Stella, Roo and Fena Too Designs: shaker card

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Loves Rubberstamps Challenge – Anything Goes

Hello Blogging Friends,

First, I want to wish everyone a Happy New Years and I hope that your New Year is filled with much success and that all your wishes and desires come true. I have some more fun news for you today! For the month of December, I was a guest designer for Loves Rubberstamps. Laura, the owner, asked me to join the team and I have gladly accepted! You should stop by the store and see all the gorgeous stamps, papers and embellishments she carries.

So this is my first official post as a member of the Loves Rubberstamps Design Team! The challenge for this week is Anything Goes! These are always a lot of fun. We are also sponsored by The Cutting Cafe this week.

I colored up the Heidi image by Wee Stamps on cryogen paper with my copics. The background papers are all My Mind’s Eye, Lost and Found . Since Heidi is all bundled up, I decided to shake up the image a bit and make it a shaker card. This is actually very simple to do. I used the Spellbinders Labels 18 dies and cut out a border. I then cut another die cut using the large label die out of clear envelope packaging. I glued the clear die cut to the border and set it aside to dry. After I colored the image, I used 3M double sided tape and put it around the edges of the image which I also cut out with the large Spellbinders Labels 18 die. After putting the 3M tape around the image, I decided it needed a little more height, so I added another layer of double sided tape. (Be sure to seal the image completely with the tape or the flakes will fall out. After I added the double sided tape, I added the snow.) Then I removed the backing of the double sided tape and put the border with the clear packaging tape over the image. Whala! You have a shaker card with snow around the image!