Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I'm super happy to be back on
the blog with this trio of shaker tags showcasing multiple die sets, including
the Distinctive
Door Holiday Add-On that I used on its own to create three mini scenes in jars.
I started off by cutting all the pieces
to build the backgrounds, and each background was built following the same
steps:
1. Cut a Stitched
Arch panel out
of Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock, and divide it in half. On the lower
part, blend some tumbled glass and broken china oxide inks using a hill stencil
to create a snow border. And on the upper part, blend some broken china,
uncharted mariner and chipped sapphire oxide inks to create a night sky.
2. Mix some tumbled glass oxide ink with
water, and add splatters to the snow border using a slim brush. Splatter water
droplets on the sky, and dry them using a paper towel. Mix some chipped
sapphire oxide ink with water, and add splatters to the sky. Mix some copic
opaque white ink with water, and add more splatters all over the Stitched
Arch panel,
and then do the same with liquid stardust. Cut a small hole at the top of this
panel.
3. Cut another Stitched
Arch panel out
of Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock, cut the bottom using a wavy die, and
add the same inks and same textures as before to create a slim snow border.
4. Cut another Stitched
Arch panel out
of a Holiday
Cheer snowflake pattern paper, and use a Ribbon
& Lace Border die to cut the top of the panel. Add some uncharted mariner and chipped
sapphire oxide inks on the edges, and add splatters of copic opaque white ink.
Cut a small hole at the top of this panel.
I set all those elements aside to dry,
and then cut all the bits and pieces out of colored cardstock. I used distress
inks to add shadows and more depth to each element, and also splattered white
ink to give the illusion of snow or frost on all the pieces. Here is a detailed
list of the die sets I used: • Distinctive
Door Holiday Add-On - trees, strings of lights, bows, piles of snow • Window
Quad Circle - poinsettias • Rustic
Winter -
deer • Comic
Strip Everyday - car, house.
I assembled a few of the pieces to build
the car, house, poinsettias, etc. and then created the jars using Summer
Jar Mug dies. And once again, each jar was built following the same steps:
1. Cut a jar frame out of holographic
cardstock and cut the handle off.
2. Cut a whole jar out of acetate, and
stick it at the back of the jar frame using liquid glue.
3. Still at the back of the frame, add
foam strips all around the jar, following the curved edges.
4. Cut another whole jar out of
vellum, and attach trees and a main focal object (house, car or deer) using
liquid glue.
5. Sprinkle a few White
Snowflake confetti on the die-cut pieces.
6. Peel the backing papers off the foam
strips at the back of the jar frame, and attach the jar frame to the vellum
frame to close the jar.
7. Cut another jar out of light brown
woodgrain cardstock, trim the lid off and add some vintage photo distress ink
on the edges to darken it, add copic opaque white ink splatters, and stick the
lid to the holographic shaker jar.
8. Glue a pile of snow on one side of the
jar using liquid glue.
9. Tie some golden thread around the lid.
Next I cut three different banners out of
dark blue cardstock using Brilliant
Banner 1, Brilliant
Banner 2 and Brilliant
Banner 3, and silver
heat embossed a greeting on each banner. "Sweet" is from Christmas
Cookie, "Have
a... holiday season" is from Santa
Claus Lane, and the whole
thing reads "Have a sweet holiday season". To make those banners pop
on the tag, I used the same dies to cut the banners a second time out of
holographic cardstock, and I layered each banner with its twin using 1mm foam
squares.
Next I finally assembled and attached
everything on my Stitched
Arch panels. I
first glued the jar using liquid glue, and then the slim snowy hill using 2mm
foam squares. I attached the straight string of lights at the back of the
topper element using liquid glue, and then stuck the topper piece using 1mm
foam squares. Attached a banner between the jar and string of lights, added a
poinsettia and a Christmas tree, cut one last Stitched Arch panel out of white cardstock, cut a
hole at the top of this panel, attached it at the back of the tag to finish it
nicely, and cut a white eyelet using a Mini
Mat & Tag 4 die that I glued at the top of the tag.
For the last details, I glued a white
pearl in the middle of each poinsettia, a tiny confetti star at the top of each
Christmas tree, applied white blizzard nuvo drops to the lights, tied a double
bow that I attached below each eyelet, and finally added a handle using some
slim silver ribbon from my stash.
And that's it! I went a little bit crazy
to build those shaker tags, and they took me longer than the standard type of
card I usually make, but sometimes I like to throw myself into more complicated
projects! If you ever wanted to recreate those tags, my advice would be
to die cut all the pieces first, then do all the inking, next the jar, and
finally all the assembly. Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next
week!
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