A
bright and cheerful birthday blast of stars and sequins to brighten anyone's birthday!!
This card took a bit of engineering but it wasn't as hard to make as it looks!
The construction is a bit tricky, so if you have any questions please send me a note and I will be happy to help out.
Project Recipe
Paper list:
Whisper White (3) 4 x 5.25"
Pumpkin Pie 4.25 x 11" Cardbase
scrap of yellow with ink splots from stash 4 x 5.25"
Other Supplies from Stash:
Orange Ribbon
Wink of Stella - yellow, orange, green
Glaze Pen - clear
Glitter Pen
Clear Transparency Paper (shaker)
Foam & Foam Tape
Clear dimensional glue (crystal accents)
1. Cut your card base from Pumpkin Pie. Score at 5.5 inches on the long side for a top folding card. Fold in half.
2. Cut your 3 pieces of Whisper White. One if for the inside of the card. Two are for the shaker element.
3. Leaving enough room at the top of a Whisper White piece, place the Star Burst die about 1/2" down from the top of your card. Tape in place and run through your Big Shot.
4. On piece #3 of Whisper White, placing bottom edges even, mark where the die cut stop and where each star on the bottom edge is in pencil. You will need to draw a 1/4" line in on the sides and top. This is the piece you will cut out to make your shaker window.
5. Using an Xacto or Pen knife (scissors if you are really good) cut out the rectangle you just drew.
6. Glue the Star Burst die cut piece on top of the rectangle window piece even at the bottom edge.
7. Cut a piece of transparency paper to fit the top of the card where the window is cut even with top and sides of cardstock. Adhere this to the back of the rectangle window with Tear & Tape.
8. Add foam strips to top and sides on back of shaker window on top of the clear layer. For the bottom of the card to have an even surface, cut a piece of foam slightly smaller than the area remaining and adhere with Tear & Tape.
9. Using the inside star pieces from the Star Burst Die - color with the orange, yellow, and green Wink of Stella. Using Snail, adhere them to your yellow ink splot panel which will be the back piece of your shaker window.
10. Place shaker bits (sequings, beads, etc) from your stash on top of the stars glued to the yellow paper.
11. Remove the Tear & Tape backing. Line up the shaker top with your yellow layer and carefully stick down making sure to press all edges.
12. Apply Snail to back of yellow paper and glue topper to card front of Pumpkin Pie card base.
13. Apply Snail to back of last Whisper White piece and glue inside your card.
WHEW!!!!! You are done!! I know it is a lot of steps, but look at your awesome card!