Tuesday Throwdown Challenge 398 - Interactive Card

Fun challenge alert at Tuesday Throwdown! This week we want you to create an interactive card.  Kim Sherrod, owner of Lily Patch Boutique and the head honcho at Tuesday Throwdown is our sponsor and one busy lady.

I used Newton's Nook's Newton Rides West stamps and dies along with their Sea Borders die. My inspiration came from Jennifer McGuire's Hidden Slider video. While my card isn't perfect, I certainly learned a trick to die cutting from her video. I've always struggled with getting an even border but her trick of cutting a blank one first and using the negative image to keep the die in place over the stamped image is brilliant! If the photos don't make that clear enough, please watch the video where she demonstrates it.

My apologies to Newton for taking artistic license and making him a her but I couldn't resist. After coloring "her" with Copics I die cut my sand hills from brown cardstock using the Sea Borders die and applied some Versa Mark ink to the edges.

While not perfect I'm happy with the end result. I intend to keep working on perfecting the details because I love the idea of a hidden track.

Enough jabber jawing from me because you need to  start creating those interactive cards. Just don't get so busy playing with them that you forget to enter Tuesday Throwdown's challenge.

PIP Challenge 1822 - Polkadoodles

This cracks me up! I stumbled across a website called Relatably and my eyes landed on this. Coincidence?I don't think so. It's Monday and I have a hobby. Part of my hobby is being a member of the PIP design team and since it's Monday, time to make a card. A big thanks to Polkadoodles for sponsoring the challenge this week and it's anything goes.

Polkadoodles graciously provided the digital image I used, Flower Bunch - Winnie Special Moments.

I sized and printed on card stock, colored with Copics and die cut both the image and background with some Spellbinder dies. I have to confess to another "duh" craft moment...  I've been struggling with dies and embossing since I purchased a new machine in March. There is suppose to be a nice edge on these die cuts, yes I said suppose to be. After assembling the card, I went back to the manual to recheck the "sandwich" . While I had it correct in plate quantity, I discovered I had been using the embossing pad as the magnetic sheet from day one. Who would have thought they were the same color? Obviously, not me 😊. Here's to looking forward to nicely embossed things in the future.

Sentiments are rub-ons from My Sentiments Exactly. Yes, it's an innie/outie sentiment so the thought is completed inside. Maybe, if someone asks really nice I will post the rest of the saying.

Here is my take on Flower bunch Winnie.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed your time while here.  Time for me to get ready for work so I will leave you with two requests. First check out Polkadoodles. They have everything you need to craft the day(s) away in bliss. Second, check out the Design Team's creations and enter the PIP challenge for fun and a chance at the prize, three (3) digis from Polkadoodles!