Sandy Cogdill Designs: Pull 'n Slide Surprise Halloween Card

Happy Summer Friends! I know, I know, it's too early for Halloween, but let me explain. The current Lawn Fawn Challenge #198 is Up, Up and Away. Bats and Bubbles go up, up and away don't they! Plus, I am always looking for a reason to craft a Halloween Card.

This interactive card is created using the Pull 'n Slide Surprise Die. I am a huge fan of this die, because it is easy and once constructed, it still easily fits in an envelope without any extra postage. Win! Win!

To create a wall and floor background for my card, I used a 5.5" x 11", piece of cardstock. I inked the long side of the cardstock, so I will have two matching pieces - one for the die cut top and one that will go underneath it.

I masked off about 2.5" from the bottom and inked the area with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink. Using the Brick Stencil and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink, I inked in my purple wall.

I used the Woodgrain Backdrops Stamp to stamp in my floor on both pieces, trying to keep the woodgrain lined up with the two.

Once my ink had dried, I went back over the area with my ink brush to put some color in the white areas that the stencil created. Leaving the masking in place, I spatted the wall with a little watered down black watercolor. I also inked the part of the mechanism that pulls out at the top of the card with the Brick Stencil and the Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink. I wanted it to blend in with the wall when pulled up.

I used the sentiments from the Fangtastic Friends Stamp Set on the part that is exposed when the tab is pulled up. I stamped it to the left side of the opening so I could put a hanging bat next to it.

The images on this card are from Fangtastic Friends, Fangtastic Friends Add On and the Purrfectly Wicked Stamp Sets. They were all colored in with Copic Markers in the following colors:

B000, B00, BG01
YR02, YR09
C1
R20, R21
V01, V15, V17
YG23
Y02, Y35
E55, E57, E59

Once I assembled the interactive mechanism on the card, I started building my scene. I cut the cauldron from black cardstock using the Build A Cauldron Die. I also cut my bubbles using the bubbles from the die set.

I attached my bats and bubbles to thin acetate strips and attached them to the back of my cauldron. Once I had them attached, I attached the cauldron to the card with the handles just below the fold that the die makes, that way when I pulled up on the tab, the bats and bubbles were free to "float" above it.

I decorated the pull tab with images from the Fangtastic Stamp Set as opposed to using it as a gift card holder. Then I attached foam tape on the back of the interactive card and adhered it to piece of black cardstock cut to 4.25" x 5.5". I used the Starry Sky Background Hot Foil Plate with fuchsia foil to add a little interest to it.