Fathers Day Spinning Card

Fathers Day rolls around every year,

with the eternal question of 'what to do? Well, here's my 'to do'.  A flip card!

I can never seem to measure anything correctly, and this wasn't an exception as it needed some slight adjustment to make sure the corners of the middle flip piece didn't catch on the rest of the card.

   I really liked the way the card looks and flips between the dog and the message.  

Even better was that I finally used some of the pet paper I'd got from a magazine.  And it wasn't a cat! 

Raaaah! 

I carried on the dog theme with making the envelope out of the same paper.  I had to add some extra paper (orange) as it wasn't quite large enough for the envelope.

Anyone for cricket?

Anyone for cricket?

Pins and more pins!

Or do you prefer tennis?

I'm not sure a racket would have been any easier! It was hard working out how to quill the bat and ball. 

In retrospect I shouldn't have put a surrounding line where the ball hits the bat.

Pre flowers, looking better?

for the field I used hand made green paper because it has that nice uneven effect that can emulate grass.  Dotted in some flowers and I was done?  Nope!

The card felt unbalanced in some way.  Possibly I'd put the field in too high, too much white space below it?  Well, I added in a bunch of flowers which also didn't feel quite right.  Mrrrrrrr.  

Still I enjoyed making this card, and looking back if I do a similar style card I'm sure I'll do better.