Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today's card features one of the Kat Scrappiness Shaker Card Kits. The kit includes a shaped foam dimensional base, a shaped acetate and a shaped chipboard overlay. All you have to do is adhere the base to your project which will serve as the well for your shaker elements. Add the shaker elements. Adhere the acetate, then, adhere the overlay. Easy-peasy! But for this project, I am stepping it up a notch on how to use this product. I created an ornament using this shaker card kit.
I traced the heart foam base on a white cardstock and a kraft cardstock. I cut these hearts out. I added holes on the white cardstock using a cross stitch die. I used different red embossing threads to fill the white heart. I used the decorative overlay as a guide on where to stitch each red thread. I adhered the kraft cardstock to the back of the stitched heart to cover the back of the embroidered heart.
On the heart decorative overlay, you have an option to either use the lighter or the darker colored side. To match the kraft cardstock, I used the darker side. I blended a brown dye ink to this overlay to give it a rustic look. I pounced some gold pigment ink for a bit of shimmer.
I adhered the shaped foam to the stitched heart. I added snowflake sequins for the shaker. I adhered the acetate, then adhered the overlay. I set this aside to work on the display card.
I got this idea from Jennifer McGuire. She used a die to create the display card. I re-created my display card using a trimmer and a curve die in my stash. Just like Jennifer's card, my card size is 5" x 7". I cut 4 pieces of red cardstock at 7" x 2". I will refer to these pieces as strips from hereon. I scored the ends of the short side at 1/2" and 1".
I added a curved opening on the strips using a curved die from Avery Elle Custom Panel dies set. To make sure the curved cut will be consistent on all of the four strips, I taped two strips at a time, positioned and secured the die with a tape, then run this through the die cut machine. I used one of these strips as a guide to cut the other two pieces. This time, I used the curve cut portion as a guide to where I position the curved die. I butt the die to the curved side of the cut strip, temporarily securing this with a tape. I then run this through the die cutting machine.
I masked the fold tabs on two of the strips. I stamped a snowflake background to each strip using a red dye ink for a subtle tone on tone effect. The effect is so subtle that I could have stamped the back panel too. Something to keep in mind later on. The stamp I used is from La-la Land Crafts Winter Knits stamp set.
On the stamped strip, I added glue to the tab facing backward, and adhered this to the other strip, making sure both are aligned. I added glue again to the back tab and adhered it to the top portion of the card base. I repeated this process for the bottom portion.
To add the ornament to the display card, I needed to re-create Jennifer's string die cut. I don't have a die like it. Instead, I used a die that is originally intended to cut a flag for a mailbox. I modified it to work for the purpose of suspending the ornament. Just like how Jennifer did it, I taped the ornament holder to the back of the upper strip but unlike Jennifer's, I taped the ornament to the back of the second strip. In doing so, it keeps the display card upright since my ornament has more weight.
To embellish the display card, I added a sentiment banner on the bottom strip. I did partial die cutting to extend the length of the banner to accommodate the sentiment. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn Offset Sayings stamp set and the die is from Lawn Fawn Fancy Folded Banners die set. I curved the sentiment to follow the curve of the banner. I heat embossed the sentiment using red embossing powder.
I trimmed a 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" white cardstock. I adhered this to the back of the card panel. This will be a spot to right a personal message to the recipient. At the same time, it adds some stability to the display card.
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Maria Giselle B.
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