Beauty of Friendship Slide & Lock Card

Color photo of a gatefold Slide and Lock card in the colors Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, and daffodil delight. With Happy Birthday sentiment from Stampin' Up!

This Slide and Lock card is a quick and easy card to make! It has just enough of an interactive element to make it attractive for children and adults alike. It’s basically a gatefold card with just a small mechanism that slides on and holds the card in place. Here is what it looks like opened.

Photo of the Slide & Lock card when opened.

Instructions for Slide & Lock card

Cut your Cajun Craze card base 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ and score it at 2 1/8″ from ONE end only.
Fold and burnish. Then “eyeballing it,” fold the other end in to the middle but leave a small space between the two edges in the center.
Cut 2 pieces of Beauty of the Earth patterned paper 5 1/4″ x 1 7/8″ and adhere to each of the front flaps.
Cut 2 squares of Cajun Craze 3″ x 3″.
Cut 2 squares of printer paper (or other lightweight paper) 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″ and fold each in half.
Take one 3″ x 3″ square and make a LIGHT score mark down the middle.
Take a folded white square and glue it so the fold line is next to the center score line on one 3″ x 3″ square. Then glue the second folded white square with its fold on the other side of the score line.
Glue the second Cajun Craze square on to the top of the white squares. This is your sliding mechanism. (see video below)
Cut a Basic White square 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4″. Stamp your leaves from the Time of Giving stamp set in Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie on the top of the Basic White square.
Die cut one tree from Cajun Craze and adhere to this square.
Stamp the birthday sentiment from Handsomely Suited in Soft Suede in the lower right hand corner.
On a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Basic White, stamp the leaves in the lower left corner with Cajun Craze ink and adhere to the center panel of the card.
Slide on your slide and lock mechanism.

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