Peek a Boo Slider Birthday Card for a Team Member

 I try to send a birthday card to each of my team members, so I made this Peek-a-boo Slider card using a retired stamp set, for a team member who loves animals and owns her own horse.

I used Tina Zinck's  video tutorial here to assist me in making this card.

This 5 3/4 by 5 3/4 Peek-a-Boo Slider card has a Crumb Cake base and uses the In Good Taste DSP and the Stitched Rectangle Die to create the aperture.

The images of the horses are from the retired Let it Ride stamp set.  The horse on the card front was coloured with Stamp'n Blends- the die cut trees from Mountain Air.

Open the card, and the first window slides out of the way to reveal a second peek-a-boo window .

Below the card is open all the way to reveal both windows on the left and the second sentiment on the right.

Because it is an odd size, I made an envelope using the envelope punch board using some Crumb Cake card stock.

Let it Ride - The Paper Players #448

I thought today I would make a card featuring one of the stamp sets retiring on June 2 when the new Annual Catalogue goes live.  The stamp set I chose today is "Let it Ride" and I am submitting the card to the challenge at The Paper Players #448

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I placed the sketch on its side for my card.

The horses were stamped with Black Memento ink and then coloured with Stampin' Blends. For the trees I used Stampin' Markers (Call Me Clover and Early Espresso) directly onto  the stamps prior to stamping.

For the clouds I went to another favourite stampe set of mine:  "My Meadow".  Both the large and small cloud stamps were used with Balmy Blue to create some definition in the sky.

When completed, the edges of the image piece were sponged with Soft Suede ink,  The image was  then matted with Soft Suede card stock and added to the card front with dimensionals.

The card front is Soft Suede card stock layered with a diagonal striped retired Soft Suede DSP.  The edges of this was sponged as well.

The Timeless Label punch was used to punch out the sentiment.  This was trimmed to accommodate the location on the card.  Two pieces of this punch were adhered together to make a mat for the sentiment, which was then added to the card front using dimensionals.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Let it Ride, My Meadow

Inks:  Black Memento, Soft Suede, Stampin' Blends (Soft Suede, light and dark, Crumb Cake light and dark, Basic Black, Smoky Slate), Balmy Blue, Stampin' Up Markers - Call Me Clover and Early Espresso.

Papers:  Soft Suede, Whisper White, Soft Suede DSP (retired)

Accessories:  Timeless Label punch, Braided trim, Baker's twine, dimensionals

Let's Ride

I was thrilled to see the stamp set featuring horses in the Occasions catalogue.

Seeing the horses took me back to an earlier time when my children were young.  My daughter was 'horse crazy'.  She would read books about that animal, and draw them and she was absolutely thrilled when I arranged for riding lessons.

Her special horse was brown with a white star on his head and white socks - and so does the horse on my card today.

The horse was coloured with watercolour pencils and a blender pen, with some areas 'touched up' with a Stampin' Blend.  It was masked so that the trees could be stamped in the background.

An Oval framelit die cut the completed image, which was layered with a crimpled Crumb Cake oval.  The two ovals were off set from each other to give the illusion of movement.

Dimensional were used to adhere this focal image to a 'sliding barn door' background.  This background was created by adhering four 3/4 by 5" pieces of the Wood DSP to a piece of Whisper White card stock and this in turn was adhered to a 4 1/4 by 5 1/4" Crumb Cake layer and then to an Early Espresso card base.

Using the Sliding Barn franelits, the hardware for the bard doors was die cut in Basic Black and adhered to the card front as shown.  The door doesn't actually move, but it looks like it does.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Let it Ride

Inks:  Black Memento, Watercolour pencils, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede

Papers:  Early Espresso, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Wood DSP

Accessories:  Layering Oval Framelits, Crimper, Sliding Barn Framelits, Dimensionals, Blender Pen