My friend Sabrina is hosting a Hope You Can Cling To challenge over at Splitcoaststampers.com, and I was more than happy to help her out by making a sample card for her challenge. The challenge title is “It’s a Cover Up”.  Sabrina explains it all in excellent detail in the challenge writeup, but the idea of it is to create a card that has some sort of moveable element that covers up the sentiment.

I decided to make a flap card for the challenge.  I wanted to use one of my smiley face stamps because they’re just so cheery and I thought they’d bring a smile to the card’s eventual sender and recipient.  I added some hand stitching around the edges of the smiley face panel, which hides one half of the magnetic closure that helps keep the card shut.  The designer paper covers the other magnet.  First I’ll show a photo of the card when it is closed:

And here it is opened up, revealing the sentiment:

The sentiment panel folds downward, creating a lot of room for the card giver to include a personal message.

I hope you’ll join the Splitcoaststampers community throughout the rest of October as we join together in creating cards for the patients at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and their families. You can get all the details about the different challenges and the prizes that will be awarded to challenge participants in November at Splitcoaststampers.com.

Supplies:
Stamps: Jump – Smileys (Uptown Stamp Company); sentiment stamp (Studio G)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); Crushed Curry, Razzleberry Lemonade designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: tag corner punch (SU); markers (Copic); embroidery floss (DMC); magnets (Basic Grey)