 Hi it's Vicky here and welcome back, today I'm going to share 3 cards, all of them have really interesting designs with a fun element for the recipe, so for the first card I create a lovely dimensional scene with the flaps, on the second one you get the gear that actually moves on the swing, and the last one is absolutely adorable, it's a window gatefold card that features the shape of the bunny on both flaps. So for the first card I have a white cardstock that's 4.25x5.5, that's the standard card size, and I also cut out of green cardstock 2 slopes just by using a couple of dies that I had, these have a lovely stitching, so they create a great detail. Now both those green cardstock are a little bit wider than what I need, so I'm going to make sure that I cut them out, and instead of cutting the width to be 4.25 which is the standard size, I need to have a quarter of an inch extra so that I can wrap it around my card, so that's actually 4.5x5, and here is how my card is going to go together once I glue everything, and you will be able to open up those front green flaps. Since I'm going for a little scene I'm going to create the sky here, and this is the main backing of my card, so for that I'm using a stencil that creates this lovely detail, and with my brush I'm adding a little bit of ink, I really want this to be quite subtle that's why I don't load my brush with too much ink, and that's why I prefer to use a brush instead of that blending tool that adds too much ink on your paper. Now with all the lights that I have on my crafting area you can't really tell, but you will see that it's quite visible at the end photos. I used a piece of green cardstock to stick it down at the bottom of my panel to complete my scene so I have the sky and the green grass now, and I'm going to go ahead and do some stamping. All my images for this card come from a new stamp set which is called Easter Bunny's, this is one of the designs by Stacy Yakula for my favorite things, it's one of my favorite designers and I absolutely love all her stamps. If I'm not mistaken they release one stamp set from her every month and I absolutely recommend her designs, check them out you will absolutely love them. So now I'm going to use my alcohol markers to color everything, my two bunnies, the eggs and the butterflies and then I'm going to use the matching dice to cut out everything. Now I added some double-sided tape at the back of those flaps and I'm going to put my card together. This is a card where the inside is exposed, the flaps are part of the design and they actually create my heels and on the inside of those flaps you can write your message. At the back you will be able to see those flaps, if that bothers you you can always cover it up with another piece of cardstock. I don't mind at all so I'm just going to leave it as it is. However, the back of those colored images bothers me since the ink bleeded through I used the Nina Solar White cardstock which is the 80 pounds so I'm going to cut out two more images of those bunnies and I'm going to stick them at the back, this way I have a nice and clean backing. Before sticking them down I'm using Nouveau Del Luxe, this is liquid glue which allows me to slide them until I have the perfect fitting. Now I can stick all those cutouts on top of my card and I'm using foam squares to secure them down making sure that the foam squares do not show as I open the flaps. I'm also going to stick my butterflies on the sky as well as the stack of eggs on the inside of the card. Now I do have a couple of butterflies here but you will see at the finished photo I added a third one. Now for the sentiment I went with Happy Easter which is one of the sentiments included in the same stamp set as the bunnies which I have just stamped on white cardstock, cut it out with a die that has a fish tail on one end and just stack it down. And finally I used my cropped dial to round the top edges since this is the front and the inside of my card. It's a really adorable card, perfect for wishing Happy Easter and here are some close-up photos. Now let's move on to the second card, this is going to be really fun. The stamp set that I'm using here is called Start Each Day with a Wii. I'm stamping my emas, this is the little girl on a swing and I'm going to use my alcohol markers to color her as well as the matching die to cut her out. This is a new stamp set by my favorite things and it comes with three sentiments as well which I'm going to use one of them on my card today. So here is my girl all colored and ready to go. Now I'm going to use a die set by my favorite things which has just been released. It gives you all the parts that you need to create an interactive swing. Now I will be using this large one and I'm also going to use this. This can work as a tree or it can work as a cloud. So it makes designing cards really versatile and also it gives you in the set a swing. So you can add on your swing anything you like. I'm going to use double-sided tape on this big cutout piece here and then I'm going to stick on top the girl but there are many different ways on how you can put your swings together and make sure to visit the YouTube channel of my favorite things. You will find there a video by Stefanie where she creates three cards using this die set in different ways. Now I have this ring at the top and I'm going to use a foam circle that I have here. I'm going to place it inside the circle and this has adhesive at the bottom and at the top and on top I'm going to stick a little paper circle that I have cut out. So here you can see how easy it is for the little girl to swing and now of course I have to cover up that mechanism somehow and that's where that trick comes in. So I have used foam tape all around making sure that I don't block the bottom as I want my girl to swing easily. I also use the die to cut out this grass and I'm going to stick it down so that I have a ground for my scene. I also added a sentiment from the same stamp set as the little girl and you can of course take your card a step further if you stick down little flowers or even clouds to your sky or birds and butterflies flying around. There are so many ways to dress up this design even more. For the last design for today I'm going for a window gatefold card so I have two standard cards here. These are both four and a quarter by five and a half and I have folded the front flap on both of them in half and then I can place one inside the other. I do have another video with gatefold cards which I am going to link for you at the end of this video if you want to take a look. I have double sided tape at the back of one of the cards and I'm going to slide one on top of the other, stick them together and just make sure that everything is nicely aligned. So my card press is now ready. All I'm going to do is to cut out a window, I am going to use this die, this comes from a new die set by my favorite things from the latest release, it's called the cotton tail cutie, it's absolutely adorable and I love the fact that it is symmetrical and that's why this is going to work for this card. So I secured that on the front flap and I'm going to run it through my pick shoot making sure that I keep the flap folded. And since I'm trying to cut out two layers of cardstock I'm going to run it a couple of times through my pick shot making sure that this is going to cut out all the way through. Now I'm going to fold my card again and without moving the die at all I'm going to secure it on the other flap. Then I will remove the purple tape from the first card that I did and now I'm going to run the other side by doing so I know that the die hasn't moved at all I'm going to end up with a nice continuous design where everything is perfectly aligned. Again I'm going to run it a couple of times through my pick shot making sure that the die is going to cut out through the two layers of cardstock. And here is my card base ready to go, you have a window at the center but when you open up the flaps you do get those bunnies on each side, absolutely adorable. Now for the inside I'm going to create the bunny and that's just paper piecing I'm going to cut out all the pieces from white cardstock and then I'm going to cut out a few more from the pink cardstock that I have for my card base and now it's just a matter of putting everything together with glue. Of course I need to make sure that the white bunny head is perfectly aligned inside that window. And if you have any other dies that cut out animals that have symmetrical faces you can create this design. I know that my favorite things has more animals like this one and if you have any of the picture book by Simon S. Stump dies they work great for this design as well. So I'm putting all those little pieces together for sticking down everything I'm using my Nouveau Deluxe, this is my go-to liquid glue, I absolutely love it just because it never clogs on me. Of course you can give your little bunny to hold anything you like, like a little balloon or a flower or a little gift. Mine is holding a little banner that says Happy Birthday. The sentiment comes from the stamp set which is called Birdie Brown Greetings Galore. It's packed with greetings for every occasion and my super adorable card is ready. I'm going to keep everything closed with a ribbon and of course you can create a little band to keep your card closed either with cardstock or with vellum. This design is really easy to make and recreate but it creates a really wow factor for the recipient especially since you end up having bunny windows on both flaps. So these were the cards for today, I hope you had fun and you got inspired. As always you will find a full list of all the supplies that I used down below in the description area as well as on my blog. Don't forget to like the video and share it with your friends if you had fun watching and thank you all so much for spending some time with me today.