Thursday, December 4, 2025

Winter Cheers

At Time Out Challenges #303 we have a pretty inspiration photo for you! The photo is our teammate Ishani and her daughters wearing beautiful dresses. I took the colors mauve from the dress on the left and blue and white from the lights in the ceiling to make a wintery interactive card. The cup of cocoa (or coffee, tea) slides down and off the gate fold card base. I have used this card style quite a bit and this die set once before. When I recently saw that Heejung Hunsberger used both together (here), I asked her if she minded me making one like hers. She quickly replied and said "of course" so here is my card.
















Photo Credit: Ishani. Dharamsala, India. Date 16 Apr 2024



Our wonderful sponsor is Birch Press Design with a generous offer of a $20 store credit as a prize for our Challenge Winner, who will also be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.


We are joined by talented cardmaker Trina Pham of Phamtastic Design, and winner of Time Out #298 as our Guest Designer.

What I used:

  • Spellbinders Mugs & Mittens die set, Stay Snuggly stamp set
  • Hero Arts Hero Hues ink pad in Espresso
  • My Favorite Things Inside and Out Stitched Circle dies (slider mechanism)
  • Sugar Pea Designs ard Front Element Builder dies (inside scalloped rectangle)
  • Archival ink pad in Cobalt
  • White glitter cardstock (mug)

This card starts with a gate fold card base. The photo of the mechanism for the slider piece can be found here at the bottom of the post. If you are interested in the measurements just comment and I can give them to you along with a couple of hints. Here is a video of how it is made. It is in Spanish but you can see exactly how she makes it.

Decorate the "gates" of the card with patterned paper or embossed panels. Slide the mechanism up the middle of the  card when closed. It is a fun interactive card to make and give to others.

Be sure to check out all of the team's blogs and that of our guest Trina. I learn new techniques all the time from their stories.

See you in the gallery!

Carol 






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