Valentines Shaker cards

 Hallo,
   Just a quick post this am before I head off to sleep for the day (worked last night and again tonight).
  Monday was my first class this session for our local, all volunteer  'Center for Lifelong Learning'
  I am again teaching a 3D box and card class and for this first class the theme was Valentines. This is a great die cut from AccuCut Craft made just for shaker cards - it cuts the card and scores the folds perfectly for a thin card sized box.
  I used clear plastic for the opening and small beads and foil hearts for the shaker stuff. For the inside image I wanted some vintage looking images and ended up at 'Crafty Secrets' and ordered one of their digital sheets with all kinds of vintage Valentines images on it. I printed up several sheets for my 'students' to play with.
  Silly me forgot my camera for class but these 2 are ones I made up with some of the leftovers from class - Aren't they cute??
  I really love the die because it makes it so easy - just cut, fold, glue bottom and side together and add shaker items before gluing the top closed.
   All for today - Look for more good stuff over the weekend!!!
   Take Care
     Tera

CSS Fall Shaker

Hallo,

Welcome to another Gina K Center Stage Alumni blog hop!!!!

If you are following along the hop then you should have come my way from the very creative Vicki - www.allidoisstamp.blogspot.com/2011/09/gkd.html

If you want to start at the beginning then go to the main Stamp TV page here - www.stamptv.ning .com

Our challenge this time was to create a Fall Shaker card. I had not done one of these in a loonngg time!!! I like to recycle and use the plastic that comes with small packages like for brads and ect - I will show you later in this post....but Gina has done 2 awesome videos on how to do shaker cards and I will leave the links below for you to check out.

Shaker cards part 1 - www.stamptv.ning.com/video/shaker-cards-part-1-1

Shaker cards part 2 - www.stamptv.ning.com/video/shaker-cards-part-2-1

Also Gina is giving away a stamp set (value 24.95 or less) for one lucky commenter along the hop tonight so make sure to leave everyone a little bit of love and you may win!!!

OK - on 2 my cards - yup had so much fun I did 2 :)

I also decided to use the 'black magic technique' from this weeks monday challenge - and yes you can find info on how to do this technique along the right hand sidebar at Stamp TV.

I used the Fanciful Fall set. Stamped the images in white and let them dry - then colored over them with prismacolor pencils. The shaker section is the white card base sponged with distress inks and stamped over the top. I used orange seed beads for both cards.

The 'black magic' on the first card was done on dark brown cardstock and the sponged section - for the second card it was done onto kraft cardstock and black for behind the shaker.

Before I show you a bit about how I did my shakers I will show you where to head next on the hop....

Next up is the talented Sharri - www.istamp4u.blogspot.com/2011/09/were-shaking-it.html
Have fun!!!!!

The first picture shows the plastic piece I used for the first shaker card - I use double sided tape to stick it down.

I can often find one of my Spellbinders dies that will be a close fit for cutting a hole for the shaker part (next pic) but if not then I just measure and use my exacto knife(or scissors)
Sometimes if its not a perfect fit I will add little strips of matching cardstock so it blends in better.

And the last pic shows how I taped everything down so I could sponge the opening.....

All for today!!! Take Care!!!!

Tera