Penny spinner cards

This was one of the cards that we sent out for Christmas. I had 6 designs that I made. We send out over 70 Christmas cards (which is expensive postage wise), but I love doing it, so my sweetheart encourages me.

The reindeer is from the Create A Critter cartridge. I stamped his face with Peachy Keen Stamps. No homemade background paper with this one. His eyes & hooves have glossy accents on them. And his nose is a red bling. I loved my reindeer cards this year. I used red bling for their noses, and they turned out so cute.


I cut the slot in the pattern paper with my fabulous finds cartridge. I have a gypsy, and I knew exactly how long/wide I wanted the slot to be, so I just change the dimensions using my gypsy. I cut the slot out of the pattern paper which was kind of flimsy pattern paper, so I had glued it to a piece of white CS. The paper with the slot in it should be pretty stocky, but it needs to not tear with the reindeer spinning on it.

I did a card like this before I had my gypsy, and I had to play around with scrap pieces of paper to figure out how to cut it to the right size.

You adhesive a penny to the back of the reindeer, attach a pop-dot to the penny, then put the pop-dot through the slot. Now you put a penny on the other side of that pop-dot. Now that you've got the reindeer "penny spinner" attached to the pattern paper, you pop-dot the pattern paper to the solid paper.

Here are some other cards that I've done with the penny spinner.

I scrunched up the flower on this one, smoothed it back out and ran a stamp pad over it. Yellow brad topped it off. But I have to say it was tricky attaching the penny because of the arms of the brad. I had to use a glue dot.

This one has fun flock on the flower. I loved that. Here's a close up. I ran it through my xyron sticker maker, so it was evenly sticky, and then dumped the flock on it. Way cool!