‘Flip panel’ window card (TCK54)
[Image ID] A rounded arched window looking out on a landscape scene. The background paper is a mustard colour with white foliage outlines on. The window frame, including all the ‘leads’ between the panes is brown. A brown tab on the right hand side of the card has the word ‘pull’ written on it [description end]
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I created this card using Tonic Craft Kit No.54 (Wildflower Garden). For the interactive ‘flip panel’ mechanism, I followed this youtube tutorial by Jennifer McGuire Ink.
However, my measurements for the ‘arm’ that forms the pull tab were different. I scored at 2, then 2 and a quarter inches as the side of my window was smaller than that of the panel used in the video.
I didn’t have a ‘pull’ stamp, so I wrote the letters by hand with a fineliner.
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[Image ID] In this image the tab has been pulled part way and the window is partially open. [description end]
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To create the outer window panel I drew a large border around the outside of the window die and cut the shape out with scissors. I actually cut two, as the window is symmetrical, and glued one on each side of a piece of tracing paper just big enough to cover the window. The patterned paper behind the window is also from the kit.
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[Image ID] In this image the tab has been pulled all the way so the window is fully opened enabling the landscape to be viewed in full. The sky is blue, green hills fill the mid-ground, foliage is in the foreground and there are a couple of butterflies chasing each other. [description end]
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The panel forming the scene inside the window was die cut using the large frame die (without the central vertical line) that was included in the kit. Using experience from a prototype of this card, I decided to cut off the ‘indent line’ around the outside of the die cut to make the panel slightly smaller.
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[Image ID] This final image is a close up view of the landscape. [description end]
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The window scene was created by blending distress inks onto white card. The butterfly and grass designs are stamps from the kit, and I coloured them in with Fabre Castell Pitt brush pens.
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Tonic Craft Kit No.54 (Wildflower Garden)
Window dies (TCK54)
Butterfly and grass stamps (TCK54)
Yellow background paper (TCK54)
Distress Inks: Weathered Wood, peacock Feathers, Crushed Olive, & Peeled Paint.
200GSM Kraft Card
Tracing paper
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