 Hi everybody it's Sam and it's Doug Graff. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is a Easter card in the shape of an Easter egg and it's a shaker card. There are little shakes around there. It's got these really cute little bunnies and then it says Sam Bunny loves you. And then you open it up. Again I need to stamp. I always forget to stamp the inside but I just put a happy Easter there. And then on the back it's got this little stand which folds flat so it all fits in the envelope but it just means that that will sit up nicely for whoever you give it to because without that it will just roll all over the place. So really really fun card. This is using a set of Easter egg shaped dies by X-Cut. I've got the largest one here on my tray. So that's the largest one and then you get one two three four five other ones there as well. So it's a really really good one. To use and again I'll share all the links of that one for you but I'm going to be using the biggest one today. And everything else. So I bring all this in actually. I'll show you the papers first. So all the papers that I've been using for a few of the projects this week are the three printables from TrimCraft and it's their Easter 2018 file. I'll share all the links to that but there's some beautiful ones. You've got this real life grass. You've got a sheet of sentiments. So there's obviously the sun bunny loves you. These ones then there's a happy Easter banner. There's the little bunny which again I've used on another project. And then you get this A4 pattern. The polka dot. This A4 sheet which has got a happy Easter all over it which is what I'm using today. That's again that one so printed a few and this is this one here which is the bunny. The reason I just randomly cut it out in the middle because usually I say obviously try and keep your die cuts you know close together so you don't waste card but I wanted the way the bunnies are there so I had that full image of the bunny in the center so that's why. But I've still got lots there I can use. So they're the papers that I'm using. Okay so you are going to need to explain all about that in a minute. Let's just get everything laid out. I don't know if I'm going to use these yet. They're just some little daisy flowers that I brought from the range UK. Right so I'm going to acetate so I can see where that is. I'm not sure if I'm using that sentiment yet. Okay so basically to get this shape here so it's a partial die cut to form this card in the egg shape is I used a pre-cut card this is five by seven and then you get your die and you put it on and you basically want to have a little bit on the left hand side that overhangs. So if I turn the upside down can you see here that piece there is overhanging. So now when I run that through the die machine just put a bit of washi tape to keep it in place. It will cut all of this but it will leave the straight part of the card intact which basically then gives you that effect so it keeps it closed. Okay so that's what you want to do first is die cut that to get that shape. Then and this will work if you're not doing an Easter theme this will work with a square. If you don't have any square base you know square cards pre-made you just do that on just fold over some normal card stock and then run your square die through rectangle dies, star dies, circle dies, anything you want. Then I die cut the same size in this print here and then the same size again in this pattern here and now this pattern is going to stick on top of the top which is going to be basically what this blue pattern is here. So first of all that will go like so and then this one because obviously I've die cut is going to go on top but we now need to create this frame. Now to do so you need the second size down and I can get rid of this scoreboard. Actually before I get rid of the scoreboard for your stand you need a little piece of card which measures five and a half by two inches and along the five and a half inch side you want to score at half an inch, three inches, four inches and five inches. Okay so we get that done and dusted. So yeah so now I'm just going to bring in my cutting plates and with the piece that I want to use my frame for we then need to use the next size down I'm going to sit that in the middle like so okay so get it as centered as possible put my plate down okay so carefully take out that center bit and you will be left with this frame okay so now I'm going to just get this piece glued down okay it will all fit in perfectly and you'll have a little bit that will hang on the back there but don't worry I mean no one's going to see that okay so now with this piece here you want to grab your largest of those two dies again and this time you're going to cut some acetate so again I'm just going to sit that on top of my acetate sheet here pop it on top of my plate and just get that cut out okay so again just carefully remove that you may get a little bit yeah it's all right to cut right through and just kind of wipe all that clean in a minute all those shavings and now this frame will sit perfectly over the top of the acetate sheet so what you need to do now and I find best to use is the thinnest of the red tape and you need to basically hog right on the very end of this acetate and go all the way around with the red tape literally right up to the very edge I'm just working this tape I bring it up there you can see what I'm doing working it right around the very edge and the process I'm doing here you will do for any shaker cut any one that you're using die cut shapes like I'm using nesting sized die cuts okay okay so then just go over with your bone tool and just really make sure that that red tape is all stuck down because obviously we've gone around a curved shape it won't be completely flat but once we take that top layer of tape off it will be fine when you stick it into this frame so now I can peel this piece off like so and then very carefully you need to now stick this over the top now you can't you can just about see the acetate but I really need to lean over this a minute so I'm just going to spend some time to get this right so focused on the top and the corner there the top on the bottom sorry and then I can just go around on the sides like so if you're slightly wonky just trim any of the acetate so I can see just catching in the light there there's some acetate that's just kind of come over this side that's completely fine because you can trim the acetate away if you're worried that you won't be able to perfectly line up this frame with this same size piece of acetate trim your acetate about one eighth of an inch smaller all the way around first and then stick it over the back and it should be fine so I'm just going to go over and just go over with the bone tool again and you can see if there's any white bits on the tape because it's not stuck down properly so if you just rub over you'll get rid of those kind of air bubbles and stuff like so now what we need to do is apply double-sided foam all the way around here so my little trick and what I've shared in quite a few tutorials now and on quite a lot of my live tutorials I do over on my facebook page just grab a strip of your double-sided tape your foam tape and this is just grease proof paper baking paper anything with a shiny smooth surface and then just trim that cut off this excess just so it doesn't get in the way then you go to use it and get rid of that and then we want to cut this into very thin strips so the reason I put it on this grease proof paper is so that we can cut into very very thin strips without it ruining your scissors so I'm literally doing maybe one eighth of an inch strips because this is a very thin border so I need it to be able to fit within that gap obviously if your border is much thicker then you would do your tape thicker so just you know look at whatever it is that is your the width of your frame and then cut accordingly so this is much much cheaper than buying those rather expensive rolls of thin tape especially for shaker cuts and by doing this little trick it means you don't ruin your scissors you see they're cutting through perfectly so I'm just cutting off two I think one is enough actually already some of the backing is coming off there so just need to be a bit careful basically now just take off that backing that's already starting to come off itself and just pop it in the middle of your frame and just go all the way around and obviously it's really easy to work because it will bend wherever you want it to go again making sure I don't go over any of the inner or the outside edge but rightly yeah it meets literally perfectly I kind of you know kind of guess that was going to happen look perfect now if you want to make this more raised so thicker what you're going to do is peel off this top layer like so grab your second piece and do exactly the same and stick it directly on top again and this will give you that really deep shaker card so that anything you're putting inside will shake nice and freely will move again just keeping my finger and thumb either side of the tape there just making sure it all stays nice and even and again it just meets up perfectly well it's a little bit out this one but basically you just don't want to have a gap that's big enough for whatever it is you're putting inside to fall out of I know a sequel might get through that gap so that's fine okay so that is now you can see that is going to stick on top eventually once we put our shaker bits inside and then you'll be able to shake that around you'll have a really really fun card and it's nice and obviously thick there and you get a nice it looks nice and neat from the side as well um okay another little trick again which I shared for those of you that follow me you'll know exactly what I'm doing now but as I always say there's always someone new watching you can use if you already have one of your anti statics in one of those brushes then you can just brush it straight on I have that little um anti static embossing buddy and at the bottom of my little tin here is all this excess powder just with a paint brush I'm picking it up and I'm just going to rub that powder on the inside of this double sided tape and it will stop any of your sequins sticking to the side if you're not bothered about that then you can completely skip this stage but it really bugs me if I've got one sequin like stuck at the top when all the others are at the bottom so just by doing this it prevents it doesn't always get every single one there's always some you know sometimes that one that still does find its way but you know every time I do this I pretty much you know don't get any sticking where I don't want them and it just gets rid of any static that might be on your acetate as well so it stops the sequence kind of all sticking just to the acetate sheet which sometimes happens as well now I can see where all the dust is so I can see that I'm brushing it all on and in a minute we're just buff up our acetate inside again just to make sure it's all nice and shiny again always make sure you do this with that top piece of tape on because obviously you'll make your top piece and won't be sticky anymore it won't stick down when you come to that part so don't remove the top backing yet so I'm happy that that is all coated with the powder and you can go around and feel it with your finger I can feel that there's nothing there that's sticky now I just need to clean that up inside I've just got some cotton wool and I'm just spraying a little bit of surgical spirit on this you can just use water soapy water it'll be fine but I just find that this gets rid of any marks and just go around and it will pick up any excess dust and it will also get off any marks like so flip it over give it a wipe on the front as well because that won't touch the bottom now because obviously we've got that foam backing and then just get a dry side and kind of go and buff that all up I'm just going to bring in I'll use this side just so it doesn't get any more marks so now that is nice and shiny so next we now need to put if you're going to stamp images and things like that you want to do that now on this side obviously I've got a printed background so I don't need to worry about that but if you do want a sentiment then get that done now I'm going to use my um sequence and I'm going for these ones here because they're pretty much clear they've just got a slight color and I don't want any other color sequence to get out so I'm just going to tip quite a lot into this because I've got nothing else going in there and there's no no sentiment as such it's just a patterned paper so um maybe I'll take a few out put those ones back in I think that's about right so then I'm just going to spread them out take a few more again there you go that'll do and I've got one rogue one there's always one last time I'd done a shaker card I had one little one get in so I've got that one this time because that was quite okay so I'm just pushing it all into the center making sure that none of it none of it is over where I know that border is going to stick down okay like so then grab this piece remove that backing and again I'm just going to lean over just so I can get this in the right place so that is now stuck down and then give it a good shake to break everything up you can see none of them stick to the side they all move freely okay you can see none of them are on the other side and you can see all the sentiments nicely still as well but it's just super super fun I love that so let's get the base stuck on so this is that piece that we already scored so just burnish all of those score lines and then what you're going to do is you've got this bigger area here with this tab on the end fold that one up the one where you've got the three together you want to fold it up that one up like so and then this one and this one you're going to put glue on and that's going to stick to the back of the card so when it opens up it creates that stand okay so I'm just going to grab my wet glue you can use double sided tape on this but if you want like so oh turn this one over and then just sit your stand just so it's nice and even on the back and it's literally the points of the stand are coming down to the very edge of the card like so make sure it's all nice and straight otherwise it will just lift it up and test it see once that comes out there you go that stands up really nicely so just okay guys that's how I finished this one off so at the bottom I've just fussy cut one of the sentiments which are the part of the three printables that you can get and then I've just fussy cut the little eggs here and this little bunny finished off with a few little sequins and I absolutely love that shaker card I think that's really really cute but so there you have it so there's two really cute little cards I'll share all the links to again to the file to get these downloadables they always put good ones up every month there's a three different you know papers to print off so keep an eye out for those as well but in the meantime hope you've enjoyed today and please subscribe to my channel if you do enjoy these tutorials and give me a thumbs up as well if you did like it thanks for watching bye