You Are My Sunshine Spinner Cards

I just want to pop in to quickly share these cards I made for a summer swap I'm having with some of my local friends.

I created a spinner card for the first time not too long ago and I decided I wanted to make another design of one for the swap.  In case you missed my previous post I'll briefly explain that a spinner card like this is made using 2 pennies with a pop dot in the middle.  The image goes back and forth, spinning around along the track created in the card.  There are some great tutorials on Youtube of how to make them.

The patterned paper is from Die Cuts With a View.  To cut the spinner track I used a rectangle and a couple circles in my Gypsy that I stretched and manipulated.

The sentiment is from the Just Because Cards Cricut Cartridge.  I added some little doodle dots with my Sakura white gel pen.  I layered it onto some purple cardstock, with some Lavender Stickles along the edges.  Behind that piece I used 2 pieces of green that were border punched with the Stampin' Up Scallop Edge Border Punch.

 

The sunshine I used is from Create a Critter, but I hid the face using my Gypsy and then stamped a cute little one on using my Peachy Keen stamps from the Dolly Dumplins face assortment set.  Of course I couldn't resist adding some bling, so I used some yellow Stickles too.

 

These really are such fun little interactive cards to make.  Here's a photo of the whole set of 8 that I created.  

Have A Ball Spinner Card

Hello everyone and welcome to my crafty little corner of the web :)  My fun card project today is for the Beach Party Blog Hop hosted by Abby!  If you'd like to start the hop from the beginning please head on over to Abby's Blog.  If you are already hopping along you should be coming from Angelica's  blog.

So, today I've made a spinner card.

If you've never heard of one before the basic idea is that when you tilt the card back and forth you have an object that spins from one side to the other.  It's actually pretty easy to create the spinner using 2 pennies with a pop dot in the center of them. I don't want to make this post too terribly long winded since I'm toward the tail end of a long hop - so I will provide a link to a helpful Youtube video on a spinner card.  I did not create this video, I just found it while searching online - check it out here!

In the video the gal uses a punch to create the card slit.  I used my Gypsy and the George and Basic Shapes cartridge to create mine.  I stretched a rectangle long and skinny, and added 2 circles onto the ends, welding everything together.

The boy and girl are from A Child's Year.  The boy is cut at 2.5 inches and the girl is cut at 1.75 inches.

The ball was made using a circle Nestability and my own hand cutting, but there is one on the Life's a Beach cartridge that looks just like it. 

The patterned papers are from Echo Park's Summer Days collection, except the red polka dots on the ball are from Stampin' Up.

The sentiment is from Pink By Design's Simply Everything set.  It says "Have a Ball"  pretty fitting, huh?

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To continue along on the hop it's time to head on over to Ashley's Blog!