GUEST ARTIST FEATURE: Sharna Waksmulski

Hello everyone, Sharna here, so excited to be guest designing for Wplus9 today! I have three cards to share with you featuring the new Friends for all Seasons: Winter stamp set & a few others from this release and last.

For today's cards I decided to make shakers. I love the extra touch of an interactive card. Shakers can seem difficult but I promise they aren't! I have gotten into the habit of making several cards all at once while I have all my supplies out. It is really easy to switch up the colors and sentiments to make each one unique but not really take much more time than the single card would be.

For my backgrounds, I chose a bunch of distress inks & dye inks in a few of my favorite colors. I used a foam ink blending tool and watercolor paper. My tip for blending is to hold the base of the blending tool instead of the handle and start off the paper. I keep scratch paper under my cardstock so that absorbs some of the ink before I bring it onto the paper.

For the frame of the shaker portion of the card I used the Sunshine Layer Dies. I nested the inner rounded edge die inside of the outer scalloped edge die, taped them together with washi tape and ran them through my die cut machine. I applied a piece of acetate cut slightly smaller than the frame with some tape runner to the back side of each frame. Then I doubled up some foam tape before cutting in half lengthwise so it was thin enough to hide behind each frame (shown in step 1 in the image below). Running some powder tool around the edges keeps the sequins from sticking to any of the foam tape (see step 2).

Since my background is larger than my window frame I put the sequins in the middle in a pile taking care to keep them from the edges where the foam tape will go (see step 3). I then lined up my frame and set it down over the sequins (step 4).

I really hope you enjoyed my shaker cards!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the supplies (or equivalents) used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list does contain some affiliate links.

Friends For All Seasons: Winter Friends For All Seasons: Winter Die Wplus9 Sunshine Layers Die Whimsy Alpha Santa's Reindeer 4x6" stamp set Bold Banner Greetings Wplus9 Fairy Dust PURE COLOR Dye Ink Wplus9 Ocean Drive PURE COLOR Dye Ink Pad Siren Song Dye Ink Wplus9 PURE COLOR Black Dye Ink Wplus9 Black Premium Cardstock Wplus9 White Premium Cardstock 3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent EK Success CUTTER BEE Scissors EKCB01 EK Success POWDER TOOL Applicator 54-04002 Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White 660425 Simon Says Stamp Sequins FROZEN FRACTALS FF1216 Simon Says Stamp Sequins SNOWDRIFT SDT32 Simon Says Stamp Sequins ASSORTED MOONSHINE ASMS37 https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product.aspx?id=343940 Pretty Pink Posh 4MM MARSHMALLOW Cupped Sequins https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product.aspx?id=344442 Hero Arts ACETATE CARDS 5 x 6 inches PS762

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