Hello there and welcome. I’m honored to be taking part in the Hero Arts Blog Hop celebrating their Summer Catalog. If you haven’t checked out the Summer Catalog yet, you can click HERE and check it out.
THIS set quickly won my heart and I created two cards with it to share today…
I clear heat embossed THIS background stamp on to a piece of blue and teal cardstock. I stamped the puffer fish and birthday hat images on a piece of THIS watercolor cardstock. I used THESE watercolors to color in the images and used THESE coordinating dies to cut them out. I white heat embossed coordinating sentiments from the set. One on a small circle and one on a strip of cardstock. I used Distress ink on the edges of the panel and sentiments to make them pop.
These cards feature a fun technique to stretch your dies and create your own spinner die using your nesting dies. I used two of THESE circle dies and taped them together once they were evenly spaced. I ran it through my die-cut machine and it cut two circle pieces out. I adhered the middle circle down flat to the card base and adhered the center circle with foam tape to match the height of the card base. This creates a track for the image to spin around. There are dies on the market that creates a similar track, but I like that using the infinity dies give you the options of different size tracks…
Click HERE to see the cards in action over on my Instagram. Oh, and see that orange pocket in the picture where I store my dies? Click HERE for a Quick Crafty Tip I’ve shared about that.
I finished off the cards by attaching the fish images to a dime using an adhesive foam circle inside the track. I added some shine to the fish using THIS pen as well as THESE adhesive backed google eyes because everything is better with a google eye, right!? I also added some seaweed to the bottom of each card using the dies in last month’s My Monthly Hero kit.
I created these with kids in mind, but I think it would put a smile on anyone’s face. I hope you give this custom spinner track technique a try.
KEEP HOPPING
Click HERE for the next stop on the hop and visit, Ilina Crouse. Click HERE to start at the beginning of the hop. Here’s the complete blog hop list…
The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Laura Bassen
Wanda Guess
May Park
Amy Tsuruta
Cheiron Brandon
Yana Smakula
Lydia Fiedler
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Jenn Shurkus
Clare Prezzia
Tracie Pond
Michelle Short
Heather Ruwe
Ilina Crouse
Libby Hickson
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May 24, 2017
The Puffer Fish are super cute, Heather! Love your fun cards!
May 24, 2017
I love these puffer fish! They are so awesome! They make super cute cards that will give any recipient a big smile!
May 23, 2017
Heather I love your puffer fishies!! So darn cute! I'm cas(e)ing this as soon as I get the set! Lol…Have a great day!
May 23, 2017
Beautiful cards, thank you for sharing with us!
May 23, 2017
Love that you created spinners
May 21, 2017
Super cute spinner cards! Thank you for sharing!
May 21, 2017
Love your cute spinner cards. The nesting dies make it easy.
May 21, 2017
Super cute and graphic cards Heather! I love the texture you achieved.
May 21, 2017
So cute! I love the puffy fish and the colors.
May 21, 2017
Beautiful! I love the spinner card technique and how you made your own track.
May 21, 2017
I will definitely be trying this technique, thanks for sharing it with us!!
May 21, 2017
Soooo cute!! Love how colorful your cards are
May 21, 2017
How fun are these cards 😍
May 21, 2017
So glad to see these Puffers as spinners! That was one of the first things I thought when I saw these and the Monsters! Thanks for showing me how great an idea it is! I love your card! TFS!
May 21, 2017
Adorable pufferfish and a spinner card to boot! Love them both!