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:

Layer this piece on your card base with Stampin' Dimensionals:

Hope you have fun with this little flip greeting technique!

Thanks for stopping by today!--Sara Nell

  

Creation Station August Blog Hop--Stampers Gone Wild!

Welcome to the August Creation Station Blog Hop!  I'm so glad you have joined us for this fun hop--Stampers Gone Wild!  You are going to get plenty of inspiration for using some of the many animal and nature stamp sets in Stampin' Up!'s Annual Catalog.  Be sure and click the "Next" button at the end of each post to hop around and see all the fun projects this month.

I will confess that I may have wandered a bit off topic.  But dinosaurs are wild, aren't they?  I pulled out the Dino Days stamp set, the coordinating Dino Dies and the Dinoroar designer series paper to create a two-page scrapbook layout.  I could not resist.  My daughter sent me some of the cutest photos of my grandson with his big new dinosaur. I had so much fun creating these pages--I hope you like them:

This is the full page.  I combined two paper patterns from the Dinoroar designer series paper on Old Olive 12" x 12" card stock.  The dinosaurs were die cut from another of the paper designs.  I love it when Stampin' Up! creates paper patterns that work with the dies in the same suite of products.  It makes it so much faster to make a cute page.  The Denim ribbon is also a part of this Dinoroar Suite.  

This is a close-up showing the title piece stamped using the Dino days stamp set.  It was die cut using an oval from the Stitched Shapes die set and then matted on a scalloped oval from the Layering Oval die set.  The mattes for the photos and the title piece are all  Mossy Meadow card stock.  Did you notice the dinosaur tracks on the title piece and on the Old Olive page background?  At first I stamped them all over the background, but the tracks seemed so busy with the paper patterns.  So I decided just to stamp a few.  They are too fun not to use, right?

Katharine sent me so many cute photos, that I decided to use a pocket page to show off as many of the cute Easton photos as I could.  (Unfortunately, it is hard to take photos of the pocket page and had to do it on an angle to avoid glare.)

I used the same paper, similar dinosaur die cuts and stamped dinosaur tracks as on the full page so it would be a cohesive double-page layout.  I used the pocket page with two horizontal 4 x 6 slots on the top and bottom and then the 4 smaller pockets across the middle.  I sized my photos the same except for the bottom right photo. That way I could slip two photos or a photo and decorative piece in the larger pockets.  The bottom right photo was the same height but narrower so I could add journaling to the page.

A close-up of my favorite photo on the page!  Easton is so stinkin' cute! 

Now it's time to head over to Martin's blog to see how wild he's gotten this month.  I know he'll have some great inspiration for all of us!

To Martin's Blog . . .