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!
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