Project Tuesday: Hinged Card

Happy Tuesday everyone! I've been looking forward to sharing my first Project Tuesday creation with you - it's such a fun card style, I hope you'll give it a try.

This week we've made a Hinged Card, rather than opening as usual, your top layer swivels using a brad. Interactive cards like this are so fun for the recipient!

The basic construction of this card is simple - your top layer lies behind the bottom layer and is held in place by a brad, allowing it to swivel. Wendy has a wonderful video on how she creates hinged cards. You can view it here.

I knew I wanted to use Baja Breeze and Pink Pirouette on my card - I added Real Red to my combo for some pop. Isn't that ribbon gorgeous? It's only available for the rest of the month in the Summer Mini Catalogue. I've used Soft Summer - perhaps my favourite two-step stamping set, it always looks great.


Here's what my card looks like open. You can see that my oval focal layer is only attached to the top layer of my card - using dimensionals helps it slide over the border layer easily. You can write your message in this space, or do what I did, and also decorate the back of your card.

I just love that eyelet border punch - I haven't used mine a lot, but I think I will from now on. For this back layer I only stamped the top part of the branch image for a pretty, clean look.

I hope you'll play along and create your own hinged card. Make sure to link your creation at Project Tuesday and see what the rest of the design team has come up with!




Stamps: Soft Summer, Circle of Friendship
Paper & Card: Whisper White, Pink Pirouette & Real Red Card.
Parisian Breeze and Candy Lane Designer Paper.
Ink: Real Red, Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze
Punches: 1" Circle, 1/2" Circle, Large Corner & Eyelet Border Punches
Other: Pink Pirouette Grosgrain Ribbon, Piercing Tool & Mat Pack
Dimensionals, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Baja Breeze Corduroy Brad, White Gel Pen, Crop-a-dile
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Other: Oval Nestabilities