How I created my Spin card

 

As promised, here are the instructions on how I created my spin card.  I had a fun time figuring out and making this card.  Here it is again: 

And here she is in action:

To create this card, I needed to mirror the image of the skater. To do this, I used mirror stamping. This uses a solid image stamp to transfer the image to and then you use this to stamp the mirror image on your paper.  Here are a few great videos from Jennifer McGuire showing how to do the technique:

Mirror stamping: check out this video

Mirror stamping with a stamping platform: check out this video 

My mirror stamp is an old rubber one and I wasn't fully happy with the image I got so I think I will play more in the future with Jennifer's acetate idea. I loved her idea of just using a solid stamp from your stash - I will have to see if I have one! In the end, I ended up tracing over the image with a black Copic Multiliner to make it more sharp.  Once I stamped the 2 images, I coloured them up with my copics, cut out 1 and then laid the 2 images together and cut out the 2nd one to match. This was a bit tricky - to do this, I cut close to a few spots on the 2nd image and then lined them as close as I could.  I wanted my skater to have a little bit of ice under her so I cut out an oval from white paper and covered it with Glossy Accents to make it look like ice.  Once this was dry, I took some thread and a needle and threaded it through the middle of the oval. 

 I created my background and added the sentiment and lightly tacked it to my card front. I positioned a circle die over the front where I wanted it and cut out the 2 layers at  the same time.  I removed the front panel and using the thread from above I laid down one of  the skater images upside down and positioned her where I wanted her in the circle above the oval.  I then adhered some thread to the top of the circle on the card base, across the back of my image and on the bottom of the circle on the card base using strong sticky double sided tape. I then added the 2nd image onto the first.  I attached the front panel and decorated it with the little bird from the stamp set and the Krafty dots.  To make sure the ice oval didn't drop, I added a drop of clear drying glue under the oval on the string. I let this dry with the oval being flat so it would flip down when the card was opened.   

I created an inside panel to match the front one as a plain white background was too stark.  To get her to spin, you simply rotate her a few times and then close the card and tilt the ice as seen in the first picture above. When the recipient of the card opens it, she will do a beautiful pirouette!  

Purples : BV08, BV17, V17, V15

Earth: E09, E08, E07

Cool Greys: C0, C1

Black Copic Multiliner SP size 0.35

Stamps : Kraftin' Kimmie Skating Friend, reverse stamp

Kraftin' Kimmie dots