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1. Handmade Cards that Swing Rock & Roll Class Introduction: Welcome to handmade cards
that swing rock and roll. I absolutely love making handmade cards that
have interactive elements with in them. Whether it's something
that swings, rocks or roles, or pulls
out or 3D or whatnot. I love being able to do those unique features that you don't get in
store-bought cards. Let's go take a
look at what we're gonna be covering in this class. These are the three cars that were going to be
creating in this class. The first one we're
gonna do is a leaf that swings and I'll show you how to create the
mechanism for that. Once you learn how to
do that mechanism, you can create all sorts of
different themes around that. Then I'll show you how to do the bumblebees card where
they can rock back and forth, spin a little bit. And you can have
some fun with that. This one has three on
there. You can make as many as you want really. Then thirdly, I'm going
to show you how to create snowman card with the hat
that rules and spins. Once again, once you
learn this mechanism, you can create all sorts of different cards that have a
spinning feature on them. This one happens to be curved. You could do it along the line. Whatnot. Basically the sky is the limit. And all of these cards
I'm using dye cuts. You can adapt them with stamped images and have
them cut out as well. Once again, there's all sorts of different season themes here. But you can do it for
whatever season you want. It doesn't necessarily
just have to be winter or fall whatnot. You can have so much fun with
this and is a great way to add Just something fun and unique to a card
that you're making. This class comes
with a supply list. It's a downloadable PDF that has samples of
each of the cards, pictures of each of the cards, and then it's broken down into the supplies used for each one. Those supplies are linked to
where you can purchase them if you choose, but
you don't need to. And you can adapt to these cars, to whatever supplies
you already have. Or create ones with new
supplies that you're getting. Now let's go create some fun interactive cards
that swing rock and roll.
2. Swinging Leaf Card: Inking Backgrounds: Alright, so the very
first card we're going to create is this one here
with the swinging leaf. Now, it keeps getting stuck here because I have
some adhesive here exposed in the inside that I didn't take
care of at a time. So just be prepared if
there's any adhesive exposed, your mechanism is
going to get stuck. And I'll show you how to fix that when we're
creating this one here. So the very first step I'm
going to do is just do a quick blended background
on my Bristol paper here. And then we're going to do
to the distress background to die cut the leaf
out of late later. So the reason I'm
using Bristol paper here is because one point recently I read that someone used it to blend and
it blended really nicely. And at some point in my life, I not only bought one
pad of Bristol paper, I bought two pairs
of Bristol paper and really have not used it. So I thought I would
try to use it up. And I do really like how
the ink blend on it. So you can use regular
card stock as well, just something that
you'd like to blend on. But like I said, this
is Bristol paper and it does blend really, really nicely on here. So I'm using fall colors to
go with a fall leaf here. I'm trying to keep my
background fairly light. I don't want it to compete with my leaf when I have
that on there. I'm not going to
put a whole lot of that red color on there. Let's go back. I'm going to add just a little bit more of each
of the colors just to get the blends
really, really nice. Often if you just blend one, like just do all the
colors one time, you get a decent blend, but it just goes even
further if you go back and add some more. So the one thing I did notice with the
Bristol and you might even see this happening
is as I'm blending, I'm getting kind of lines between one color and the other. But I find when I go back with the other colors and
do it a second time, it does more blending, then went with the orange
into my yellow so I'll have to clean off that
the top of the pad, but it's going to get cleaned
with the next step anyways. Alright, tiny little bit of red. I'm going to wait for
that ink is going to take a few minutes to
dry on the surface. I'm going to wait
for that to dry when we go to do our card, I'm going to ink
with the mahogany around the edge of this just
to frame it a little bit. But for the next step,
I'm just going to put that middle mahogany
to the side. You won't be able
to see the ink on my mat here just because it's so dark and
the incus transparent. But I'm just squishing
a little bit of each of the yellow, the green, and the orange. We're going to create a modeled distressed
background here. I'm going to use
some water to spray. And then I have is just a silicone brush and I'm just going to
break that up and kinda mix the colors just slightly so that I don't have blocks of
each of the color. Then the next step is I
have some micas brace here. You could also use
just perfect pearls, the powder, and put
that in there as well. I'm just going to put just
a touch of each one and you notice I made sure
that there was mixed up and I didn't have the
mica sitting on the bottom. This is just going to
add a tiny little bit of shimmer to that background. I'm gonna put my paper in here. The first dip in ink is just
to cover the background. So any spots where there is
just some card stock showing, I'm going to dip it back in
and now I need to dry it. It doesn't need to be 100% dry. 80, 90% is fine. So a heat tool is
going to work for this because it's going
to just help drying it. The nice thing about a
heat tool, it's not super, super loud, so you'll be able to hear me talk
over top of it. So by drying this ink, we can tap into the excess
ink that's left there. And we're gonna get
some more layering as some dots and splotches on it. It just gives a
really, really cool effect that you don't get when you're
blending with brushes. I have a quarter sheet of mixed media paper that
we're doing this on. You want to use a paper
that can handle water. So mixed media paper
is perfect for that. You could also use
watercolor paper because it can handle
water as well. I like this mixed
media paper simply because it is completely smooth. And most of the time
watercolor paper, unless you use hot press, has some texture to it. So this is mostly dry, there's
some wet at the edges. But this is a quarter
sheet of paper and I don't actually need the whole
thing because we're gonna be die cutting it anyways. So see how just just lightly tapping and we get
all those dots in there. Now we're going to dry
that. I'll typically do this three times. Sometimes I'll do more. It really just depends on the
look that you're going for. If after three times you think you want some
more dots in there, splotches or whatnot,
do it more times. There's not really
a steadfast rule as to how many times
you can do this. You can keep doing it until your background is
done in your opinion. The one thing you
want to make sure to do is between each
and every layer, dry it again till it's
about 80, 90% dry. It doesn't need to be 100% dry. But if you dip things and
while it's still wet, you're going to
blend those around. You're not going to get these individual splotches on top. So that's good enough. Let's tap it again. There we go. I was trying to get
some in that area because there hadn't
been any dots in there. The nice thing about using a
bigger sheet for this then you really need is when
it comes time to die cut, you can pick and choose what part you want to see
on that die cut. And then you can
save the rest for another project or make
a second card whatnot. But it's nice to have more paper than you're going
to need to divest so that you can pick and choose
which part you want to see. Which part you
want to highlight. It's mostly dry. We've just got a couple of weight
big wet spots there. So I'm going to concentrate
the heat tool on those. I like it the way it is
what I'm going to show you. Another thing that you can do. You can put some water in your hand and drop
water droplets on and then dry those. And what that's gonna
do, it's going to rehydrate the ink
that's underneath it. And you're going to
get a watermark, an outline around it. But it's just another
way to add some texture. And some interests too,
your background there. So some of those are
dry, not all of them. I've got a piece of
paper towel here. I'm just got there's one big spot there
then I'm just going to any of the big
spots there and then I'm going to show you
what those spots do you see how it's completely remove some of the ink
is totally lightened it, That's what adding spots
of water does to it. And it just creates another
really cool look to it. I'm going to let that dry completely and then
I'll see you in the next video and we'll
continue on creating our card.
3. Swing Leaf Card: Die Cutting & Assembly Part 1: Alright, our background here is completely dry so we're
ready to die cut. So I am going to, I really like this texture here. I also kinda like
that one actually, no, I changed my mind. Which you're allowed
to do, and you could even die cut a couple, and then choose which
which way you want it. So I put my blade against
my paper and I always put my die in the machine face up or the blades face up so that the pressure from the top
goes down onto those blades. I do that so that I don't
get my dice curving. I found one time during a class that people
were doing it the other way. And by the end of
the class, my die had a bit of a curve to it. So I've always done it
this way to avoid that. Pull the paper off the die, those bits I'll take off
or take out when I put my die away so that
they're actually, I'll toss these away right now. Love actually that in there. So what I'm going to
do for both my die cut and my inked background here is I'm gonna
take my mahogany ink. I'm just going to
lightly ink around the edges just to frame it. I want it to pop a little
bit off of that background. Without that inking, it
went pop quite as much. So inking it and kind
of framing it in a darker color is
going to help do that. Now, anytime I ink on this background or
this surface here, just an FYI, I make sure
to clean my board up. I make sure to wipe
it down before working on my next project
because otherwise, the ink stays on this mat. And it would be too easy to start lifting ink
from a past project. So make sure to clean your surface regularly
if you use it, I'm using it like this. You can ink your background and whatever colors you want it. If I wanted this car to
have a full vibe to it. So I was thinking of kind of like a
full background but really needed,
you know, how, when you take pictures and
the background is very, very fuzzy because
the focus is on the main object that
you're taking a picture. That's kinda what it
was going for here. Alright, so that is perfect. I'm going to put my
ink to the side. So you're going to need
a small circle die. I would actually prefer one a little bit smaller than this, but this is the smallest
I happen to have. And we're going to,
I'm going to place my leaf where I want
it to be on the card. And I'm just going to
put a little pencil mark behind here because I
need to cut a circle. And I want to make
sure that I have that behind right here because
I want it to be hidden. I'm going to take
that in place so it doesn't shift in my machine here and cut that whole. So your circle, you want
it to be small enough. They are small enough
so that it's hidden by your dicot or whatever
you're using to swing. In this case, what
you want it to be bigger than
your foam pop dot. Put that to the side here, so I have some foam
pop dots here. This is the one
that I'm gonna be using, this big one here, and it is definitely
smaller than my circle. To create the rest
of the mechanism. I have a piece of card stock that's half
an inch white actually, I think it is three-eighths
of an inch wide. I changed my measurement
after a little bit, and I have a penny here. So I'm going to use some
strong double-sided tape to stick that penny to
this card stock here. I am overlapping my tape, but I'll still be able
to get that backing off because that backing won't stick to the tape
that's on top of it. Go. I'll peel this backing off. I'm going to go and I'm
going to flip that over. If there is any
adhesive exposed, there's a tiny little bit there. I'm going to take
my powder tool. This is for embossing to cover any fingerprints or whatever. So your embossing powder
doesn't stick to it, but it also works to have
Put on adhesive so that any exposed adhesive
doesn't stick to whatever you're creating. So I've got some
exposed adhesive here. I'm going to do that same thing. There we go. That piece is ready.
This is going to go in here and they'll die cut
is going to stick to it. And the weight of the
penny is going to be, it's gonna kinda
work like a pendulum and help swing the leaf. Now, if I were to say
put my leaf up here, that swinging motion would
make the leaf move this way. But because I want it to
within the card and I want it to facing
down, it's going to. Give it that motion there. So on the back of my card, I'm going to put some
double-sided foam tape. You want to make sure
that your adhesive is higher than your penny. And if it's not, double it up, because you want
that to be able to swing smoothly in
your back here. I'm going to put it
on the two sides and then I'm going to put some in the center
on the back as well. That can get moved out of
the way for the moment. So around all four sides. And then I want it to be
a little bit up here. So that back is supported, but you still want that penny
to be able to move freely. You don't want to put
your adhesive to close, otherwise you're
going to restrict any movement that it has. So yes, I need to add another
layer to my adhesive here. If you don't layer it high enough that penny is
going to get stuck and it's just not gonna
swing quite as good as if you have
higher adhesive. So it's going to depend
on what type you have. This particular one just
needs to be double stacked. But if you happen to have
if you have foam tape already and it happens to
be higher than your penny, so it's not restricting
any movement, then you don't need
to double it up. There we go. Now, on my sample here, I stamped in the corner and I did it after
the card was done because it just needed
something else. I had intended to do that
on here before actually putting my adhesive on the back and clearly completely forgot. So I've got my stamp here, putting it on my woodblock,
for my woodblock, my acrylic block, and going to stamp it
in the corner here. Now this is where the foam
tape is, so it should stamp. Totally fine if not, give it a second stamping. Right go. Now, it definitely would
have worked better if I had done it ahead of
time like I intended. So take that as a warning which you're stamping
on there ahead of time so that you've got a nice
clean surface to work on. Alright, so now I want to
put my mechanism in here. I'm going to put my
leaf down on it. This stuff here out of the way. So just test it, make sure it swings properly and it does. If by chance in
double layering your adhesive there you got some
explosive adhesive using that tool or even just baby
powder is the way to get rid of that sticky
so that you don't have it sticking like
I have on this one.
4. Swing Leaf Card: Die Cutting & Assembly Part 2: So what happened there is the adhesive that I used on here was actually not this one. It's a different one than I
had that I really don't like. But it's got very
sticky edges to it. And I should've put some baby
powder on that to make sure that it didn't move
on me and I didn't. Alright. So before
taking my adhesive off, I just want to tape
that in place. Take the backing off
of your adhesive here. So having that adhesive or that leaf on the
front taped in place, that means it's not
going to shift. That means this isn't going
to move and accidentally get stuck on my adhesive while
I am gluing it down. Alright. Little bit harder
centering something when you have foam
adhesive on it. But there we go, test it once again and it's
moving nice and freely there. The very last step is
I want to frame it just a tiny little
bit more and give it a tiny little bit
of extra shimmer. So I'm just taking
a gold gel pen and putting a line down there. Now. There we go. I think I need to replace
my gold gel pen because it's not making a
continuous line here. Just the way it is. It works perfect for the sample. And then you go to the demo. Here we go, I will see if I can find another
one and add more to it. So there we go, our finished
swinging leaf card. And just remember this
mechanism can work for anything that you want to swing
or if you lower it, you can have something rocking or something above
it going like that. So have fun with the
mechanism to it. Once you figure out how
to do the mechanism, you can just have so much fun
with it. And I love that. There's just an element
on the front of the card that moves and you see a tiny little bit of the shimmer from the spray on the leaf and it just catches
the light as well as the line around it. I managed to find
a new gold gel pen and a rigid that line there. The other thing that I did, just to highlight the
outside of the leaf, I added a little bit
of gold there as well. Just another thing for you
to catch the light in. And it just highlights
that as well.
5. Rocking Bumblebees Card: Inking & Die Cut prep: The next one that
we're going to do is this bumblebee card
here. Where are they? Rock back and forth
and actually spin? So the very first step
that we're going to do is we're going to stamp and Emboss our sentiments so
that it's ready at the end. So I am using for
summer extent pet, which is a water mark ink, but it's a sticky ink. So when we go to put our
embossing powder on it, it is going to
stick perfectly and tell it is heated
with a embossing gun. I'm going to put my
powder on there. I'm working on a scrap
piece of paper so that anything that comes off of this can go right
back into the container. I got a little bit of ink on the edge of my
stamp that went on the paper so the powder
is sticking to it. Anything you don't want
melted onto that paper. You want to make
sure to take off. Because if it's on that
paper when you use it or hit it with the
hindgut with the heat gun, it is going to melt there. I'm using an embossing
and it's not the same as the heat IT tool that
I used to dry the ink. You could emboss with this tool, but it's a lot more gentle, so it takes a lot
longer to emboss. This, the heat is concentrated and Emboss is a lot quicker
although it's cold right now, so it'll take a bit to warm up. We are that is going to take a few
seconds just to cool down. I just want to make
sure to wait until that he has cooled down before I cut it and it is
already cooled. It only takes a few seconds. But you don't want to take it right from the heat
gun into your tremor. Because otherwise
you'll start to smear the embossing because
it'll still be warm. There we go. Now it is trimmed down. I'm going to cut it in half, but I'll do that later when
I'm gonna go and mount it. Next step is I'm
going to do that. Same background is I
did for the last one. The idea is we've got
a field of flowers, but it's very,
very out-of-focus. I'm going to do these
three colors on the top and this
color on the bottom. Let's start with the
lightest colors. My yellow. And I'm just kinda doing them in circular motions as if it was flowers that
are out-of-focus. Good idea to put
your lives right by your pads so you remember
what color is which? Once again, I'm going to ink. And then I'm gonna
go back to it. And I'm going to ink it again just to really blend
those inks together. Now the red one. Now this, my red ink pad
here is not very wet. It actually needs to be ranked, but I decided not to do it
before doing the samples because I didn't want that color to overpower everything else. I wanted it to be fairly subtle. Go back to the yellow again. Get those colors, blend it. Orange, then the red. And obviously you can change whatever background
colors you want. I was trying to
keep all the colors to same between the cards simply so that there's
some continuity between them and that they
look fairly similar. But if you wanted your cards
to be all different colors, absolutely, You could do that. It's also fall here
when I'm filming this. So I kinda thought fall colors was just kinda feels
perfect right now. But once again, this will
work for any season, any dye, whatnot, any color. Alright, put that to the side. I've already got my pieces
die cut for my bumblebees. I chose to do
bumblebees for this, this is from this
particular dataset. So I'm doing the
bumblebees. You can also do the lady
bugs for this set. You just want to make sure
the bodies are big enough to cover the openings for the mechanism that
we use in this card. And you'll understand in the next part when
we start to do that, what I mean by that, if you can see the
background of the card, kinda takes the magic out of it. So I'm going to move
this to the side. I do want to take these pieces and I want to spray them with
some Micah spray just to give them some shimmer before moving on and completing the card. So I'm
going to spray them. Then I'm going to let them dry completely before I
assembled the butterflies. So once again, makes sure that you've got all the mica
off of the bottom. And best to do it by shaking
it like this, not like this. If you shake it like this, sometimes you get mica into the sprayer and then
you have to use water to unplug it and you end up wasting
some spray there. So I spray it quite liberally
and then let it dry. What you could do if
you wanted to not waste that spray is move
these carefully with your die pick or
something and then use some paper to
pick up that spray. But I'm just going
to let it dry and then I'm going to
clean off my desk. Before the next part. I'll see you when it's dry. Alright, our buddies
and wings are all dry. So the first step, I'm going
to glue on little bodies. Super easy to just layer them. They all, all the
little bits and pieces matched
together for this. I remember when I was talking
about cleaning off my desk, I clearly didn't
clean it off between guards because I've
got a little bit of the mahogany color
bleeding on there from when the spray
hydrated it on the mat. But that's okay. That's all
I'm going to coordinate. And then these little wings
flip up a little bit. So I'm going to glue
them all together. And then I'm going to let
them dry completely before we assemble the card. Because I don't want these
bits to be wet in any way. But since we have to
wait for this to dry, what I am going to do
is on my finished card, I added a little bit as tickles, both to the end of the
antenna and the bodies. So I'm going to put them on these guys so that that can dry at the same time as the glue. Just to touch
around the body and just a dot on each of the. There we go. This particular die cut. This takes a little while to
dry and while it is drying, this little bit gets
a little bit weak because the paper is damp
and it's quite thin. So I want to make sure
that it is 100% dry before we continue on with
the rest of the card. So those articles are going
to take a little bit too dry, but I'm waiting for
the glue anyways. So that is perfect. I will see you when those are dry and we'll start assembly.
6. Rocking Bumblebees Card: Assembly: Alright, or bumblebees
are completely dry. So for this cart, I'm going
to use a circle punch. I like the smaller size because that's circled die that I had. It was the smallest
one that I had. And it's a little bit
too big for this, and you end up seeing a
little bit of the card base. So I'm going to use a punch. Now the only thing
with the punch is I'm limited as to how far
into the paper I can go. I want to make three holes for this particular
card because I've got three bumblebees there. And for each of the bumblebees, I'm going to need a penny. Now if you don't have pennies, you could also use washers. You just want something that's
got a bit of weight to it. As I found, I've
tried to do this with just like card
stock circles, die cut card stock circles. And it just didn't move as much. And I think it's
because of the weight. So keep in mind that because we're using for this
particular card six pennies, It's going to weigh a
fair amount as well. So perhaps this is best, not a technique not done on cars that
you're going to male, perhaps better for ones that you're just going
to hand out in person. Just because of that weight. Silly to pay extra port postage for just having a heavier
card in this case. And it's also going to be a
little bit wider because of the foam tape and
stuff like that. So unless it's a special person. Alright, so now we've got
our pennies on there. I'm going to put some really
good double-sided tape on there as well. I've got room, I'm going
to put two strips. And then I'm also
going to use some of my distress collage
medium on it as well. Distress collage
media and works well both on paper but also
on non porous surfaces. So just the double-sided tape
plus the collage medium. I know it's not going to, the bumble bees aren't
going to fall off. Sometimes the tape, even
if it's really good take on something like
this, like a penny. It doesn't like to stay
super, super well, especially if it happens
to be a really dirty one. I tried to choose
clean ones to do this. But it's always good to have two glues doing the job if you don't
have distress collage, medium, glossy accents,
We'll work on this as well. You're not gonna see it. It's not gonna be
completely hidden, so you don't need to worry about some seeping out
and being glossy. But I'm hiding
those pennies rate on the bodies of these bees. I do put it up towards
the top of the B. There is just a slight
bit of the penny showing, but it doesn't take away
from anything at all. I found if I put it
if I put the B2B low, the wings were heavy and they would always
want, I would turn it. They would always face down. Whereas if they're, the pennies are a
little bit higher, it doesn't really do that. Alright, so now
that those are in, I'm going to put my
foam tape down now, make sure that we
don't have it anywhere near those pennies because we don't want to
restrict their movement. And we already know from the last card that I
need two layers here. So I'm just going to
turn the camera off. I'm gonna do this, do my two layers and then
I'll show you what I've done. Alright, I've got
the foam tape there and you'll see right
beside the pennies, I have cut my foam tape in half. So there'll
be half the width. I didn't want to be able
to see the penny from the side underneath
the background. So that's just going to
hide it a little bit. So take all of my
backings off here. Now I tried to make
sure to keep away from the penny so it wouldn't
restrict any movement. So keep that in mind when you're putting your
foam tape down. I also like a little bit in the center just to
help support it a bit. So make sure that your card
is facing the right way. And lay it down. Got my sentiment here, I'm going to cut it in pieces. For the sample. I only did two extra, I'm
going to keep it that way. I only did two pieces
because I had that space and because I've changed
where my bumblebees are, I'm actually going to
put it right here. Once again, if you haven't seen a class where I've used the
distress collage medium. I like using it to glue
things together because if you get a bit of
glue seeping out, it dries completely matte and it's clear and
completely mapped so you don't ever see where
the glue has seeped out. I've got my gold pan and I have a different one
from the last card. This one is actually
working a lot better. Just add a frame if you wanted
to and free handing this bothers you could do this
ahead of time and do it with a ruler so that you get
a little bit more precision. I kinda like the look of the free hand and the
imperfection of it. The last thing I wanted
to do was just add just some dashes as if they were from the bumblebees flying. Once again, it just adds a little bit of sparkle
to the background. Now, obviously these bees
are going to keep moving, so they're not gonna
be in the same spot, but I just liked the look
of that in the background. There we go. Our second card, that rocks back-and-forth,
is completely done.
7. Rolling Snowman Hat Card: Background & Snowman Assembly: For our third card, we're going to create
this snowman card, which has a hat that rules. Now in this one here, you can see where the channel is because it's a
completely different color. In this sample, we're going to put some white paper there. So it's just not
a little bit are not quite as noticeable. But it's a fun feature
to have on a card. You could do it say
what the snowball, rolling or tumbleweed
or just anything that you want to spin or rule. So here's how we're gonna do it. First thing we're gonna
do is we're going to spray those snowflakes
on our background. Now in the sample, I used a gold color. Right now I'm going to use a silver color just so you can see what the
difference looks like. Pieces of paper out of the way. Once again, making sure
to completely shake. And you can always
check and see if there's any Mike, it's
still at the bottom. Perfect. I like to spray fairly liberally
because I want to be able to see those
snowflakes in the background. I'm not going to let it dry
with that stencil on there. Some of them are gonna get
messed up because some of the Micah is going
to seep through. That is fine. If there was an area
that really bothered me, I would strategically
place something there, like put the snowman there
are the hat there or whatnot. Let's get rid of this here just because I want to
glue the pieces of my snowman together and I don't want something wet, ruin it. Alright, that's good enough. Let's get rid of
that paper towel. Alright, so for
this snowman, I'm, am using this snowman
colorized die. Now it's a type of
dye that you die cut a bunch of different
pieces and you layer them on top of each other. I have simplified
it a little bit for this card just so that there's not quite
as much layering. We're not going to do the broom. The scarf has, I think, four different pieces to it. We're only using two. And you can see we get just a beautiful result
that way anyway. So it's not like it's
missing anything. The nose has an extra
piece in the die set. If you wanted to add a
little extra dimension, I left that off. And then the holly, there is another piece
so you can put, say, a darker color or
different color behind it. But it only shows in this in the little veins in the
center of the Holly. So once again, I left that
off just for simplicity sake, just to make it a little bit
simpler to put together. Now the one other thing
that I have done ahead of time other than die cutting is I sprayed this with the
peut or mica spray. I wanted it to have
just a little bit of shine just to give it
a bit of a disarray. The hiccups apparently,
just to give it a bit of different texture
from the other part of the white of the snow man. So the way we're going
to glue this on, I'm just going to
use my distress collage medium once again, it dries completely matte
and completely clear. So if anything
happens to seep out, we're not going to
see it once it's dry. That over there. So it's a
little bit more convenient. Now this piece here
that I sprayed, it curved a little bit
while it was drying. So I'm going to take and acrylic block and I'm
just going to hold it down so that I don't have I basically so that I don't have to hold
it and can continue on. So now I've got my green scarf, I'm going to put my
red one on top of it, but we have this lid off a
little bit easier and you don't have to watch
me take the lid off and on multiple times. Now these colorized
dyes, like I said, they're super easy to use. And the cool thing is, when you die cut, they leave little in
dance for all the pieces. So you know where
everything goes. You don't have to guess at
which piece goes where. So it's pretty cool. It's a great way to use up a
bunch of card stock scraps. But if by chance you
didn't have scraps, you could die cut all of this, I would have white. Then. You're lost my train of
thought there. You could die, cut it all out of
white and then use ink blending brushes or
whatever to color your pieces. You can even color them so that you had some shading
on them or whatever. So there's a lot of
possibilities with them. There's a whole bunch of
different kinds to choose from. So there's not just a snowman, there's a couple of different
snowman and then there's also all sorts of different animals
and stuff like that. Okay, wait a second. I got rid of my
scarf die but it has little berries for the hat. And I like how the scarf day. It's got the different pieces and it tells you right
on the back of it what color on the
package it is now, it doesn't mean you have
to do with that color. I could do my scarf white, or whatever color I wanted. But it is very helpful for
people that are new to this and haven't
done them before. It's nice for them to be able to kinda be led through it a
little bit easier, okay, 1 s. There it is. I was going to say I have a
little black dot there for my getting rid of the
dyes that I don't need. Little dots there for
the snowman eyes and the little buttons on the front. Alright, let's put
the scarf down. I am, once I have all
these pieces glue down, I am going to put my
acrylic block back on top. But just a couple of
moments just to okay. I put glue on there. It doesn't need glue in
there because that's our piece that's going to move. So I'm just leaving that aside there so that can
completely dry. Nice thing about that glue is it's not sticky
when it's dry. One of the glues that I
like to use regularly as this Tombow mono
multi, but that one, when it dries, not glued
together with paper, it's actually kind of like
a post-it note type thing. Alright. I've got
three black dots that came out of dicot here. Two of them are smaller
and those are the eyes. I'm just making sure that I
have the right ones on there. This is the other smaller
one that on there. Then we've got the bigger ones and those are the little
buttons on the front. And easiest way to
put little bits and pieces down like this
or some tweezers. There are tools like this that don't have the
piercing and on them, but they have like
a bit of wax on the end that will help
grab them as well. I just don't happen to
have one of those tools. I just have my tweezers. Where did my other letter dot has disappeared?
There it is. I'm not sure how it got over
there, but there we go. There we go. So our snowman
has put together and because I need to wait
for this to dry anyways, I'm going to flip this over. It's just going to
be on my surface here and it will be
easy to clean off. I'm going to add the struggles and the
different elements that I like to add to the front. It just adds a little bit
of a different texture. And I just think it kind of helps finish
it off a little bit more. So a little bit of red
stickers on the berries. And then I'm gonna put
some glossy accents on the eyes and the
little buttons there. Now, if by chance you
get a bubble in there, you want to take up
fiercer or a pen or whatnot and pop it
before it dries. It's super easy to clean out where to take that
bubble out when it's wet. Once it dries, it's
in there forever. Now I'm just gonna
put some stickers, which is a glitter glue in the little snowflakes
on the scarf. Once again, add a
little bit of sparkle, just add a little bit
of a different element. It does take a little
bit for it to dry. I think. I think my stickers
is almost empty. Gif I can see that
there's some in there. If you can't put it. It's not coming out. Just happen on your desk. Glass man under here, which is why it's making that noise. But that's going
to get that stick close to the bottom
of your bottle there. I typically also store it
so that it's tipped down so that everything flows to the
tip so that I don't have to, It's basically quicker
to use that way. Alright, so I'm
going to let all of that dry completely and we'll see you again once everything is dry
and we'll continue.
8. Rolling Snowman Hat Card: Mechanism & Card Assembly: Alright, so now
everything is dry. My snowman, but my
holly berries are actually not too dry on the hat. So I'm going to continue
and put the car together, but I'm gonna be careful
about that hat we're trying. So for this particular one, in order to make this
channel for the snowman hat to slide or spin or rock. I meant rule. I'm going to put two punches
with my hole punch here, the same one that I
used in the last card. I don't want to use my my circle die for this only because I want this channel to be
as small as possible. If you have a
smaller circle die, this is about a half an inch, That's perfect, then
that will work. But you just don't want
your channel to be too big. I'm going to do next
is I'm taking a circle die just as a guide. You can also use a plate or a cup just to create
an arc there. Now I'm not gonna do this on the bottom because the art
tends to be different. So I'm not joining the
bottom two because it gets a little bit
wider and I don't want my pennies to
accidentally pop out. This is going to be a little
bit on the white side. And because the
pennies are a little bit heavier, it might pop out. So what I'm gonna do
here is I'm going to visually put a little mark
there where it's very similar. And then when I go and cut, I'm going to just even
that out a little bit. You can also use your punches here that
we've punched out. And use that as a guide
so you know exactly how wide to create it so that it stays
a consistent width. Dy to the side. Easiest way to cut this is
with an exacto knife, right? So here's the exacto knife. I'm gonna do the
top curve first. Definitely make sure
you're cutting this on a mat because we
wouldn't want to cut your work surface. Alright, I want this to
be just slightly bigger. I want it to have a visual look of being a consistent size. There we go. So now we can put our pennies there
for a mechanism. And once again, if you
don't have pennies, you can use a washer. Now, I'm using a little bit smaller
circular phone pock dots for this this one here, this one that I was
using on the first card. It fits in this channel, but there's not a
lot of wiggle room. So you're not gonna get
a whole lot of spin. If it's not, if it doesn't
have the room to spin. So make sure that when you
choose a phone pop dot size, you choose something that
has the room to spin. So there we go. There
has the room to spin. Perfect. Now we're gonna go to
our back and we're going to add our foam
tape to the back. And just like last time, I am going to pause the camera and complete it and then
be back when I'm done. Now, same as last time, I'm going to do a double
layer of the foam. And I want to make sure to
support this channel so that the weight of the penny doesn't make
that channel dip. Be back in a moment. Alright? Or adhesive is on the back here. Double high, just
like last time, to make sure that we
have room for that penny to spin without hitting
the back of the card. I'm taking all
these backings off. Once again, just
like last time I did a strip of the
adhesive where I cut it in half so that you don't see the penny mechanism
on the back there. There we go. Let's put it on our card front. There we go. Perfect. Test it. Make sure
that it's spins. Here we go. There we go. Alright, now I'm going
to glue down my snowman. And then I like to give the
snow and something to sit on. So I've got a piece of
white card stock here that is the same width
as my background. I just like to tear it because I like it having a
natural background, if you would prefer, you
can absolutely cut it. To give it more of an
even looking Hill. I liked the tear line. I'm going to hold it down for a few seconds to
let it sit and stick. While I'm holding it
down with one hand, I'm going to take
some stick goals and just put a little bit of
glitter on that hill. I might really be done
with this one, this time. Backup one right here. There we go. I like to have the hill kind
of go down a little bit, make it look a little
bit of dimension. There we go. And then last step
is to glue on that how I'm gonna do it
upside down so I don't accidentally put my hand in
where those circles were. Same as last time. I'm going to put two little
strips of adhesive there. And then I'm also going to use my distress collage medium
to hold it in place. Blue is sticking up there. So it does need to be held
down a little bit more. Now obviously this
hat spins and moves, so it's not going to
stay in the same place. But when I put it down, I
like to have it makes sure that it does sit on the
top of the snowman there. I'm going to leave that one. I'm not going to
spend it just because that's still wet and
that's still wet. There we go. Such a cute way to have
an interactive element with your current realized
after I turned the camera off that I actually forgot
to put the white card stock in behind here to make this a
little bit less noticeable. So if that happens, paint pen or white
acrylic paint is a really good way to
hide it a little bit. If you have some undo, you can take your card apart. Like I said before, this is still wet and my
circles are still wet, so I don't want to do that
while anything is still wet. But the acrylic paint marker, or even just acrylic paint, is a good way to hide
that a little bit better.
9. Handmade Cards that Swing Rock & Roll Class Thank You: Thank you so much
for joining me for handmade cards that
swing rock and roll. I hope you enjoyed
learning how to create the different mechanisms
for the different cards. And it's inspired you for other ideas of ways to use
this in your future projects. Hope to see you
back in class soon.
Artsy. Island Girl, Teacher
