Rotating Spinner Card - BFlies - Just 4U

The mechanism is the aqua blue circle scored to create 24 sections and a 1.25" circle in the center, then 7 sections cut away including the small center circle. Accordion folded both ways to make the mechanism very pliable. (the 1st section will be glued to the card base at the end of construction).

Cream squares glued to the mechanism, then the butterflies punched out of geli print papers and adhered to the squares.. Added glitter to the body area. This was then mounted to a pearlized metallic cream cardstock and then mounted to the blue textured cardbase.

I created the Happy Birthday words  on another geli print, cut out/pasted to the inside.

Rotating Spinner Card - Hearts - Happy Birthday

 

And another spinner card... I think I'm addicted to them... You can see an other one HERE 

The mechanism is a the black circle scored to create 24 sections and a 1.25" circle in the center, then 7 sections cut away including the small center circle. Accordion folded both ways to make the mechanism very pliable. (the 1st section will be glued to the card base at the end of construction).

I adhered white squares, then a largish hand cut red heart to each, and then punched out white hearts and then the small punched heart which I added glitter to (some like the heart on the front and some just as an outline of a heart. This was mounted to a gold textured cardstock and then onto my white card base.

On the underside of each white base I wrote out a single letter to read "LOVE U BUNCHES with a glittered heart separating the words.

Art Of The Fold - Rotating Spinner Card - Thinking Of You

size closed: 5"sq
The challenge for our next Art Of The Fold Group (Jan 2026) has us making a spinner cards and after making 2 of them I decided to try a rotating waterfall card...  couldn't resist trying to make this particular style. The original is 8.5"sq and not a card so set it aside to mull over and decided to make this smaller version and made it into a card. Much more useful...

Card base is basic black cardstock.

The mechanism is a circle scored to create 24 sections and a 1.25" circle in the center, then 7 sections cut away including the small center circle. Accordion folded both ways to make the mechanism very pliable. (the 1st section will be glued to the card base at the end of construction).

Adhered my 1.5" squares to each fold area, starting at the 2nd folded section.

Note: I didn't do any decorating or writing till the end so my letters were always in a readable orientation.

Drew out the letters for "thinking of you" in my funky style and painted with US ArtQuest Mica Color Metallic and Interference sets. Added a thick black shadow to each letter and a decorative doodle in each with gel pens.

Link Rotating Waterfall Card base Instr HERE

Art Of The Fold - Spinner Card - From Me To You

size closed: 5.5"sq
The challenge for our next Art Of The Fold Group (Jan 2026) has us making a spinner card and this is my 2nd card...  couldn't resist trying to make one that didn't catch when opening the card and since Valentine's is around the corner... figured hearts was appropriate.
Again I used scraps for the card. Basic white card base, then I glued the red paper to the card base.
I used various punches and dies and did a bit of gold painting on the Spellbinder dies using US ArtQuest Mica Color Metallic set.
Link Spinner Card base Instr HERE
I LOVE doing "Shadow Lettering" and did that on this card using both a ZIG Writer or a Gelly Roll white gel pen.