Jumping for Joy! A Simultaneous Action Slider Card

We’re back!! It’s been a two months since our last Papercraft Business challenge! My fellow DT’s and I are excited to inspire you with the challenge this month — Interactive cards!!

For my card inspiration for this challenge, I created a slimline double action slider card! This is super easy to do and perfect for scene and critter images for your cards.

For this project, I used the super cute Bunny Burrow set from Trinity Stamps. I stamped out all the images in the stamp set. For the scene, I ink blended Mowed Lawn and Lucky Clover Distress Oxide across a slimline panel and used die cut two grass panel using the stitched grass die from the Scenic Border die set. I also ink blended another panel with Broken China Distress Oxide which would be the sky of my scene.

I laid out the stamped images and die cuts on a slimline panel on my mat to figure out where to place my little critters with the slider element. I thought it would be fun to have the fox and the hedgehog on either side of the card “jump up and down”. But instead of creating two separate mechanisms, I planned to make one pull tab that would enable them to simultaneously “jump” at the same time. I’ve never done this before and I am sure this has been done a thousand times by a thousand other crafters but I wanted to challenge myself that I can do this without watching or reading any tutorials!

To create the mechanism, I measured the space in between the two images which came out to 4.25″. I then cut two strips of cardstock measuring 4.25″ X 0.5″. I glued both strips together to make a sturdier element. Then I cut two more strips but measuring 0.75″ wide by approximately 6″ long. The length does not matter for now as I wanted to leave some allowance for the pull tab. I adhered both strips perpendicularly together then glued at the middle of the shorter strip. I glued a strip of acetate on either side of the mechanism. This will be the part where the fox and the hedgehog will be adhered to.

Before I adhered all my elements on the card, I colored all my images with Copics. I placed the fox and hedgehog in their respective places and marked their position with a pencil, just on the inner area of the images. I removed the images, then using a craft knife, I cut a vertical slit about 2″ inches long where I marked with the pencil.

Then I flipped the card panel over to the backside, placed the mechanism temporarily in position, marked the middle area where I will die cut a half moon at the top where the pull tab will be. After die cutting the half moon for the tab, I positioned the slider mechanism in the middle, inserted the acetate into the slits on either side. Then I flipped it back to the front of the card, and tested the mechanism. It works!!

Then I proceeded to adhere all my elements with glue onto the card, except for the fox and the hedgehog. I used a small foam dot on each exposed acetate strip and then adhered the fox and hedgehog on top just to make sure they don’t “snag” themselves on the grass. I also stamped out the word “PULL” from the Lawn Fawn Push Here stamp set.

Then I added foam tape at the back, making sure there was enough room for the slider mechanism to move freely up and down.

I adhered the panel onto a 8.5″X3.5″ card base. I adhered all the elements on the grassy scene. Then I added an ink blended “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” sentiment strip at the bottom right and called my card done! I did it and I am jumping for joy!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and I hope to see you over at the Papercraft Business Challenge blog. I can hardly wait to see what you create! You just might win this super adorable Winter Alpaca stamp set from Lawn Fawn.

If you enjoy joining challenges, Papercraft Business has created a special planner to help you keep track of your challenges and to help you not miss out on important dates. You can check out the planner here.

I am also entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge – Anything Goes!

‘Til next time!

🧡

Anna

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