Saturday, April 26, 2008

moving card (slider)

made a new card this morning. i have an order for 30 moving cards, and wanted to do something cool and new, yet still cost effective (i will sell these 30 cards for $100). my challenge here was to make 30 cards as inexpensive as possible (actually to find that nice balance between low cost and beauty). overall, the greatest expense here was the designer paper ($12). i had 12 sheets, so that made 24 cards. the remaining 6 will be on regular cardstock lined with some of the leftover designer paper. since i didn't have to buy the stamps (borrowed them from melissa - THANKS!) i saved $50 or more. woohoo! and in case you were wondering, i did not come up with this idea myself. melissa mentioned making a slider card, and i found this website that had a wonderful tutorial on how to do it! so, they may be "low cost" for me to make, but they are VERY labor intensive. i've been working all day and only cut 12 sheets so far. there is a lot of small cuts and scoring on these sliders! but, they look so great! this card isn't one that is easily photographed, so i just made a short video of it! let me know what you think!

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