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Virginia’s View Challenge #12

1 Feb

#12 Shaker Cards

I was really excited to see that Virginia’s View Challenge for February is shaker cards!  I’ve been tossing around an idea for a shaker card in my head for the last few weeks and this finally gave me the incentive to figure it out!  This was definitely not a fast or easy card but I’m glad I spent the time working it out.

Virginia's View Challenge #12 www.allthesparkle.com Rainbow shaker cardI started off by using the curved die from the Avery Elle Custom Panels to create the rainbow shape.  I’m not quite sure how to explain what I did but I will do my best…I partially die-cut the stripes with the Big Shot and then freehand cut the ends with a craft knife.  I knew I wanted to separate the various sequin colors so I left a stripe about the width of the curved die in between each color stripe.  Once that was cut I used the craft knife to cut the ends off and removed the stripes.  I used the rainbow panel as a guide to mark off stripes on my background piece and then carefully used post-it tape and scrap paper to create masks as I added each rainbow color to the background piece.  I blended distress inks onto the background piece in the following order: Festive Berries, Dried Marigold, Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn, and Salty Ocean.  Then I blended Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, and Chipped Sapphire distress inks onto the top rainbow panel to create a sky.  Looking back, I should have done that before I cut the panel into the rainbow shape as it was difficult to ink the paper without tearing the tiny stripes.  I set both panels aside to dry completely.

Rainbow shaker card www.allthesparkle.comThen the “fun” part…I cut small strips of fun foam and glued them into two layer pieces using Ranger multi-medium matte.  Once the strips had dried completely I trimmed them to the length of the stripes between the rainbow colors.  I turned the blue panel upside down and adhered a piece of acetate to the back.  Then I carefully put down a line of glue following the stripes between the rainbow and adhered the foam layer to the stripe.  I held each one in place for about a minute to give the glue time to set.  Once all four strips of fun foam were in place I put an acrylic block on top and let it dry completely.  While that was drying I layered two pieces of fun foam and glued them together.  Then I cut the fun foam into pieces and added it to the back of the blue panel (where you’d normally use foam mounting tape).  This part wasn’t difficult just a little tedious and time-consuming…

Finally, it was time to add sequins!  I used Pretty Pink Posh sequins in 4mm and 6mm sizes.  Once I filled up each section with sequins I adhered the rainbow panel to the fun foam.  I let that dry for awhile and then adhered it to a black card base.  To finish the front of the card I went over the blue with my clear wink of stella glitter brush and then added a frame of silver glitter paper cut from the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles dies.  The sentiment from the Hero Arts Written in the Stars set was stamped onto the textured side of a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper in Silver Delicata ink and heat-embossed with clear embossing powder.  I die-cut the sentiment using the Talk Bubbles die from Simon Says Stamp.  I decided that it would pass as a cloud!  I brushed the edges of each cloud with a little Silver Delicata ink and adhered them to the “beginning” of the rainbow!

I’m thrilled with the way it turned out…I have a friend in need of a little encouragement and I think this will be the perfect card for her!

rainbow shaker card www.allthesparkle.com…and that’s how I spent my SuperBowl Sunday… 😉

I’m also entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Up in the Clouds and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes!

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Comments

  1. Rubeena says

    February 1, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    Omg I love this card!!! So creative.

    Reply
    • jessicafrost says

      February 1, 2015 at 11:34 pm

      Rubeena, thank you!

      Reply
  2. Virginia L. says

    February 1, 2015 at 8:35 pm

    Sometimes an idea is just an idea….until it is executed to its perfection. I am wowed by your ingenuity of using those AE dies to create the rainbow and turned this into a shaker card! Congrats on the Virginia’s View Facebook feature! I am so glad that this challenge prompted you to turn the idea into an amazing result! Thank you, Jess!

    Reply
    • jessicafrost says

      February 1, 2015 at 11:35 pm

      Virginia, thank you so much for the kind words and the FB feature! I’m so happy that I was able to make my idea work out on paper! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Hussena says

    February 2, 2015 at 1:24 am

    This is simply Brilliant ..Love it !!

    Reply
  4. Eveline van Heijst says

    February 2, 2015 at 1:51 am

    Brilliant.

    Reply
  5. Aileen says

    February 2, 2015 at 3:31 am

    wow what a wonderful creation. Its brilliant when an idea works isnt it. Love, love this card.

    Reply
  6. Diana Nguyen says

    February 2, 2015 at 9:30 am

    LOVE love love this card! Shaker cards are so much fun and you’ve made a stunner of one.

    Reply
  7. Carol S says

    February 2, 2015 at 10:40 am

    Wow- this is so creative Jess and well worth the time creating it!
    Hugs
    Carol x

    Reply
  8. Emily Lauritzen says

    February 3, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    Such an eye catcher!!! Absolutely love the whole thing!!!
    <3 Emily L.

    Reply
  9. Mandy says

    February 3, 2015 at 6:08 pm

    Gorgeous card Jess! I love how you’ve added the sequins, fab idea.
    Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
    hugs
    Mandy xx

    Reply
  10. Kara Lynne says

    February 3, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    I saw this over at Virginia’s View and had to come over to see! What an amazing labor of love! It’s cards like this that gives the stamp companies new ideas!

    Reply
  11. Nina-Marie Trapani says

    February 4, 2015 at 4:15 am

    Very pretty shaker card! LOVE the rainbow!! Talk about brightened cheery!
    Nina-Marie 🙂

    Reply
  12. Wiebke Kommerell says

    February 6, 2015 at 9:43 pm

    Jessica, your card is AMAZING! I love it!

    Your friend has big luck to have you as a friend! Hope she’ll be fine and encouraged soon.

    Reply
  13. Julie says

    February 6, 2015 at 11:32 pm

    WOW! Love it. Great card.

    Reply
  14. Helen Gullett @ Living My Given Life says

    February 11, 2015 at 9:55 am

    WOW…. this is WOW!!!

    Reply
  15. Mary says

    February 16, 2015 at 7:59 am

    Wow!! I can just imagine the work that went into this card!!! Super, super job!!!

    Reply
    • jessica frost-ballas says

      February 17, 2015 at 11:58 pm

      Thanks Mary! It was a little time-consuming but fun, too! 🙂

      Reply
  16. Nina-Marie Trapani says

    February 25, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Congrats on your win over at Virginia’s View Jess!!! Your card is stunning!

    Reply
  17. Karen Schloss says

    November 2, 2015 at 9:20 pm

    This is the most beautiful card I have ever seen, and what beautiful work you did in making it!

    Reply

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