Autumn Shaker Card

If you love Fall and Cardmaking as much as we do, we thought you'd enjoy 

this lovely Autumn Shaker Card by Design Team Member Nadine Carlier.

Featured Storage:  Deflecto 4-Drawer Stackable Cube Organizer

Nadine's Autumn Shaker Card uses beads, glitter and a lot of various embellishments all conveniently stored in her Deflecto 4-Drawer Stackable Cube Organizer.  

The Stackable Cube Organizers are available with a variety of options to create the perfect storage solution for your craft room or office.  They help keep your workspace clutter-free and your supplies close at hand.

You can read more about the Autumn Shaker Card on Nadine's blog here.

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Eggstra Special Shaker Tag

Shaker Tag Designed by Sue Eldred

How to make a Egg-stra Special Shaker Tag

Supplies Used:

• Stamps and Dies (from the Maker's Movement)
• Die Cut Machine
• Clear Acetate Sheets
• Double Sided Craft Foam
• Black Ink
• Art Markers
• Deflecto Expandable Marker Accordion
• Heavyweight Watercolor Paper
• Decorative Scrapbook Paper
• Tape Runner
• Ribbon, Twine, Button

• Stamp the chick image with black ink onto white cardstock.
• Stamping on non-porous white card-stock helps the markers blend easier.

• Color in the edge of the chick with the light ochre marker.  Use the pale yellow marker to blend and fill in the rest of the chick.

• Line up chick die with the stamped image.  (cutting side down)  I use a piece of removable tape on my die to hold it in place as I run in through the die cut machine. 

• Using a nesting tag dies, center and tape the two dies together to create a tag frame.

Shaker Tag pieces:

• Cut a large tag from the largest nested tag die.
• Cut a large green dot tag.  Cut a wavy line die on the bottom of the tag. 
• Adhere bottom of the wavy cut tag onto the blue skies tag.
• Cut a acetate tag from the next largest nesting tag die.
• Cut a large purple gingham egg, a floral cracked egg and several small eggs from coordinating scrapbook paper.

• On the back of the tag frame, add a thin line of adhesive around the inside opening of the tag.
• Remove the protective coating from both sides of the acetate and place it on top of the adhesive.
• Cut thin strips from the double-sided foam sheets.  Remove one side of the protective layer from the foam strips and place around the inside edges of the tag.
• Add shaker bits inside tag.
• Remove the second side of the protective layer from the foam strips and adhere to the blue skies layer on the inside of the tag.

• Glue the small floral cracked half egg onto purple gingham egg.
• Add foam to the back of chick and egg and add to front of the card.
• Punch a hole on the top of the tag using the crop-a-dile, add purple and white twine.
• Adhere ribbon bow to top of the tag.

For more details on Sue's project you can read the full post here.

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Quick and Easy Cardmaking

Make quick and easy cards using scrapbooking paper packs.

There are so many fantastic paper collections available with coordinating patterns that help you take the guesswork out of matching designs.

Project Designed by Lorrie McCullers

To make a quick and easy card:

• Choose a theme using a fun paper collection
• Start with a plain white card as your base

• Cut a decorative strip of paper for the top section of the card (approx. 1/4" shorter than the width of the card base). Adhere the decorative strip onto the white card with a double-stick tape runner.
• Cut a second coordinating piece of paper and adhere to the lower section of the card.

• Cut the third pattern as a border strip to adhere to the front of the card.  
• Next, cut a small piece of decorative paper to fill in the gap between the top and bottom pieces.

• To finish up the card, punch a 2" circle from a fourth coordinating pattern from the paper collection. Add an adhesive foam dot to the back of the circle for added dimension. 

You've created a quick and easy card that can be sent to anyone for all occasions. 

For more projects from Lorrie, you can visit her blog here.

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