Papertrey Ink February Blog Hop

The theme for this month’s Papertrey Ink blog hop is interactive cards. I’ve made a bunch of different kinds of interactive cards over the years—from waterfall cards to slider cards to pop up cards—and they’re always fun to present to a recipient. Today, I made a simple one where the focal image wobbles thanks to a tiny spring-like mechanism that was a new product introduced at this year’s Craft and Hobby Association winter trade show.

I decided to make the frog from the Boy Basics: Frog Hop set my wobbly image. I die cut the frog from white cardstock and stamped the matching outline image on the die cut, then colored it with Copic markers.

I made a simple scene for the frog using a piece of dotted paper for the sky and a strip of solid aqua cardstock for water. To give the water a liquid-like appearance, I covered the aqua strip with a piece of acetate recycled from PTI stamp packaging sheets. The die cut dotted lily pad conveniently hides the adhesive I used to hold the acetate in place. After peeling off the cover on the spring’s adhesive and attaching the spring to the back of the image, I attached the other side to the cardfront so that the frog appears to "sit" on the lily pad. When poked with a finger, the frog wobbles from side to side--too fun! I'm definitely not done playing with these springs. I'm hoping to have a little video of one of the springs in action to share next week . . .

Materials Used:
Boy Basics: Frog Hop stamp set, Hawaiian Shores ink, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Spring Moss, and White cardstock, Library Ledger patterned paper, Clouds, Tiny Tags, and Frog Hop dies (Papertrey Ink); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko); markers (Copic); Campfire designer paper (October Afternoon); baker's twine (The Twinery); white felt; wobble spring