Dies R Us: Shaker Stars of the Season

Nov 19, 2017

Shaker Stars of the Season

My favorite part of the winter holiday season is all the lights, sparkle, and bling! Because I have the Fabulous Feline Four, it's been ages since I've put out any decorations; this year I've decided to make my cards extra festive! This card not only sparkles, it uses nesting dies to make a very easy shaker card.

What I Used to Make my Card:
White Card Base
White Card
Authentique Paper, Wintery, 12 x 12, #WIN011
Die-Versions Whispers Stitched Nesting Stars, #DV-571
Die-Versions Sweet Wordlets, Season's Greetings, #DVSW-013
White Glitter Paper
Silver Glitter Paper
Acetate
Sequins - Darice Clear-Crystal, 5 mm, #10043-8
Darice Iridescent White, 5 mm, #10043-17
Twinklets Diamond Dust {manufactured by FloraCraft}
Thin Cardboard {if desired}
Krylon Leafing Pen in Silver {if desired}

I had gotten the Authentique paper a while back and I am so glad I did! There are all kinds of frosty patterned papers and I couldn't resist using one of them for this card. I glued the paper on to my card base and set it under my drying tile for overnight.

Meanwhile, I set about making the shaker. I use temporary tape on many of my cutting dies as I don't have the magnetic platform that is supposed to make the dies stay where you put them {do you have one? Does it work? Please leave me a comment!} so I just set the nesting stars up so I'd get a "frame." The only thing I have to watch is the tape un-sticking which can result in the dies moving. That can cause an uneven frame, but in this case, even when the I had to line the dies up again, the margin of error is fairly tiny. Once the die was run through the machine, I used a toothpick to poke out the frame.

I die cut a bunch of frames out of white card and added a few cardboard frames as well, to get the frame higher faster. It's not a must, but the cardboard also gives the design a bit more sturdiness than using plain card. I layered a few of the card frames, then added a cardboard one and repeated the sequence a few times, leaving out one white frame. Since I did use cardboard, once the frame was dry, I edged the sides with a silver leafing pen to cover up the cardboard.

Finally, I used the two stars not used in making the frame, {using white glitter

card} cut them out and placed them on the card. I used silver glitter card to die cut the sentiment. I cut the window out of some acetate packaging, attached that to the frame tower and adhered the frame of white card I had set aside. I didn't want the shaker to be too full, so I carefully added some sequins and Twinklets Diamond Dust. Honestly, that Diamond Dust has got to be 15 years old and I had forgotten I even had it! I was surprised to see they still made it; the cool thing is that the dust is shard shaped {and according to the website has actual glass in it, but I didn't have any issue using my fingers} and that just makes it sparkle like crazy!

Another Look

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and may you find some forgotten goodies in your stash!

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Fondly,

Christi