How to Create a Galaxy Background & Pull Tab Slider Card

Hi everyone! 

Jayne from the DT here with this month's blog tutorial! 

I am absolutely loving this month's release and can't stop making things with it! What's been your favourite product? During the live release on Facebook, Jo showed you my card featuring a bunny zooming through the galaxy in his paper plane, and you guys loved it (thank you!). So, this month, I'm going to recreate that card for you and teach you how to make your own.

Supplies

 

You will need:

- Pull tab dies

- Die cutting machine

- Smooth cardstock for ink blending

- Blender brushes or foams

- Inks to blend

- White paint & paintbrush

- Paper Plane Pals stamps and dies

 

Instructions

So, please be kind with me guys - I made a video (my first ever). I thought it might help for you to see the pull tab dies in action. I've also included step-by-step instructions, below, if you prefer!

 

 

1. Cut a panel of smooth cardstock to 3.75" x 5". 

2. Pick some bright colours to be the colourful spots in your galaxy - I used picked raspberry, wilted violet and mermaid lagoon distress oxides. Squeezed lemonade also works well. Apply two or three patches of colour to the card panel (you can use blender brushes or foams, you just want a bold pop of colour, no blending skills needed here!). Take a dark blue ink (I used chipped sapphire) and blend over the rest of the card, all the way up to your bright spots. Finally, darken the edges of the card by blending on some black ink (mine was black soot).

3. Once your inks have dried, add your stars by flicking some white paint across the panel - I add mine to an acrylic block, then use a medium size paintbrush to flick it off the edge and onto the page.

4. Stamp your bunny and paper plane onto some white card stock (I used Neenah, as it copes well with Copic colouring) and colour with whatever medium you prefer. I used Copics, so I stamped it in Gina K amalgam ink, which is alcohol marker friendly.

5.  Time to make the slider element! Grab your pull tab dies and die cut the following:

1.     A long rectangle in a similar colour to your background, and another in any scrap card;
2. The pull tab die (the one with the little arrow in the middle) in a similar colour to your background, and another in a contrasting colour (I did white);
3. A small white rectangle, from any scrap card;
4. The plaster/band-aid shape, from any scrap card.

6. Choose the length of track you want your bunny to travel along (there’s three in the pack, I chose the smallest for the A2 card). Line it up where you want it to go on your card. Then place the little semi-circle die that cuts out a notch on the edge of your card, level with your track. Die cut both.

7. Glue together your two long rectangles, to make the slider nice and sturdy. Fold the band-aid shape along the score lines – fold up towards yourself for the two middle lines, then away from yourself for the two outer ones. Fold this shape around your long rectangle, with the little flaps on the top. Poke the little flaps through your track from the reverse side of your card, and flatten them down on the front side. Position the slider so that the flaps are at the furthest point away from the notch, and make sure that your slider isn’t poking out the end of the card panel. Glue your plaster shape in place from underneath, then glue your bunny in his plane to the little flaps.

8. Turn your card over again and line up the slider so it is in the centre of the notch. Pop a dot of liquid glue in the centre of the small rectangle die cut and adhere to the reverse of the card panel, near to the notch. Wrap the small rectangle loosely around the slider, to stop it wiggling up and down. Secure in place with dot of liquid glue.

9. Turn your card back over so it is right side up, trim any excess length off the slider (you want it to be flush to the edge of the card where the notch is), and glue the pull tab in place so it sits snugly in the middle of the notch. Glue the little arrow in your contrasting colour into the centre of the pull tab.

10. You should now be able to slide your pull tab so your bunny travels along the track!

11. Cut a card base to US A2 size (4.25 x 5.5") and adhere the card panel – you’ll need to do this with foam tape as this has a bit of height to it, which will allow the slider element to move freely.

12. Last of all, choose your sentiment – I used “the sky’s the limit” and heat embossed it on to some black card. I popped it in place with some more foam tape (yes, I’m a foam tape addict), to complete my card.

 

Easier than it looks, right? I love with this set that you could use the greeting “flying by to say…” and then use any other sentiment on the inside of the card to make it suitable for any occasion you like!

 

These tabs are so much fun, what have you made with yours?

 

Thanks for stopping by and if you fancy picking up a set for yourself, discount code T4TJAYNE10 will get you 10% off your entire purchase at the T4TD online store.

 XOXO