Spinner Card

At a convention recently, I stopped by the Repeat Impressions booth to check out what Wendy was demonstrating:

Take a look at this fun Spinner Card she'd made earlier:

Want to know the secret behind it? She used their Die-Cut Spinner Card Fronts:


They make it super quick and easy to create these little gems! Just pull one out of the package:


And stamp your images:


Set aside the die-cut card.

Now stamp the outside and inside of a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of cardstock folded in half (supplied from your own stash) to form your card base:




Make the spinner mechanism by sticking a self-adhesive foam dot in between two pennies so that you've got a "penny sandwich":


Insert the penny sandwich into the slot of the card front:


The penny sandwich should roll freely back and forth in the slot:


Attach a foam dot to all four corners on the back side of the die-cut card:


Place the die-cut card onto your card base, and press on the corners to adhere:


On a separate piece of cardstock, stamp the small image you'd like to make spin. (In this case, it was one of those funny #7120-L Underpants Frogs shown on the front of the card.) Cut out the image, trimming loosely around its contours. Attach the cut image to the top of the penny sandwich with a glue dot or another foam dot, and that's all there is to it!

Duh, I forgot to take a picture of the finished project. But here's another version of the frog card:


This one is oriented vertically; each package of Die-Cut Spinner Card Fronts allows you to make both landscape and portrait style cards. Even better, they're available in both Brights or Pastels variety packs.

For more information or to order Spinner Card Fronts and foam dots, please visit Wendy's website. And thanks to Wendy for her great tutorial. Stop by again for more ideas from Repeat Impressions coming soon!