I was inspired by Catherine (https://crafticat.art/2024/02/19/gardening-with-lawn-fawn/) to make this fun pull tab card:
This took 2 attempts. On my first try I had the slider pieces placed too low so I didn’t have room for a sentiment. I also didn’t cut off enough of the flowers so they weren’t as hidden in the before shot. You can see the comparison here:
I think it’s nice to share the attempts like this so that we can all remember that everything is a learning process and even the perfect cards we see online might have taken extra practice to make!
This was the first time I made a pull tab card that had multiple pieces being pulled up together. I think it’s a fun effect and I’m looking forward to making more like this. Here are some pictures from the creation process in case anyone is interested:
I cut about this much off the bottom of the flowers so they could stay mostly hidden before being pulled up.
I added pieces of foam tape as stoppers under each pull tab section to make sure the flowers wouldn’t get pulled down too far and be visible below the planters. Then I attached all the pull tabs together so they would pull up at the same time. I think Catherine might have done partial die cutting to make the pull tab slits shorter to avoid having to hide more of them but I’m not sure.
Materials used:
- Large Stitched Rectangles
- Grassy Stencil
- Distress oxide inks: Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Salvaged Patina, Broken China
- Let’s Toast Pull Tab
- All The Clouds (sun)
- Butterfly Kisses (butterflies)
- Garden Before n After (sentiment, flowers)
- Some Bunny (planters, gardening tool)
- Berry Special (mouse with overalls)
- Merry Mice (center mouse)
- Crazy Antics (sitting mouse)
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