Hello AI Friends!
Welcome to my feature for the "When One Door Closes" bi-weekly challenge.
I thought it would be fun to make a chicken coop and create a fun fold door card.
I used the AICS40 Spring Chicken and the 5731 - MB Chicken set for this interactive card. How does the saying go "When one door closes, another one opens"? Who would have thought that it opens to a CHICKEN PARTY! 😁
I did the usual by stamping the images onto copic friendly paper with Memento black ink and colored with my copic markers listed below. I used the 5135 - Hexagon Double Stitch largest die to cut the chicken image and then I used the 5063 - Rectangle A2 Double Stitch largest die to cut the straight edge at the bottom. The images on the front of the card were cut with the matchbook dies that come with the set. I fussy cut the tabs off for the matchbook. I also fussy cut the 6003 - Exclusive Coop freebie.
To make the fun fold coop card - start with a 4 1/2 x 11 piece of colored cardstock. Score and fold
at 2 3/4 and 8 1/4". Fold the card shut to make an A2 size card. Use the hexagon die to make a template out of scrap cardstock. Place the point of the template on the inside edges of the front flaps of the card. Either draw a cut line for the angle cuts at the top of the card or place the card base into your cutter holding the template in place and cut the angle cuts.
For the inside pattern pieces, middle - cut a gingham piece 4 1/4 x 5 1/4. Cut the angles at the top using the cut off angle pieces for the template then cut off the bottom edge to fit. Do the same for the sides but cut two pattern paper pieces at 4 1/4 x 2 1/2. Adhere the inside pattern pieces. To cut the windows, use the template for the angles and draw your window. Cut using an exacto knife. Glue some screen material to the inside panel just along the window hole. Take narrow pieces of cardstock to frame the inside of the window (see below).
For the valance at the top of the windows (inside and out), I cut several edges from pattern paper using the scallop edge from the 5543 - Journal Template die set. For the front of the card, I placed thicker edges along the bottom and popped up the top thinner layer. I used thinner edges for the inside windows.
The sentiments came with the AICS40 - Spring Chicken stamp set. I cut two of them with the 6046 - Scallop Oval dies and adhered them to the inside flaps. The one on the front, I used the 5063 - Rectangle A2 Double Stitch die. The eggs on the inside are from the 5738 - Easter Egg House set and are fussy cut and placed onto a straw piece cut using a die from my stash.
As for the front of the card, I used the 5731 - Matchbook Chicken set along with the 6003 - Exclusive Coop freebie (available now with a $30 order). The fence and grass are dies from my stash.
The latch was created using several layers of cardstock with a wood grain cardstock as the top layer. I cut three strips of wood grain cardstock at 3/8 x 1 1/4". I cut one in half and placed a piece of cardstock behind each. I folded both of these to make the hooks and glued in place.
I layered several pieces of scrap cardstock behind one of the other wood grain pieces and placed a brad into one end. I used the heart die cut as the anchor so that the latch would turn. Punch a small hole into the heart die cut and place the brad prongs through it. Secure the brad but make sure it is not too tight so that it can rotate.
I cut about 1/4" off one end of the last wood grain piece and layered with several pieces of scrap cardstock. I then glued this to the back of the other (scrap to scrap) avoiding the brad. You want the wood grain to show from both the inside and the front. Glue down the heart and check that the latch will move up and over. See video below.
I hope you enjoyed my card today. Thanks for joining me!
Have a wonderful day and keep creating!
Copics used: T0, T2, T4
E21, E23, R22, R24, R27
YR16, YR18, YR20, YR21, YR24, YR27
Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17
YG06, YG17, G40
B000, B12, B14
