Wanted Interactive Birthday Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Interactive Cowboy Newton Card!

Hello and Happy Friday! Today we have another fun interactive card by Ellen. For this project she's featuring Newton as a cowboy from our Newton Rides West Stamp Set on a mini scene that opens up from the front of the card.

Read on for details on how she created this fun card!

Creating the scene:

• Photo 1 (left): On the inside I wanted to create a little scene, so I created a background. This was made with a rectangular die and Sea Borders Die Set. The paper piece was colored with Tumbled Glass and for the hill the “Antique Linen” and “Vintage Photo” Distress ink.
• Photo 2 (center): To get a dreamy blue sky some water, white and blue ink was sprinkled on top.
• Photo 3 (right): As last step I colored the images with Copic Markers (the cat is from the Newton Rides West Stamp Set  and the gifts are from the Christmas Haul Stamp Set with Copic Markers. Once the images were colored I cut the out using the coordinating Christmas Haul Die Set and Newton Rides West Die Set
  
  Here are the colors I used:
• The cat: W5, W4, W3, W2, W1, W0 and C5, C4, C3, C2 Stripes BV29
• Brown: E37, E35, E33, E31
• Light Green: YG06, YG03, YG01, YG00
• Dark Green: G07, G05
• Blue: B29, B18, B16
• Pink: RV13 and R11

What the card looks like closed:

Creating the interactive piece:

• Photo 1 (left): I really wanted to create a card with an interactive piece that opened. Therefore I thought of using the 2nd frame die from the Framework Die Set. To focus on the little interactive piece, a pattern was added. For that pattern I used the Argyle Stencil Set.
• Photo 2 (center): After the base was created I started the with the interactive pice. The size of the little piece is 3.35 inch (13,6 cm) x 2.87 inch (7,3 cm). When you did cut it out you can fold it in three piece like an accordion. The next thing was to find some sentiments and add it to the piece with embossing powder. The sentiments come from the Newton Rides West Stamp Set and the Newton's Birthday Bash Stamp Set.
• Photo 3 (right): For the front I used the smaller illustrated stamps from the Newton Rides West Stamp Set set and created my own cowboy pattern.

What a fun way to make a card interactive! It will be so fun for the recipient to open the extra surprise!


If you love this project by Ellen you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen to see more of her beautiful creations!