Happy 30th Birthday Abby!

Today is my daughter Abby's 30th birthday! Seems just like yesterday she was born! Abby weighed only 5 lbs when she was born...a wee bit early, but she has stayed tiny all her life. She squeeeeaaks in at just below 4 foot 9 inches. By our state laws...she should still be in a childs booster seat LOL! She has been a little spitfire from the day she was born and never grew out of it LOL! Happy Birthday Sweetums!

Now on to this fun fold card! I totally copied if from a card that I actually stole borrowed from my oldest daughter  when "little" Luke was born. She knew I would have to give it a try...she said so when she showed it to me with a grin! Don't worry Lukey...Gwamma will give your card back now!

This is my first attempt at making this fun fold, so I tried to photograph as I went along. Here it is opened up!

Here is what you will need: I piece of each size

Cardstock
5 x 12
5 x 6 (I used double sided dp to photograph for you)
3/4 x 6 cream strip
glue dots

Score this piece at 2.5 and 5 inches

fold over at the 5 inch score and measure 1.5 inches up. Cut not quite 3/4's of an inch

Inside of card

open up the card. Measure down 1/2 inch and make a small mark. Score from this mark back up to the ends of each cut. I marked it  on this sample so you can see.

Outside of card

 After you score the triangle, fold it over again and push the triangle to the inside.

 These two pictures are of the strip of paper that actually will swing your image. This piece is cut originally at 3/4 inch and then you will do a little fine tuning and cut off a little off towards the top. See pic to see what I mean. Mark 1 inch up on the bottom left side and then cut at an angle to make a point. Fold up the point and add a glue dot here. Make sure it does not hang off the point...you might have to fold over your dot like I did. It will be inserted with the little point folded up like this. Set this aside for now.

Take the 5 x 6 piece of paper and score at 3/4 , 4 3/4 and 5 1/2.

Left side: Measure up 2 inches from the bottom and cut out the section from the score. Measure down 1/2 inch from the top and cut out that section.

Right side: Measure one inch up-- and cut over to the second score line and cut out that section.

Add a circle to give you the shape...picture below is this is how I got the circle...pretty high tech...yep that's me..Miss Techie.. (don't roll your eyes Abby LOL)

A nice high tech salad plate gave me the curve I needed.

Flip over your 5 x 6 cut up piece. Glue it on like this, aligning your top and bottom edges.

There it is...glued on! Stick in the swing arm and line it up straight with the score line. Push real hard so the glue dot sticks. It can get a little weary after you open and close this baby 100 times LOL!

I did a little testing here to make sure the swing arm was working here before I glued down the right hand tab.
Glue the tab down and test  out ther placement of your image on the swing arm. (you will glue the two front folded panels together once you are sure the swing arm works properly)

Just another peek here of what it will look like before the final tab is glued down.

See how I have part of my image hanging over the front of the polka dot piece? That helps "lock" in the image so it does not flop around. This little puppy is stabilizing the girl that will be popping  up when you open the card.  I adhered my image with glue dots (add glue dots towards the end of the swing arm) and add your image. Open and close your card (at least one hundred times....just kidding!) and test to make sure your image clears the half circle nicely and opens smoothly. This is a good time to go back and glue your front fold together.

Now you are ready to decorate as you wish. I cut out the sentiment with my Cricut and used a fun Mo's Digital Pencil digi. I think this one was a freebie when you joined Mo's group on  Paper Craft Planet...trying to remember......

The Birthday girl holding nephew 'lil' Lukey! (she is 30 and he is 6 months)

I am going to enter this card in the in the Fun Folds challenge over at Our Creative Corner.

Thanks for sticking through this...if you make one of these...I would love it if you link it here so I can come take a peek!

Whew...