First of all, a big “Thank You!!” to everyone who came to the Rubber Stamp and Papercraft sale this weekend. Also, thank you to all of the sellers (we had 17!) who provided such a nice variety of stamps and tools, and a big thank you to the gals from my team who helped set up, sell, and clean up!
Debbie had the great idea to snap a few pictures from the sale…
Isn’t this an inviting check-out table? Carol from my group (on the left) is so friendly and welcoming. My girls had their big smiles ready, too, though I know they would have liked to stay in bed on a Saturday morning. They all did a great job! Debbie also got a great shot of Nancy, one of our favorite stampers, looking through all of the stamp sets we had for sale.
Thanks again to all for making the sale a success!
We also had Stamp Club this weekend, and these are the Spinner Cards we made. If you are not familiar with Spinner Cards, you might want to check out the video at the end of the post to see how they move – the crab and the cupcake spin in their tracks.
This cupcake card is an example of the classic spinner. It uses a straight track made with the Word Window punch. You can spin any shape or image. Stars, flowers, sunshine, pinwheels, kites, animals, greetings, word bubbles, you name it – if you can mount it on a penny, you can spin it.
I used the new “Cupcake Party” stamps primarily, with banners from the Sale-a-bration set “Banner Blast”. The little Happy Birthday stamp on the orange banner is from “Honeycomb Hello”, which will be a great set for banners as well as honeycombs.
This spinner on a circular track is a fun version, and thanks to the Circle Framelits, it is easy to make. We used the 3 3/16″ circle framelit to cut the large circle, and the 2 3/8″ circle for the octopus piece which makes the center of the track. By the way, the octopus piece is a double layer of the Whisper White on a piece of Coastal Cabana. I didn’t think the Whisper White alone would make a firm enough edge for the track.
The stamp set here is “Sea Street” and the greeting is from “Itty Bitty Banners”.
In either case, the spinning image is simply mounted on a penny. The picture below shows a close up of the track on the cupcake card so you can see the layers that surround the track. There is a penny above and below the track, with a dimensional sandwiched between.
The crab is done similarly, except I omitted the penny on top of the track. One penny provided enough weight for a good spin, and the three layers of cardstock above the track (the crab, circle, and scallop circle) provided a firm top. Either way works great as you can see by the motion in the video…my first Buckeye Inklings video!
