Celebrate with Pochacco and Hello Kitty

I decided to make yet another Pochacco themed birthday card for my very special friend Kris who loves Pochacco. We both enjoy interactive cards so I thought I would try making a slider style card similar to the ones shared by the very talented Anita Chang on Instagram.

Happily, I was somehow able to convince hubby once again to help me do this very short video to show this slider card in action. Sometimes words and still photos just aren't enough!

As the tab on the right side of the card is pulled,

... little Pochacco and Hello Kitty appear from behind the cake with Happy Birthday wishes!

I followed  this video tutorial by Karolyn  Loncon of My Favorite Things for creating an interactive double slider card to make this card. The only difference being that I adhered my sliding elements (Pochacco and Hello Kitty) to the center of the slider at the start position so they would slide away from each other rather than toward each other as in Karolyn's card.
After everything for my card was assembled and was glued in place, I discovered that Pochacco and Hello Kitty weren't sliding out from behind the cake smoothly because they kept getting tangled when they slid back behind the cake. To remedy this I had to adhere a panel of clear acetate to the top of the sliding mechanism to separate Pochacco and Hello Kitty. Difficult to see from the still photos, but Hello Kitty is in front of the acetate panel and Pochacco is behind the acetate.

Pochacco, Hello Kitty and the tiered birthday cake are coloring book images which were rendered into cutting files using Make the Cut design program. Everything was cut from white and black cardstock and colored with Copic markers. "Celebrate" cut file was also created in Make the Cut using Ballerina true type font. I added Stickles glitter to the frosting and candles for a festive bling.

Here's the back of the card where I added the birthday sentiment. Putting this card together was quite a learning experience. I'm not entirely pleased that I had to add the panel of acetate between the two sliding elements, but unfortunately that was the only solution I could think of to get the card to work smoothly. Paper pieced images tend to have more catch points than stamped images so maybe next time around I'll experiment with stamped images instead.