A Year Of Card Techniques–Waterfall Cards

Welcome to A Year of Card Techniques Blog Hop where each month we feature a different card technique. We’ve assembled a team of card makers who range from new to advanced, so you’ll see a great variety of cards and ideas.

There’s just something about interactive cards and Waterfall Cards are among the best interactive card techniques!  They do look intricate, though, so we’ll let you in on any hints we uncover along the way.   Hopefully, we’ll inspire you to try one for yourself.

If you would like to check out our past technique hops, you can do that here:

• January-Shaving Cream Marbleizing

• February-So Sketchy

• March-no hop this month

• April-Stamp Set Showdown

• May-World of Watercolor

• June-Basic Card Folds

• July-Bleaching Your Card

• August-World of Watercolor

• September-Inlaid & Lifted Die Cuts

This month our amazing sponsor is none other than  Bugaboo Stamps

Please take a moment to check out their store here, their blog here and their Facebook page here.

And the awesome prize this month is $12.00 gift code to the store (about four digi images).

We really appreciate feedback, so please leave a comment on each of the blogs in the hop today.  The winner will be announced on Sunday, October 29, 2017, on A Piece of (my) Heart’s blog, so be sure to check her blog on Sunday.  If you would prefer to be notified if you win, please leave your email address in the comments and someone will contact you.  The winner will have until November 16, 2017, to claim their prize.

Since I’m the first blog on this hop, let’s get straight to hopping.

I had some really cute Santa images so I decided to make my first card a Christmas card.  Yay, now I can say I’ve started making my cards.  Only 59 more to go! 

Here are the Santa images I am using for the waterfall:

And here is my card:

I decided to do a landscape waterfall card first.  I found some free digital paper online and printed it off to use as my background layer.    Once I had all my images printed, I backed them with a “Ho, Ho, Ho” sentiment and started to assemble the card.  After the last Santa image was adhered, I ended with a Merry Christmas message.

My vision for this card was to have each Santa appear as if he were peaking out of a window in different positions so that when I flipped through the waterfall, it looked like he was moving from position to position.  It didn’t really work as well on paper as it did in my head, lol.

I finished this card off by decorating the inside with more free digital paper and a cute reindeer image.

The next card used some gorgeous, Gorjuss images.  This time I created a portrait card.  Once again, I found some great digital paper online and printed it out to use as my background.  After I printed each image, I backed them with a striped paper to match the color scheme.  I cut a rounded rectangle out of the bottom of the polkadot paper and then layered over the top of a piece of cardstock that had been stamped with a “Hello” sentiment and some hearts.

Click on the video below to see my card in action:

Now you’re off to visit with Claudia.  I’m sure she’s created something super special for us this month. Hope you had fun and thanks for stopping by. See you next month with another technique!

Here’s the full line-up in case you get lost:

Sharon
Claudia
Wilma
Jearise
Lisa
Jodie
Card A Day Challenge Team
Debbie
Amanda