 Hey everybody thank you for watching today so I'm going to be showing you how to make this really fun wiper shaker card. Now also in this video when I show you this card there's a lot of techniques so you may not be bothered by the wiper style but I'm going to be showing you how to heat emboss on acetate, how to use this lovely fluffy stuff to create this kind of faux wool effect and I'm also going to show you the mirror stamping technique. So this is this stamp but I flipped it so you can have the two of them skating together, really fun. But if you've not seen a wiper card before you just pull the sides and up pops a bow bear who in this case is a polar bear because you can also be a brown bear and I'll just show you the other examples of using this wiper set. So although I have a bear popping out in the die set you do have the speech bubbles so with this one here I've got the penguin but this time it says let's pop a pop a party and I have the stamps to show you later and then I've done this one here which has got three more of the critters and then there's bow bear as a brown bear pops up the top with his gold crown on, glittery crown. You also have the meerkat, very very fun, works brilliantly with this wiper mechanism and then we have the z-fold so those were all using the 5x7, this is using the 5x7 z-fold, you've got all the reindeer and then you have Rudolph with his red nose, all the little props, all of this all come in the different stamp sets and then you have the six by six wiper set so here we've got all those lovely shiny balloons with Eve the elephant and then up pops her friend. So they're really really fun cards but like I said I made this one during a Facebook live and I showed you a lot of techniques so tips on how to get good shaker card results like I said the heat embossing mirror image stamping how to use all these different mediums we've got glossy accents for the ice there and then the fluffy stuff and it's just a very fun card and the backgrounds I also made using the micro powders during another Facebook live so enjoy this video it's a little bit longer than usual but hopefully you'll pick up lots of tips along the way. Okay so I want to really focus on the techniques in this video so I'm going to quickly show you the card as I put it together but it's very straightforward so this is my 5x7 wiper die set so for those of you that have it and I'll share all the links below but you get your main card shape here so you want to die cut two of this main shape and it will give you these two pieces here okay and then you have these two here so you'll want to die cut two or four depends if you want to cover the back I cut four and you'll see I've cut them in white and I've used them on these sides here and then I just cut these pieces so I had a mat layer to cover those as well now I do have other wiper cards on my channel so just check out the playlist that I share here to give you more inspiration so you want to do like I said two or four and then this one here will give you your mat layer and you'll want to do two of those I've done one in white this is the back so I've already prepared all of this you don't need to see me stick it all down you just stick the mats and layers into the panels and I'll show you how to fold that in a moment but you'll see here just cut the one in the white and I'll show you the stamps in a moment and then I've die cut another one in this gorgeous paper here and this is what I actually made again during a Facebook live and this is using mica powders and some gouache paint to create that snow and I wanted to make a lot of backgrounds and use them in my upcoming Christmas cards and some samples that I'm going to be taking when I do my next launch and I'm just really pleased with this and you can see the blue one that I created on this one here and you can see the silver running along the sides there sort of look really really nice so I've gone for the green one today so choose your papers your mats and layers all that kind of stuff and then you'll also want to cut the mechanism which is this one here so it's this piece and it will emboss this score line here for this triangular part and that's what I've already created here so when you die cut it you want to run I've I always use red tape because I just find it's just quick it's good for me when I'm doing the tutorials if you want to use liquid glue you can but don't go to the edges because when you squeeze this you don't want the glue oozing out onto other parts of the card it might interfere with the mechanism but just die cut one of those you've also got a really nice sentiment there it says yay it's your day but because this is a Christmas card I've not needed to use that and you also get the speech bubbles that you can have popping out there is a smaller one which I have put down somewhere that needs to go in there but you get those as well okay so I've got my main mat layer here now I've also cut another piece of white that same size and this is what I'm going to use to create my frame so on this one here I've done it in silver but this one I'm going to do white so I have this die which is from the card making magic and it's the rectangle nest of dies I believe it's still sold out but I'll share the link below because you can always send your you can put your email up so that you'll be notified when it's next in stock it's really nice you get the double stitching on this one as well so if you want a measurement of this one just for a guide it is three and a half by it's just under six so I'm going to pop that in the middle here and I'm just going to tack it in place and run that through my machine whenever I'm die cutting on to white I always like to add a sheet of copy paper on the top it will stop any of these markings on your top plate going through and there could be some ink you know you these plates pick up all kinds of bits and pieces from the dies and stamps that we've run through them so by just adding that sheet of copy paper it just means that this stays nice and crisp and white and everything but now I've got my aperture cut out of my frame okay next I want some heat resist acetate so I've got the crafters companion here you get a pack of 15 sheets ideal for stamping and using on embossing or glittering perfect for card and box apertures which is what we're going to be doing so I'm going to grab you can if you get your acetate mixed up I find that you can kind of tell if it's a heat resist it has a very very slight blurriness to it but it doesn't affect the you know you can see through it and everything and it feels ever so slightly rough but it's not it's hard to explain when you have them you'll know you can feel the difference and you can slightly see the difference between a normal acetate and a heat resist acetate so with this one here I want to cut it so it's just smaller than this main white piece here so I'm just going to lay out on the top I know this is hard for you to see but you just want to make it just slightly smaller than this white frame so whatever size you've got and then I'm just going to mark with a pen just so I can see it just a little bit there and a little bit there so I'm cutting it to again it's only if you're using that same dye that this will really six and a half by four and a half okay but unless you've got that dye it's not really gonna matter so I'm just gonna cut this down to size this black piece of paper so I think it's gonna make it a lot easier for you to see what I'm actually doing so next you want an anti-static powder so I've just got my little pillow here and I've got this this is by Woodwear I like the pillows as opposed to the pens I've just always had these I used the pen once I didn't really get on with it so but give it a really really good covering of that powder and then I like to rub it on my fingers as well if you're anyone like me and use hand cream and oils on your fingers I'm always doing my nails you will you know this grease will transfer onto here so I just give them a really really good covering it will make all the difference because now when I hit you know pick up the sides here I'm not going to leave any marks and the powder is not gonna stick to those areas so that's all ready now the stamp I'm going to use is the same one that I used before but I'm gonna position it slightly more to the left than I did on the other one so this is again this is old I use this I think I've had it two years now and I know lots of you have it as well because it's just a good all-rounder they're really nice you get merry Christmas happy Christmas and seasons greetings and it's by Woodwear and it's the clear magic big Christmas words so I've got my happy Christmas here these photopolymer stamps now you can use a stamping platform if you want to but I'm gonna just do it like this so you can see here I've gone more into the middle but I'm gonna bring it over a little bit here because the way the Christmas arches I think it's gonna kind of shape around this penguin a bit better so again just make sure there's nothing on there so I'm just popping it onto my critic block and I'm using my VersaMark there and then with the frame I'm gonna sit this over the acetate and now I can see where I want to position my sentiment now I have already cut coloured and everything and I've done my mirrored one but I'm gonna do it again to show you but these are my two penguins here so they're going to be towards this side and I know this sentiment fits obviously I've used it on the other card but if you kind of position everything roughly where you want it and then I can see now I think by having it more over this side it just kind of like I said it just wraps around that penguin a little bit better so I'm happy that that's all gonna fit so I'm gonna leave it all there it's not gonna affect me stamping give that a really good inking obviously this will slide so you do just want to place it down just tap it lightly like said if you would prefer using the platform then do so but I did do it freehand during the life so I'm gonna do that just making sure the happy is nice and kind of parallel with that frame and then just sit that down it kind of does stick and then just make sure I can lift this all off and I can see there you can just about make it out when I catch it in the light but that's transferred really nicely so next I can pop my embossing powder so I'm using this one here which is Cosmic Shimmer it's the Detail embossing powder it's a new one that I picked up in terms of the size they've done this one for a long time but I knew I'm gonna be doing a lot of embossing over Christmas so I just got myself that bigger one but I think when I shared it on my what did I get I then saw it had been sold out so I think quite a few of you picked it up but there'd be other sellers that sell Cosmic Shimmer but you just want to tap that always put it on an area where it's got less area to fall off so don't put it on and then tip it all down this side because I don't need to worry about any of this area it's just here now can you see there's like a light dusting I'm gonna wipe a bit of that away but also you can wipe off a damp cloth afterwards you won't get it with all embossing powders but I think because this is such a fine powder I noticed it with this one but like I said it's not a bad thing I'm actually just gonna pop this all back in here and then I'm just gonna take away any excess with a brush as close as you can without interfering you can just also use your little buddy again like so and now that is ready for me to heat set this is when the magic happens so with any whenever you do any heat embossing make sure your heat gun warms up you want to keep it going for a good 30 seconds will you actually start embossing start heat embossing because the less time this has on the paper or the acetate the less warping you will get so it really is a good idea to just let it stay on for a minute it was literally seconds that that grabbed and melted and you can see it's nice and flat and you've got a lovely you know window sheet now but you can see there is that kind of almost mistiness behind it but that will wipe away in a second so I'm just gonna tidy this up okay let it cool completely which it has and I'm just gonna spray a little bit of water on here and then I've got a little bit of kitchen towel and you can just wipe that away I've got a piece of dry kitchen towel there just to really kind of buffer up and it will really make that powder shine there we go look at that that lovely it's got a few finger marks in there but I can wipe those all off in a moment but isn't that absolutely gorgeous love this effect okay so now we want to stick our frame onto this piece here so what I'm going to do is run some red tape just a thin red tape I do find these ones really handy I got them from crafters companion you get a lot on the roll there when you buy your red tapes look for the ones that have a smaller white ring in the middle the smaller the ring you're actually getting a lot more tapes although the overall size is small you're getting considerably more than you do on the rolls that have a big white ring in the center I used to buy them and I didn't really take no notice and then I started looking at it and I thought actually you want to be getting the ones with the smaller in a ring okay I'm going to bring in this black piece of cardstocks it's actually helping me see it better as well so yeah you want a darker surface I think so you can see things better so I'm just going to run this around the frame and then I'm just going to turn my frame over and stick it from the bat I think it's a lot easier and you can really make sure you get your sentiment where you want it then as well so now I've got my window there ready to put onto my card then that piece now is going to sit behind and you'll see that lovely sentiment catch in the light and we're going to fill this with our artificial snow so I want to now go around to the frame with some foam tape now I've run out of my silicone foam tape but when that happens I then do my own strips so I basically use this is just wax paper grease it up for a pound very very inexpensive and then I use my actual foam tape here again I pick these up from the pound shop I don't buy expensive ones and you just run a strip cut a bit of that paper away just run a strip down here and now you can cut this to any width you like and it won't damage your scissors so I'm going to just cut them in half that's plenty that fit within that frame like so and then you can just peel the backing off at the top like so just do a bit of time and now you can just start to run that around your frame and then when you cut cut on top of that you know this piece again so you're not damaging your scissors so again and just take the backing off and then when you're applying your foam you want to make sure you butt it up at some point to the other one so they you know any of your little beads and things like that that you stick inside they're not going to fall out so again also just trim this before you stick it down you don't need all that I was just quickly doing it to show you but just trim all that away because you'll need the space so the to see the area to tip in your little shape of pieces but now I've got my foam all there attached on the back there's a very inexpensive way to do it okay so next I've got this iridescent snow I picked this up last year from Simply Creative which is by Trimcraft and it's just got these lovely oh tip it out there I forgot I just opened the end they go that's something funny for you to see but anyway you can see there it's got that gorgeous glitter running through it so I'm going to use this because I've cleaned my desk there's no other bits on there so now you just want to sprinkle it into your area here now also another little tip which I can still kind of do I should have showed you but you can use your anti-static powder it's not so bad on this it's quite nice when the snow kind of sticks around the sides but if you and this foam isn't too sticky on the sides but if you get a brush here for example if you have this in a little pot mine's attached to my drawer so I can't take it out but there's loads of dust in there but you can kind of put the dust on your brush and brush it around the sides here and it will stop anything sticking you can also just go in there and just kind of rub it along the sides because you've still got the backing on the top so it's not going to interfere with the overall stickiness but it will just reduce any static again inside here but also stop these bits sticking to the sides so but with this kind of theme and the snow that I'm using actually think it looks quite nice anyway but if you're using sequins it is a good one to do so I'm going to add a little bit more in here because once it settles I want you to kind of be able to see it so you can see if I bring in this one here that's it settled there so you can still see the sentiment nicely so you kind of flatten it down you can see how far down it's going to kind of settle I think that might be a little bit too much actually it is surprising it's quite thick I think we'll stick with that I think that's going to be enough there we go so now I'm going to take the backing off now with this one it's exactly the same size as the main white frame so I'm going to start at one end and just line it up and just kind of roll it along until it all seals inside so now yeah that's perfect so you get that nice settling of snow obviously it all moves around as well so whoever gets it they can shake it up but I do want it to just settle nicely there I think that looks really cool so that's the shaker part done so hopefully you've picked up a few tips you know how to do that so I think now we'll put the card together and then I'm going to show you the mirror stamping and that lovely fluffy stuff so you would have cut these two and you've got these score lines so what you want to do is with the first one is you're going to create a valley fold and then a mountain fold and you'll do that on both of the pieces which you can see there and then you're going to have one but this one I'm going to keep that way and one will go that way and that's how they're going to stick together so you can see my backs already there and then this is the front which we will stick this piece on to so I'm going to grab my calau glue and you just want to add your glue just on one of these I always put my mechanism in once it's all together I find it the easiest way to do it but on that playlist I do show you some other ways as well so find which one works best for you so now you just line this up with the edge here it's all been die cut so everything is nice and straight and it all marries up nicely and then I'm going to fold that one over and then you want to add your glue to this outer rectangle on the one below and then you're going to fold that in and fold that down but when this is flat that is the five by seven card shape size so that will now fit inside your envelope you can just see that's why I like using the liquid glue because you can line everything up okay and then I'm also now going to stick this one on top okay so now we have this effect next you want this one here just taking off the backing there of my mechanism and I've done this in the same pink color however I have done many using acetate so if you've got something that's like a flying object or the speech bubbles that come in the die set they're really nice to do on acetate and I'll show you an example in a moment okay before I stick that down you actually want to trim some off of this one because it's going to be too high so I'm going to take about an inch and a half off there and then just run some of that glue again just stick him on top like so you might also yeah just fold that over and then you pop this one in you want to line up the side of this with that fold just in here and just bring it down until the top of the next just covered and just push down on that triangle piece and then when you close the card he will or she is completely concealed inside and then pops up very very fun so next we're going to start popping all these down I'm going to show you how to do that mirror technique it's very easy now I use the John next door media plate now if you don't have this it's basically a giant piece of photopolymer so it's what lots of the stamps are made of but some people will also use the back of a large stamp so if you've got a large maybe background stamp use the backside of that the foam side and you can use that to create your mirror image also some people use jelly plates so you know have a little play around some because jelly plates are a little bit softer it might squash the image this media plate is a bit tougher so you know I'll link it although I do think it's sold out but I'm sure you know there's going to be other ones that you can use so like I said I've already done it in colour because it was just keeps this video short I don't want it to go too long so I'm already obviously talking about lots of techniques in this one but if I now just remove the magnets and pop it in here now it does go over the edge but I prefer the smaller one my larger ones one of these is broke so I'm going to stick with the little one but I'm going to stamp it within this area where it's stuck so although it's overlapping onto that area it's going to be fine here so the stamps I've used is from the Christmas Critters A5 stamp set so there's the bear there's that reindeer that I showed you and then there's the penguin and I've also cut the mittens and you've got the scarf there to go on the polar bear which we'll put on in a moment there's the let's put up a party Berry Merry Christmas and to a dear friend so I just want to make sure it's going to stamp where I want it so like so so you just just imagine that this piece of media plate here is your piece of paper right pick up your stamp and then I like to use the Versa fine it's the one that you see me use all the time you just get nice crisp detail images so a mirror stamped image is never going to be as crisp as the original image so you know don't expect to get it 100% perfect but you can get it good enough I mean you can see there's my mirrored image and there is the original so it's just a little bit crisper but you know I am using detailed stamp so depending what you're using if you're just doing a flower it's perfect you probably won't notice any different so now when you lay it down don't go and push because you're you're pushing too soft kind of materials together you just want to do light little taps because you can always lift this and go back in again so I would say if you're doing the mirror technique a stamping platform is going to really help because if you don't get a good impression first time around trying to line it up it's pretty difficult so like so so I can see that I need to put a bit more pressure on the face yeah I think we're good to go I'm going to go over it once more and always prep your stamps first off if this is a brand new stamp I like to rub my hand over them kind of get like the factory chemicals off of it or give them a good wash with some warm soapy water yeah that is really good and happy with that one and then what I'm going to use is this piece of paper here because this is a smooth you want a smooth cardstock as well too worried about the front now I use this backside it's just to show you anyway but just sit it down here and then I like to roll it over the image and then a good rub and then again peel it off the same way and there you have a really nice reversed stamped image and now a tip for die cutting this because we have the dies to match so here we are you won't be able to see but I've got my lamp above me and I've also got the window if you hold up the card to the lamp okay and pop the die behind until you find the perfect outline so I'm just doing it now just to kind of roughly so now that is in place to die cut that image run it through your die machine pop a piece of copy paper over the top to obviously protect it and then it will be cut now because you're getting the cut from underneath this is obviously you're going to have that that raw edge I just go around it with a bone folder and just flatten it and you would never know and you have two perfectly cut images okay so hopefully that helps I did show that technique when I done the reverse stamping with Jerry the giraffe from the first collection and lots of people really liked it so I just thought I would go back to it again so now we can start arranging everything so with this one here I also added this piece of white paper along the top and it just gave you a really nice snow effect so I'm just going to use this bit of paper here which I ripped before now I know I've ripped that bit but I'll show you what to do you want to rip towards you and it will give you you kind of go into it a bit more create a little bit of kind of yeah I think that would be quite good and it'll give you like a bit of a snow mound look something like that yeah quite like that and then I'm just going to mark with a pencil at the end I probably could have done this before it stuck onto the main card but I think it'll be okay so I know I've got the white square frame there some of you might be thinking well you've already got a white frame but I don't know there's something about it I just think it looked nice so what I then done is I added some glue along the top just on that kind of raw edge and then I'm just going to get my bag and just kind of dip it in there and we now get that snow all along the top there you can see all that glitter and then I can just I'm going to use this same glue I only need to tack it in place I'm not too worried I'm going to be sticking other things on top and then I created the ice by using the glossy accents so there is a lot on this card which is why I wanted to just spend a bit more time so hopefully you'll take away lots of tips and techniques so even if you're not making this actual kinetic style you can you know create this on other cards but can you see there's like a glossy accent so it gives the look of water or ice in this case and add that on once I've stuck these down so I'm going to use some foam pads so I'm just going to pop a couple on there and stick like so I'm going to add a little heart where their hands are and then I've got the one present which is just going to go on the edge there and then I've also got I call the bear bow it's called bow bear or she and then the hat again whatever you add make sure it's going to close so you can see that I know it is because I've done this before but you don't want it to obviously catch on this bit here but there's that and then also I've got the scarf so I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue just around actually it didn't need to be on that end of it but just around the neck and this will fit you don't really see it but it's there it's there for anybody who really does look at the card there we go just see it poking out the top and then I've also got the mittens now I didn't add these before but you can have them obviously if you imagine the one with both of them on they look quite cute so I think I'm going to just put them on the outside ones obviously you can use any size heart but I just took the one from my my slider die set so I'm just going to die cut that one okay so that's that done I've realized I forgot to show you the fluffy stuff because you want to do it before you attach your images because you're going to be applying a lot of heat so I'm going to show you on this little stamped image here so this is what it is cosmic shimmer fluffy stuff okay and all I'm going to do is just goes on like a paint really like a thick white paint the thicker you do it the bigger the kind of fluffiness you're going to get I'm going to just do it on the actual pom pom there on the hat and on the the rim of the hat there as well okay so just bring that up so you can see where I've just covered it and I let this warm up okay so hopefully you could see that all lifting now you will know when it's done because it will slowly stop and I would advise don't keep the heat really close to it because it could brown it so but now you can see let it cool it will be kind of like soft to touch but it gives a great effect so that's what you do so I'm going to leave it off these ones here I don't think they need to have it anyway and then I'm just going to finish now with the glossy accents so I always like to add these to their eyes on any of the little critters that I always color so couple just to make their eyes nice and shiny and then I just kind of scribbled it making a squeaky noise like so just to look like the ice and then to finish off the card I have some snowflakes and I've also just added some glossy accents on the heart there you can see the snowflakes so there is a lot of technique a lot of texture and movement to this car and I think it's turned out brilliantly so again pull the sides and up pops bow who I've said is gate crashing this lovely winter date so I hope you've enjoyed these cards from me today and I'll be back very soon with another tutorial bye