Merry Christmas Slider Card

The current challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs' blog is "Stitch It!" The idea is to use either real or faux stitching, or have a sewing-themed project. While my intention for this card was to have machine stitching, I had a few technical difficulties, so I ended up just poking holes and going over them with a pen, for faux stitching.

I got the idea for this card from this tutorial at Splitcoaststampers. I modified the measurements to make a larger card. Not easy, and not without having to start over a couple of times, but I made it work!

I started with an image from this digital stamp set by Hero Arts. I sized the bird, and paired it with a greeting from this set. I printed that out onto a piece of white cardstock, and colored it with colored pencils, using Gamsol on a paper stump to blend it. I matted that on a piece of dark red cardstock, and then did my faux stitching.

For the card front, I used a patterned paper from The Paper Studio. Basically, I just followed the directions in the tutorial. I did more faux stitching around the outer edges, leaving the top open. I made the tag, which is the slider mechanism that reveals the inside sentiment, from a piece of red patterned paper from the same Paper Studio stack. It is sandwiched between the front & back layers of the card, but slides in and out freely. I added a piece of green ribbon to the top, to make it easier to slide it out. I then stamped one of the sentiments from this Hero Arts set on the inside panel in Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Here are a few detail shots:

Inside sentiment

The tag "opens" the card to reveal the inside message.

Side angle of the open card

Detail of the faux stitching

I am also entering this card in the following challenges:

a2z Scrapbooking's "Autumn & Christmas"
Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday "Tag It" (tag used for card mechanism)