- [Jennifer] Hello and welcome.
This is Jennifer McGuire, and
yes, I have a new intro here.
I hope you like it.
Anyways, today is about
creating magic iris cards.
Lawn Fawn recently came out
with a brilliant die set
for making these magical type of cards,
and I wanted to show you how they work.
There's a little tab
and, when you pull it,
you can see how it opens up
to reveal something inside.
I actually have three
versions for you today,
showing you how you can
stretch these products
to make many different types of cards.
Now I know I usually try to
focus only on interactive cards
that you can do without
any specialty dies,
but sometimes a die set comes along
that I think is so brilliant
that it's worth sharing,
and that's the case for today.
I'm really impressed how Kelly
and the folks at Lawn
Fawn engineered this.
It's really quite simple to pull together
and such a unique interactive card design.
So even if you aren't
interested in interactive dies,
I do have other tips that
I'll be sharing along the way.
Okay, so here is the new
Lawn Fawn Magic Iris Die set.
It comes with all the pieces you see here,
and it allows you to make one
of these magic iris cards.
The first die in the set is the ring die,
and this one cuts the rings you need
to assemble your magic iris,
but it also cuts a decorative
circle that you can put inside
or use for something else.
Next up is what we call the sausage die.
It looks like a sausage there.
It does have a little X on one part of it,
and that is so you know
where to put the glue,
which you'll see in a moment.
But I do like how well-designed this is.
Up top we have what I call the wonky die,
which is just what we use
to help assemble everything.
And to turn our magic
iris, there are two dies.
We have the tab die here on the bottom,
and then the decorative piece
so the person knows how to turn it.
And then finally we
have the connector die.
This cuts the connector pieces
that allow us to assemble the magic iris.
And, by the way, I'm sorry
for the giant bandaid on my finger.
I actually cut the tip of my finger
with scissors when crafting,
so I'm waiting for it to heal.
Okay, in addition to
the Magic Iris Die set,
there are a couple add-on
die sets available.
This one is the Scalloped Add-on.
It allows you to create a
scalloped top on your magic iris.
It also comes with a different tab option,
decorative tab die there,
and a different die for the center.
A different decorative piece.
There is another add-on available.
This one allows you to
kind of hide the mechanisms
of the magic iris.
And I will be using this
one on my second card.
So I'm gonna be showing you
all the different pieces in action today.
And my third card actually
shows you how to make
a large magic iris card
that's five by seven.
Okay, so, first I think
it's best to go through
an assembly of the magic iris.
I'm gonna do this slow
so you can follow along.
The first step is to create three die cuts
using the ring die.
I'll set two of these aside for later.
And on one of these I'm going
to cut it with the wonky die.
Remember this wonky-looking die?
This one, you just line
up right in the center.
And once I have it lined up,
I'll put some temporary tape
on there to hold it in place,
and run it through my die cut machine.
You can see how the center of the die cut
lines up with the center
of the die very easily.
After we run it through
our die cut machine,
we have what looks like
a life preserver here.
It has three slots and three
guidelines cut into it,
which will help us later on.
Next we need three sausage die cuts.
We're going to put these sausages
into our life preserver die cut.
I do find it helpful to have
a few pieces of purple tape available,
or any kind of low tack tape.
So I have three tiny pieces here.
We're going to take one
of the sausage die cuts
and hook the tip of it
into one of the slots.
So see how I hook it in
and I push it right up to
the outside edge of the slot.
And then I turn it and line
up the curves of the sausage
with the curves of the life preserver.
I know, this is crazy wording,
but I feel like it helps to explain it.
Then I put a little piece
of purple tape near that X,
but not covering it up.
I'll do that again.
Slide the next sausage into the slot,
right up against the edge.
Then I'll swing it over
'til the curves line up.
Put another little piece of
tape near the X but not over it.
And then finally we'll
do the last die cut.
You could skip the purple tape here,
but I really find that it helps
keeping everything lined up
and just makes it easier.
Okay, so now we have this funny piece.
You'll see little tabs
hanging out the outside edge,
that's okay, we'll take
care of those later.
Next I'm going to take Mini Glue Dots
and put one mini glue dot
on each of the little Xs
that are cut into these die cuts.
So you could use any other
strong adhesive that is tiny,
but I find these Mini Glue
Dots are the perfect size.
And you just put them on
top of each of the Xs.
And there's a closeup to show that.
Okay, now I'm going to
take one of the other rings
that we die cut earlier
and line it up and press it
down onto those glue dots.
Don't worry about the
tape that you have there.
We'll take that off later on.
Okay, so now we have our
magic iris starting to form.
For the next step, I'll
flip our ring over.
And remember how the wonky die
created these little
guide marks on our ring?
I'm going to draw pencil lines
coming out from the center
of those guide marks
to the outside of our ring.
You don't actually have to
draw these pencil marks.
I just wanted to do so
to make it easier to see in the video.
So now I'm taking some
strong double-sided tape
from Lawn Fawn
and I'm putting that
over our pencil lines.
Basically, from the
center of the guidelines
to the outside of the ring.
I then will remove my release paper
and you'll be able to see
the pencil marks there.
This is the back of the mechanism,
so you won't see it later on.
But I just wanted to show you
that the adhesive goes
right in those three spots.
Now we'll take our connector pieces,
and I die cut three of those.
And I'm going to line
those up over adhesive
so that the tip of the connector piece
is between those guidelines
and right up against the
inside edge of our ring.
These will hang off the edge, that's okay.
But just make sure
that the inside curve
of the connector piece
lines up with the inside of the ring.
And, again, the tip goes
right into those guidelines.
So now the hardest parts are over
and we're in the home stretch.
We're going to flip this over,
and you have what looks like a Y shape.
You can see how there's the
two that stick out the top
and then one kind of towards your body.
It doesn't matter which one.
I just like to position it like that.
I will then take one of my tab die cuts
and I'll put adhesive
towards the curved end.
So I'm gonna put two pieces
of strong double-sided tape on there.
You could use liquid adhesive if you want.
Remove the release paper.
And now we're going to position
this tab on our top ring
so that the inside curve matches
the inside curve of the ring.
I'm going to position it
down here by this bottom one.
It doesn't matter which one,
just have one that you pick.
And I'm going to position
it right up against it.
So put that right on the inside curve.
And notice how the connector
piece sticking out on the back
and the tab kind of form a
little upside-down V down there.
See how they're close together?
You just want that close
together but not overlapping.
The tab is only glued to that top ring.
It looks complicated, but it's
really easy to figure out.
Okay, now we can assemble.
So now I put some adhesive
onto the little connectors
that are sticking out,
the little legs.
Then we take our third ring
and just lay it on top.
I'm not using any glue here.
I'm just laying this third ring down
on top of our mechanism.
I will then wrap the connector pieces
up around this top piece.
When you do this, you would
just kinda wanna do it loosely.
Don't make it too tight.
Just fold it over gently
and then press it down,
making sure that all of
your rings are lined up.
See how I'm not pulling
that connector over?
I'm just folding it over gently.
When you do this, the curve
on the end of your connector
will be just outside that stitch line.
See how it doesn't come all the way
to the center of the ring?
That's okay.
If it looks like this, you're doing good.
Now we can test out our magic iris,
but we first need to remove
that temporary tape that I had in there
just to help hold things
together and lined up.
Once I have that removed,
we can hold this in our hand
and move that tab on the side
and you'll see the magic iris working.
It does work better
when you have it glued down to something,
but you can test it at
this point if you want to.
Now we can add our magic iris to our card.
I'll flip it over and fold over the tips
of these die cuts here
that are sticking out.
You don't need to glue them,
just fold them over nicely,
that way they won't show
in the outside of our iris.
Next I'll take some strong adhesive,
I like to use double-sided tape,
and only put it on these connector pieces.
Don't put it anywhere else,
just those connector pieces.
And then add that onto your
card wherever you want.
Now when you add this onto your card,
I do think it's best
to have your magic iris
in the closed position,
because we wanna make sure
that it'll fit in the envelope.
So you can see my adhesive
on the connectors only.
I'm going to close up my iris,
and then line it up on
the front of my card.
You want to make sure the tab
is kind of up towards the top corner
and not hanging off the card,
because you want it to
fit in your envelope okay.
So now, when you pull this tap,
it opens up to reveal
whatever you want inside.
You could glue a circle die cut in there,
do stamping, whatever you want.
The final touch is the
little decorative die cut
for the tab.
And you glue that on there
so the recipient knows
how to turn it and open up
the interactive feature.
To give this a clean look,
you can add a circle
die cut to the center.
I put adhesive on the back,
drop it in the opening,
and then run my craft
pick around on the inside
to make sure that it's
underneath all the mechanisms
inside of the ring.
You can then see how you can have
the different color on the inside.
You can also cover up your
connector pieces on the top
by die cutting another ring
and adding that in place.
This is where the other
add-ons come into play,
and I'll show you that
on my next few cards.
So now that we've gone
over the basic assembly
of a magic iris card,
let's step it up and add
some more things to it
and see all the different
ways you can use it.
Now for this one I wanted
to go for a different look
and I combined some stamps
and dies that I had together
for a scalloped magic iris.
Off screen I went ahead and created
the note card and background.
This is a 5 1/4-inch square white card.
And I used the Simon
Says Stamp You Are Stamp
to stamp on one Lawn Fawn Guava cardstock
with Lawn Fawn Guava ink.
So I wanted a subtle
tone-on-tone background.
For the sentiment that's
inside of our magic iris,
I used two stamp sets.
The first is a Lawn Fawn Swan Stamp Set.
This is a new one.
These images will be
great with the magic iris.
But from this I just
used the word beautiful.
I like the look of that
and it's the perfect size.
I also used the Lawn
Fawn Dandy Day Stamp Set.
This is adorable and also
great for the magic iris.
I took the sentiment that
says, "I think you're dandy."
And I cut off the words I think and dandy,
so I just have the you're sentiment.
That way I can stamp you're
ahead of the word beautiful
and I have my own
sentiment that I created.
Now off-screen I also created
a magic iris mechanism
out of white cardstock.
All the pieces are white.
And I made it just like I
showed you, the exact same way.
Now I'm holding this at
the center of our card
and I'm tracing the inside
so I know where to put my sentiment.
I'm using my Misti Stamping Tool
just to make sure I stamp it correctly.
I'm lining up the word beautiful
and the word you're right in front of it.
I will use my antistatic powder tool,
stamp with Versamark ink,
and then add white embossing powder.
After I heat-set it,
I can go ahead and erase that pencil line.
And this will be the sentiment
that's inside of our magic iris.
Now it's time to add our iris
to the front of the card.
So in the back I'm putting
strong double-sided tape
on the connector pieces only,
and folding those tabs in.
Not gluing them down,
just folding them in.
I'll remove the release paper
and then I can line up the magic iris
around our stamp sentiment,
right onto the front of the card.
Don't worry, we'll decorate the front
of the magic iris later on.
So once I have that lined
up, I'll just test it out,
and you can see how easily
it opens and closes.
Now I'm using the scalloped add-on die
that I showed you earlier.
I die cut that from white cardstock.
And now onto that I'm
using the Simon Says Stamp
blooming circle die.
I thought it'd be fun to add
these little flower die cuts
to the scalloped circle.
And this will go on the
front of our magic iris.
I also die cut a magic iris
ring from white cardstock,
and I'm covering the top with adhesive.
There are many ways you could do this,
but this is what made
sense to me at the time.
And I'll place our
scalloped die cut on top.
Now all of those openings
have adhesive exposed,
so I'm going to inlay
different colors of cardstock.
I just die cut the blooming circle die
from different colors
of scrapped cardstock.
And then I'm popping all the pieces in.
I really like to do die
cut inlay like this,
it feels like I'm assembling a puzzle.
So once I have it filled in with color,
on the back I'm putting adhesive.
And then I'll lay this on
top of our magic iris ring
that's on the card.
So this gives it a decorative look.
For a little bit of sparkle
I used my Tonic Aqua Shimmer pen
to add some shimmer to some of the flowers
and our background.
And on some of our flowers I added
Lucy's Cards Lemon Jewels
so that I'd have a little
bit of dimension and shine.
So here is the completed card.
I put it in a 5 1/2-inch square envelope.
And when you pull the tab,
you can see the sentiment
that's revealed inside.
Notice I didn't put the decorative
arrow tab die cut onto the tab on my card.
The reason I didn't add it
is because I'm sending this to Kelly
and I know she knows how
the magic iris works.
But if I were sending
this to someone else,
I definitely would use the
little arrow die cut tab,
which I'll do on the other cards.
So there's my first example
of using the magic iris card with dies
and also the scalloped add-on.
Okay, my next example shows
how to create a little bit of a scene
using the other add-on for the magic iris.
This time I have lots of die cutting
and a little bit of stamping too.
From the main die, I
will die cut three times.
Twice from Hero Arts sand cardstock,
and from that I'll form
the sand of our scene.
And then once from Hero
Arts arctic cardstock
which will be the background of our card.
So now the two sand pieces,
I'm using the Lawn Fawn
Stitched Wavy Border dies
to create two layers of sand
for the bottom of my card.
So just line this along the bottom
and then tape it in place
and run it through my die cut machine.
And I'll do the same on the other.
The reason I'm doing this
is now the pieces have
that nice decorative edge that
lines up with the background.
You could definitely
hand-cut these pieces,
cut your own wave, totally up to you.
I also used this other wave border die
to cut from some pool cardstock
that will be the ocean in the background.
And basically just gluing them together,
allowing a little bit
of each to peak through.
Now we have our arctic background,
this is gonna be our sky.
On the bottom edge I'm
putting double-sided tape.
You could glue this down
flat if you wanted to.
You can decorate the
front however you want.
Now I'll line up the sand
with the bottom of our card,
and then trim off the
extra of our blue wave.
And there we have our sand and our ocean.
I wanted my magic iris window
to look like a sunshine.
I'm using the Hero Arts 12
Point Star Infinity die set,
and I die cut this from
some light yellow cardstock
that I had a scrap of.
Towards the center I'm
using a blending brush
to apply Hero Arts Butter Bar ink
just to make the center
a little bit darker
and have a little variation of color.
I then will line up our sun
with the window on our add-on die.
This way I will have the center cut out
to be perfectly lined
up with our magic iris
that will put behind
our main scene die cut.
So now I have our little sunshine,
and I'm going to glue this onto our scene.
Now I probably should
have glued this down first
before the water and the sand,
but it was an afterthought,
so I ended up gluing it on here
and then I had to trim away
those rays on the bottom
and tuck them behind the ocean.
But that's okay, I wanted
to get it just right.
Next time I will put the sun down first.
Now it's time to assemble our magic iris,
and I thought I would go through it again,
this time at regular speed,
to show you that it really
comes together quite quickly.
I first die cut my little life preserver
from one of the rings.
And now I'm sliding in
each of the sausage pieces.
I do find using that little
bit of purple tape near the X
is helpful in keeping those lined up.
It'll help to make your magic iris
work even better in the end.
Be sure that the tape
that you use is low tack,
like a painters tape or a washy tape
or purple tape like this.
You can even remove
some of the stick first
by pressing against your skin.
We just need a light tack.
Now I'm adding the Mini Glue Dots
to each of the Xs that are
cut into those die cuts.
Now we'll take one more
ring and add that on top.
Now we can flip this over
and add our connector pieces.
This time, I'm not going to
draw the pencil lines first.
I'm just going to show you
that it's easy to do without.
You just put a piece of tape
going from the inside guidelines
to the outside edge of the ring.
You could use tape runner
here if you wanted to also.
I just find double-sided
tape is easier in this case.
Now I'm putting our connector pieces down,
making sure it's right
into those guidelines
and up against the
inside edge of our ring.
I decided to create a white tab this time,
so I'll put adhesive
on the back of our tab,
and then I'm going to glue it
to the front of our magic iris,
making sure that the edge of the tab
is close to one of those connector pieces
that's sticking out.
Also, you want to make sure
that the inside edge of your tab
lines up with the inside of the ring.
We're in the home stretch here.
We need to next put some adhesive
onto the little connector
pieces sticking out,
and then take another
ring and lay that on top
without any adhesive.
It just lays right on there.
While holding the ring in position,
I will gently fold over
the connector pieces.
You don't wanna do this too tight.
Just gently fold it over.
And that will allow your
magic iris to work magically.
After removing the tape,
you can just test it out and
make sure it's working nicely.
Now we need to add our decorative
tab piece for this add-on.
It's this wonky-looking
one that you see here.
You're going to glue it onto your tab
and then you're going to use scissors
to cut off whatever is sticking out.
Now this looks weird,
but I promise it will look
good on the card on the end.
I also use that decorative tab to die cut
from some darker blue cardstock
and glue the arrow in,
just to give it a nice finished look.
Now we can put our magic
iris behind our scene.
I'm putting adhesive all along
the top of the magic iris.
And I'm going to line
it up behind our scene.
Make sure your iris is closed.
You're going to line up the hole
and the tab with that little tab slot
on the front of the card.
So you can see how I'm lining
up the hole in the middle
and the tabs.
Once we have that pressed and placed,
we can go ahead and fold our little tabs
over on the back.
Don't glue those, just fold them over.
And then I'll put strong tape
onto the connector pieces.
I also have a white note
card that is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2.
I will put some double-sided
tape around our mechanism.
Make sure you don't put
any double-sided tape
close to the mechanism
or in the way of our tab.
Just around the outside edges is good.
I can remove the release paper
from the connector pieces
and add this onto the
front of our note card.
And check it out, there's
our little sunshine
that opens up nicely.
Now I have a yellow circle
that I'm going to pop in the inside.
It's probably best to
glue this down first,
but what I do is I pop it in place
and then I just run my craft pick in there
to make sure it's behind
all of the pieces in there,
so that the magic iris
will open and close nicely.
Now I used the Lawn Fawn
Smooth Sailing stamp set,
which was one of my
favorites from last year,
and I stamped the smaller sailboat
on white cardstock with black ink,
and I colored it in with Copic markers.
You could color it however you want.
I then cut it out with my scissors,
but you could use the coordinating die.
And I'm gluing that right
down onto that yellow circle
inside of my iris.
I thought it would be fun
if the sunshine showed up
when you open up the magic iris window.
I also used the Lawn Fawn
Hammock and Tree die set
to create two palm trees
that I'm gluing to the scene,
and I kinda like to have them
hang over the iris window
just to make it all connected.
I stamped the sentiment on the sand piece
on the bottom of the card,
and now I'm using my shimmer pen
to add some shimmer to
the rays of our sunshine.
So here's the finished card.
You can see the little scene that we have
when the card is closed.
And then, when you pull the tab,
you see our little boat inside the window,
and it looks like it's
kinda floating there
in front of the sun.
So that's another way
to use the magic iris
to create a scene using that add-on die.
My last example for today
shows how to use the magic iris
on a bigger card.
So this card is close to five by seven.
I like making a bigger
card with magic iris
because you can create a
bigger scene around it,
but I have a trick I need to show you
to make the tab long enough.
For this card I'm using
the Lawn Fawn Stitched Balloon Frame dies
which is on the left.
That smaller ballon
frame will work perfect
with our magic iris.
I wanted some more balloons
to decorate the card,
so I'm using the Lawn Fawn
Outside In Stitched Balloon die set.
So I'll be using the two
smaller balloons in this set,
but you could use any circle dies
and create your own balloons if you want.
I'll also be using images and sentiments
from the Lawn Fawn Really
High Five stamp set.
I like that you can use
these images to do high five,
jumping on a trampoline,
or having from balloons,
like I'm doing today.
I'll start by creating my background,
and this piece is 4 1/2 by 6 1/2.
I'm using the Lawn Fawn Cloudy Stencil.
This is a cool new stencil.
It has grid lines to help
you make sure it's straight.
And then there's cloud edges on each side.
I'm using a blending brush
and some Altenew Sea Breeze ink,
and I'm pulling ink from the
stencil onto the cardstock
to create these highlights
in the cloud shape.
Remember you could use all
four sides of the cloud stencil
and flip it over for four more looks.
Now off screen I did create a magic iris
using Lawn Fawn Guava cardstock,
just like I showed you earlier.
The tab piece is white.
However, for this card, since it's bigger,
I need to make that tab longer
so it can go behind that big background
that we just created.
So I die cut another tab
and I'm going to glue
it on top of this one
to just extend it.
So I'm just basically
making the tab longer.
Now I ended up making it
longer again later on,
but this gave me a good start.
I just wanted to show you
that you could always change up this tab
for however you want to make your card.
So now you can see the
little tab sticking out
is longer and it still works perfectly.
We need to next create the window
on the front of our background
to line up with the iris.
So I want my iris to be right about here
on the front of the card.
So I'm taking the center of it
and I'm using that to
trace with the pencil.
I didn't wanna take the time
to find the perfect size
circle die to cut this,
so I just traced it and I'm
cutting it with scissors.
It's okay that it looks jagged
because it will be hidden.
And this doesn't take long.
So I'm cutting just outside
of that pencil line.
Now we have a window
that'll line up nicely
with our iris behind it.
And then, remember, we have
that balloon die cut frame
that we can put on the
front to cover it up.
So it all comes together nicely.
So I'm just going to
tape that balloon frame
over our opening,
and then I die cut some other balloons
using the other ballon die
set and some scrap cardstock.
So I'm just putting these
down with a tape runner.
I will go back and put some
strong adhesive behind it later.
I wanted make sure those stay put
but I wanted to be able to
move them around for now.
I also stamped, colored, and die cut
some of the little critters
from that Really High Five stamp set.
I'm going to position
these under the balloons
so that I can create a
string to connect them.
Before I finish the front of the scene
I wanted to make sure
the iris was gonna work.
I'm putting adhesive all
over the top of my iris
and I'm gonna glue it behind that opening.
I'll put it in the closed position first
so I know that the tab is up
towards the top right corner.
And when I glued this down,
I tested it, and check it out.
My tab isn't long enough
in the bottom position.
So I need to make that tab longer again.
Remember I used tape runner,
so I'm able to take that
carefully off the back
and change our tab.
Now I'm going to die cut another white tab
and glue that on top too,
so I have three tabs sticking off here.
But it allows me to
make a bigger note card.
I like to change things up like this
to get more uses from the dies I have.
So here I'm just testing it
out to see if its gonna work.
And check it out, the tab
is long enough now, yay.
So I have these three tabs sticking off.
I want that to be really
strong and sturdy,
since it sticks out so far.
So I have another tab die cut
that I'm gluing on the back
to kind of sandwich those all together.
This needs to be strong
because it's sticking out and it's long,
and it needs to be easy
to turn without folding
when the recipient uses it.
So I've got those all layered together.
There are other ways you could
have made that tab longer,
but this is what made
sense to me at the time.
I'm just showing you the
process that I go through.
Now that I know that
iris is gonna work okay,
I can finish off the front of my card.
I'm using a black pen to draw strings
to connect the balloons to
the hands of our critters.
I also decided to stamp a little sentiment
on the bottom right corner
from that same Really High Five stamp set.
Now we can glue our background
down onto a note card.
I'm putting double-sided
tape around the mechanism.
Notice it's only on the outside edges
and we're not putting anything
too close to the mechanism
and nothing in the way of the tab.
Make sure that tab can
move back and forth freely.
I will also put strong double-sided tape
onto the connector pieces
on our iris mechanism.
I then can add this onto a note card
that is 4 3/4 by 6 3/4,
so just a little bit
smaller than five by seven.
I wanted the tab to hang off.
In the center, I added a die cut circle
where I (mumbles) happy birthday,
and I'll put that right into the window.
If it's easier for you,
you could do that before
adding the background.
It's up to you.
Next I added just a little
black arrow die cut to my tab
so the recipient knows how to use it.
I also added some iridescent
gem stones to the background.
And there we have a fun birthday card,
and this one's actually
going to go to Layla
for her birthday.
So it is a little bit
smaller than five by seven,
so it'll fit into a
five-by-seven envelope perfectly.
So there you have it,
three fun ways to use the
Lawn Fawn Magic Iris die set.
I just thought it was a
brilliant and unique die set
and I wanted to share that with you.
If you are interested in the supplies,
they're linked below in
my YouTube description.
In the middle here I have a couple other
interactive card videos you might like.
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