The Crafty Thinker: Stephanie Fischer - Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator: Sliding Star Framelits

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Monday, 19 December 2016

Star of Light on circles - using up leftovers!

The other day I made some spinner cards with the awesome Sliding Star Framelits set. If you saw that post, you'll know that I always keep the leftover bits for later use! In this card I've used the "tracks" from two slider cards!

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Using up the leftover pieces from spinner cards made with the Sliding Star Framelits

The background is a piece of Soft Sky cardstock that I ran through the Big Shot in the Lucky Stars embossing folder. I cut the stars from Silver Glimmer paper with the Starlight Thinlits Dies. At the centre of the larger star is a sequin from the Brights Sequin Assortment.

The greeting is from the Seasonal Bells stamp set, heat embossed in silver onto Night of Navy cardstock and cut out with the matching Bunch of Banners framelit.

Super simple!!

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Sunday, 18 December 2016

Star of Light spinner

I haven't made a video of the action, but this is a spinner card, so the snow flake spins around in its circular track.

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Spinner (or Slider) cards are so easy to make with the Sliding Star Framelits!

It looks complicated and clever but, in fact, it couldn't be easier! The most complicated thing about it is that this interactive card style is known as both a spinner card and a slider card! The Sliding Star Framelits set does all the hard work - all that's left is to decorate and get the mechanism going with some Foam Adhesive Strip, a couple of 5c coins and some Stampin' Dimensionals!

There are lots of great tutorials available but I like this one by Tami White. The only tips I would add are:

To help ensure that the middle circle is completely centred, temporarily keep the frame shape (that we don't use for this card) in position, then remove it once the middle circle is positioned.
I keep that frame for a future project - you never know when it might come in handy!

Before I started making this card, I wiped my Embossing Buddy over a piece of Night of Navy cardstock (already cut to size) and randomly stamped stars from the Star of Light stamp set with Versamark. Having sprinkled with silver embossing powder, I heat embossed it.

I used one of the Starlight Thinlits Dies with Silver Foil Sheet to cut the star and then cut one of the smaller stars from Silver Glimmer paper for the centre of the star. I glued my star to a small square of Night of Navy cardstock. Simply because it was sitting right next to my Big Shot, I used the smallest of the Layering Squares dies but you could just as easily cut a small square with your Stampin' Trimmer! I found that little square necessary to hide the coin underneath.

The greeting is from the Seasonal Bells stamp set. I stamped it onto Silver Foil Sheet with Stazon ink and then cut it out with the matching dies from the Bunch of Banners Framelits set.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Santa's Sleigh Highlight

I still have a pile of leftovers, having demolished the Christmas Table Favours after everyone had left! This card uses another one of the Santa's Sleighs currently sitting on my table and I was quite happy with the way it turned out.

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While not completely traditional, the colours are elegant and go well together

I needed the circle to be a little larger than the largest of the Layering Circles framelits, so I turned to the circular die in the Sliding Star Framelits set. That left me with a circular frame and a smaller circle that I've saved for future projects.

The piece of Sahara Sand cardstock behind the sleigh is embossed with Softly Falling embossing folder. The greeting is from the Embellished Ornaments stamp set. I stamped it in Night of Navy ink on Sahara Sand cardstock and cut it out with an oval from the Stitched Shapes framelits.

The top blue layer is popped up on Stampin' Dimensionals and the sleigh is just a little bit higher because it's popped up on Foam Adhesive Strip.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Monday, 26 September 2016

Father Christmas Spinner Card

So this is my first ever spinner card! Better late than never, I guess!

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Santa has his sack nice and close to him.

If you slide the sack across with a finger - it stays facing up. Or, you can just tip the card and it spins around as it moves across the page - lucky everything stays in the sack!

The sack seems to be getting away from poor Santa!

I stamped the images from Father Christmas onto Shimmery White cardstock with Archival Basic Black ink and then coloured them with Stampin' Write Markers (I used Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Pink Pirouette, Delightful Dijon, Crushed Curry, Cucumber Crush, Garden Green, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Basic Black, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede and Early Espresso). There's a touch of Gold Wink of Stella on the watch and trumpet and Clear Wink of Stella on the train.

I chose the Shimmery White cardstock because it's pretty and easy to stamp and colour but at the same time it's heavier weight than Whisper White cardstock

Once coloured, I then cut out the two images.

Stampin' Write Markers are easy to use and give lovely strong colours for a Christmas card

I made the Real Red card by folding an A5 piece of card in half. I cut a layer of Shimmery White cardstock to size and then cut a slightly smaller Whisper White piece which I adhered to the card front so that the slider slot would appear white.

I cut the spinner slot using a die from the Sliding Star Framelits set and then embossed it with the Softly Falling embossing folder. It's important to cut first and then emboss otherwise the embossing would be flattened when being run through the Big Shot again to die cut.

I placed Foam Adhesive Strips on the back of the embossed and die cut piece of card - taking care to leave enough space around the slot for a 5c coin to run freely. I then adhered the piece to the card front (over the Whisper White piece) with a 5c coin under the slot.

I placed a dimensional in the centre of the 5c piece and stuck another 5c piece on top. I then adhered the sack image to the 5c piece with another dimensional.

I attached the image of santa at one end of the slot using dimensionals.

I stamped the greeting from the Star of Light stamp set with Basic Black ink onto Whisper White card and cut it out with the banner from the Bunch of Banners set. Using Real Red cardstock, I then cut the banner from the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits, folded it and attached the greeting before adhering it to the card front with dimensionals.

Thank you for visiting
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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