Flip! It’s your birthday card| Polkadoodles

Hello everyone!

I am so excited to tell you that I am a new design team member at Polkadoodles, and this is my first Design Team card. Every fortnight, I create an inspiration card for a new challenge on the Polkadoodles challenge blog. This time I made a flip-flap card with the sentiment Flip! It’s your birthday. The theme is always “Anything goes” and you can participate with whatever brand and project you like. As a design team, we are always given a theme to work on. This time it is “Pancake Day”.

I chose the Pancakes Oopsie digi stamp to work with. I combined the digital stamp with the Pancakes Sentiment set and the digital patterned paper set Paper Heaven 1 – Lil miss Sugerpops. I like the sentiment, Flip! It’s your birthday, so much so that I wanted to make a Flip Flap card with it. Read on to find out how to make this and what it looks like when you flip it.

Let’s get into it.

• I made a craft base card measuring 13 centimetres by 13 centimetres. You need a piece of craft paper measuring 13 centimetres by 26 centimetres. You score at the long side at 13 centimetres.
• A piece of brown card stock measuring 12,5 centimetres by 12,5 centimetres.
• Digital patterned paper measuring 12 centimetres by 12 centimetres.
• Brown piece of paper 10 centimetres.
• Brown piece of paper, measuring 21 centimetres by 6 centimetres.
• A piece of brown paper measuring 8 centimetres by 8 centimetres.
• DCP paper to print your digital image and sentiment on. Leave room to die-cut it with a square-framed die.

I printed my image and sentiment on DCP paper. I colored my image with my alcohol markers.

• Face: Sand, Peachy Blush, Salmon Pink and Barely Beige.
• Hair: Clay, Walnut, Rose Beige and Hazelwood.
• Pancake: Darwood, Chocolat, Clay, Walnut and Hazelwood.
• Dress, shoes, and pocket: Sap Green, Dark Olive, Greyish Green, Sage and Soft Green.
• Apron and bow: Deep Yellow, Dark Yellow, Lemon Yellow and Pastel Yellow.
• Pan: Blue Grey 9, Blue Grey 5, Blue Grey 3 and Blue Grey 1.

After the coloring I die-cut the image out of the paper with a square die.

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I used the sentiment, Flip! It’s your birthday. It is one of the sentiments out of the set I mentioned. In the set, the sentiment is one line. But I wanted to separate it. You can do that in Word. You pasted the sentiment in a Word document. Click on the sentiment. Go to the Picture format menu. There, you can choose the Crop option. Click crop and you can crop the sentiment to the word you want. I first cropped it with the word Flip. And then I cropped the sentiment a second time to the words “It’s your birthday”.

I decided I wanted to make a flip-flap card. It fits the sentiment perfectly. To make the flip flap, you need your pattern paper and the brown piece measuring 21 centimetres by 6 centimetres. You score your brown piece at 6 and 7 centimetres. I wanted to let the piece look like a tag, so I die cut the edge of the brown piece with a tag die. You can also cut it yourself into any shape you want.

Your piece now looks like this:

You take your design paper, and you make a notch in the centre of the card. In my case, that is at 6 centimetres. My brown piece is 6 centimetres wide, so I made the notch slightly bigger. The notch is 1 centimetre wide.

Stick your digital stamp on the 12,5 centimetres by 12,5 centimetres brown square. Stick the piece with the sentiment it’s your birthday on the 8 by 8 centimetres brown piece. Now it’s time to stick this on your flip-flap mechanism. The mechanism goes through the card like this:

First, glue your smaller square to the flip flap mechanism. You glue this on the score line on the side of the tag.

Now it’s time for the bigger piece. You stick this against the other score line. The large square will cover the small square.

Stick double-sided tape on the back of the small square. Place the squares how you want them on the card, then stick the small square to the patterned paper.

Now it’s time to stick this on your base card. Behind the pattern paper, attach foam tape. Position the foam tape so that it does not affect the flip flap mechanism.

I decorated the card with some elements and the card is ready.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you like my project and check out the other projects of the other members of the design team too. I hope you will join our challenge.

Happy crafting!

Thank you for joining me in creating this Flip Flap Birthday Card. I hope you enjoyed the process and found inspiration in creating a card with Polkadoodles products.

If you have any questions, need clarification, or want to share your thoughts, please comment below. I will answer as soon as possible.

Remember, the beautiful handmade birthday flip flap card was created to inspire you to participate in the Polkadoodles’ “Anything goes” challenge. I am excited to see your creative journey unfold! This is your chance to showcase your skills, so gather your craft supplies and let your imagination run wild. Show us the amazing projects you come up with! I strongly encourage you to join in this thrilling challenge, create your art, and share your work with our lively community. Your talent deserves recognition, and who knows? You might be our next winner!

In this section, I show other birthday cards that are also made with Polkadoodles Products. Click on the link to go to the article

Handmade Cup Cake Birthday card

I’m listing the products I used below. I will link them when I can. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase, I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support.

Flipping Pancakes 

This digital stamp is no longer exactly the same as when I used it. It has been adjusted, but you can still create this card with it.

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Pancakes and Waffles food-drink-printable-greetings-bundle-2

This is also another sentiment set. But in this sentiment set, there is the text that I have used for this card.

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Paper Heaven 1 – Lil Miss Sugarpops Kit 1

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