Mixed Up Saturday

 

This one made me laugh, so true !!! 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

Ooh it was a lovely warm day yesterday,  washing was dry in about an hour, luckily our line isn't in direct sun so the towels don't get too dry.  I always tumble dry towels and undies anyway to fluff up towels and uncrease pants!   We could iron pants and socks like Paul's mum does, but nobody has time for that I feel bad watching Paul iron all his shirts etc I couldn’t sit and watch him iron my drawers!!  🤣😂 

I have done a little Tutorial for you, its for a 'Wiper ' card.  It's not the same as Gina's Wiper card though.  I think this ones name refers to the pop up mechanism that looks a bit like wind screen wipers. 

The flowers in the centre vase pop up when you open the car. 

Start by cutting  card base:  8 1/2 x 4 1/4  inch

                              Score at   :   1 1/2 & 3 inch

                             Z Fold Bar:  8 1/2 x 2 inch

                              Score  at  :   1 1/2 & 3 inch

Now onto our embossed layer, you could use patterned papers for this part too. 

1 x 5 1/4 x 4 inch 

1 x 1 1/4 x 4 inch 

Patterned paper for layering:

1 x 5 1/4 x 1 3/4 inch

2 x 1 1/4 x 1 3/4 inch

1 x 4 x /4 (for base card ) 

The pop up mechanism:  

1 x  1 x 1 7/8 inch  (Blue base card colour)

1 x  1/2 x 2 inch  Acetate 

Let's Assemble 

Start by burnishing your folds 

Adhere all of your layers to the base card and z fold bar.

Now onto the mechanism,  take your piece of card 

Fold the corner down so that it lines up with the edge of the card on the opposite side.

Burnish the fold 

This is what you should end up with 

 

Position the mechanism kind of central and at the top of the z fold strip.  

Then add the acetate piece onto the mechanism 

You now stick whatever you want to pop up onto that acetate strip.  You may need to play with positioning to get it spot on.

I waited to position my vase so that I could place it centrally to the flowers popping up. 

When you add your flowers or whatever your pop up is make sure that its sits within the width of the z fold strip or it will poke out of the bottom or top of the folded card. 

Adhere the Z fold bar to the bottom corners at each end of the card.

This is the other side adhered

I added vases at either end of the card for interesting and added the sentiment on the back panel. 

Here is a little video of the card opening. 

If you have any questions please feel free to ask x

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Shopping 

Karen

Karen's latest purchase is these lovely Letter dies by Aall&Create,  I really like that they have the background and the detail letters

The other great features is that they are distressed, which makes them perfect for mixed media style projects too. 

I look forward to seeing these cut out Karen and to see how you use them.

Thank you so much for sharing them with us XXX

Maria 

Woo Hoo !!  Look what Maria won !!!! 

2 sets of Hunkydory Moonstone Dies,  really useful Dies too, you can't have enough basic shape dies and look how beautiful that Lace edging is. 

Congratulations my lovely,  I can't wait to see you use them.  Thank you so much for sharing them with us XXX 

Lilian 

Lilian had kindly shared the books that she cuts her beautiful flowers and background bits from.  They are from Amazon.  They look so incredibly detailed, so useful to have on hand to embellish a quick card.

Thanks so much for sharing them with us Lilian,  I now know what to look for ☺️ XXX 

I hope that you all have a lovely Saturday,  

Love & hugs to all of you, 

Sandra

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