In addition to your basic card supplies you will need the word window punch, 1/4 inch circle punch, stampin' dimensionals, and two pennies. Decorate the part the spinner will attach to. I found that 5 1/2 x 2 1/2 is a good size.
Measure about 1 inch from the left edge, push the punch all the way up and punch.
slide the punch about 1 inch from the right side and punch again.
This should leave you with a smooth track for the spinner to roll on. If there are rough edges in the middle you can punch once more to remove them.
Now for the pinwheel. Cut a 1 1/2 inch square from coordinating decorative paper
Fold on the diagonal and crease near the points but not the middle.
This will give you cutting lines.
Do this on all four corners.
Clip on your fold line but leave the center untouched.
On each side fold alternating corners to the middle to form your pinwheel.
Adhere a coordinating punched cardstock circle in the middle
of your pinwheel to hold it together.
Turn your pinwheel (or punched circle, flower or whatever you want spinning) over and firmly attach a penny, and then a stampin' dimensional.
With your spinner face down place the spinner track over the stampin' dimensional on the back of your penny. Remove the protective layer and attach another penny on top.
Add six more dimensionals as shown.
Now is the time to get spinning. You may have to turn the pinwheel by hand the first few times to round off the corners on the dimensional but it soon should be spinning freely when you tip it.
Remove the protective layers on the dimensionals and attach it to your card.
Spin away! If it does not spin freely your card base may be rubbing on the penny. Place something flat and straight between the layers (like the blades of scissors or a butter knife) and gently twist slightly to separate the base from the penny. It should work great!
I cased this from my uplines' convention swap, I wish I knew who to give credit to. It's made almost all from punches. The colors are Kiwi Kiss and Perfect Plum. I couldn't stop there though. I needed a friend for him. I did a search on splitcoast and found this vampire, tweaked it a little and came up with this:
Edward would be proud. But I started to feel a little sexist and besides, three makes a better set. The witch took some work to get her to look right but here she is:
At this point I was pretty much done but then I remembered seeing a mummy and decided to see if I could make just one more:
Poor Karen Brown, she needed five cards so she could have one for each of her grandkids. We didn't want to exclude those who prefer Jacob over Edward so:
Here's our werewolf.
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