued to the opposite side of the card base.  I had to snip the acetate strip a little on the ribbon end to allow the cardbase to fold flat.

·        Once I had the placement and lengths working, I used tear tape to adhere the cardstock strip permanently to the disc and the ribbon to the opposite side of the card base.

·        I then decorated the front of the card.  I used some patriotic non-Stampin Up pattern paper, stamped THANKS with VersaMark then heat embossed it with Gold embossing powder on Basic Black cardstock.

·        I thought the photo inside the card would look nice with a woodgrain frame around it but my friend thought that was overkill.  😄

If you try this technique and find some improvements to my steps, please comment below and let me know.  I love learning new and better ways to craft and/or make cards. 

 
Thanks for sharing in my card making adventures!
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