Birthday Card | Lawn Fawn - Jump For Joy / Sliding Pop-Up Card

 Happy Fri YAY!

I’m sharing a fun Sliding Pop-Up card with you today that I entered in the Lawn Fawn Challenge Blog. This challenge features projects with “fun folds” and this card fits the bill perfectly!

I don’t have a die that will cut this type of slide mechanism but I was able to easily create the same functionality using a regular Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Die 4.5” x 3.25”. I centered the rectangle die in the  middle of a 4.25” x 5.5” panel of kraft card stock but die cut just below the top of the shape by moving the cutting plate off of that part of the die before running it through the machine. I was then able to extend the sides of the rectangle upward with my craft knife. This gave me a flap with the same measurements as the die and starting at the bottom, I scored the flap at ¼”, 2” and at the top.  I die cut a large stitched scalloped rectangle from patterned paper and glued it to the kraft panel. I stamped, colored and die cut all of my “Jump for Joy” images – finishing them off with a Wink of Stella and tiny Black Nuvo Drops to accentuate their eyes.

To create the scene, I die cut the clouds, sun, grassy border, and stitched hillside pieces and determined the layout. Some of these landscape pieces were shaded with Distress Oxide Inks and the sky was die cut from blue card stock using the same stitched rectangle die. I scored the sky piece to match the pop-up and glued it down just above the ¼” score line. The grass and hillside pieces were die cut within the rectangle so that the edges were all finished off with the outer stitched lines. Everything in the scene was glued into place making sure that the pieces were adhered only onto one of the panels. You have to leave the middle score line (fold) open or else the pop-up mechanism won’t work. The small sentiment was stamped at the top of the scene with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink using the MISTI.

I cut a 3.25” x 5” piece of contrasting card stock and just by holding it in place at the bottom of the pop-up, I pushed up to move the panel about ½ way. This reveals the area where the second sentiment should go and I marked it with a small post-it note. The “Happy Birthday” sentiment was stamped with VersaMark Ink and heat embossed with white powder. The card front was flipped over, strong tape was put onto the ¼” scored tab and the embossed panel was carefully aligned and adhered to the tape at the bottom.

A 4.25” x 5.5” piece of gold card stock was placed under the card front and I pulled up on the mechanism so that I could see the top sentiment. I determined where I wanted my 3^rd sentiment to go by placing the post-it note in the revealed window area. Once the sentiment was stamped,  I flipped the card front over again and adhered strong tape only to the bottom and 2 sides surrounding the sliding panel. You must not get any adhesive on the panel or else the pop-up won’t work. The front panel was adhered to the gold card stock and then affixed to a top-folding A-2 card base. I trimmed the dark brown sliding panel down so it was just visible above the card, punched 2 small circles from the patterned paper and glued them at the top/center of the slider. I stamped the word “PULL” on the front circle and that finished off the card.

I ♥ LOVE ♥ the way this design works! You have a cute scene that changes with the pop-up and several places to hide additional sentiments. I have made several different card designs using this same basic method and it only takes a fraction of the time of my first attempt.

Thanks for joining me today!

Rachelle ♥