Make It Monday Slider Card

Welcome to another Make It Monday Blog Post.  Polly Robin here to show you how I made another card.  This week I needed to make my father-in-law a card for his 84^th birthday.  Now something to know about him is that he is one of the top Door Dashers in his county.  Y’all, he’s turning 84 and Dashes every day.  He loves it so I wanted to give him a card to reflect that.  I decided to do a card with movement that mimic’s his hobby.  It’s not hard I promise!

As usual, I roughly planned both the inside and the outside of my card in Photoshop just so I could get a quick feel for what I wanted to do and how I wanted to use the paper and elements.  I knew I wanted to use Road Tested by Forever Joy since it had the perfect “man driving a car” element!

Next, I created my print sheet by selecting “Print to PDF” and then printing THAT with my Epson ET printer.

I also needed one with the elements, so I created a PDF of that one too:

Let me show you the finished card so you can follow along with my steps:

The card slides along that slot and tickled my FIL tremendously!  This is a simple card to make and if you search Youtube for interactive slider cards, you can see numerous videos showing you the process.  THIS is the one I used.  But in case you want to read about what I did, here are my steps:

1. I cut a 4” x 5 1/4” piece of cream paper and figured out where I wanted my road and car to be. Then I took a die and cut a long narrow strip from the cream paper.  This will be how the car moves back and forth.  If you don’t have a die, you can use a ruler to draw a rectangle and cut that out instead.
2. Next, I placed a penny on the back side of my cream paper and adhered it to the car using foam strips. The car was on the front side of the paper, and again, the penny was on the back.  Thus, the cream paper was sandwiched between the penny and car.  This allowed the car to move freely along the slot.
3. I then placed foam strips along the back of cream paper so that when I placed it on the red, slightly larger rectangle, the penny had enough room to slide freely.
4. After that it was easy, I attached the red rectangular piece of paper to a slightly larger turquoise one and cut out the words Happy Birthday with a die. I placed my “road” strip on the front and then simply cut out the car element for the inside.

It sounds way more complicated than it is so I encourage you to watch a video.  This card can be made using normal craft supplies, so you don’t need to spend much money to make it.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my card and I can’t wait to be back with another one in a few weeks!