Dancing Witch Card

Hello! Happy World Card Making Day! I am a guest designer at Send a Smile 4 Kids for the month of October. This month's challenge theme is Holiday/Celebration 4 Kids. There are lots of ways to interpret this theme especially with the coming holidays. I chose Halloween since most kids love to dress up and do trick or treating during this holiday. 

Keeping in mind that I am creating a card for a kid, I decided to make an interactive card. The focal point of the card, the witch's legs swing left to right as you can see on the video below.

The dies I used for the witch and the legs came as a part of a Halloween die set given to me by my co-worker, Janelle. It came unmarked so I am not sure what company this die set is from. The details of the witch's legs are cut individually making it prone to misplacing a piece. It would have been nice if this die set came with a solid piece which you can adhere to the back of the detailed piece. I die cut the hat on purple cardstock twice. I did the same with the legs using black cardstock this time. I adhered the die cuts on top of each other for some stability. Since the legs have some missed pieces, I adhered it to another black cardstock. I trimmed of the excess up to the edge of the die cut being careful not to cut the detailed leg piece.

I colored the detailed parts of the hat and the legs with Karin and Altenew acrylic markers. 

I positioned the witch's legs on the back of the hat. I die cut a circle on the legs die cut. I adhered circle foam tapes on the top back of the witch's hat making sure that I do not apply any tape on the area where the legs will swing. I adhered another circle foam tape to the lower back portion of the hat, inside the circle opening.

For the background of the dancing witch, I added glue to a white scrap cardstock. I adhered a Halloween tape to this glue. I smoothen the tape with a bone folder. I die cut this piece with an arch die from Hero Arts. I die cut it larger than how I wanted it so I die cut this again using the next smaller size of arch die.  I die cut two more arches using this die on white scrap cardstock. I adhered this white arch die cuts to the back of the taped arch to add a bit of dimension.

For the back panel, I trimmed a black cardstock at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I stamped halloween sentiments from old My Mind's Eye stamp sets to this panel using white pigment ink. I set this aside to dry.

I adhered the arch die to the center of the stamped panel. I adhered the frame I created earlier to the panel. I adhered the dancing witch next, adding a dot of glue to the foam adhesives for extra support.

Now, you can freely swing the legs to and fro which you will see on the short video below.

I hope you like today's project. I hope you join this month's SAS 4 Kids challenge and also consider donating your card/s. There is a tab on the SAS 4 Kids for what cards are needed at the moment and another tab to whom you mail the cards to. 

Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day! 

Maria Giselle B.

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