Birthday Beads Shaker Card

Birthday Bead Shaker Card

First birthday card I made for my niece. I also entered it into  a couple of card challenges: AAA Birthday card challenge - Click here for more details on the AAA Birthday "A shaker card" card challenge.

Also entered into CAS Watercolour card challenge. Click here for more details on the CAS Watercolour "Cool Colours" card challenge.

And if you want to watch a process video for this card, here is a link to a similar shaker card I made in a similar fashion.

It is actually a notecard (no folding card base used) where the message is written in white gel pen on the back of the card front you see in the photo. I wanted to use up stuff in my crafty stash including letters I made when testing an alphabet die I bought off AliExpress and an awesome watercolor painting my 3 year old made using STA Aquarelle Watercolor Brush markers ( a review for these markers can be found here.

Watercolor Painting by my 3 year old with niece's name

I used a glue stick to adhere the die cut letters of my niece's name to the watercolor painting. I then used doubled sided tape to adhere a piece of plastic to the inside of black cardstock with a circle cut out. I decided to make a shaker card so I'm making a circle window here looking through to Sophia's name on the water colour background.

Window Made, Beads Ready, Foam Tape Offset

I used some glass beads as the shaker elements and double layer of foam tape to add both dimension and some space for the beads to move around in. Removed the backing paper on the foam tape and placed the card front on top of the watercolor background and diecut name.

Card Front with Shaker Window

Then I used clear embossing ink to heat emboss happy birthday in silver under the shaker window.

Unfortunately, I should have done the heat embossing before attaching the plastic for the window as I accidentally melted a little hole in the window! That is why I had to place some grey star washi tape across the card front to disguise the hole.

To finish the card I adhered the card front to a black notecard, trimmed off any excess and gave the card a tester shake.

All done, and happy crafting!

Mel Crafting.