Snowman Shaker Card - tutorial

Today's card was created for the special challenge at

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shaker cards.

You have until Ocotber 20th to submit your shaker card

for a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card!

I'm entering my project in the new challenge blog for all things Christmas,

Merry Little Christmas

and

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PROJECT DETAILS AND ADDITIONAL PHOTOS:

This was a fun experiment in shaker card making: creating a snowman from various dies and paper punches.

If you don't have circle dies, you could still make this with something as simple as a compass and Xacto knife. All you need is something to make three different sized, stacked circles cut in your card front. Then of course whatever you want to shake inside your window and extra embellishments, if you wish, on the front.

Supplies I used:

Circle dies

1" square paper punch  = for the top of the hat

Word Window paper punch, Stampin' Up! = hat brim

"Leafy fern" (I'm not sure of the name) paper punch, Martha Stewart. I trimmed it into smaller pieces to tuck them under the brim of the hat.

1/8" circle hole paper punch = berries on the hat

Snowflake paper punch, Stampin' Up! = trimmed to make the arms

Red and white gingham ribbon

Black and white craft inks = details on the hat

Divine Swirls embossing folder, Cuttlebug

Acetate for window

White, black, green, red and textured brown card stocks

White fun foam = die cut to make the "corral" for the shaker material and to give it depth

Mini snowflake paper punched pieces (created with the fallout from a border punch, unknown manufacturer) made with silver glitter paper and shimmer white paper = shaker material

Clear micro beads = shaker material

Heavy duty double stick adhesive tape

Scissors

Pencil

I don't have photos of all of the steps unfortunately, but here are a couple to give you an idea of how I made the snowman.

If you are going to use circle dies to create your snowman, find three of various sizes that will fit your card front. Lay them down, slightly overlapping. When you are happy with the placement, trace the circle dies to help you line them up when you cut them. You can't cut all three at one time since they are overlapping, so you will need to run it through a couple of times. NOTE: I embossed the front piece first without thinking. Embossing should be done after die cutting the circles because it will get flattened out in places during the die cutting process.

I carefully lined my piece back up in the embossing folder and ran it through when I was done die cutting.

This photo shows pieces of fun foam that I die cut to fit around and under the die cut snowman window. I used numerous tiny pieces of heavy duty double stick tape to adhere the fun foam to the card stock and acetate. It was also used to adhere the acetate to the card stock. You will want to put one in place then line up the others and trim them with small scissors. Make sure that all of the fun foam touches each other, that there are no gaps. Gaps would allow your shaker material to escape.

NOTE: once again , I wasn't thinking it through. I should have had the acetate sandwiched between the back of the embossed card stock front and the fun foam "corral" in this photo. After realizing my mistake and fixing it, I didn't take another photo. Be sure your acetate is adhered to the card stock die cut window piece before applying the dimensional "corral".

Fill your "corral" with small items to shake. Make the sides of your "corral" deeper to holder thicker items if you'd like. I used clear micro beads with teeny tiny paper punched glittery and shimmery snowflakes to fill my snowman. The depth of a single piece of fun foam was perfect for my "corral".

Adhere a scrap piece of card stock over the filled snowman shaker then attach it to the card front. You may want to assemble the corral and shaker material on the card front itself then attach the window over it. This would be done easily if you were making a simple large circle or square shaker window.

Detail your snowman to your liking. You can even add a face and buttons.

Think of all the fun shapes you can make and fill to create shaker cards !