Whimsical Waterfall card

I do love an interactive card.

I like to flip and flap, pull ribbons and slide slides ... really I just love to read children's books with their bright and attractive colours and things that engage you with their movement and a fun surprise element.

I have had this template on my cards-to-do list for a loooooooooooooong time. I always thought it would be extremely time consuming or tricky to assemble.

Well, last Sunday afternoon, I proved myself wrong once again. I broke out the cutter and the cardstock to give this a go.

It was very simple - the instructions are the hardest part to follow, usually because it is written by someone who uses imperial measurements and often (too often in my opinion) there is a bit left over ... or a step left out, or perhaps I just can't follow simple instructions, more than likely.

Here is the finished project: A white card with an interactive waterfall of stamped panels on the front.

You pull the ribbon attached to the tab at the bottom.

And the butterfly flips up, disappears ... and reveals another image.

The tulips are stamped in Baja blue and Pacific point inkpads and surrounded by some kiwi kiss bugs.

Pull the ribbon a bit further and you reveal another panel of ....

Tangerine tango and riding hood red lady beetles!

I love how these two colours go so well together and they are a nice contrast to the lavender lace cardstock and perfect plum butterflies on the background card.

Finally, you know what to do -

Pull the ribbon and

The kiwi kiss and pacific point snail appears on the final panel!

I havent yet stamped the greeting.

It can be stamped on the long grey piece that is now revealed at the bottom.

Something along the lines of Happy Birthday!

Kids and adults love this style of card and it is really just a matter of:

Stamping four square pieces of white or vanilla cardstock (4.7cm x 4.7cm), mounting them on four coloured squares (5.1cm x 5.1cm).

A white cardfront (13cm x 20cm) folded in half.

A long piece of any colour cardstock (23cm x 5.1cm) I used going grey.

A strip of cardstock (10cm x 2cm) to be attached to the cardfront with eyelets to hold the grey pull down piece in place (I used lavender lace and background stamped it with floral background for texture).

A piece of ribbon threaded through another eyelet on a round tab punch attached to the grey pull down piece.

This is not a tutorial, I am not supplying pictures of how to put it together, nor the measurements for the scoring so I have attached a link here to a tutorial on the Splitcoast website, it is the best explanation I found for this type of card.

http://splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/waterfall_card/

Ice skating Birthday Scrapbook page

Since I showed you the cake, I thought I may aswell share the scrap book pages I made to celebrate Jessica's 6th birthday. Above is page one of a two page spread.Materials:

Stampsets: garden whimsy, Be happy, Lovely letters, Happy everything.

Cardstock: Textured Rose red, Whisper white.

Paper: Bali Breeze DS patterned.

Ink: whisper white craft ink, stazon black

Accessories: Clear buttons, Circle scallop punch, scallop edge, white signo gel pen.

Here's some detail of the buttons:

(I love how you can stamp on them with stazon ink, or embossing powder too - here I've just adhered them with doublesided tape so you can see the stamp underneath.

My daughter loves butterflies and lady beetles, so the garden whimsy stampsets with their spots seemed to match the

paper and the spotted top my girl is wearing.

Her smile tells it all - for how many years will fairy bread get a girl so excited!

Garden whimsy emerging colour

I just had to give this technique another go ... my last attempt was a bit busy ... this is a layered colourful technique, though I am hoping this time I have simplified the process and I am happier with the result.

First step is to stamp the little lady beetles and bugs in rose red and pumpkin pie onto whisper white cardstock.

Next I stamped the large butterflies in versamark and dusted it with clear embossing powder, heated it with the heat tool till it went clear and shiny ... love that effect.

Then, I sponged turquoise and olive over the whole strip to make the butterflies emerge from the background. Also known as "embossing resist".

I have layed the butterfly panel on to rose red cardstock which I have scalloped with the scallop-edge tool and placed it on a Taken with Teal card base. The Best wishes is stamped in white and embossed too. The rose red cardstock was punched out with the square-scallop punch and cut with scissors top and bottom to create a label that can be attached to the ribbon with two white brads. The ribbon is turquoise grosgrain.