Saturday, February 25, 2012

Feb PTI Blog Hop

Today's blog hop challenge was to create an interactive card.  I've dappled with this for the last day of anniversary festivities but this time I wanted to try something new.  My idea was to use balloons and make them so they would look like you were casting them off into the air.  I don't have any fancy tools so I used a pencil, a craft knife and some foam adhesive and I figured out how to do it on my own.

Here is the result.
Starting position - I really need a pull me stamp!!

When you pull the tab the balloons rise.  The sentiment was from Butterfly Dreams.  There is another good sentiment for this type of card in the Up, up and Away stamp set: Thanks for the Lift.  

I spent most of the time creating the "mechanism" to make this card work but now that I know how to do that I can pay more attention to detail on the card itself.

Tools:
PTI cardstock
My mind's eye patterned paper - Girl paper stack
elephant congrats stamp from SU
Balloons cut from George Basic Shapes cartridge at 1"
PTI Twine
Butterfly Dreams stamp set - PTI
scoring board and exact-o knife
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12 comments:

  1. Tracey McNeelyFebruary 25, 2012 at 9:32 AM

    Love it, so fun with the balloons going up.

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  2. JJ BoltonFebruary 25, 2012 at 9:32 AM

    Adorable! Great idea!

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  3. Rebecca DeeproseFebruary 25, 2012 at 9:38 AM

    Great idea Christianne! Love those sweet elephants and the balloons- adorable!

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  4. AllyFebruary 25, 2012 at 11:16 AM

    Nice card! The balloons rising is such a clever, and nice job on engineering it all on your own! Love the colors and patterns you've used, too. Kudos! ;-)

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  5. Leigh PennerFebruary 25, 2012 at 11:23 AM

    Oh, this is fabulous! So creative!

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  6. MarybethFebruary 25, 2012 at 11:58 AM

    Adorabel! Such a fun card! l like the patterned balloons ! Way to think outside the box!

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  7. The Paper ParadeFebruary 25, 2012 at 1:54 PM

    Oh my gosh, how cool!! I love that you can have the balloons move up and down...and the elephants are so sweet :)

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  8. SuzanneFebruary 25, 2012 at 2:37 PM

    This is SO fun and creative!

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  9. Helen F.February 25, 2012 at 5:52 PM

    How fun is this card? Love the balloons flying up in the air :)

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  10. ChunyuanFebruary 25, 2012 at 6:38 PM

    fun card. great design.

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  11. Terri Trotter EarleyFebruary 26, 2012 at 4:06 AM

    I like the fun way the balloons rise, great idea! Way to rock out the PTI blog challenge.

    It's a good life!
    Terri E.

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  12. KristiiFebruary 26, 2012 at 4:16 PM

    What a fun card!! Love the balloons and interactive details!!!

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