When I learned that our daughter and son in law would be celebrating his birthday in Las Vegas, I thought it would be fun to try and make a birthday card in the shape of a slot machine for him.
Since I remembered making a slot machine shaped card many years ago I checked back and found one I made in 2014. Happily I found the old cutting file so I was able to use it to create a simpler, modified version for my son in law.
The original card made more than 10 years ago had a rolling window mechanism which I recall being quite complicated to put together. This time around, I simplified my slot machine by using a simple sliding window mechanism. When the tab on the bottom of the card is pulled, a happy birthday sentiment and gold coins appear in the "tray", and at the same time, triple cherries replace the triple sevens in the slot machine window. A video tutorial by Jennifer McGuire for this type of mechanism can be found here.
I used Karen Burniston "Treasure Charms" die set for the gold coins which I cut from gold glitter and foil cardstocks. Happy Birthday sentiment was hot foiled and cut using Pink Fresh Studios "Perfect Sentiments" foil plate and die set.
Inside, I used mini playing cards to decorate a pocket to provide a place for a gift card. I was happy to finally figure out a simpler version of the original slot machine card. Too bad it took me over ten years to figure it out!
Today I'm sharing the card I made for hubby's birthday and the two cards I received from crafty friends that were the inspiration for his card.
I'm very fortunate to have crafty friends who are always trying out the latest fun pop up and interactive card techniques to keep me current and inspired! The card on the right was a birthday card I received from Kris and the one the the left was a Mothers Day card created by Bev.
Click on the video above to see both of these cards in action.
As you open this rotating card by Kris, Hello Kitty in the center circle pops forward and the words "Happy Birthday" rotates around her. So much fun!
Bev installed a triple rotating mechanism in her Mothers Day Card. When Bev's triple rotating card is opened, the large flowers and "Happy Mothers Day" greeting rotate counter clockwise around the center circle while the pink circle with the sentiment and the tiny flowers buds behind the larger flowers both rotate clockwise. So many things moving! I knew I had to give these rotating cards a try too.
Click on the video below to see how my version of this card turned out.
I found several video tutorials showing how to make these types of rotating cards online but ended up mainly following the instructions from Mitosu Crafts hereas well as assembly instructions from Lawn Fawn here to create my template and figure out the assembly of the mechanism.
For Hubby's birthday card, I followed the instructions for the triple rotating pop up so as he opened his card, the "Happy Birthday" sentiment rotates to the left as the golfer and golf ball rotate to the right.
I used Copics to color and fussy cut a clip art image of a golfer to attach to the center rotating circle. Golf ball was glued onto a strip of clear acetate which was attached to the rotating mechanism behind the circle. I must say that the video tutorials for this card made it look pretty easy but I did struggle trying to figure out the correct placement of all the moving parts and to get everything to align just where I wanted.
Kept the front of the card simple with the same golf course background I created for inside the card and added a golf cart cut using my Silhouette. This card was for hubby's landmark "70th" birthday so I added a fun "play on words" greeting.
Here's a quickie Sanrio friends themed birthday card and gift card holder I put together for a dear friend.
Kept the front of the card clean and simple by layering matted rectangles, a peeking Hello Kitty and and a hot foiled fishtail banner sentiment made using Spellbinders Hexi-Gems Sentiments hot foil plate. Happily I have gotten into the habit of hot foiling and die cutting several sets of these fishtail sentiments to stash away whenever I get my Spellbinders Glimmer system heated up so I can have them ready to use whenever I need them in a hurry.
Inside, I used Karen Burniston's "Triple Platform Pop Up" die set to create this fun birthday pop up. Really love that this pop up mechanism is so very easy to assemble! Birthday cake was pieced together using Marianne Designs "Collectables Birthday Cake" and candles from Taylored Expressions "Mini Cake" dies. Sanrio characters were cut on the Silhouette using older cutting files I had created a while back.
Added another paper pieced Pochacco together with a hot foiled and die cut "Celebrate" sentiment using
Simon Hurley's "Birthday Sentiments" glimmer set to a top fold gift card holder.
