Hello friends! Today I’m sharing something different from my usual pop up cards. It’s an interactive Christmas card in light tiffany green and silver colour theme. This magical unique holiday card has a DIY snowflake on the centre that spins when you open the card.
To create this DIY spinning snowflake card, I started with the background first. Using one of my favourite shades of ink pad, Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink from Tim Holtz, I brushed the ink unevenly onto the entire cardstock. The smooth white cardstock (from Stampin’ Up!) should be about 1/4 inch smaller than the actual base card for both vertical and horizontal sides. This leaves a thin white outline when you adhere the panel onto the cardstock. After colouring the background, I splattered some white, metallic pearl, and metallic lime green watercolour on the cardstock.
Before I cut the circle opening at the front, I lined the background panel with the front cover of the base card and run both through the cutting machine. You should use a low tack sticky tape because you need to separate these pieces first to attach the snowflake easier. You can also glue them together on the inside part of the circle and they will come out unattached when the circle opening is cut out.
Then I cut two pairs of snowflake dies from Spellbinder‘s Delicate Snowflake die set, one on a smooth white cardstock and the other on a silver cardstock. I coloured the white snowflakes with metallic lime green watercolour first, then I stacked one lime green and one silver on top of each other. Now I had 2 pieces of green and silver snowflake.
I sandwiched a very thin clear thread between the 2 snowflakes making sure there’s enough thread on both top and bottom to attach to the card. I used a double sided tape on top of the circle opening of the white card base to keep the strings in place, while I positioned the snowflake in the centre of the opening. Once the snowflake was positioned in the centre, I locked the place in by attaching the tiffany green cardstock on top. The opening on both cards should perfectly align.
Finally, I stamped this sentiment from MFT Christmas Wishes stamp set which says “may the beauty and joy of this season fill your heart” which I think is very fitting for the beautiful spinning snowflake.
Hugs in a Card 