Star shaker card

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a birthday card I have made into a shaker, I love adding this fun element to cards I feel it adds lots of interest for the recipient.
Please see all instructions and products used below:

• For this card I've started with the background, I used a piece of white 5x7 card stock and I attached pieces of red liner tape going across it horizontally, I haven't measured this out the gaps between them are uneven.
• Next I have used three shades of shimmer ink and a blending tool over the tape and onto the background of the card using a gradient of the darkest colour at the top to the lightest colour at the bottom, I left this to one side to dry for a little while.
• Whilst the ink was drying I took a piece of white card and cut an aperture with a star die, running it through my die cutting machine, on the back of the card I have added a piece of acetate and layered around the card with foam pads ensuring not to leave any gaps so once the sequins are in place they can't escape, I also rounded the corners with a corner punch.
• Next I came back to the background piece, I removed all the red liner tape to expose the sticky adhesive I then used an iridescent glitter and covered the whole piece burnishing the glitter into the adhesive and brushing away the excess, I then added the sequins into the middle of the card
• I used wet glue on the back of the foam pads to stick the white piece down over the sequins, thus encapsulating them.
• I then used a happy birthday die cut from black card and adhered this to the front panel
• To add that last finishing touch I stuck some matching sequins and some clear iridescent gems down with some wet glue.

Products used:

• Prism shimmer inks in the shades, Thundercloud, Periwinkle and Arctic mist
• Hunkydory moodstone straight edge nesting dies - star
• Black and white card stock from Lynda's world of paper
• Happy birthday die from Chloe's creative cards
• Sequins, gems and glitter were all unbranded from Amazon UK

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