Interactive Spinning Ball Card Tutorial

Spinning Ball Card

Hi friends, Thank you so much for the  warms words of welcome in my last post on a Beach Ball Spinner Card. Sharing another version of the  Spinning Ball Card...this time I added sneakers and a T shirt and stenciled on a net and some bricks. Once again I have used dies, stamps and stencils from Crealies  .

Spinning Ball Card

I this would make a fun Birthday card..what do you say friends?

Spinning Ball Card

The dimensions are slightly different from the  Beach Ball Spinner Card but the  Tutorial is nearly the  same and here is the  video showing the  Ball Spinning

Supplies : Stencils , Stamps and Dies from Crealies

Spinning Pop Up Ball Card

Spinning Pop Up Ball Card

           Hi friends, its been quite some time since I shared an Interactive card and this one is rather special...it is a Rubber band activated Pop Up Ball Card which also spins.I first made a similar Pop up ball card several years back by handcutting  a template from a website which is no longer active [by artist Linda Lucine]

Spinning Pop Up Ball Card

Making the hexagonal Pop Up ball using a template was cool but after getting a die cutting machine I found it tedious to trace and cut templates!This particular Pop up Card was made using a Pop Up Ball die by Karen Burniston.

Spinning Pop Up Ball Card

My Pop Up card has a spring theme and features heat embossed flowers[ heartfelt creations sun kissed fleur stamp and die set] and Sizzix and Cheery Lynn  butterflies.

Crackle Paint

Used a Sizzix Brick die cut as a stencil to ink a brick pattern across the pop up card and added crackle paint and glossy accents to highlight parts of the brick pattern.

Glossy Accents

The glittery heat embossed parchment flowers are bordered by Cheery Lynn grass die cuts and I added liquid pearls and glossy accents on the butterflies.

Rubber Band activated Pop Up card

The golden heat embossed plant near the lamp post, the spring sentiment and golden heat embossed bees are all from a stamp set gifted by my sweet and generous blogger friend Lisa . She also gifted me the glossy accents and the beautiful green lacy trim I used on this card.Thank you so much Lisa!!

Heat embossing

The white flowers and the white butterfly you see on this pop up card were all stamped on parchment and heat embossed. Parchment is much stiffer than regular velum and maintains its shape after bending or folding so your flowers/ butterflies wont become flat even if you add them inside a card.

Heat Embossed Butterfly

I also added a tiny golden gate at the bottom of my spring garden so that the spring fairies can enter and frolic around in my garden!

Spring Pop Up Ball Card

The Pop up ball has 3 rubber bands inside and can be folded absolutely flat inside the pop up card.

Spinning Pop Up Ball Card

Another super cool thing about this design is that the Pop Up ball is attached to the base card with a brad so it also rotates.Here is the super short video showing how the pop up card springs open and the ball rotates.

 

I hope you liked this interactive Pop Up card.

Pop Up Ball Card

Supplies: Dies : Sizzix Butterfly, Sizzix Thinking of you, Sizzix fence, Sizzix Pop up Ball, Sizzix Brick die strip, Cheery Lynn  Grass, Cheery Lynn butterfly, Cheery Lynn  lamp post, Heart felt creations sun kissed fleur. Stamps : Sizzix- Hero Arts Butterfly, Thinking of you, Heartfelt creations Sun kissed fleur.Dear Lizzy  American Crafts Spring set. Papers: DCWV Botanical, DCWV Mariposa. Misc:Embossing Powders, Ranger Heat Gun, Crackle Paint all from Crafters Corner
Edited : This card was featured By Karen Burniston on her facebook page..Woohoo..such an honor!
It also came top 3 at Scrappy Land Pearls/lace theme Challenge

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And was declared as Super Pick at CSC Anything goes Challenge

Swinging Spinning Card Tutorial - Quilled Flora

This Swinging card can also be called a spinning card as the quilled central circle can spin 360 degrees! I saw this type of swinging card at a commercial card selling site [cant remember which site] and was so fascinated that I tried to work out the mechanism of this interactive card.This is a friendship card for all my blogger friends who inspire ,support and encourage me constantly.
This is one side of the swinging card which spins on a wooden skewer on top of the card stand.

Swinging Card

I made the red flower and its leaves by looping paper strips by hand. I found that though not as perfect as the proper husking technique using pins on a board to form the loops its much faster and more fun!

Quilled Flowers

This is the closeup of the quilled flower bud again looped by hand.

Quilled Flower

The quilled rosebud is made by forming a tight coil and pushing its center out.

Quilled Flowers

The golden butterfly is also made by looping paper strips held in the hand.

Quilled Butterfly

The red flower is technically made by looping the paper strip around a comb[combing technique].I actually found making it by hand simpler and faster and not as perfect as in the proper combing! [ We have to compromise somewhere!]

Quilled Flowers

The other side of the swinging card also needs to be embellished as this swings 360 degrees and comes onto the other side.So while making it ,its nice to have images that look ok upside down too!

Spinning Card

The central Swinging card part is embellished with eccentric coil quilled flowers.

Quilled Flowers

These quilled flowers are eccentric coils.

Quilled Flowers

The eccentric coil flowers are made with paper strips having 2 color tones.
I reversed the direction of coiling to make the white in the center for the lower quilled flowers.

Quilled Flowers

This gorgeous embossed paper was a paper bag I cut up and recycled! The pearl leaves and pearl hearts are from a local fancy store.

Embossed Card

Materials Required to make a Swinging Spinning card

• Thick Card stock- The base card which forms your stand for the spinner needs to be particularly strong as it is a stand for your card and has to support the weight of your wooden stick and spinner card.The spinner card also should not be thin as otherwise it will be floppy and unsightly.
• Glue
• Glue dots or any other adhesive of your choice to stick the skewer to the spinning card.
• Wooden/plastic/ metallic stick to form the basis of your spinner card mechanism.- I used a wooden skewer. Use any long thin stick.

How to make a swinging spinning card

Fold your card stock in half. I have used an A4 sized card.

Cut out a shape  at the folded edge- you can cut out a semicircle,rectangle,half of an octagon etc.I cut out a semicircle marked with the help of a compass.

Spinning Card Tutorial

Use the shape you cut out and make it smaller by a centimeter or so.Here I made it smaller by a 1/2 a centimeter only and discovered  its better if you make it smaller slightly more so that it can swing and spin freely once attached to the card stand.

Spinning Card Tutorial

You need 2 similar sized  circles for the swinging part. Embellish the circles before you stick them .Use an adhesive of your choice to stick the skewer or stick to the center of your swinging card.Here I used glue drops to stick a wooden skewer. Apply glue and stick the 2 circles together.

Spinning Card Tutorial

Make the support for the swinging card:The support for the swinging stick with your card is 2 small folded card  strips with a gutter for the stick to swing.The width should be such that when stuck inside the card base it is hidden. I used a strip around 3 cm long and folded it. If the central groove of this folded strip is more deep the skewer will be at a lower position. Experiment a little before you glue it on place

Spinning Card Tutorial

Make a stand for the lower part of card base.Take 2 strips of strong card. I used a strip as long as height of by base card.Fold in half

Spinning Card Tutorial

Fold up each end as shown. These folded ends form the tabs where you will stick it to your base card

Spinning Card Tutorial

Stick this card strip to the bottom of your base card as shown

Spinning Card Tutorial

The photograph below shows the mechanism of the swinging card and how the card strips are stuck in position.

Spinning card Tutorial

Your swinging card mechanism is ready!Here is the swinging card in action viewed when it is spinning and has swung up!

Swinging Card Mechanism

I was crazily busy the last couple of days professionally with a couple of international patients requiring surgery and extra care. I was on a deadline to make a friendship card for the Guest DT post at Crafty JC [my Ocean Diorama Pop up card had become top 3  at Crafty JC] and perhaps due to exhaustion I just couldn't think creatively and struggled for ideas. The swinging card is technically easy to make but Oh Boy did I struggle for ideas to embellish it! Please do tell me what you think of it and do try the swinging card mechanism as its a fun interactive card.
Here is a even more simplified version of the spinner card tutorial using dies : Spinner card tutorial