Are you looking for a fun birthday card to celebrate your loved one’s birthday? This Interactive Magic Iris birthday card will definitely put a smile on their face!
The inspiration behind the Interactive Magic Iris birthday card “Smile camera”.
Changing decades is hard. Especially when you turn 30 and feel like your carefree years are gone (I hope that is not the case)!
So I wanted to make cards for all my friend’s birthdays.
Unfortunately, sometimes life happens and I could not make a card for each and every one of them. At least I made this one, and I am so happy about how it turned out.
The whole SMILE theme really chased away the birthday blues.
The great thing is that you can replace the numbers with the age of your loved one and have a birthday card that will impress everyone.
Also, you can try it for other happy occasions, for example for graduation or a new job. There are so many choices!
Creating the camera’s shutter.
To create the shutter of the camera you will need the Lawn Fawn’s Magic Iris die.
The set includes a ring piece (or a donut-shaped piece if you prefer it), a sausage-like piece, a stabilizer, a center scoring piece, and a pull tab and arrow piece.
What you will need is to cut three pieces with the ring die, three with the sausage shape, three with the stabilizers, and one of the rest.
Take one of the ring pieces and place on top of it the center scoring die piece (the piece with the weird edges).
This will create openings and markings.
On each opening, you will insert the tab from the sausage-like pieces.
The tab must be inserted fully and the round part of the piece must align with the ring die cut.
Make sure the curve of the sausage die cut hugs exactly the curve of the ring die.
After you align them completely you need to add adhesive on the little x on the sausage.
It is better to choose glue dots for that.
Then, while you hold the pieces together, take the second ring and put it on top of the glue dots.
After you glue the second ring flip it to the other side.
The first thing you will do is to fold the tabs so they do now show from the edges of the ring.
Then on the score marks you made with the die, you will glue the three stabilizer pieces.
Now it is time to glue the pull tab piece. Take your die cut and place it near a stabilizer (it doesn’t matter which).
You want the upper right corner of the stabilizer to create a V with the pull tab and they should seem like they touch together.
If you want you can use the decorative arrow die to glue an arrow on the tab.
Then place the third ring piece on top of it without adhesive.
You will keep it in place by adding adhesive to the stabilizers and folding them on top of the ring.
Be very careful when you fold them because if you fold them too tight they will not allow any movement.
The perfect spot is when the curve of the stabilizer reaches the scored line of the ring’s inner circle.
Your shutter is now ready. Make a few tests to see if it works.
The first few times you might need to move the pull tab back and forth or up and down a little bit to unstack the pieces.
Keep in mind that it is easier to move the shutter’s level when it is glued to the card.
Making the camera for the Interactive Magic Iris birthday card.
Now that the shutter mechanism is ready, it is time to create the rest of the camera.
At first, we need to create the message that will be showing when you open the shatter.
For this, I cut a circle the same size as the shatters.
Of course, if you want you can use the circle that was left when you die-cut the ring part.
I took an extra ring and placed it on top of the circle and with a pencil, I marked the smaller inner circle to know where to write.
That will be the visible part that holds the message.
Since I wanted to emboss my message with gold leaf. I cut a small piece of gold leaf and secured it on the paper with washi tape.
I wanted the message to be more personal, so I hand-wrote it (ok, maybe I don’t have the best handwriting in the world, but what can we do?) using a heat pen.
Of course, If you don’t have a heat pen, you can use a gold marker, but I prefer the way the gold foil sparkles when you move the card.
After I wrote the message, I die-cut the numbers and glued them underneath.
Then I just glued the circle on the back side of the shutter using double-sided tape.
For the camera die-cuts, I used black and white tones, because the background paper I chose is very colorful, so I didn’t want to overdo it by adding more color.
On the back side of the camera, I glued a red circle to make it look like the red light cameras have.
For the rest of the camera’s pieces I used white glitter paper (I said I want it simple, not boring).
Lastly, I attached the shutter on the camera with double-sided tape.
Finishing touches for the card.
The card is almost ready. For the background, I wanted to use the middle part of my scrapbook paper because it was the more colorful, so I put the card in the middle to mark where to cut it.
Of course, when you see a camera you smile, that is why for the message I die-cut letters out of white glitter paper saying SMILE and glued them underneath the camera.
All that is left to do is attach your camera to the cardstock with double-sided tape and it is ready.
Take note that I left the inside of the card as it was because I wanted it to be colorful and I just wrote my birthday message with metallic marker.
If you want, you can just glue a piece of white card stock to write your message on it.
Materials I used for the Interactive Magic Iris birthday card.
The most important thing you will need to make this camera is of course the Magic Iris die and the Magic Iris Camera add-on.
For the background, I used Craft Consortium GRUNGE LIGHT TONES, 12×12 paper pad, and for the camera’s accent pieces, I used white glitter paper.
To write my message I used the We R Starter Kit Foil Quill Freestyle Pens (the set comes with three colors of foils).
Unfortunately, the letters and numbers dies I have are a little old so I cannot link the products. But I have some great alternatives. You can use the Mama Elephant LAYLA LETTERS Creative Cuts Steel Die or the Lawn Fawn OLIVER’S STITCHED ABC’s Die Cuts for the letters. Both will give you very similar results. Lastly, for the numbers, you can use the Altenew CELEBRATE WITH CAKE Dies.
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Very fun card and lovely tutorial! This is a wonderful birthday card! Thank you so much for playing the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge!