Dandy Day Slider

 

Make this fun interactive card where the little mouse flies across the card hanging onto his dandelion

I haven't made a slider card for years, so determined to give it another go, I dug out my 'Dandy Day' stamp and die set by Lawn Fawn and this is the result:

The little mouse holding the dandelion, flies across the card because of the slider hole and mechanism I have used. The mechanism is no more than a coin and some double sided foam squares! Nothing complicated. I found a 5 pence piece coin was exactly the right size for the dandelion head, so as it moves along the slider hole, the mouse dangles below it.

How cute is that?

Follow the below link to find out how the card was made

You will need

• Dandy Day stamp and die set by Lawn Fawn
• Mama Elephant Curvy Sliders die
• A5 white base card
• Sky patterned card (I used a sheet from 'Lovely Mystery' scrapbooking design pad by Craft Sensations)
• White card
• Black and navy ink pads
• Colouring medium of your choice (I used Promarkers - cool grey 1, cool grey 2, tea green, buttercup, blossom and marsh green)
• Rounding corner punch
• 5 pence coin (a small flat button might work just as well)
• Double sided foam pads and glue
• Stamping aid - not essential but helps to align the greeting onto the card (I used the Stamparatus by Stampin Up)
• Die cutting machine

1. Cut 2 rectangles from the sky patterned card - one measuring 14 cm wide by 9 . 5 cm high and the other measuring 14 cm wide by 6 cm high. Use a rounded corner punch to round the corners of both rectangles
   
   
   


2. Glue the shorter one to the base card towards the top of the card
   
   
   


3. Using the navy ink pad, stamp 'Sending Wishes' towards top left of the larger sky patterned rectangle, 'For a very Happy Day' towards bottom middle and a few dandelion seed heads towards the right just below centre - as per the below photo's:
   
   
   
   
   
   


4. Using the larger of the curvy slider dies, cut the slider hole just below the top greeting on the sky patterned larger rectangle
   
   
   


5. Stamp using black ink onto white card, the mouse holding onto the dandelion, the mouse that's blowing, the mouse looking to the right, the half head dandelion, a complete dandelion and a set of leaves. Colour in and die cut out
   
   
   


6. Put the 5p coin behind the slider hole and then layer two small square double sided foam pads ontop. Then stick the mouse holding the dandelion ontop so the head of the dandelion covers the 5p coin
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   


7. Put 2 layers of double sided foam pads to the back of the rectangle, ensuring they go nowhere near the coin or slider hole

   

   (I found the top foam pad was too close the slider hole and had to trim it
   back as it was stopping the slider coin going past that point)

   
   


8. Stick this rectangle to the base card (The previous sky blue rectangle will show through the slider hole)
   
   
   


9. Glue the other characters to the card - I put the whole dandelion bottom left, next to that I glued  the mouse looking right. Then I glued the mouse blowing the half head dandelion on the right hand side of the card
   
   
   

Your mouse holding the dandelion now floats about the card if you tilt the card left and right