 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. For this week's hobby-based card I've got this really fun Christmas ball ball shaker card. So you can see there all of the bits. I've put a lot in it. I do like my shaker cards quite full and I've got these really colorful. You can see there these like discs and they're just from my own stash. I've had them for so long and I kind of forgot about them so I thought I'm going to use those and they look great. So there's no fancy dies needed for this ball ball shape. It's just circle dies. I've just got a fancy edged one there but it doesn't matter if you've just got normal you know round plain round ones. The die it's the that's kind of the focal piece and this is the hobby-based Merry Christmas die which is just really nice. It's got yeah I just love the font and it's got the nice two little reindeer's either side there. So I've got that in the middle. I've just put this little simple strip here with some washi tape and then the top. I've just used some of these kind of like sprig dies that I've got. So any kind of leaf dies. I wanted it to look like the Christmas tree so and then I've just got some string there as well just to kind of come from the the ball ball but really really easy. It's just a shaker card but it's um yeah I think it's really fun really festive and so shiny. So let's crack on and make it. So I am doing a five by seven card because that's the sizes I really like. Five and five by seven and six by six you will most commonly see me do. So I have my card base and my mats there. This is the die. All the links will be shared below if you're watching on Facebook and if you're watching on YouTube it will be on my blog but that's the die there. And then I've got some acetate and all of these bits and pieces. So we don't need those bits for the moment. Let's just go through the mats and layers. So your card base like I said a piece of five by seven blank card. If not I've got some card stock here which was 10 by seven and then along the 10 inch side you just want to score it five inches. Fold in half and burnish. Now mine is a little bit kind of flimsy but I liked the red but I'm going to be adding these mats anyway. So I've got them both the same size. One's going to be for the front and one's going to be inside and once I've added the shaker element that card stock will become really rigid anyway. So you want two pieces that are five and sorry four and three quarters by six and three quarters okay and they are going to match perfectly like I said one on the front like so you get a nice frame and then one inside okay. So those pieces. So first of all what I think we should do is you don't need the scoreboard anymore now for this card I just wanted to show you the card base. Let's get straight in and do the actual shaker element itself. So for this I have my mirrored card stock and I've got some of my circle dies here. So you want something I mean it depends on what size card you're using card base size I mean this is five by seven so I've got a circle that fits nicely you know within that width of that five inches if you're doing six by six then you could obviously go much bigger and if you're doing you know a smaller a six or a two size card then you would have to you know adapt your circles accordingly. But basically you want to die cut your first your largest circle you want to die cut with some of your on your mirrored card. Now whenever I'm using mirrored card and I'm die cutting I always like to add just a piece of copy paper over the top and that will help reduce you know the yeah reduce the risk of getting any kind of indents on your mirrored card and also any marks or any sticky marks just anything that might be on your top plate that you're not aware of so I always like to just run that through it won't affect your layering and if anything you know your sandwich of your plates I'll get it out in a minute but if anything it will just help cut that even more. So if I just remove that now you can see I've got a really perfect piece of mirrored card stock there with no markings on it or anything so that's with your largest circle so now I'm going to grab this smaller circle now it kind of really does depend on you know how confident you are doing a shaker card I mean if you've made lots of shaker cards and you don't you can work within a very thin kind of frame then I would go for something like this that I've done which is about three eighths of an inch wide it is a thin one so that's the one I'm using today but I would suggest that maybe a shaker cards are something you don't make a lot of or you've never made one before I would get something so that when you sit it in the middle of this so this is going to die cut now on top of this now my cut line for this particular die is actually inside the circle because when I put it over it looks like it would be really tiny but actually you're measuring from the inside of this circle to the outside so it does give me a nice frame but I would suggest that you come in even more with your circle diameter so let me just measure this all up here so the largest one I'm using here is say four inches I would then get your next circle frame at three and a half that way you've got that nice half inch frame that it's going to create so let me just run this through because I think once I've done it for anybody again who's not done this before it will make more sense so I need to just line this one up because I've got all those little kind of perforated lines but as long as I've got a nice equal kind of scalloped edge around there then that should be fine just pop some washi tape there and then with my copy paper again sit that over the top run those through okay so just I'll take the whole plate off for the minute and then just carefully lift that off and there you'll see there is my frame but I would say you know bring it in like I said so it's three and a half and then you will have this as being a half inch frame as opposed to the much thinner one that I've got here but yeah I mean I've made many many many shaker cards so and once I show you my kind of little tips and tricks then you know it does make it all quite easy to do so now you want to use your largest circle and then I'm going to grab my acetate so you just want to make sure obviously your acetate is big enough for you to cut your circle from and acetates a funny one I'm going to use my mat there because you know you get all different um thicknesses this is quite a thick one I'm using I recycle a lot of the packaging that I receive my stamps and dies in but if it's a thin one it will cut through normally if it's thicker like this I'll probably run it through once and then I'll go back through again okay and then when I take it out it's it's gone through but you kind of have to it's like holding on by thread so you just want to rip the rest out okay like so okay and then you want to trim it very very very slightly so when I mean that I'm going to go in now and I'm just going to remove all of that um scalloped edge on mine so I'm literally only taking off a little bit if you've just got a plain circle then I would say you know take like one eighth of an inch off or you know a few millimeter you just basically want to shrink it down a little bit so that it doesn't show through when you put it behind your frame so now when I put that acetate over that frame you can't see it at all because I've just taken off just enough okay for it to then stick down so next you want to get some I like to use the red tape especially when I'm using acetate I just find it sticks really really well so what you want to do here is it just fits in mine and just start to wrap it around and don't worry if it starts to buckle and kind of lift because the sticky tape underneath will be sticking down all that will be lifting up is the red tape on top which we're going to be peeling off anyway so you just want to go around and make sure you don't go over this side so obviously you don't want anything sticky showing so I'm just going to go around and stick that all down and I'm just going to use my bone folder there and just make sure that it's all stuck down like I said again don't worry if it starts to lift because now you just want to pull it off anyway okay so now I've got my sticky tape all stuck perfectly and then I'm going to my acetate a little mark out there we go got rid of it and then just sit my frame perfectly over the top like so you want to make sure that it sticks to all of the you know whatever shape it is because you might want to use obviously you know shaker files can be anything this is the bobble um but there's no reason why you can't change the shape so now there's my little shaker window okay so I've already gone ahead and die cut my merry christmas there on the same mirrored card stock that I've used for this okay so then what I'm going to do is I want to now stick that right in the center of this acetate now I would recommend that you use double sided tape so you die cut you basically get your mary card you stick it onto a double sided sheet like you know you can buy these a4 sheets and then die cut it that way an intricate die cut like this will then have a sticky back on it so it will basically become a sticker but I have run out so what I also do when I'm using intricate dies is just put some glue over my hand especially when you're using mirrored card stock but I've got another little tip as well for if you get any kind of sticky smudges and smears and things like that so I've just covered that enough it's only light you don't need to go too crazy although there is a loose bit and then I just want to get it centered it doesn't matter if it's crooked because it's a circle so I can just turn that but I want to make sure I've got an equal gap from side to side and just stick that down you have to hold it a little bit longer when you're using wet glue with the acetate but this is tacky glue anyway so you can see already it's already stuck but I've got a little bit that's come over there and there let the glue dry don't do anything with it don't rub it don't do nothing let the glue completely dry first then after that you can buff it all up and it will come off perfectly okay so that is now my little kind of shaker window all ready to go and then what we can do is I would say you need to go ahead and get all of your bits and pieces here so these are my little sprigs that I've got I've done three for each side so I've got them kind of going like that okay that's how they're going to be and then I've already prepared my bow which will go in the middle and I've got a little bit of string there which is just the green red and white so it all ties in together then I've got this little strip to go along the bottom again this is a five by seven card but if you do want to recreate that and do the strip you'll need a piece that is just shy of five so four and seven eighths of an inch by half an inch and then I've just put a strip of washi tape there through the middle okay but you can also put some ribbon and before you stick down your top mat here you can wrap it around you know you can do that as well with the ribbon so I'm going to grab my card base and I'm just going to get those mats and layers stuck down then take this piece here and this is obviously going to sit on here but we want to create a little kind of to be honest this is optional you don't end up seeing it but I was kind of going to have it a bit higher so maybe when I position this one but basically I die cut with these this piece that came out of the middle of the largest circle that I cut I'm going to die cut this smaller circle okay like so and then I just want to kind of cut an arch it doesn't matter if it's not exact just like that so you're creating like a moon and then the idea is that will stick behind to create a little kind of you know top of your bobble like you would get and then I've got my hole punch here probably a little hole try and get it as centred as possible and then that will stick like so okay so it's just ways of using you know other things you don't have to go out and get a bobble die or any specific bits and pieces it kind of you know does work on its own and then I'm just going to grab a tiny bit of red tape just I'm literally just going to pop it on the top there so I'll be gluing the rest of this the back piece down I'll just put just a little bit there and then you want it you do want to make sure you get this perfectly in the middle and make sure it doesn't overhang so that you can see it through the acetate there you go okay how cool does that look um right so next we need to add our foam on the back so I've already got some foam strips here which I've just popped onto a sheet of grease proof paper which is what I always do and then I want to cut very very thin strips now depending on how thick your frame is if you've got a thicker frame obviously then you can have a thicker strip but I need to keep mine quite thin so this is about one eighth of an inch width that I'm cutting this strip and I might have to do one more this might be enough but the idea that you stick it to the grease proof paper is so that it doesn't damage your scissors and you can cut these thin strips so now I'm just going to peel off a little bit of the backing and then basically just stick it around that frame again making sure you don't go in inside the window or over the outer side you need to keep it all within that frame okay so I'm just joining that last bit up when you get to the kind of the the when you get to the end and you meet that other you know piece of foam make sure you join them right up because you don't want any sequins falling out you can also use thumb foam for this you die cut it the same way so you've got that thin frame that as we did with these and you stick the thumb foam behind to give you the dimension so there are other ways to do it so that's now all got my foam on the inside and that is basically going to come and sit down here and you can't see anything which is good so I'm going to bring it down now I'm going to keep it where it is because I am going to use that strip that I've got I'm just going to just copy the same one that I done before so just want to make sure I've got it roughly yeah that's about right okay so sit it in the center and I kind of need to keep my eyes really on that area there so I've got my little shaker bits here and you're going to just tip as many as you want in that kind of area put a few more in there we go that's enough and you just want to keep them all contained don't worry if you've got quite a mountain mound there in fact that is maybe a bit too many there we go so just keep them all in there and just keep bringing this piece over and just making sure that none of them are going to stick to the double-sided foam once you take it off see perfect so that's where it's going to go everything is in there isn't going to stick to this when I stick it down so now you want to take the backing off okay and then very carefully just spend a bit of time just hover it over until you're really happy I want to make sure I've got like I said it's nice and straight and I've got it even on both sides and then squeeze it down it should obviously stick straight away and then you can move it all around look at that it's just so fun oh I love this absolutely love it okay I mean that just looks fab on its own you could just pop pop a bow there and look you've got a really cute little card so if you want to keep it even more basic you can do so it's entirely up to you now obviously how you want to decorate this you may just want to put some nice ribbon and and you know have it however you want but I just wanted to show you that fun little way of adding that little kind of top like hook I guess so next we need to stick down all of our little bits our sprigs okay so I'm just going to thread through this piece here you could do this before if you want but it's obviously not stuck down yet so you can just lift it up and thread that one through like so I've just put some double sided tape on my strips I'm just going to stick that down right here I've just put my glue gun on so I'm just waiting for that like so and then I can start now positioning these so just with my hot glues again because I'm using you know there's quite a lot of layers and then the fabric the hot glue is just really good I'm going to put the hot glue right in the middle so again on my one now you're not really going to see this piece but I just think it was good to show you all so I'm just going to kind of start sitting them where I think they should go let me grab this here so I'm just push it all down onto the glue so I have that one there and the next one just kind of have them all slowly like cascading down there we go I'll trim that string in a minute and then on the back of my bow another little bead of and that will then cover look at that it's so pretty and then let's just trim get my fabric scissors there and just trim this off like so I'll put some glue on the ends of those ribbons as well or the string just so it doesn't fray but there you have it a gorgeous really fun shaker card okay and like I said you can either use tissue I like a microfiber cloth but now if I just go over straight away it's taking off any glue it just yeah I don't know whether it's just the slight you know the fibers on the microfiber cloth the tissue just just take it off straight away and that way you you know you're kind of shining it up but also you're not getting any kind of indents in your mary card or anything like that but there you go and then I've got some nouveau drops here this is the white blizzard I do like this one and I'm just going to add a few just stick to odd numbers always looks nice when you use and do one up here okay you can't really see them in the pictures in the camera too much but they do add a little bit of more dimension and some sparkle once they've dried but there you have it two really fun shaker cards I just can't stop looking at them they're so shiny using the mary christmas um sentiment die there by hobby base which is just yeah a really handy one to have and yeah hopefully you've picked up some good little tips there from me and you go and make a shaker card so I will be back again next week with another hobby base card but until then guys thanks for watching bye