I absolutely love shaker cards, so\u00a0when I saw the new Diemond Dies Bucket Mini Album Die<\/a><\/span> my head just about exploded with the possibilities of making this into a shaker card. I had recently also picked up\u00a0some CC Designs stamps in a crafty friend’s destash and I\u00a0thought\u00a0the super\u00a0cute “Sunglasses Emma,” holding a beach bucket would be a perfect match!<\/p>\n

<\/a>I made a hinge shaped card using the die with bright yellow card stock. I also cut some polka dot “sand” hills and a white handle by running the die through again with different papers to layer on top. It required a little hand cutting as well to get the hills and the areas where the handle “attaches” to the pail, but the die made the pieces fit together easily. \u00a0Then I made a shaker pocket with my Becky Higgins Project Life fuse tool, using the left over bucket inside die cut piece as a kind of template to get the shaping correct. \u00a0For some added fun, I\u00a0put tiny sea shells from a broken necklace, little glittered shovels from the Diemond Dies Sand Pail and Shovel Die Set<\/a><\/span>, and pink and purple sequins into the pocket. \u00a0The dimension of the sea shells actually helps plump up the pocket and allows the other shaker pieces to move around better.<\/p>\n

I Copic colored (colors listed below) and paper pieced Emma with scraps from my scrap box.
\nSkin: E000, E00, E11, E13 and R20 (for blush)
\nHair: Y21, YR24, Y35, E25 and E29
\nPail: Flowers YR04 and Shading C1
\nShading on paper pieced swimsuit and beach towel: W1 and W3
\n<\/a>To add a little more shine and dimension, I also used a clear Wink of Stella on the pail, Glossy Accents and a white Gelly Roll pen on the sunglasses, and the top of an extra die cut shovel\u00a0to make it look like Emma had a shovel in her pail that matched the shovels in the shaker.<\/p>\n

To fill in the scene, I die cut a couple of starfish from the Diemond Dies Starfish Die Set<\/a><\/span> and colored the edges and added dots using Copic Y35. To give the starfish a little personality, I also stamped little faces on them using the faces from the Lawn Fawn “Love You S’more”<\/a><\/span> stamp set.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I stamped out the sentiment, “every day is fun with you” using the same Lawn Fawn stamp set, but used some tape masking to break up the phrase the way I needed to in order to fit the words into the small, medium and large\u00a0Fiskars cloud punches. To soften the edges of the clouds, I also inked the edges with a pale\u00a0blue chalk ink. For the inside of the card, I used\u00a0a “Happy Birthday!” sentiment from the Inky Antics Birthday Elephant stamp set and threw in an extra die cut shovel and pail for some extra sparkle. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The following is a video share of this project:<\/p>\n