Pivot Panel Twist Panel Mothers Day

Hello and happy belated Mother’s Day. Even though I had this card completed a few weeks ago, I needed to wait until the recipient received her card. My colour pallet was chosen from this fun patterned paper from my stash.

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Cut the cardbase and panels as showed. I cut the centers out of the panels to conserve cardstock, and to get rid of some of the bulk. I sponged the edges of the the patterned paper with navy ink and I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen to the flowers on the paper.

I cut pieces from the Flower Pivot Panels and the Twist Panel Pop up and followed Karen Burnistons VIDEO (second half of video) to combine them into this fun pop up. I wanted the flowers to be against white card stock. So I cut the Flower pivot panels from white and trimmed out the centres and added them to the panels section as shown.

I cut and assembled the flowers with coordinating colors. When adding to the panels, I thought the ends looked kind of bare so I added an extra flower on each end to fill in that space. I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen to the flowers and the panels

I assembled the mechanism piece from the Twist Panel pop-up by following Karen’s tutorial.

I didn’t like how the red of the mechanism looked. So I created two borders as shown below and use them to cover up as shown. Then added the Twist Panel Section.

I cut and assembled the butterflies from the Flower Pot Add ons, and a block to use a place to sign using pieces from the Twist Panel Pop up. I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen. I added all the pieces as shown.

The card didn’t want to stay closed nicely, so I decided to add a belly band. I knew I wanted to use a ribbon so I just made sure the belly band was slightly wider than the ribbon and that it would wrap around the card and overlap in the front. I added magnets as shown under the ribbon so when the flaps overlap each other, so the closure stays closed and you don’t see the magnets.

I wanted to add faux now by cutting ribbon as shown. I make a loop with the long piece, wrap the short piece around the middle and I fish tale cut the last piece, fold it and adhere it to the back. I find glue dots work best for this. I added it to the left side of the belly band.

I added Happy Mother’s Day as shown.

I thought the front needed a little something, so I made another border to match the two on the inside, slightly wider than the belly band and added it under the belly band to the card front.