You're Clawsome

This is one of those stamp sets that I coveted the first time I saw it.  I resisted for a year or two, and then finally bought it.  It's not something I'm really going to use a lot... but I think as a kid, we all wanted to play the claw vending machine to try to win something awesome.  And while I've coloured and used it in the past, I'd never made it into an interactive card until today.

I stamped everything onto some cream cardstock and coloured them in with Copic markers before fussy cutting it all out.  I got onto the Lawn Fawn website, and looked up "You're Clawsome", and they have a video showing how to put together the claw slider using a penny and foam dots.  As long as you remember to do everything in the right order, it's actually pretty easy to assemble!

So when you tilt the card side to side, the claw slides back and forth with the little unicorn clasped in it.  I added a little Wink of Stella to the unicorn's horn and on a few other spots to give it some glimmer.  I can't believe that I got two of these made.  Happy to be using papers and stamps that I've had on hand for a while.

Paper and stamps are all Lawn Fawn.

Snow Much Fun

 Cuteness overload, today!  I am using the sweet Snow Much Fun set from Lawn Fawn - that features these little bears making snow angels.  I couldn't resist.  And not only are they adorable, when you pull up on the little tab, his arms go up and down just like he's making the angel.  

Here's the starting position...

And when you pull up the tab, his arms go down.  So when you pull the tab up and down, his arms do the same :o)

I got three of them assembled this afternoon, and have a handful more coloured up, ready to go.  Stay tuned, there'll be more!

New Ai Wiggle Wobbles

I have some fun Skeleton cards to share today - these are a new line of interactive cards by Art Impressions called "Wiggle Wobbles".  The sets include stamps, dies, an Action Wobble and brads to make a fun wobbly skeleton.  Here is Skeleton Wiggle Wobble (Sku #4952):

 The set comes with the torso, arm, leg, apendage, hat and bowtie stamps and their matching dies, and the sentiment stamp.  It may look like a lot to put together, but this particular Wiggle Wobble didn't require a lot of colouring!  So after stamping and quickly adding a touch of colour, I die cut all the pieces and assembled them with the brads included in the kit.  This was my first attempt at a Distress Oxide ink background - and I quite like how it turned out!

 For these two cards, I pulled out my Kuretake Gansai Tambei watercolours, which have such bold pigment - making for some fun, bright, painted creations.

 For two of the cards, I stitched around the outside with some black thread, and I mounted all of the sentiments with pop darts.  After my skeletons were all assembled, they are each adhered to the cards with a Mini Action Wobble, so when you give them a little flick, they wiggle and wobble all over.

 There are five Wiggle Wobble sets available now on the Ai website, head over to the Ai blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has to share with you.  Our current challenge on the blog is "Jiggle a Little" - we want to see your cards with movement!