Purple Poinsettia Shaker

Hiya friends!  I'm so glad you are here for my next Scrappy Tails Crafts project!  My card for today is something I don't normally do.  It's a shaker card!  And not just that, it's a slimline shaker!!

When I first started this project, I didn't have an end game.  I just started playing around.  I ink blended Wilted Violet, Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves and Victorian Velvet distress inks onto a panel.  

Then I took Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness distress inks and blended on another panel.

After that, I splattered the purple panel with silver paint.  Then I cut as many pieces out of the panels using the Outline Poinsettia dies and Assorted Christmas Leaves dies that I could.

Then I cut more pieces out of silver cardstock.  I put all of the pieces together mixing the foil pieces with the distress ink pieces.

It was at this point I decided I wanted to do a shaker.  I cut a piece of white cardstock down to a large slimline size.  I cut it out with a window slimline die (Whimsy Stamps Slimline Marquee).  Then I dry embossed the panel with the Slimline Brick Background die.  Next I splattered it with Hickory Smoke and Dusty Concord distress oxides, as well as silver paint.  I also used a blender brush and the Hickory Smoke to go around all of the edges, openings and raised parts of the panel.  I just didn't want it to be such a stark white.

Next step was to create a shaker.  I'm not going to go into great detail as I'm sure we've all seen it before.  I put a layer of acetate down, then foam tape, filled the windows, and finished it with another piece of acetate.  

I adhered the whole shaker panel to a white, slimline card base.  

Now I got out all of my flower bits.  I played around with it for a bit until I found the layout I liked.

The poinsettias were adhered in place with foam tape.  This left me room to glue down the leaves and twigs flat to the panel.

Now I just needed a sentiment!  I used the "thinking of you" word dies from the Slimline Pop Up Box die set.  I ink blended a scrap of white cardstock with the Dusty Concord distress oxide ink.  Then I remembered to put Stick It adhesive on the back.  This makes it so much easier to ad the little pieces onto my panel!

And that's it!  Thanks SO much for hanging out with me today!  Remember to use code STCBLOG to get 10% off at the Scrappy Tails Crafts store!

~Kristina

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Build Your Stash Holiday Hop

Hello!  I'm excited to make my very first Christmas card of the year!  Even better, I get to join a linky party for the very first Build Your Stash Holiday Hop.  You can find the details (and prize list!!) and the link up right HERE.  #byshhchristmasinjuly2020

I'm using two different digital stamp sets from Polka Dot Orchard.  They are having an awesome 50% off sale on Christmas/Winter sets.  Plus all other sets are 35% off for a limited time!

I'm using the Poinsettia from Poinsettia Greetings.  You can find that set right HERE.

I sized it to be larger than an A2 size card panel.  I printed it out using my laser printer onto regular copy paper.  Yes.  Regular copy paper.  You see, this wasn't supposed to be a card.  This was a sample I printed out that was laying on my desk.  I had a technique on my mind and I thought I'd just try it out.  And then I just colored the whole thing.  I was so happy with how it turned out I knew I was going to go ahead and figure out how to use it for a project.

The technique is simply to use a standard pencil and a smudging tool to add a hint of a shadow.  This is not my idea at all.  I picked it up from YouTube of course.  My major influences are Amber Rain Davis and Jaycee Gasper.  It's so easy AND satisfying!  I would lightly scribble some pencil in the areas where I wanted the shadows to be.  Then I grabbed a blending stump to smudge it out.  Here's how it turned out!

Obviously copy paper isn't strong enough for a card layer so I glued it onto a piece of cardstock.  I wanted to keep it simple.  I added the yellow at the center of the flower and touches of Gold pen.  I also added random dots with the gold gel pen.  That's it.  I added it onto the black and white patterned paper and then onto a black card base.

The sentiment is from the Holiday Poinsettia set.  I reversed the font color to white.  Then I created a black rectangle in Adobe Illustrator.  I put the white sentiment on top and printed it out.  I added foam tape to the back and added it to the card.

Here is a close up.

I appreciate you stopping by.  I'm off to link my card up to the Build Your Stash Holiday Hop.  Hope to see your cards there!

~Kristina