Wednesday, September 7, 2016

First Ever Shaker Card

     Lately I've  been trying as many new techniques as possible, this one gave me the most trouble when I thought it would be simple. Shaker boxes, Ugh!
     I started out with a plan and picked out all my stamps, inks and stencils, then straight to work. The end result is better than I thought but getting there was a nightmare, LOL! I had to replace the Acetate 3 times because of problems I was having with the sequins getting stuck in the background images. Finally I got  some micro beads and that did the trick.
 
    This is the end result. I just fell in love with these cute little guys and had to find a way to use them all.



Products Used:

Imaginisce Snag'em Stamps Blowfish, Crab, Dolphin and Octopus
Simon Says Wave Stencil #SSST121357
Deep Red (Water droplets background stamp)
Ranger/Dylusions # DYR37798 Ocean Backgrounds
Ranger/Dylusions Spray Inks (London Blue and Calypso Teal)
Ranger #12 DYR47308 mixed media tags
Ranger distress ink
ColorBox  Frost White pigment ink
Gelly Roll  glitter pens
Hero Arts gems
Beader's Paradise Micro Beads
Penny Black #30-358 Happy Snippets
Grumbacher Miskit
Martha Stewart punch



     First I started with the mixed media tag. I sprayed it with water, then  two different colors of ink, sopping up the excess ink with a roll of paper towels. I cut it down to 5x7 because I knew I would need a larger area for the stamped images and the background pieces.  I placed the wave stencil over the background and sprayed with water, let it sit for a few seconds then rolled the paper towels over it to pull some of the ink out. I did this twice to cover the entire background. With my water droplets stamp and the frost white ink pad I stamped bubbles onto the background, and a few fish from my ocean backgrounds. I set that aside.
     Using the Oceans backgrounds set I stamped coral and seaweed on another tag and colored them with my Dylusions inks. I have water brushes filled with every color ink. Then I fussy cut them out and added them to my background.
    I then stamped the Blowfish and others on 110lb card stock and used a paint brush to apply Miskit to the eyes, flowers, fins and spots on each of the images, and let it dry for 5 min; when the Miskit was dry I used Ranger distress inks and blender tool to color the images. I rubbed the Miskit off and used the Gelly Roll pens to color in the flowers, Fins and spots. I fussy cut them out and edged each with a black marker to make them pop.
    Two layers of dimensional adhesive, the acetate and some 110lb card stock around the edges, I used a Martha Stewart punch for the top and used Vintage Photo distress ink over the edges. I stamped the sentiment and added the gems. My fish tank shaker box card is finally done. It was a lot of work but well worth it. Not bad for a first try, I think.

I will be entering this card in these challenges:

    

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a Wonderfully Crafty Day!!

Karen



7 comments:

  1. Glad you persevered, Karen, the results are darling! Thanks for sharing your shaker card with us at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge!

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  2. It shouldn't have been so difficult,lol. Thanks Lin

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  3. A fantastic shaker card Karen!! So bright ans cheerful and a fab idea! Beautiful made! Thanks for joining our challenge at Addicted to Stamps. Marlies

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  4. too cute,
    thanks for playing with us at addicted to stamps
    hugs
    céline

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  5. So bright and colorful! Thanks so much for playing Virginia’s View “Spray, Mist & Splatter” Challenge! FABULOUS!

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    1. I love to use my spray inks and tis challenge was perfect for it, thanks!

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