Saturday 13 October 2007

Magic Wheel for Patsy - UKS October Challenge

The lovely Patsy has been a wee bit peeky just lately and she decided to cheer herself up with a blog candy challenge - to make her a get well card. It just so happens that Patsy discovered that she had a very special reason for that peeky feeling (pop to her blog and find out more).

I've been meaning to make a card using a magic wheel for ages, infact, ever since my DS (now 15!) was a toddler and had magic wheel story book. So it was a long time in the pipeline and a long time in the making because I had to work out how to make one -let me tell you, it was no easy task!

Well I got there in the end, it's hard to capture the magic of it in photographs but what happens is, you move the tab frome side to side and the flower magically transforms!



Clever ay? I'm not just a mildy interesting face you know!
This card was also made to fit in with the October challenge over at UKS. The challenge was to use Halloween colours (purple, orange, green, white and black) in a non- Halloween card, I think I just about managed it.

UPDATE!

A few people have shown interest in finding out how to make these cards, I would love to help but to be honest it's really hard to explain. What I can tell you is that the moving picture is made up of just two circular peices, so you have your two pictures which are cut in a certain way one in the opposite direction to the other, they then intertwine. I think it's one of those things you have to explore and findout for yourself because it's just so darn difficult to explain! If I manage to make it into a lesson I will let you know.

15 comments:

Marlou McAlees said...

fabulous Louly, I love all the different creations you come up with!!!! :) x

Debbie said...

Well how clever are you Louly, its brilliant, well done. :)

Debbie x

ScrapMomOf2 said...

WOW! This is amazing! I absolutely love it, and the colors are fantastic!

Monica Gale said...

You are one clever cookie!! Super card and genius idea!!!

Patsy Jackson said...

Oh my goodness Lou - you've outdone yourself this time! It's just fantastic - very, very clever too!!

Thanks for taking part hunny xx And thanks for your lovely well wishes too xx

Crissi Harvey said...

oh my that is just fab how clever are you. whens the tutorial going up LOL your cards are always something special

Mellie said...

Wow Lou this is fab. You are so clever

Dawn Wheeler said...

O M G !!! how cleaver are you,this card is amazing ,Dawnx

carmen said...

This is so clever Lou... great card and lovely colours.

Karen Mortensen said...

Oh that is fab fab fab with a capital FAB! Shall we talk classes?? ;o)

Samm said...

Wow, simply blooming amazing!!!

Samm
x

emilia in Taiwan said...

this is like magic! two flower petals creates three looks!

Sadie said...

Louly, this is truely amazing. I think I may have to give it a go it is such a great idea. I know you had to figure it out, but could you give me any tips.
I think you have my email.

Hugs - Sadie

Deb said...

This is fantastic, what a great concept, you are so clever!

Juliet said...

Absolutely fab Lou. I would love to know how to make this. The colour combination is gorgeous too.