Get on board the Birthday Train!  This was my first attempt at using Karen Burniston’s Train Pivot Panels and companion Train Elements.  Having made other of KB’s pivot panels I found it an easy assembly. (If you haven’t made a pivot panel card before, please look at her assembly videos.)

I used bright primary colors for the card using lots of scraps bits for the words and tiny decoration pieces. “Enjoy” and “ride” are double cut from red and blue papers and off-set to give a shadow effect.  The card base is from Karen Burniston’s Circle Tag Book Pop-up.  The red grosgrain ribbon hides the tiny portion of train’s “cow catcher” and tracks that show beyond the rounded edge.

Two pearl-like domed dots were used for the railroad crossing sign.(I removed these dots and replaced with red circles of cardstock when I sent the card to a two year old because of the fear he would try to eat them.) Bears are from KB’s Winter Animals die set.

Watch a Video of card

SUPPLIES USED:

Dies

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – 1106 – Train Pivot Panels Die Set
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – 1107 – Train Elements Die Set
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – 1103 – Enjoy the Ride Die Set
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – 1003 – Word Set 2 – Birthday Die Set
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – 1016 – Winter Animals

Paper:

• Cardstock scraps from my stash including black glitter cardstock for wheels

Miscellaneous:

• Black and Gold gel pens
• Tombow Multi Liquid Glue
• Red Grosgrain Ribbon
• Red Pearl Dot Stickers from Dollar Tree