It's graduation season again and this year was a biggie for us with five graduates amongst our friends and family. I decided I wanted to try making wiper style graduation cards.
Recently I've been using a double z fold card base for my wiper cards, but this time I wanted to change things up a bit by going back to using the original style wiper card base where both the front and back panels are the same height. But instead of having the wiper mechanism popping up on the top edge of the card, I cut a window into the front panel and dropped the wiper mechanism down to the edge of the window. I adhered a silhouette image of a crowd of graduates to the front of the window and added a silhouette of a single graduate to the wiper mechanism.
Then when the right and left sides of the card are simultaneously pulled, the happy graduate pops up from behind the crowd of graduates in the window. A little difficult to get the full visual effect with still photos, especially since all the silhouettes are black, but it really is pretty cool.
For the girls, I used a silhouette image of a leaping happy female graduate. I apologize for the poor photo quality due to the glare and reflection caused by the acetate I used for the windows and the silver foil board background. I used metallic or pearlized foil board in the graduate's school colors for the window frames, and an Elizabeth Craft Designs die for the word "Congratulations". Each card was also personalized with the graduate's name cut in a second window on the bottom, framed in silver foil board and backed with glitter cardstock.
I used Mama Elephant's Wiper Surprise die to cut the wiper mechanism and extended the wiper arm so I could position the graduate to pop up somewhere near the center of the window. Always takes some time and patience fiddling with the wiper mechanism to get it positioned just right but the resulting fun interactive card makes it all seem worthwhile. Looks like everyone's getting a wiper style card from me this year!
ReplyDeleteAs usual, you've done an impressive job of creating unique graduation cards. I like that you personalized each card but basically worked around a standard format. You are a very clever crafter. Thanks for sharing with blogland.