At Convention one of the neatest things I saw (and believe me there were dozens of things) but one that I had never seen before was a demonstrator named Marlayne Hardy from Ottawa, Ontario (must be she is Canadian and that is why I had a fun time watching her) She showed a card with a spiraly thing inside. I dont know what it is called but I am calling it Spring Loaded Card.
I hope it makes sense and I want to thank Marlayne for teaching us.
Now when I am showing the pictures they are all unstamped just to teach you, but when you make one for real you will want to decorate the inside first.
You will need whisper white cardstock, folded like a card, a 1 3/8" circle punch (now of course if I had the new circle punch I would have used it) paper snips, and tombow multi purpose adhesive.
Punch out three circles from whisper white paper.
Now I used this cause my base card was whisper white, if your base card was So Saffron then you would use that. You can also probably use cardstock vellum (I have not tried that though)
Using your paper snips cut your circle punches in a spiral.
So it looks like this.
Do it to all 3 of the circles.
Now you have these.
Now you are going to glue this to your card. Glue one of them using the bigger cut end like this.
And stick it on the center of the card.
This one you will glue the pointy end to the card, and you want them to be on each side of the other one, so they will alternate.
See how two have the big end end sticking up and 1 has the big end down.
Now put glue on the ends of the spirals sticking up.
I apologize this is so dark. After you put glue on the ends, you want to lay them down back flat so that they will fold in place when you close the card.
Then close your card, and they will glue to the upper part of the card.
Hold this closed for a little bit while the glue sets up.
See how when you open the card, they are stuck, and springy!
Add a little glue where you want to add your 3-D item, I am using the Flight of the Butterfly set.
Glue the little butterfly in place.
See how as you close the card the little butterfly will lay flat.
Now remember I said you would decorate the card first. So all this stamping was done before you start assembling the card.
I used the Inspired by Nature set for the grass, a little sponging and scallop circle punch sponged for clouds.
This one shows the clouds a little better.
Turned out cute huh!
Marlayne is a genius!
Thanks so much for stopping in!
Hugs, Di
Oh my gosh, what a cute idea to do the GRASS!! I had planned to use some of our butterflies from that same set because I thought they would look so cute fluttering on the swirls, but didn't think to do grass. I'm going to have to CASE that grass!!! Sorry – I just love that idea!!! 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Thanks, Diana! I had almost forgotten about this one! Great tutorial! By the way, I'm the crazy one who motioned you over before the General Session started and introduced myself! Thanks for meeting me! Hugs, Jackie
This is fabulous! Thanks so much for the wonderful tutorial. This is something I really have to try out.
Holy WOW, Sistah!!!!!! This is stinkin' FABULOUS!! YOU, my dahling, are a genius!
Totally FAB!!! I SO wanna be YOU when I grow up!!
Love ya!!
That is stunning! I have a stamper's club to make projects for, I may have to use the idea! I love that stamp set! It's on my wish list since I couldn't go to SLC this year.
omg this it fantastic I love it thanks for sharing
This is stunning! I can't wait to try it out! Thanks so much for the tutorial and the inspiration! {SMILES}
AWESOME! I was wondering how I would figure this out! Thanks!
So Cute!!!! What does the front of the card look like?
Thanks for the great tutorial! This is so stinkin' cute!
Charmaine
Thank you so much for making this tutorial and for how you made it so easy to understand. It is such a cute card!
Wonderful card! You really did a great job at your tutorial!
Now, how cute is that! Gonna have to try that out toot sweet! TYFS
Great tutorial, Di! Isn't this a cute idea and your use of Inspired by Nature was fabulous. Thank you for sharing!
What a fabulous card! Can't wait to try this technique. Thanks for sharing it.
This is beautiful – what a fun technique!!! Can't wait to try!!! Thanks for the tutorial!
I saw this demonstrated at convention and made a mental note to try it. I loved your idea of using the grass and butterflies. I hope you don't mind but I want to CASE it. Too cute. Perfect tutorial! Thanks.
Thanks for the tutorial and the inspiration. Now I need to order those stamp sets.
Excellent tutorial! I saw this done at convention too and said WOW I want to make one of those. And of course once home, I forgot all about it. Thanks for reminding me! I'll be making one tomorrow for sure.
Dang girl! You are good. Your card is beeeeautiful. Everyone in our session gasped when Marlayne finished her demonstration. We were all inspired!
You did a great job on this. I love the grass behind your butterflies. What did you put on the front of your card?
Thanks so much for this awesome tutorial. Love the idea. TFS
Thank you so much for the tutorial…the pictures make all the difference!
Great tutorial!! Thank you!!
SOoooo Cute! What a great idea! :o)
O!M!G! Gojus baby! Can't wait to receive it in the mail!! Muah!
Luv ya stampin' sistah!
Wow – I just knew someone would put this tutorial up so I could learn how to make this PUNCH of a card! THANK YOU! I'm going straight home from work today to play with my circle punches and butterflies!
Diana this card is gorgeous and so fun, love it.
The quality of your tutorial is exceptional; Thank you for the time and effort you take to share.
i was wracking my brain trying to think of card designs, but had totally forgotten about this one from demo theater! thanks for posting and jogging my information overloaded from convention brain!
Eeek! That is so much cuter than the pictures I saw of the ones at convention! Thanks for sharing!!
Hi Di:
LOVE IT….
Dina
Thanks so much for the tutorial! Super duper clever idea!
I was so excited to make my own and here's what I did.
http://scrappalific.blogspot.com/2008/08/spring-loaded-card.html
Thanks so much for sharing this idea. More power to you!
🙂
Di what a totally fantastic card!
I've got to try making clouds with the scallop punch ummmmm hello why didn't I think of that?
Need to get this circle punch as well.
Stunning…love also that you used the scallop punch to make the clouds. I'll be doing this with my card group for sure!!!
Sue
Diana
FABULOUS! I love this card! I am practically running to my stamp room to make it!
Love your blog!
what's one more THANK YOU!
your tutorials are awesome and greatly appreciated
Great tutorial! What a fun technique!
Great tutorial! What a fun technique!