House of Baseball cards

Hello crafty friends, sorry I have been MIA for the last bit, I was hoping to share this card before I left but I had to wait for the recipient to receive it . I hadn’t played wth the house of cards for a while so I thought I would give it a go. The recipient is a baseball player and I had a handful of his baseball cards from one of the teams he plays for (I did keep a few safe, if he makes it to the pros I will have to get him to sign them for me)

I came up with this 5”x7” card

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I started with a stack of his baseball cards, then found some matching shades of blue, white, and craft cardstock to match the cards.

Using the House of Cards dieset (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ ) , I die cut the pieces as shown. I added shading to all the pieces by sponging the edges, and rubbing the cardstock pieces right onto the ink pad.

The card base pieces were cut to make a 5”x7” card, I didn’t have big enough pieces of blue to fill the whole card base so I used what I had, then cut a piece of white and blue to fill the gap in along the bottom. I inked the craft colour, and the blues the same way that I did above for the cards.

I assembled the mechanism and attached to the card, using Karen’s video directions. I added the first layer as shown. It’s hard to see but in the bottom right photo I used the little piece that comes out when die cutting, to reinforce where the cards attach to the mechanism to keep it from falling out. I will do this for each layer.

Now for the next 2 layers. I attached them together as shown, then attached them to the card.

The card is pretty thick and didn’t want to stay closed so I decided to make a magnet closure. I made a flap the height of the card and 4” wide scored at 2” and inked up the edges, I also made a matching rectangle. I cut 2 thin magnet sheets into rectangles that are about 1/4” smaller than the cardstock pieces and attached. The piece with the flap I attached to the right side of the card as shown. I am missing a photo but I also added the other magnet to the right side of the card front.

I really had random pieces of blue cardstock left so I matted them with white and added them to the card front, including the front of the flap. I cut Happy Birthday and Happy Birthday Shadow and added to the card front. I added I large white panel to the back to cover the backside of the flap closure.

I was having problems opening the flap so I cut a blue strip and a white strip. I folded the blue strip and added it as shown. Then covered with the white strip.