Slim Shaker Card

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I hope everyone is having a good week, we've made it half way!! For today's card I am making a slimline card. I'm not sure if it's the normal measurements of your typical slimline card, I just went with the size I wanted for my creation. Slimline cards are a nice change from the typical A2 size card and I think it's fun to change things up a little from time to time. I do not own any slimline dies, so today, I will show you how I took a regular stitched rectangle die to create a stitched slimline card panel. I will be doing some ink blending using regular Distress Inks and will be creating two shaker windows for my card. Let's get started!!

I will be doing all of my work today on my Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat.

To start, I cut a 3 1/2" x 6 3/4" piece of Nennah White Cardstock using my Tim Holtz Guillotine Paper Trimmer. Next, I take the second biggest die from my Stitched Rectangle Die Set and tape it down to my panel using Purple Tape. I then set the panel in between my cutting plates with the one end of the die (towards the center of the panel) hanging out and run my Big Shot Die Cut Machine. *Only what is in between the cutting plates will cut, anything hanging out will not.

Next, I take the die and move it down the panel so the finished length will measure 3". I wiggle it around until I feel it fall into the previous cut marks and tape it into place. I then place it in between the cutting plates, again leaving the end that is already cut hang outside of the cutting plates. *Remember, whatever is not in the plates will not cut. I then run through my Big Shot Die Cut Machine. I now have a stitched slimline panel!

Now it's time to add some color to my panel. Using my Blender Brushes, I take Milled Lavender Distress Ink and blend around the center of the panel. Next, I take Dusty Concord Distress Ink and blend around the sides and ends, fading back into the previous color. To brighten up the color a little, I blend Wilted Violet Distress Ink onto the very edges and corners of the panel.

To break up the color a bit and give some interest to the panel, I take my Distress Sprayer filled with clean water and spritz onto my panel then lay a paper towel over the top to soak up the water creating water marks.

I now take two dies from the Floral Squares Die Set and place them on my panel where I will be creating my shaker windows. I tape them down using Purple Tape and run them through my Big Shot Die Cut Machine. *I will save the frames and pieces for a future project.

I take the same two dies and cut out of white cardstock two times each using my Big Shot Die Cut Machine. I stack each one and glue together using Liquid Glue.

I flip my panel over and add Double Sided Tape around both of the windows. I then cut two 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" pieces of Acetate, remove the release paper from the tape and adhere the acetate down.

When making shaker cards, I find it easiest to create a backer approximately the same size as the shaker window, or in this case, a 2 3/4" x 6" panel to hold in all of the shaker bits before mounting onto a card base. I want to create a subtle background for the inside of my windows. To do this, I take my Cloud Stencil and create some clouds using Milled Lavender Distress Ink and my Blender Brush.

To create wells for each window that will hold my sequins and beads, I take Foam Tape and add it to each side, running the length of the panel so that all sides of each window is surrounded with foam tape. Next, I add sequins and beads from my stash. I then carefully remove the release paper from the foam tape and place my cloud panel over the foam tape and press to adhere. *I like to run my fingers around each window making sure to adhere well so that non of the shaker bits escape. I then flip the panel over and shake it around making sure everything is secure.

I now take my stacked white die cuts from the Floral Squares Die Set that I had cut and add Liquid Glue to the back. I then gently dab the die cut with glue to a scrap of paper so that no glue oozes out when gluing into place. I carefully set my die cuts into each window and gently press into place over the acetate.

For my sentiment I take a small rectangle die from my Infinity Rectangle Die Set and cut out of white cardstock, running them through my Big Shot Die Cut Machine. Taking my Blender Brush, I blend Milled Lavender Distress Ink onto the die cut. Next, I blend Dusty Concord Distress Ink around the edges and corners. I now take a sentiment from the Heartfelt Stamp Set and stamp onto the blended die cut using Versafine Clair Nocturn Ink. After the ink dried, I decided to add a little Wilted Violet Distress Ink to the very edges and corners to brighten it up a bit.

To give my sentiment a more finished look, I took my Versamark Embossing Ink Pad and softly tapped the bottom edge into the pad. I then added Detail White Embossing Powder and heat set with my Heat Tool. I repeated this process for the remaining three sides.

Finally, I add a strip of Foam Tape to the back of my sentiment and adhere down onto the front of my card in between each window. I then mount my shaker panel onto a 3 1/4" x 6 1/2" white card base using Double Sided Tape. I add a few Water Droplets using Liquid Glue, and this completes my card.

I hope you found today's card fun and learned some useful tips. I haven't invested in slimline dies yet, but was happy that I could still create the stitched detail in a slimline look using dies I already had in my stash. Partial die cutting is a great way to stretch the use of dies you may already have. If you like the look of slimline cards and the detail stitched dies give but don't own slimline stitched dies, I hope you give this technique a try!


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Jeannie