Sara's Stamping Spot 2.0: A Dinosaur Card with a Flip Greeting

A few weeks ago, I was playing with ideas for a Facebook Live project. I'd just finished a scrapbook project with the Dinoroar suite and the Dinoroar designer series paper, the Dino Days stamp set and the coordinating Dino dies were sitting on my desk. Sitting beside them was a group of samples I had made with each of the new Pigment Sprinkles colors. These items inspired this project with a fun flip greeting:

The card base is Mango Melody layered with another piece of Mango Melody embossed with the Layered Leaves 3D embossing folder. On top of the Mango Melody layer is a 3" x 4" piece of the designer series paper. The T-Rex was die cut from another pattern in the Dinoroar paper (Note: You have to die cut the T-Rex and the spiky ridge separately. I actually just fussy cut the ridge, leaving the side that was next to the T-Rex's back intact so it would exactly fit into the die cut T-Rex's back. I used Tear and Tape adhesive to smoothly adhere the ridge to the T-Rex, leaving the paper strip on the tape.) I mounted the T-Rex onto a circle die cut from a piece of the Mango Melody Pigment Sprinkles sample and layered to an Old Olive die cut scallop circle. The greeting was masked before stamping the front and then again for the back of the flip piece. It was stamped in Old Olive with little dinosaur tracks in Mango Melody. The fishtail end of the banner piece tucks under the scallop circle to keep it in place.

Here's how I constructed the card:

You need: 5-1/2" X 8-1/2" card base folded in half; a 5-1/4" x 4" card stock piece embossed with the Layered Leaves embossing folder (or other folder of your choice); a 3" X 4" piece of Dinoroar designer series paper; a T-Rex or other dinosaur die cut from the designer series paper (I chose my paper, card stock and ink colors to coordinate with the dinosaur); a 1/2" X 5-1/2" piece of Whisper White card stock, scored at 1" from one end of the piece and punched with the Banner Triple punch from the other end to form the fishtail end (you will end up with a 4" banner on the front of the card); a die cut circle and coordinating die cut scallop circle to layer under T-Rex (for the one shown in this photo, I die cut a circle out of Shimmery White card stock and watercolored it with Old Olive ink). You need Multipurpose Liquid glue and Stampin' Dimensionals, plus Tear and Tape to adhere the ridges on the dinosaur (if you choose to use them).

Adhere the designer series paper to the embossed layer about 1" from the left-had side of the layer. Use Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive. Mask off the bottom of the greeting stamp from the Dino Days stamp set, then stamp the "I love you THIS much!" on the front of the greeting piece about 1" from the fishtail end of the flag. Turn the flip piece over (making sure the front is right-side up, then mask off the top of the greeting stamp and stamp "(it's more than it looks)" on the back side about 1" from the score line. (Remember to take of the mask before you stamp!!!) Add a few dinosaur tracks if you like.

Fold the score line and fit the small end under the embossed layer about 1/2" from the bottom. Adhere that small end with Multipurpose Liquid adhesive and let it dry.

Fold the banner over the front of the card. Adhere the die cut circles together with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive and layer the dinosaur on the circle with Stampin' dimensionals. Adhere the circle piece to the card front making sure that the fishtail end of the banner fits under the edge of the scallop circle: