Best Fishes and Birthday Wishes

It’s been a while since I have made a slimline card, so I thought it was time, I thought I would double the fun by adding 2 Little Twist Panel Pop up mechanisms.

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I started by going through my paper stash to find a paper that would work well for a masculine card, then found some matching cardstock. I made the card base and cut the panels as shown, The bottom photo is the card base from the outside, front and back.

I knew that I wanted the mechanism bases to be covered with the patterned paper so I cut out the pieces as shown below, I added the skinny strips to the white card stock then added to the card base as shown.

I cut out 2 of the Little Twist Panel mechanisms and added to the card base (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ )

The benefit to using a striped paper with a random pattern is I can hide the mistakes. The paper didn’t line up right so it didn’t completely cover the mechanism, so I cut another small strip to fill in the gap then I added the large piece of paper.

I cut out all the frames and layers as shown below. I inked the edges, and added shading to the bottom right and white highlights to the top left. I added the stamped greeting using stamps from the Fishing Phrases. To make the flags I cut them from the patterned paper and the brown, then just trimmed the edges off the patterned paper and adhered them to the brown flags.

I cut out the fish and other elements from the Fishing Boat Add on, and Sea Stage Add On. I like cutting the fish from holographic paper and colouring with sharpies. I added shading and highlights to all the pieces and added them to the little panels, then to the mechanism.

I decided to make a border for the bottom using the Long Rectangles Crosshatch . To create the signature space I cut labels from the Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch and Label Charm Pop Up. I wrapped a little piece of twine as shown. I was running low on the blue cardstock so one of the labels is a little short. I added the pieces to the cardbase as shown.

Using the same diesets I cut out a border and layered labels as shown below. I inked up the edges of the white pieces to match the pieces on the inside. I wanted a bit of a different look so I cut the long rectangle in half lf. I decided that I wanted there to be more contrast so I added a thin layer of blue then added to the card base then covered the centre with the label.

I cut the pieces from the Happy Birthday Lorna Add On as shown below. I added shading and highlights then added to the label. I added some fishy elements to the front and to the label on the inside making sure to cover the bottom of the too short blue label.