Floral Cat Spinner Card

Posted on October 27, 2018 by dannscraftingwhims

Good morning and welcome to the final day of the 2018 Cat Lovers Hop! With over 175 entries already, there has been loads of amazing crafty inspiration and feline fun!

I have a fun spinner card to show you:

I love how that die looks like a ball of yarn! The little hearts at the bottom almost look like cat heads, too. It was a little daunting figuring out how to put this together as I needed to hide the spinning mechanism beneath the kitty, but I used some circle dies and foam (and baby powder to help it spin a little more freely), and got it to work. There is a small solid circle of foam underneath the white circle on the back side of kitty, glued to kitty. The pink circle on kitty is a donut, with the hole smaller than the white circle, but larger than the foam circle, allowing free movement. The pink circle was glued to the foam ring on the card, the inside of which is larger than the white circle on the kitty, allowing free movement. Totally confused? Me, too, but it works. : )

After stamping this sweet decorative cat, I colored her up using gel pens and added some glossy accents on her eyes and paws.

The inside die cut says You Make Every Day Perfect… I just cut the first e off of Perfect and cut and extra u from You and made it Purfect. I used some chalks and a sparkle pen to make the sentiment stand out a little more. (Those really are two different shades of pink cardstock, the camera doesn’t show it very well.)

I love the sweet sentiment stamped on the back!! I’m going to be using it a lot to thank the many good friends that I have!

Here is a video of the card in action (You may need to click on the email to go to the actual blog post, then click in the middle of the picture on the white arrow):

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This floral kitty loves chasing her tail on her favorite ball of yarn! Details on my first blog post of 10/27/18. (Link in profile.) #tonicstudios #tonicstudiosdies #catcard #woodwarecrafts #woodwarestamps #woodwarecraftcollections #shuttleart #shuttleartpens #papercrafts #papercrafting #cardmaking #handmadecards #spinnercard #catlovers #catlovershop2018

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Supplies:

Woodware Craft Collection: Decorative Cat and Good Friend stamp sets
Tonic Studios Perfect Day Indulgence Semi Die set
Spellbinders Large Classic Circles and Small Classic Circles dies
Recollections 110# pink cardstock
Core’dinations 65# cardstock – pink and kraft
Tsukineko Memento dye ink – Rich Cocoa and Tuxedo Black
Shuttle Art Gel Pens
Pebbles, Inc Iridescent Chalks Jewel Tones
Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen – clear
Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents
Foamies 3mm Foam Sheet
Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue
Sookwang Scor-Tape
E6000 adhesive
Baby powder

I’m playing along with the following challenges – click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun:

Edited to add: Thank you, Lost Coast Portal to Creativity, for the honor of playing and winning!

CropStop Linky Party #44 Anything Goes Aleene’s, Core’dinations, Pebbles, Ranger,Spectrum Noir, Tonic Studios and Tsukineko

***** Giveaway now closed *****

To celebrate the final day of the 2018 Cat Lovers Hop and reaching 250 followers on Instagram (actually, 248 as of this posting, but close enough!), I have a pawsome final giveaway:

A Darice Paw Print Background embossing folder, little kitty sticky note flags and a kitty charm for your cell phone.

What do you have to do to be eligible to win this prize? If you’re interested, follow me on Instagram (@d.ann.c), like and comment on the post featuring this giveaway, tagging ONE friend who you think might also like to follow me.

Bonus entry option #1: just leave me a comment on this blog post using the word “PAW” somewhere in your comment.

For a second bonus entry (for a total of 3 possible entries, like and comment on the Instagram (@d.ann.c) post featuring this card. (It doesn’t have to be a long comment, just a heart will do.) Come back here and leave a comment letting me know that you did it and your Instagram name.

You will have until Midnight, Eastern Standard Time, October 28, 2018 to get your comments in. Sometime after noon Eastern Standard Time on Monday, October 29, I will publish a post listing all winners from giveaways on my blog from this hop (chosen using Random.org). Winners will have 48 hours to claim their prizes so, if you’re not subscribed, be sure to check back later that afternoon for that post!!

I will be back with one final card for the hop later today. See you then!

~D.Ann

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Synchronized Swimming Purr-maids in a Shell-Shaped Card With Spinner Tutorial

Posted on August 13, 2018 by dannscraftingwhims

Hello from the sunny see-side! Well, yes, I AM by the SEA (which many people use interchangeably with the ocean). But here in my blog, you get to sit by my side and SEE what I’ve been working on. (I can hear you audibly groaning!) Enough of the bad puns… let’s get to today’s project, SHELL we?!

I wanted to do a pair of mermaids swimming in a shell for the current Newton’s Nook Inky Paws Challenge #78: Summer/Beach.

Since this week’s Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is Distress It, I chose to use Distress Oxides to make a blended seashell card base.

I got my color inspiration from the Lion’s Paw shell (Lyropecten nodosus) that I have. It starts from a light orange and goes to mauve. I decided to got to red instead…

I LOVE the easy blending of the oxide inks!! And the ridge design of this die is so very similar to real shells, it makes for a beautiful card front! This week’s Simon Says Stamp’s Monday Challenge is Sprinkles and Splatters, so I spritzed the oxide inks hoping for a wet water look as the inks react with the water… fair, but I’ll Make them stand out more in a little bit…

Meanwhile, how about a tutorial for the spinner on the inside of the card? The included circle dies (probably meant for a ‘pearl’ make making a spinner super easy! You could use the small circles from any basic circle set the same way…

Cut the smaller circle in the middle of the bottom inside shell (110#). It is helpful to have your circle for the spinner already cut so you can choose where to put the center hole. Cut 4 additional (110#) small circles. The edges have an embossed ring around them… follow the embossing line and cut to make them slightly smaller than the opening in the card.
Cut a piece of 3mm foam with the inner shell die. (note: It would probably be better to already have your double sided adhesive on both sides the foam… I got ahead of myself and had to cut the adhesive to fit afterward.) Cut a circle out of it in the center using the larger circle die. cut about 1/8″ around the circle you just cut… the goal is to have the hole in the foam slightly larger than the larger circle. If you don’t want the edge of the foam showing, now would be a good time to run a sharpie that matches your card along the edges of the foam.
Cut two copies of the larger circle out of 110# cardstock.
Adhere the foam to the bottom shell INSIDE. (Note, you only have to color a small bit of the edges of this that will be seen. I wasted a lot of ink coloring the whole thing. I thought of that with the second one and just ran a marker around it before closing it up.)
Adhere the stack of smaller circles to one of the larger circles. Make sure this will fit in the ‘hole’ in the middle of the foam with some wiggle room and that the smaller circles fit it the small hole of the cardstock with some wiggle room.
Here is the secret ingredient: BABY POWDER! I like to put a little dash of baby powder on the edges of the stack of small circles to make sure there’s no adhesive that might cause them to stick to the card and not spin. Having done that and sealed up the card I found it wasn’t spinning smoothly, so I went back in and added a pinch of baby powder into the ‘hole’ with my tweezers and that solved the problem. So I recommend you just save that trouble and put a little UNDER the larger circle in the foam side ‘hole’ just so there’s a little extra in there.to keep it smooth, not enough to fall out and dust the recipient, making them sneeze and reactivate the oxide inks if you didn’t seal them! LoL!! : )
Now, hold the stack of small circles so they’re poking through the hole you see in the cardstock. The larger circle will keep them from going all the way through. Take the other large circle and adhere the small circles to it on the other side of the shell (what will be the inside of the card. This will keep it from falling back down. Adhere the shell to the foam.

Adhere your already decorated large spinner circle to the circle that’s in the middle of the shell making sure no adhesive sticks to the shell card itself. I used a scalloped circle to make it easier to have something to catch with your finger.

I’ve been wanting to try Finnabair’s Art Alchemy Opal Magic paints on both light and dark paper to compare them, so I grabbed the Blue-Violet for the purr-maids’ tails and tops and the results were delightful! On the black cardstock this gorgeous shimmery paint is more purple with hints of blue and on white cardstock it’s more blue with hints of purple (how does it know?! LoL!)… Truly magical!!

To finish, I used the seashells stencil with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide… it was interesting to see that it blended a little with the background colors, becoming more green at the bottom and more blue at the top. I love that Distress Oxide inks can layer without becoming mud!

I had been worrying that, since they stay reactive to water, if the card were to get wet in transit or the recipient were to spill water on it, it would move the ink wherever it got wet. I just watched the video on Jennifer McGuire’s new blog post (HERE) where she used Design Master Clear Finish Matte spray to seal her AMAZING Distress Oxide project and it looked fine… soooo, I rooted through my supplies and found Plaid’s FolkArt Cearcote Acrylic Sealer, Matte Finish and decided to give it a try.

BTW – I don’t know if you can read the stamp on the back, but it cheekily says: “If it was a Hallmark, it wouldn’t look this good!” : )

The before pics are on the left and the after are on the right. It seems to have made the colors a little more vivid. It didn’t seem to reactivate the inks (phew) and they do have a slightly shiny matte photo finish.

Note: I posted that question on Tim Holtz’ Facebook page and he just replied. He suggested using Distress Micro Glaze. I will have to try that next time and compare. Thanks, Tim!

Now, to finish off the water droplet look I wanted on the front. I have a hard time being random when adding water droplets, so it was perfect to have the spritzed discolored areas to follow as a guide for some truly random glossy accents droplets.

I close with a video of the spinner in action. (just click in the middle of the picture below or on the arrow in the middle to start it)

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Synchronized swimming purr-maids spinner shell card now on the blog – 8/13/18 post (Link in profile.) #honeybeestamps #newtonsnook #newtonsnookdesigns #Rangerink #distressoxideinks #primamarketing #finnabairproducts #artalchemy #sssmchallenge – Sprinkles & Splatters #ssswchallenge – Distress It #spinnercard #finnabair #opalmagic #opalmagicpaint #diecutting #synchronizedswimming #seashellcard #spinnercard #papercrafts #papercrafting #cardmaking #handmadecards #liveinthesunshine #swiminthesea #plaidcrafts FolkArt #clearcote #seashells #mermaids #liveinthesunshineswiminthesea

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Supplies:

Newton’s Nook Designs:
- Purr-maid Newton stamp set
- Paradise Palms stamp set (sentiment)
- Seashells Stencil
Honeybee Stamps Seashell Card Honey Cuts die
Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Circles – Small
My Sentiments Exactly Back of Card Set (that ‘Hallmark’ sentiment)
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks: Abandoned Coral, Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, and Peacock Feathers
Tsukineko Versamark Ink
Judikins Extreme Peacock embossing powder
WoW! Metallic Silver Sparkle embossing powder
Spectrum Noir Metallic markers: Pewter, Pink Quartz, Silver Ingot
Prima Art Alchemy Opal Magic Acrylic Paint – Blue-Violet
Recollections 110# cardstock & 65# white and black cardstock
Worldwide Papers Caribbean Colors – Ocean cardstock
The Fine Touch gold poster board (the outer shell pattern)
Foamies 3mm foam sheet
Simply Defined Double Sided adhesive 2.5″
Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue
Plaid FolkArt Clearcote Acrylic Sealer Matte Finish
The secret ingredient: baby powder

I’m playing along with the following challenges – click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun:

Newton’s Nook Designs Inky Paws Challenge #78: Summer/Beach Theme
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Sprinkles & Splatters
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Distress It
CropStop August Linky Party #42: Anything Goes (Aleene’s, Core’dinations, Prima, Ranger, Spectrum Noir, Spellbinders, Tsukineko, WOW!)

It makes my day to read your comments… thanks for taking the time to leave some love!!

~D.Ann

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MFT Camp Create – Cheshire Cat Spinner Card

Posted on June 18, 2016 by dannscraftingwhims

Hello! I’m back temporarily as someone loaned me a computer to use while my new hard drive is being installed. Ugh. Technology… it’s great when it works!

I have several cards I made last week to post, so bear with me, if I can figure out how to use this computer and it’s picture editing program, there will be a spate of posts coming.

Day 2 in the crafting tent at My Favorite Things Camp Create summer camp was about Sensational Sliders and we were encouraged to make a card with any type of movement. I chose to do a spinner card with this sweet kitty:

My thought was to have him spin away and leave just a Cheshire Cat smile behind before he blinks out to travel to parts unknown in his dreams.

Unfortunately I chose fishing line thinking it would be less visible (it isn’t) — no matter how much you wind it, it doesn’t spin a lot. Back to twine next time! Here’s a link to a brief video of it in action that I posted a couple of days ago … Hopefully the link will work (I can’t see it).

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Day 2 in the #mftstamps Camp Creat cabin focused on Sensational Slides -& other movement cards, like this spinner… I was going for him spinning away and leaving his Cheshire Cat grin before he disappears to travel the world. >^.^< Details will be up soon on the blog. Waiting on my new hard drive. Ugh. #cheshirecat #handmadecards #spinnercard #sssmchallenge #ssswchallenge

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