 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Graph, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this shaker card that I'm going to show you how I made. I've had a lot of requests, I had quite a few comments and messages to do a tutorial for this card after I showed it on my Facebook page at the beginning of the week. So I have actually been you know planning to do a shaker card tutorial so with this one being as popular as it's been this seemed the perfect one to show you. So this is using at the moment my stamps of the moment I just adore these unicorn stamps so I'll talk you through that in a minute but if I just bring it up close so you can see this gorgeous shaker card full of sequins which all move really freely around the card. I've maybe possibly put too many in there but wow you can never have too many sequins really can you? So you can see that all moves around and inside here heat embossed underneath I've got this lovely sentiment which is from the same stamp set and then I've just fussy cut and coloured and put glitter on the unicorns and on the horn and on the cloud and then I've just stuck some more little sequins along here as well and one has just literally come off I probably brought that too hard I'll stick that one back down but there you go so that's what I'm going to show you how to make today. So I'm just going to pop that one up there so I'm going to use pink tones today because that's more purpley but this is the stamp set that I've been using and it's a new stamp range called Crafty Panda by Hobby Base UK and as a lot of you know I'm part of the design team for Hobby Base so I was really really pleased to get these stamps and start creating with them and I've got some really really fun projects to come and tomorrow is one that I'm really pleased with so hopefully you'll like that one but yeah you've got Have a Magical Day you've got your magical rainbow the star with the rainbow unicorn head the full unicorn and another little cloud down here I have used them to death and already they are they need a good clean I do clean my stamps but these need a proper deep clean I would say so that's the stamp I'll share all the links in the description box below so let's grab all of our base pieces first so the card map that I'm using is an a6 size so four and a half by six and a half then the mat on top is four and a quarter by six and a quarter so it sits on top and it gives you a nice little frame around the edge there okay and then we will be cutting that and I will show you how to cut that so that's the the kind of just the two the the card base and the mat that you need then I went ahead and I've already prepared some of my stamps because you don't need to watch me color all of them I'm going to do one on camera now so on the top here I've got the head and the cloud so what I've done is I've used my um my favorite watercolor pencils which I'll show in a moment um and then I've added the glitter I've only put the glitter on one cloud because the other side is going to be sat behind the head of the unicorn there um but you can see I've just put the glitter there and on the horn as well so that's going to go in the top left of the card and then I'm going to do stamp this one now and just show you quickly how I um color so I've got some watercolor card here um you do need a good a very thick GSM a heavy weight card or watercolor card when you use watercolor pencils or any watercolor pens because it needs to be able to absorb that water and not um obviously warp and um and wrinkle and roll um which a thin card would do so just make sure that you do have something of quality um card when you're using watercolors um so I'm using stays on again make sure you use a um water friendly ink because you don't want your images to bleed so stays on is perfect for any watercolor um water based um pens and things like that so I'm going to use the the big unicorn here because I need to do this um one as I mentioned so just grab that one first just get this one inked up with the stays on you always want to because it's a material um ink pad so you just want to rub your your stamp over it first and kind of get it all covered and then dab it and you'll get the full coverage on your stamp again if you want to use a stamp positioner um if you're worried that you may not get a good first impression I've been using this a lot with this card so I know that it will take okay I'm going to go down in the corner here just so I can save the rest of my card there make sure I don't get any more on there I'm just holding it in place just so that the um pad absorbs as much of that of that ink as possible just realize I'm not in view there there we go it's a bit better and then we can just take that off and I get a really nice impression just bring that up there just so you can see how it looks without anything colored in so again these are really clean images perfect for coloring um you know blending and doing all that kind of thing um I've mentioned before that I'm not um I'm like obsessed with how people use the Copic markers and the alcohol markers and I is amazing you know some of the the images that I produced but I'm just no good with alcohol um well I like a drink but I mean alcohol markers um so I find watercolor is perfect for me because it kind of covers a lot of errors it's very easy to kind of you know get rid of your mistakes so that's why I love it so I'm just going to cut this out just so I haven't got this massive piece of card there we go and then the pencils I'm using are I'll just grab here I haven't got the box anymore because I've had these quite a while um but they are by Reeves I'll share the links and they are inexpensive these are not really expensive ones I get these from the range for a pack of 12 it's $2.99 and I think $4.99 or $5.99 for a pack of 24 um but again I'll share all those links you can get them on ebay amazon stuff like that but it just says at the bottom there it says Reeves and they are beautiful they're really creamy and they blend perfectly so I've just picked out the colorways that I'm using there and very easily very quickly all I'm doing is imagining that the sunlight or the light is coming from this kind of top right hand side so it's hitting this side of the unicorn which then means that all of this side would be in a shadow it would have a darker color so that's why all I'm doing is going around the line of the unicorn the outline here just a little bit on the legs the end of the ear do a little bit under the belly and then again down on these bits here okay so that's all I'm doing there then I'm going to do the same with pink so again I'm going to do the outer part of the hair there and again there come down like so and then I'm doing the inside line of the tail all the way around there just really kind of go quite heavy there with that pencil and then I've got a little bit of yellow on the horn yellow on the star missed his ear there as well do a little bit of blue there on do a little bit of blue under the face miss that bit like so and then with the gray just doing the left hand side of the hooves there his little feet like so so I mean that was really really quick that is literally what I do now the good thing with watercolors you can build up once it's dried you can build up again and you know go you know intensify the colors even more now also what I recommend is you use one of these water brushes you can use a normal paintbrush and a little you know well of water that will work just as well and also make sure you have some tissue at hand because you will need that to blot off any excess and the one thing I will say is when you use these don't ever squeeze them so the water comes out over your image always do it on some tissue so when I push this you won't be able to see it in the camera but it's got a little push on the sides there and it just one you can clean obviously the brush but also just make sure you can get all the water there absorbed into the brush as well but just dab off any excess less is more you don't want to go in with tons of water you really don't need it especially when you're doing a little image like this and then basically all I'm doing is just starting to rub over that blue that I done just kind of get it nice and wet and already I can see it starting to move and then all I'm doing then is starting to pull out that blue into the image so as you can see there and again on the legs I'm just pulling it out and if I just blot it off I can pick up any more water on there so if there's too much water blot it off in your tissue and then go back into your image and pick up that water because it will grab on to the end of that brush and again go around the bottom of this face and just bring that color into the image so you're getting a really really light color blue and you're just keeping that shadow and that shade where you originally drew it all in so again just bringing it up there around the star again on his back leg and on that inside leg like so and then again do the same so I'm just going to now squeeze the water back through the brush just kind of clean it off a bit and then go into the pink and again working from the inside out I'm just pulling that pink color there and then you can kind of just brush over it and just keep working with it because it's obviously water it's moving all the time so you've got time to and even if it dries oh gosh my lights really dipped then even if it dries out just add more water again you can see there and then again just go to the top of the head like so and just all the time I'm working from the outside in just pulling that color inside like so I'm quite pleased with that now while that's drying then if I decide I want to go back again and you know make it even darker I can do just going to put a little bit there as well just blend out that gray that I put onto the feet like so I just bring that up now to the camera you can see how quickly that was to do so I might go back over and do the blue there just to give it a bit more of a deeper shadow quite happy with the tail and the hair but that's how I do it really easy so like I said I'm going to let that dry and then go back to it in a minute and then we can add the glitter on there as well so whilst that's drying and before I'm going to fussy cut it and everything let's sort out our frame and do some heating bottom with our sentiments so here's the frame and then what I've done is I've used my trimmer to cut out the inside so I've done a three quarters of an inch frame this is all three quarters of an inch so basically grab my trimmer and with this particular trimmer here it's got the measurements down the side here although this is my mum's one and it's in centimeters and I obviously work in inches so I've got inches and centimeters along the top but then they only give you centimeters along the side which is a little bit annoying why can't they put inches on this bit here anyway what you want to do is pop your card in and on this side here it's got one inch so I just need to bring that down to one and a quarter and then I know that that'd be a three quarter inch frame what you can also do which might be a bit easier to explain is let me just grab a pencil I'm just going to show you with a pen and with a pencil and a ruler but also if you've got a die a rectangle die which will give you a nice frame here then use that that's obviously the really easiest way of doing it but I haven't got one that was the right shape that I wanted so all I'm going to do is come in at three quarters of an inch from one side just lightly with a pencil and then three quarters of an inch from the top here put a little cross so I know now that's three quarters of an inch so I can just come all the way along and do the same I come in here we are at six so I can come in at five and a quarter like so my card might be slightly smaller to what I said it was because I think I did cut it wrong at the beginning but you need to follow the measurements I said which was six and a half by four and a half card base and then six and a quarter by four and a quarter mat which is what this will be for you guys and then again I'll just come down here so I'm just constantly just bringing it in constantly doesn't make sense is it just bringing it in at three quarters okay so I've just pointed I've just done a little markers there it's about there actually and then what you can do is poke a hole in the middle and then cut out if you want if you're using your scissors if you don't have your trimmer like I said use a die if that's even easier but all I'm going to do now is with this particular trim it's got this metal piece of wire that runs down the middle so you just make sure that you've got that lined up over your two pointers so I can see it's right over there and then with this one here it's got a marker in the middle here so if I just hold this up towards me I can just place that down right over the top and then cut down to where I need it to be like so if I remove that you can see now I've just cut from that point down to that point so I'm just going to pop it back in again here and start from again I need to hold it out this way so I can see without putting my head in the camera push that down and then come down like so again and then rotate and just repeat that on the other two sides now just fallen out and that's given me the frame that I need but like so if you've got a die nice rectangle die that you're happy with for that then you can just use that now I'm just going to rub out those little marks now got my frame so that is going to sit nicely over the top like so then you need a piece of acetate which I did up here make sure I don't lose it so your piece of acetate needs to come in at about six by four okay you want to make sure that it sits over your back of your frame here but not over over that again okay so it needs to sit on the back there within that frame so then what we can do is grab some of this red tape this is just really good for acetate is it you know it sticks to it really well but any other good double sided tapes will work as well this is just what I prefer to use and you just want to go around that piece of acetate and make sure you stick it right up to the edge of the acetate so this is the edge here you can see where I've stuck it and again just go around the other side okay so I've just covered my acetate there with that tape and then you just want to take all your backing off and then you're just going to stick that onto the back of your frame so just make sure that it covers it evenly like so just make sure that's all stuck down really nicely that comes the sun again out really dark just then okay so now that is my window of my shaker card already okay so the next bit we need to do now is the foam backing I think this is where a lot of people get you know kind of get scared with shaker cards and maybe this is where they get put off by doing them but I hope I've got a way to show you that will make it easier so what I use is you can buy the very very thin strips of foam tape for shaker cards and I'm all for it it's brilliant but I do think it's quite pricey so I like to find a um a frugal way to um to do my crafting where I can so I find that if you use some grease proof paper this is the one that I've got here this is grease proof and baking paper I'm not sure what it's called around other parts of the world but basically you want the paper to have that greasy texture to it so that when you stick any kind of tape to it it peels off easily just as if it was a backing on salad um double-sided tape okay so that's what you want it's got to have that grease that's shiny um finish to it and basically what I've got here is a roll of this is just the normal very very cheap I picked this up for a pound um just the double foam and double-sided foam roll and then what you want to do is just stick it down on your grease proof paper when you cut it make sure you cut over the top when it's down on the grease proof paper and it will then mean that you don't get any sticky residue on your scissors they're still perfect okay now depending on the how thick your foam is this is quite a thick foam and it's perfect to just have one layer if the sequins you're using are flat completely flat um but the sequins I'm using are these kind of standard really popular ones that most of us crafters use and they're they're slightly raised you know they're not completely flat now for that reason what I want to do is make a double layer of my foam so I'm just going to remove the backing on this here and just take off the backing there and then with your roll of tape again sit it directly on top and just stick it down and that will give you a double layer and again I'm cutting it over the top okay so put that to one side so now I've got double layers of foam so I've got a really deep almost like a quarter of an inch kind of well that that's going to create with the height now that I've got on that foam then what you want to do just to make it a bit thinner because I don't need it as thick as this because I'm going to just cut this excess off just so I haven't got so much in my way cut down here as well like so and then what I'm going to do is cut it in half again so again this will not ruin my scissors it makes it so easy to cut this foam like so now when I made a shaker card on my facebook live hobby base page on last the monday just gone I made a circle shaker card and I showed how to use this and wrap this foam around a circular shape so it's perfect for any shape when you cut it thin like this so there you go so now I've got four thin strips of foam so it's going to make now putting my shaker card together very easy so now I'm going to grab one of these and just remove the backing so the grease proof paper I'm going to use the other end actually because that's got an extra piece from when I cut it earlier and then what you want to do is don't bring it right down to the edge of the inside of the frame because you see it basically and it doesn't make it necessarily that pleasing on the eye so you can't really see here but I've actually stuck it you know more in the middle I guess so like so I'm probably going to go on let me just peel that off a bit there start out here there we go and I'm just going to stick it so and again keeping that grease proof backing always behind when you cut so I'm just going to cut that off like so okay so I've put the top piece on and then again along here just keeping it in the middle kind of get it to the same length as the one above again keeping that grease proof always behind my scissors never cut it without it because otherwise you will then get your scissors ruined and covered in all this sticky goo and then just do the side pieces and this is what is key with shaking cards is make sure you get a perfect seal you don't want any of those sequins falling out so again I'm just popping that right in there so it meets up with both of them again lie that grease proof paper back down behind it like so I've got a little gap there but the sequins won't fit through that so that's okay but if you had some of those sequins come with those little tiny tiny um almost like beads inside as well then you'll want to make sure you get it completely closed off again just sit that inside like so okay so now you can see that's my backing already so now when that sits over my card if I just bring that up you can see how much it's lifted off but it's also nice and clean and neat and if anybody was to inspect your card and start looking in everywhere they would see that that's really done nicely okay so that's the foam dump then we want to do some heating botting first on this now if you want to do your sentiment on the outside you can just stamp your image die cut it or fussy cut it and stick it on the outside that's fine but I wanted to put mine inside so I've got this here I know I've got these are going to be up here and then this one's going to be down here so the sentiment I'm using is going to be the same well again have a magical day so it's a nice birthday card and if I just haven't fussy cut this yet I'm just going to roughly just go a bit closer on that side there just so I can see where that's going to be so I'm going to have my stamp possibly let's do a little bit what's that looking there yeah I think that's going to be fine because that's going to be up there and then you can see that nicely okay so just play around and start I always like to position everything and before I stick it down and you know check I'm happy with how it's all going to look so I'm okay with that and then what I can do is lift oh it's stuck to my uh that's quite good I did that it's just stuck a little bit to the acetate but I'm just going to lift up and just put a little pencil mark yeah just roughly just a light pencil mark there and I can rub that out afterwards now I'm going to heat emboss this one again you don't have to heat emboss it but I do like doing my heat embossing so I'm just going to grab my block I'm going to grab my anti-static powder and just rub it over because you don't want anything sticking to any other part of the card just get that all done and then just using again I'm at my mom's crafting so crafting on tour so you'll see a lot of the bits I'm using are very different to what I usually use but still all work so I'm just going to ink this up with some VersaMark which is your watermark ink so it's just clear all nice and absorbed okay and then just sit that down like so again just make sure it absorbs I always like to keep my stamp stumped down just for a few seconds just to make sure that it does get absorbed by the card and then lift it up and you can see there it just you can see there how it just um water marks so you can see now where you need to sprinkle your powder so I'm using the Nouveau um grey no silver sorry embossing powder so I've got that one there just use that bit of card just to catch any of the excess and then I'm just going to sprinkle this over tap off any excess I'm going to do a little bit more I can rub out that cross afterwards don't want to do it before otherwise you'll ruin your image I'm happy probably get a little bit more on there go over it again if you just kind of hold it up like that and move it and it will really stick there we go much better and then what you can do is if you've got any extra little bits just grab a paintbrush and just kind of brush them off there's hardly anything there but and the sequins are going to cover most of this anyway but there we go right let's just pop this over now just need a heat set so I've got the um heat gun here just get it nice and hot first that's the key to heat embossing so I'm just holding my hand here until it's unbearable which it is and then I can just go over and circular motions and just get that one nice and you'll see it take like it is now it's such a pretty sentiment this one I really like it there you can see it have a magical day okay now obviously my card is slightly warped a bit there you can heat it from this side if you want but while it's still warm I just tend to roll mine like so and it will put it back into shape and what you can also do is sandwich it between some copy paper and then run it through your dye machine and that will flatten it as well the reason I say put it through the copy paper on top is because if you've got any kind of um impressions on your plates they can show the patterns up on your paper and you don't want that to happen so that's kind of flat again now now let's just rub out that cross like so okay so what we need to do now is that's going to stick on top like so okay so we can see that that's all where we need it to be so now we want to put our sequins inside of it so I'm just using these ones here which I picked up from the local craft shop and I want to have these real pinky almost like dust dusty kind of pink color um now these are great little tubs however then they don't make it easy for you to actually take like kind of tip the sequins out so I'm just going to put this scrap card here I'm going to put it over the two sides when I'm at home in my craft room I have them all in drawers but this is obviously again I'm in my mums but if I hold it like that then I can just tip them out and what I'm doing is I'm tipping them onto the card not into the acetate window like so and I know that if I tip it in the middle there it's not going to um affect me sticking this on top in a minute so just keep it all nicely centered there okay and then with this before we stick it down just another little tip to stop the sequins sticking to the side you're kind of they always kind of will but to stop loads is I'm just using the powder residue from my anti-static buddy here at the bottom just on my toothbrush just on my brush and just go along the side of this foam and just rub it over and it will just remove well it will stick to the stickiness there but it will stop or prevent some of the sequins sticking there even more so just go around the inside there and it's just doing all these little extra kind of tips that just make your shaker card a little bit easier to put together and get a nicer final result you can also wrap your finger around there just to you know feel if there's anything sticky and then just only where the acetate's showing just with a bit of tissue just rub back over just so you remove any of that powder just so it doesn't again kind of interfere with this so now we can take the backing off of this here so I've removed all that backing and then very carefully with your card with the sequins on top you're going to sit this over the top here making sure that you've got a nice even frame and then stick that down like so and then you can move oh look oh no look I've got one random there's one that's made its way in there and it's not the same color oh my gosh what the odds about happening maybe you can't pick it up there can you see it it's like trying to find it now it's disappeared but if you move them around there you can see and there's not that many of them sticking there's a clump there but I think that's because they've all kind of built up on top of each other but none of them are staying they go see they've all moved but they all move really freely there it is oh just spotted it again damn it anyway so that's the shake of it done so now obviously you can decorate it however you want so I've got these two pieces ready here and they are going to go up in the top like so and then this one here is going to go down the bottom so now I need to fussy cut it now you need good scissors to fussy cut you want a small easy to hold these are by x cuts these are precision ones they've got a really fine tip on the end and they're a carbon carbon one I think yeah um the the key the kind of tips for me is first of all is remove all the excess card as much as possible now I do want a little white border around this so I can get you know as close as I can just remove the excess you don't want all that in the way and then with fussy cutting is I never move this hand with my scissors in so if you watch all I'm moving is the paper this hand doesn't move this one does and that is kind of key it's just staying in control and making sure obviously I move it when I've got to move the scissors up but it's my left hand that's always moving and that's again I guess the main two tips cut away all the excess and then just just concentrate on your left hand and that will make fussy cutting that a little bit more easier this is not a bad image to cut so obviously that helps as well I don't tend to do really intricate ones because it's very hard to get them all exact especially if you're doing multiple images you know come lots of them out so I'm just trying to make sure I keep that white border simple as I can and then when you come to anything like this where there's like points go from the outside in so I'm coming from the outside down and then here I'm coming from the outside down and then again and I'm always moving my left hand the actual one with the scissors is not the one that's doing the work but again when you're doing detailed bits like this always start from the outside in like so and then I can just remove that bit there and then go back into it and start carrying around so I'm just going to finish this one off okay so there you go that's all cut out just as good as any die-cutting machine just a little bit longer so I'm happy with that now I need to stick these down so that one is going to go here and that one there oh also with the sequins that's what I forgot not sequins the glitter that's what else I wanted to show where does what I'm going to do is I don't need the whole card on there just that bit so I want to run some glitter along the tail here what I use is this stamping up fine tip glue pen and it's a perfect glue for precision gluing because it's got this fine metal tip so it just means that I can go right in here and just do really detailed um you know work so I'm just going to run some glue just on the inside of the tail where that kind of dark shaving is and then this is just normal glitter just kind of kids craft glitter you can pick this up very cheap you to get like a pack of five or something and then I'm just going to sprinkle that over the top like so sit it like so and then kind of roll it over and then just tap off any excess like so again grab a brush just to get rid of all the other little bits you could use um a um what you call it a watermark pen and then use embossing powder you don't have to use glitter but I just this is just really nice and again it's just another inexpensive way you don't always have to have really expensive materials but now you can see the glitter there on the tail which looks really cute so bearing in mind that's still a little bit wet we can stick this all down so I'm just using some tacky glue here and you could put it on phone but obviously this is already quite raised and this if you're posting it that may not be the best thing to keep making it more um thick so it doesn't fit in your envelope so I'm just sticking this one underneath like so and then that's going to go up in the top like that so I'm just going to stick a little bit more over the rest okay and then I can just stick this one down on this corner okay so now you can see that's all stuck down there and then I'm just going to finish it off with some little sequins just down in the left hand side here so just the same ones and there you go so that one is now all finished I've got a few little sequins there so they all move around we've got some we've got a stray purple one in there but that's okay um I think they're really really fun cards so there you have it I'm really quite easy it's just that prep it's just getting the foam and all that kind of you know underneath bit all in place and if you do those little tips with the anti-static powder and stuff you get your sequins really you know kind of move in freely there as well so yeah really really love these cards so there you have it so I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial I might need to stick that sequin on that was the one that fell off before um yeah hope you enjoyed today's tutorial please hit the like button if you did and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye