Pickle Party -C4C561

The thing I love most about being part of the Crazy4Challenges design team is I am challenged to make cards that I might not have ever made. This card is a prime example. If someone would have said that I would make a Pickle themed card AND draw cut and colour my own pickles I would have said that it was probably not likely BUT guess what, not only did I do that I made it into a green monochromatic interactive card 🥒🤯. Apparently today (Nov 14) is PICKLE DAY so the challenge was to make a card inspired by pickles, either by including a pickle, or food that goes with pickles, use the colour green, or incorporate a pickled theme sentiment. I hit most of the marks with this one.

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So at first I was kind of stumped soooooo I hit up GOOGLE

I went digging through my paper stash and came up with this👇🏻

The card base and the insert I cut for the mechanism 👇🏻

Keep cutting….. 👇🏻 I used the Twist Panel Pop up dieset from Karen Burniston. I took photos of the progress while creating the mechanism, I have some basic instructions as well but I highly recommend watching Karen’s VIDEO if you decide to try this mechanism.

I can’t believe I created these adorable dills 😊🥒

The party accessories I pulled from different sets that I have. I could have made extra gifts or balloons out of other dies had I not been able to pull from my stash. The blower and hat are from retired sets. The balloon is a Heart from the Love Charms die set and the gift is from the Gift Pivot Panel die set.

I usually only try to use dies that I know where they came from, the letter dies I used are from some random sets that I bought in a box from Thrift store a while back. But the look works with any dies as I used mismatched sets anyway sooooo use what you got.