How To Make a Playful Ghosts Pull-Up Interactive Card

Happy Friday the 13th friends! I have a cute Halloween card for you in honor of this day. 😉 I really enjoy Halloween if it’s the cutesy Halloween stuff. I’m not a fan of the bloody, gory stuff, so I’m really diggin’ this adorable ghost set. 😉 🎃👻

Do you ever see an image of one stamp in a stamp set and immediately get an idea of what you’d like to create? Normally I ponder, ponder some more and research for inspiration before I decide, but I knew from the moment I saw this one and hoped it would work out. Sometimes those big ideas don’t come to fruition, right? LOL

Now, I must admit, in my head, this image was bigger than it actually is. If I were to make this over, I would use a smaller deckled rectangle. I feel like the purple square is just a bit too big, but that’s me being my own worst critic 😉

The Keeping Tabs punch and the word “pull” in the Hooray for Surprises stamp set were very helpful in this card coming together.

How did I make this? Lemme show you. I started by inking and coloring the ghost in the pumpkin image with Memento ink and my Stampin’ Blends then I cut it apart across the top of the pumpkin-separating the two and then I put them aside.

I took the tiny piece from the Perennial Postage dies below and die-cut it out of my middle rectangle after adhering the DSP to the Cardstock.

Easy enough, right? Then I added a 2½ x 3 piece of Basic White Cardstock behind the opening and flush with the top of the rectangle.

I cut a dimensional down so it would fit through the cut out and onto the white piece.

Then I stuck the ghost section onto the top of the dimensional (sorry I forgot to take a pic) 😳

I then cut the edges of my dimensionals into strips and put one on each side of the pumpkin-ensuring that they were out of the way of the ghost sliding up and down.

I placed the pumpkin over the top of the ghost while it was all the way at the bottom of the small die-cut section. Then I flipped the entire panel over, added the pull tab and placed mini dimensionals all around the sliding mechanism (to make it stay in place when it slides.)

dimensional placement around the sliding mechanism

I added some black twine to the bottom then attached it to my already stamped card front.

A little decorating inside and the card is finished.

So, what do ya think? I’d love to hear from you. That’s all I’ve got for today. Have a wonderful weekend and I hope you get time for some creative therapy!