Continuous Fidget Card Class

1. Continuous Fidget Card Class Introduction: Hello and welcome to the continuous visit card class. This is the perfect card for someone who likes to fidget, likes to play around, likes to figure things out. I will take you through this card from step-by-step to creating the card base and cutting all the pieces that you're going to need to create your card as well as assembly. I'll show you how to create a version using stamped and colored images in this card, I'm going to be coloring with Copic markers, but you could absolutely use dye based markers or whatever you like to color your cards if you choose, you could also watercolor them. But I'll be using alcohol-based markers. I'll show you how to add fun accents at the end. If stamping and coloring is not your thing, I'll show you several different samples of the same card using printed paper. I'll show you which ones are the absolute best for creating this card. But then I'll show you some alternatives if you can't find what is the absolute best. So there are alternatives. If you're not into stamping and coloring, if you've, you just like using printed papers, this is a perfect class for you as well to create a unique card that people are going to marvel over. And because you don't have to stamping color all of your images, the printed paper one actually comes together a lot more quickly, but it's just as fun to play with. Now let's go create. 2. Cutting all the Card Pieces: All right, so the very first step in creating our cards is cutting all of the pieces that we are going to need. So we're going to cut the pieces for the card-based. We're going to cut the prince and we're going to cut the white pieces here. So for the card base, your paper needs to be six inches wide. And then we're going to cut it just shy of three inches. We need four pieces the size. And when I say just shy of three inches, I mean, like a hair shy. I don't necessarily mean like two and 15 sixteenths. That's just a little bit, a little bit small. What we're trying to do is once people do these together, we don't want these to overlap in any way. So by cutting them just shy, we're going to give that a little bit of clearance. And then this last piece here, so that one is done. And then we're going to cut our print. So this needs to be 27 eighths wide. And then I'm going to cut eight p or sorry, ten pieces that are one and three-eighths of an inch. So that's 1 eighth of an inch, less than 1.5 here. All right. I'll finish those and be back. All right. All of those are done. So we've got eight pieces or sorry, ten pieces here that are 138 by two and seven-eighths. I need to cut 10 of them. Sorry, I need to cut eight of them. That are 13 days by 13. It's all of these are going to be written down on your supply sheets so you don't have to remember these. And with me doing saying the wrong numbers, just go by what is on the supply sheet because that will be absolutely correct. So these are all going to be one and three-eighths inch squares, and we need eight of them total. Alright, I will finish that. Alright, so those are all done. I've got eight of those. And last but certainly not least, I need four, sorry, seven squares that are two and seven-eighths by two and seven-eighths. And if you happen to be cutting along with me while I'm doing this video, when I say, I'm just going to do those and I'll be back. You can always pause the video, do yours and be back as well. Otherwise, you can just go, like I said by the supply list. So these are all complete squares. And they are two and seven-eighths by 20 and 70. And we will need seven total. But typically if I'm cutting and I happened to have enough for eight or nine or whatever. I will just cut them because this one we're going to do some stamping and coloring and just have the off chance that you miss stamp something. It's nice to have an extra. As a backup. Any of the pieces that are not the right size or width. I'm going to put up there. There we go. We've got seven of them there. I've got enough here to do one more, so I have an extra there just in case I am going to need it. All right. So the pieces that I have here, I've got four pieces of my card stock base that are six inches wide and just shy of three inches. I've got ten pieces that are 27 eighths by one and three-eighths. I've got eight pieces that are 138 by 13 is square, and I have got two and seven-eighths by 2 and 7 8 squared, I've got seven of those as well. So just one note for this one here. This is a non-directional pattern, so I can do all of them, not all of them at the same time. For the second card that we're gonna do, we're gonna use a print that has a directional patterns. So you are going to probably want to cut them as you're assembling your card. Or you're going to want to pay attention to what sizes you need ahead of time. But for right now, we are ready. In the next video, we are going to score and assemble our card base. 3. Scoring & Assembling the Card Base: All right, We're now ready to score in assembler card-based. So we've got all of our pieces here. We are going to score along the 66 inch line. I'm going to score at 1.5 inches and 4.5. And then I'm going to fold them in and make sure that I've got really nice creases there. Making sure that these two rate in here are not overlapping. They should just meet perfectly and you want your sides aligned perfectly as well. So I'm doing that with all four pieces. They're all scored exactly the same. And by getting nice and nice creases ahead of time, you're going to make sure that your card folds nicely when you go and assemble it together. The other thing you want is, I'm using this tool here to do my scoring. And part of it is because of this one after years of use. It's not really very, it doesn't have a really very fine point. And this one does. So I am using this one because I'm just going to get a little bit more precision out of it for this one and for this particular card precision is important, especially for doing the card base. There we go. So the last piece here, all ready to go? Let's move my scoreboard. Alright, and now we're ready to glue our pieces together, so I'm just going to unfold them. So this here is just shy of three inches. Right now. I am I am gluing this part right here. I don't want the glue to come past an inch and a half. So I'm putting glue just shy of the inch and a half mark. And that you have to use liquid glue for this because you need some time to shimmy it in place. You need to make sure that your corners are exactly straight. This has to be perfect. And by using liquid glue, you have time to move things into place before it starts to set. If you're gonna use tape, you're not going to have that little bit of wiggle room. And you want to make sure that you can get those edges absolutely perfectly lined up. So now I'm going to do this part here and I'm using my mat to let me know exactly where my inch and a half or 1.5 inch line is. So that I don't go beyond that. And this is definitely a part of this card that I would not rush. Want to make sure that you've got those edges and those corners perfectly lined up. And then I like to press to make sure that my glue is adhered perfectly. Again, using my grid on my mat here to make sure that everything is perfect there. Precedent to place. This last one is super easy because you've got the full tear on your paper to see exactly where the edge is. And just make sure that you keep in mind that the glue is going to spread out as it, as it adheres to the card stock. So make sure that you give it some space to do that. All right, so I've got my card base here already to go. Open it this way. So this particular one, I'm opening up like a book first. And then I'm opening it up and down. And I'm just pressing these tools just to make sure they're nice and crisp on here. And there we go. We've got our card ready to go. So what I'm going to do because I've got all my pieces here for this particular card that I'm going to be doing first because I have them all cut and I have some time. I am going to glue them into place. Again, if you do the second card with the printed paper and you have a directional print on that, you're going to want to wait until you're putting your image pieces down. Because you're going to want to make sure that you have your directions to your card stock facing the right way. This particular one, it doesn't matter if my cart is going one way or the other. The print is going to look the same no matter what. So these pieces that I'm cutting or I'm gluing them into our three inches by inch and a half. And because my pieces are 2327 eighths by one and three-eighths there just a 16th of an inch shy. So I'm centering them in those panels. You want to make sure that your pieces of paper are shy because you don't want to interfere with the folds of the card. And if we were to make them inch and a half by three, it would interfere in the card without fold properly. And really if you wanted, you can go a step further and create a second mount for them, but I don't find it's necessary. There's enough going on with this card that I don't think it really needs it. Oops, happen if two pieces right there. And you'll notice I'm just squiggling some blue on. It doesn't need to be perfect on there. And you just want to make sure that you've got a decent amount of glue and then it's got good contact with your paper. Hope you can hear me over my furnace. A few more to glue. And if you prefer, you can glue these while you're putting your card together. Because we're going to spend a little bit of time coloring the images. The stamped image is for our first card. I figure if this is already glued down and that will save a little bit of time right there. So a third side done, final side here. Because of the folds in your card, it's very easy to see exactly where each of these pieces go. One last piece. All right, so our card basis done for our first card, this is what our first card is going to be. So we are going to, in the next video, we're going to do our stamping. And then we're going to do our coloring for this particular card here. We'll see you in the next video. 4. Stamping the Card Images: Hi, So the first step in creating our card is stamping or images onto our white pieces of paper. Now I'm using this mini word crazy and things stamp set from Stanford's anonymous. And the reason I like using samplers anonymous stamps for these classes is because they never discontinue their stamps. So I know whether you take it, take this class now or in five years from now. You'll still be able to get the set if you're wanting to. So I'm stamping with Momento ink. I want to color my images in with Copic markers because it is my favorite way to color. But the first thing I'm going to do is stamp all my images and let the ink dry thoroughly before I start coloring. So I've got that guy stamped for the first one. So what I did with my stamp said if he didn't see it as I stamped the plastic when I got the set because there's so many different pieces here that I wanted to know if I was missing one exactly what one that wouldn't be that way I'd be able to keep track of my stamps when I was using them. Because there's nothing more annoying than losing a stamp and not being too sure when you lost it or where where it could possibly be. So that way I'll find out super quick. If I by chance happened to miss place a stamp and I won't have to worry about losing them. So this one here, I wanted to put the flowers behind his little back there. So I'm going just to take a post-it note here. But the sticky side along his back and stamp it that way. That way I'm not getting the stem from the flowers rates in front of him there. I didn't do that for this because I figured that just a little tuft of his hair, I don't really mind that on or her hair. I didn't really mind that on that particular one there. Now I'm gonna do this guy here. Now. Which one do I have for that one? That's this one here. I've got two different block sizes here. And I'm lining these up by putting the little feet straight. So the birds are angled but the feeder straight on the bottom there. Now I want to sample my balloons and in order to get several balloons in a clump. And stamping my first one. I have a few masks here that a created, they're just stamped onto Post-it notes and then cut out balloons are nice and easy to do this with. If by chance you don't have post-it notes. Tumble multi, if you put it on the back of paper and let it dry, it will dry like a post-it note. So it will have it'll be removable, adhesive. So you can use that during my last one here. Now this particular set does have a stamp for the, for the strings from the balloons, but it is not a very long string. So I am going to fall into the pen that I used yesterday, and I'm going to color them in. I seem to have misplaced it. But instead of that, and I'm going to take my gold gel pen. I was using these gel pens to add accents at the end. But for this, I'll make my balloons have gold strings. And just use that. There we go. Set that aside to dry completely. But you see how by putting the mask there, you get a clump bubble and you don't have a whole bunch of lines intersecting and overlapping each other. Now, this guy here looking at is present and when we go to mountain will cut him in half because that particular panel opens in the center. But for right now, and we'll just stamp it and we will color it as one piece. And then the last one here is this little one here with a box of chocolates and some hearts. So that is this one right here. And you don't necessarily have to use this image. Obviously you could use whatever images you want to. I just really like these birds. I really like the character that they have. And I love that. Just because of the images, you can color them in nice bright colors. You can be really fun with them. Says it also makes a dice that, that you can die cut these pieces with. But for this particular card, we're just going to stamp them and then doing masking on top to create layers. That way. You could use some dicots on this particular card, but you wouldn't want to use too many. You went want to make your images too thick because it might interfere with the folds of the card. So I've got all my images stamped here. I'm going to let my ink dry completely. It probably is already dry, but I always want to make sure that it's dry completely before I start coloring. Then we will do our coloring and I'm doing it with Copic markers. Can't remember if I already said that they are an alcohol-based marker and I love coloring with them simply because you get some beautiful blending with them. You can color the same image over and over and over again. And you're not going to start pulling the paper. And you can do some fun things with them. But you could also color these with dye markers as well if you're more comfortable with that, absolutely. If you're new to cope Copic markers, I do have another course on here that is focusing on Copic markers and the techniques that you can do with it. So check that out if you are interested. Otherwise, I'll see you in the next video and we'll start some coloring. 5. Colouring the Stamped Images: All right, Let's get to coloring. So the Copic markers have a brush tip as well as a chisel tip. And I'm going to be using the brush tip for doing my coloring. And I tend to feather the first layer on simply because as you blend the Copic markers, it does start to bleed out a little bit. So by feathering it on, I'm getting less ink on there, as well as the fact that I am allowing it to feather out as I do my blending and add a little bit more to it. For this particular card, I'm only doing some basic blending, so I'm only doing blending with two colors. You can get more elaborate and use a couple of colors, or sorry, three colors or even more if you wanted. But I don't think we need to get too complicated with this. So I'm just doing two color blending for this. So after I put my dark color in, I'm just using little circles with my brush tip. Just start blending the color out. And then I'm gonna go over the rest of it and just even that color, so it's the same and the colors that I'm choosing, I'm trying to match some of the colors and the print that I chose. They may not be exact, but they're good enough that they will blend together for a card. Write down that one. I'm going to add some yellow dots to the little birthday hat here. And I'm making that little fluff on the top. Yellow will make its hat from the teal color. All of the Copic markers that I'm using will be listed on the supply sheet. They're all from the 36 B set. It is my favorite set to, you know, for little beak. Little bit of shading in this set is really easy to shade because there's little scratch marks, little darker marks rate on the debt. So you don't really have to think about exactly where you want to shade it. For the little shadow below the bird. I'm just putting a little bit of my S3 and then I'm just going to feather out with the C1. I don't necessarily want my little shadow here to have a divine defined area. It's just good for that one. And then for my other bird here. So as I was saying in the previous video, the thing I love about Copic markers is I can color this image for as long as I want. If you're using die markers, you know that you have to color fairly quickly because the paper surface to pill quite quickly, it starts to get really rough and you start to lift up layers of the paper. But when you are using alcohol-based markers, you don't have that. And I'm using Copic markers, but there are a bunch of different alcohol marker brands out there. They all work pretty much the same way. I have my favorite and kopecks it because I've used it for longer than some of the other brands have even been a thing. But if you happen to have a different brand, you can just substitute it easily. And if you haven't decided to use dye based markers, then just choose similar colors to the print that you have. A go. And the thing with Copic markers is like this marker is still, or this ink is still wet. It takes a few minutes to dry and as it dries, it continues to blend. So you'll notice that even as it dries, it blends just a little bit more. Oh, I accidentally colored that flower green. We will leave it green. Now. Here we go. Guys speak is orange, but I think I'm gonna do this one, the yellow just because I can't. And then there's I think it's supposed to be babies breath, but I just did a little cold dots just to add a little bit of blink to it. There's that one. The next one here is this little guy here. And I'm not going to show you the coloring of all the panels because once you've seen how they're colored or how a couple are colored really everything is all the same. So I'm just gonna do the first couple and then there will be pictures of the individual panels on the supply list. And like I said, I'll list the exact colors I've used for this card. But you're going to want to change your colors based on whatever print you chose to go with your card because there's no point in matching the print that I have used. If you are print is different. And that's the fun about coloring images is you can match them for whatever theme you're going with or whatever paper that you've chosen. So this is more of a birthday card, but you could do it as a Valentine's card. You could do it as a Christmas card, you could do it as a Mother's Day card. That card, Father's Day card, whatever you want. Sky's the limit. It's just a fun card to do because for me I just continuously play with it. Which I think is the fun with this card, a great one to give to a little child? Because it's kinda heavy child and adult because it's kind of mesmerizing how the fold works and how you can just keep pulling it like it never ends. So it's a fun one to play with, which is why I refer to it as a fidget guard because to me it's perfect. It's like a homemade visit tool. This particular markers on the dry side, so you'll see it's not adding too much color, so I'm just feathering it in. And then I'll go back and blend it with the light one. But the nice thing about Copic markers is that they are refillable. So you can just either go to a place that does the refills or you can buy a refill and refill them yourself. So when you're markers draw, you don't throw it away, you just refill it. The shadow on the beak. So for the basic blending, you go, you paint or you do the light color than the dark color, and then you blend back with a light color. Super, super easy, same pretty much every single time when I do the shadow, I just did a light one or sorry, the dark one and then I feather out with a light one before the dark one has dried wood. Like I said, I have a course that it goes far into depth, depth on Copic markers. So if you want to learn more, you can go check that out. So I'm going to stop this video here. I'm going to color the other two panels and then we'll be back in the next video where we glue them to our card base. 6. Assembling the Card and Adding Accents: All right, so I've got all of my images colored. I'm going to glue them to the front of my card. And then you see the color of the ink on the bag. Alcohol ink pens do that. It's completely normal to have to be able to see the color through. And really, the more color through it just means you blended it more. But if you ever see that, it's completely normal for that to happen. And you'll notice when I was coloring, I had a sheet of paper underneath and that was to basically soak up that ink. So I've got a clear starburst gel pen here. I'm just adding some sparkle, two little parts of my card. There's just going to add a little touch of sparkle to it. And I noticed that I didn't put a shadow under the sky here. So I'm going to do that right now. Because it looks kinda funny, especially the fact that she has one. It looks funny that he doesn't. And the shadow looks really weird when you first do it. But like I said, as the ink dries, it continues to blend, so it looks a lot better once it has been derived and everything has a blended this balloon piece. A little bird that's holding the balloons. I don't remember what I didn't add any access to him, but let's, let's just make one of these balloons sparkly just jumps because we can. And I'm just coloring it super, super quick, so I'm not doing it completely a 100 percent thorough job here. But just to add a touch of sparkle to one of those plans, I don't even know if you can actually see it on the camera, but you can definitely see it on the card. All right, so now this guy here is the one that I cut in half. So let's put that on so that it's not going to accidentally dry out on me, grab my trimmer. Now these papers are 278 by 278, so succeeded in half. What I am cutting is just shy of an inch and a half away. And then I'm going to glue this so it's rate up to the edge of the paper. Still centered in that square there, but I want it right up to the edge of the paper. And this particular guy, I added a little bit of sparkle to the ribbon. And I love with this particular gel pen that you see the color of, that you've colored underneath it, so it doesn't completely cover it, it just add some sparkle to it. And then the last one is my little birdie with the box of chocolates in the hearts. And you can easily add sentiments to these. You could add them to the sides or whatever, or on the actual image pieces. This is just a sample. And from there you can just be as creative as you want. There we go. And the last one, I just put some gold edges on my ribbon. And then I colored in hearts with the sparkly pen because I really like, really like this sparkly pen on top of phobic. And it's a gel pen, so it takes a few minutes to dry, but it's really quite quick. But adding the gold accents and then a little sparkle accents, it really makes the image just pop and come alive. It gives a little bit of extra interest to it. You could use sticklers two, which is the glitter glue, but you definitely want to make sure that as a 100 percent dry before you start assembling your card because you don't want anything to stick together. So there we go. There is our completed card. And then you can just have fun and continuously play with it. It's one of those things that once you start, it's really hard to stop. So next video, I'll show you how to do it with some printed paper. Pretty much exactly the same technique. Just choosing printed papers. It's an easy way to do it if you don't happen to have some stamps or you want to start creating a card, but you don't want to commit to stamping and coloring. And it comes together nice and quickly. So we'll see you in the next video. 7. CFC4 Creating the Card with Printed Paper: So if you didn't want to go to the extent of stamping and coloring images, you could use printed paper instead. So this paper is absolutely perfect. It's one that's got three by three squares on it. A little bit harder to find papers with three by three squares on it. But because these here needs to be 270, It's by 27 days. You only need to get architects trim just a tiny little bit off of it. If by chance the other side has a print that you love, then you only need the one sheet of printed paper plus your card based. Otherwise you'll need to choose a printed paper to go with it. If you can't find three-by-three, you can use a piece of paper, printed paper that has a different size images and just adjust them to create a card. So that last one was a graphic 4501. This one here is I can't remember what company makes us, but you can adjust papers to fit like this is a four by six that I just cut down and then created those pieces there. So it is possible to adjust other papers to fit the card into work with it. But the easiest one is the ones that are three-by-three. So the very first step is cutting these all apart, which I have done here. So these are cut all down and then these ones are cut down to 278 by two and seven-eighths of the ones that are left. You're going to, if there's ones that you absolutely love or identify with, which for me that's this one here. You're going to set it aside. And you're going to use these to cut your prints for the rest of your cart. If you want to pre-cut them ahead of time, you can do that. I've got for this particular one, I've got it listed on the supply sheet which ones need to be horizontal, vertical, and which ones need to be horizontal. Otherwise, if you prefer, you can do it while you're creating your card. If you have a print that is not directional like this, you can just cut them all ahead of time. The amounts that you'll need are listed on the supply sheet. So I'm just going to pre-cut my pieces just a moment. All right. So I've got everything cut for what I need already. Got my card-based created, because once you've seen me do it, you don't necessarily need to see that again. So this is going to come together super, super quick because all of my pieces are pre-cut and ready to go. I ended up swapping out this one at the end, which you'll see because I just like it and it appropriate for me because I overthink absolutely everything to the side panels here are ready to go. Once again, make sure that you're using a liquid glue for this because it's much easier to put some liquid glue down and then to shimmy it in place and make sure everything is lined up. If you have a tape runner, you're going to be constantly lifting or lifting it up and pulling it in it a chance you might tear something so better to have some liquid glue and be able to shimmy things in place. Site is done. Let's get this guy here. Try to make it lies flat as possible. Easier to lie flat when before you glue your pieces onto it. But typically when you're playing around with it, you don't necessarily need to have it lying flat anyways. And I typically when I'm gluing pieces and I glue from biggest to smallest, you don't necessarily have to. It just tends to be what I do. And it's funny, I didn't even actually noticed that I was doing it and tell. Now, there we go. And then our little bits. And my first card with a stamped image is opened like a door. This one opened up and down. It's just personal preference. You don't need to do it one way or the other, whichever way you choose and you like is going to work. But just be aware of that if you have your pieces and you're wanting to cut them in there, some that are directional, it's going to make a difference for how many pieces you cut. So if that's the case, you may want to cut your pieces Azure going until you're more familiar with occurred. All right, this one here, because it opens in the middle of it, this one needs to be cut in half. And I try when I'm lining things up, I try to line up the edges of the card stocks together. It just makes everything look a little bit nicer when things are lined up. Sometimes if you've already glued something in place, it's a little bit harder. But I tend to try to do it that way. But you can see once you've got the pieces all cut, that's the that's the part that takes the longest for this assembling. It is really quite quick, especially if you're using printed paper. Obviously if you're stamping and coloring images, that takes a little bit too. But for some people they don't necessarily love to stamping color. So there's, this is the perfect solution. Last side here. Here we go in and make a lie flat. Oops. Obviously got a little bit too much blue there. And you want to make sure that you take it off because this particular glue, if it doesn't dry between two pieces of paper, ends up drawing like a post-it note. So it seems a little bit tacky. So if by chance someone squeezes out, some squeezes out, you want to make sure that you wipe it all off so that you don't have a tacky area on your card. But this can be super fine with some brightly colored paper for a child's birthday. And don't do that because now I've got glue on top of that piece there. Right? There we go. The card is done. I'm leaving mine like this. But if you wanted, you could take the glitter pen or a different pen and you could add accents to some of the printed paper or some of the words or whatnot. You can bring it up a little bit. This particular one I left, very, very simple. But there you go. Now you know exactly how to create a continuous visit card. And it's one of those things that once you start fidgeting with it, that's really hard to stop. 8. CFC5 Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for the continuous fidget card class. I hope you had so much fun making this as I had so much fun creating it for you and showing you how to do this. If you have any questions again, let me know. I'm happy to help. Otherwise, I'll see you in the next class.