Jumping With Joy

Happy Friday and Time For Tea Designs new release day! I love new release days, as the design team gets to show you all what we have been working on for the last few weeks. My card today is a fun interactive fall scene featuring the new Jumping With Joy stamp set. I absolutely love squirrels, so when I first saw this stamp set, I knew that I had to make an awesome card with it.

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To start, I stamped down the little mouse and acorns, masked these out and stamped the leaves and squirrel. Next, I stamped the leaves in the sky and the sentiment. I then coloured my scene in with copic markers. Separately, I stamped, coloured and die cut the jumping squirrel.

I used the third largest die in the A2 Layering dies set to cut out the scene.

To create the interactive element, I used the new Flippy Flappy die from Lawn Fawn and followed several of their instructional videos on YouTube. I discovered some tricks along the way to help the flap pop in and out more easily. I added extra acetate to the back of the squirrel in the tail area. I found that the tail was getting bent and caught when going back in behind the front panel so I added the acetate to make it stronger so it wouldn’t bend as much and it did the trick. I also discovered that I needed to put some tape on the back of the flap so that it could more easily slide in and out.

I doubled up some foam tape and added it to the back of the scene, making sure not to block the interactive elements. I adhered this to a card base that I had added some green plaid patterned paper to. I had cut the paper with a stitched die that I had in my stash but you could also use the outer die in the Autumn Scene Cover Plate Die.

I had to use the flippy-flappy several times to get it to ‘learn’ what it had to do but once it was worn in a bit it worked really well.

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