Shaker

- [voiceover] hieveryone, kristina here. welcome to another card video at my youtube channel and blog. today i'm going to be creating a really fun shaker card, and i'm going to be incorporating some tips that i've learned from you guys here at youtube or over at my blog. i always stash away those tips you share

with me in the back of my mind for a future card video, and i'm gonna share a couple of those tips with you today. my first tip has to do with this heat-resistant acetate. this is supposedto be an acetate that's good for heat embossing, and i discovered that it's really static-y. the powder sticks to places where i don't want it.

one of you guyssuggested that i should add a little bit of water to the acetate, clean it off and dry it off, and then try embossing. i did it once without, and the powder was everywhere. it was a big mess, but this time, when i cleaned it up, it was a little bit easier to get the embossing powder only in areas where i wanted it. the stamp i'm using today is from mama elephant, and it's from the thankyou wishes stamp set.

it's a brand-new stampset from mama elephant, and i've stamped it in versamark ink. now i'm sprinkling on some rich pale gold embossing powder from wow. i'm gonna tap off the excess, try to shake off as much as i can, but it doesn't get everything off. there's still some powder bits here and there, so then i took a paper towel,

and unfortunately, thisis sort of off camera, but you get the idea. i took a paper towel and wiped away whatever powder i couldaround the outside edges of that stamped image, and then took my heat tool and heat set it. it's just gorgeous. you can see that beautiful gold shimmer and shine, and it's on top of thisclear window piece.

it's really, really neat. this is going to be the window area for my shaker card. i'm now gonna work on the die cutting around that area. i've got two circle dies. both are from simon says stamp. this is just the nested circles die set. i'm going to take thelarger of the two dies, and cut out the window piece. i'm running that throughmy big shot machine,

and you can see the circle piece cut out really easily. this particular acetatedie-cuts seamlessly. it's really, really beautiful. now you're gonna notice that my cutting plates change, because i realized that my cutting pads were so worn out, so i took out the red ones that i bought a while ago, and now i'm using those to die-cut the smaller of the two circles

out of some white card stock. i'm using some ranger multi-medium matte, just squeeze that out around the edges of that circle frame, and then press the acetate right down over the top. this is going to create thefront window of my shaker card. now i'm gonna start working on the actual shaker area. this is where theother tip comes in that i got from you guys.

one of you guys in the comments said you know what, it's so much easier to do shaker cards if you remove all of the release paperfrom your foam adhesive and then shape it around your window. i was like "this is genius!" this is my first time trying it, and let me tell you, it lives up to the hype of this tip. it's fantastic.

i can't believe i'vebeen making shaker cards so long without doing it this way. first i doubled up on my 3m foam tape, just so it's a little bit thicker, and the sequins can move around alittle bit more inside. then i released both sides of the release paper. this makes it so that the foam can really stretch and bend all the way around that circle shape. i cannot even tell you guys how excited

i am to know how to do this, because circle shaker cards were kind of the bane of my existence before,because you had to cut up a million foam pieces and space 'em all out just right. this way, there's no break in any of the foam, so if you're going to be adding some really small beads or even glitter or something like that, none of it

will escape the shaker area. this is fantastic. i can't recommend this technique enough to you guys. it's wonderful. unfortunately, i do not recall who shared this tip with me, but thank you, bless you. thank you so much for sharing this tip with me. i can't believe i hadn'ttried it until now. so i put that foam all the way around

the circle area, then i added some more foam to the corners,just so that everything lays flat once i've assembled it. i'm taking my powder tool and just dusting a little bit of powder around that foam just to get rid of any adhesive that might be sticky around it. i probably should have wiped down that window plastic with that acetate

a little bit more, 'cause in the finished piece, you can see a little bit of that powder, but it's not a big deal in the long run. i'm now using a mix of green sequins from little things by lucy abrams. i love her mixes of sequins. then i took a square of dark chocolate card stock from simon says stamp, and just pressed that down onto that shaker area,

and that completes the shaker mechanism. the only thing i have left to do is to actually put it on the card front. i want it to look as though this shaker is directly on thecard base, so i'm using the same color of brownfor the card base, which is the dark chocolate card stock from simon says stamp. put some tombow xtreme adhesive on the back of that,

and then adhere that directly down onto the card base. it was looking alittle bit plain to me, so i took a ground espresso marker. this is a distress marker from tim holtz, and i'm just adding some dashed lines around the outer edge of that circle window. this is going to give it just a little bit more detail, and help it to look more finished.

so that's the card for today. i hope you guys enjoyed. i will be back with another card video very, very soon. until then, thank you for watching, and i will see you guysin the next card video.

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