I love an interactive card! They are so much fun to create and even more fun for the recipient to engage with. One of the easiest types of interactive cards to make is a shaker card, there’s no fancy dies needed, no folding, scoring or detailed templates needed unless you want to. You’ll need foam tape, something to place inside the shaker area like sequins, glitter or confetti and a piece of acetate. Sometimes you won’t even need the foam tape or acetate with stitching or use popular shaker pockets, designed to just fill and adhere to the card, they are super quick and easy. Even though shaker cards have been around for awhile they’ve evolved and designers incorporate them with new trends and styles all the time so today let’s take a look at some ideas for creating fresh new Shaker Cards.
Samantha’s adorable shaker card is on a tall slimline card style with cute stamped moles and a heartfelt sentiment. She used cleverly used a cloud stencil with splatter for the piles of dirt, she colored her stamps with Zig Clean Color Brush Markers and included sequins, tiny beads and glitter inside the shaker. Watch her video tutorial on the Lawn Fawn blog.
Arsenia used flower dies to make her shaker shape, filling it with pretty pastel pearls. She also used a checker stencil on the die cut frame and card background to add some pattern, as well as added ink blending to the butterfly and sentiment along with a heat embossed banner. Learn more at the Pretty Pink Posh blog.
With several inches of snow on the ground right now I really feel a connection to this card. 🙂 Shari made a box card to hold her shaker element with a background of dry embossed dots inked with beautiful orange and yellow tones. Her stamped vacationer from Art Impressions was colored with pencils and adhered over the acetate. Watch her video tutorial at Simon Says Stamp.
Larissa’s funny card is a take on a McDonalds chicken nugget Happy Meal with cut stamped nuggs in a smiling box with a big heart die cut behind. The shaker element is a piece of acetate over a ink blended and splatter panel filled with stars, hearts and beads that she stitched around to seal. Learn more at the Trinity Stamps blog.
What crafty friend wouldn’t love receiving this wonderful shaker card from Brenda!? She stenciled the colorful background and placed a shaker pocket filled with hole-less sequins overtop. On the pocket she added more stenciled and die cut images along with the die cut sentiment. Take a closer look at the Honeybee Stamps blog.
Warm someone’s winter day with a sweet snowman shaker card. Mindy used dies for the snowman, snowflakes and oval opening for the shaker section, which she filled with silver stars and iridescent circle sequins. Her sentiment is stamped and die cut and the snowflakes have gems in the center for more sparkle. Take a peek over at the Mindy Eggen Designs blog.
This fabulous shaker card from Elaine is obviously inspired by Taylor Swift, with a stamped girl in a silver outfit, colored with Copic Markers. The background is silver cardstock with die cut positive and negative stars. The colorful disco ball is the shaker element, filled with shiny gems. Watch her coloring video at the Stampingbella blog.
This darling love birds card was create by Rebecca. She dry embossed the top panel and die cut an arch in it for the shaker section, placing it over blue cardstock and filling it with gold sequins. Overtop are the die cut birds on their hanging perch with flowers, a heart and die cut sentiment. I love all the gold touches! Find step by step directions at the Spellbinders blog.
This yummy card from Therese features a jar of honey with bees buzzing around. The jar lid, sentiment and honey dipper are stamped, the bees were stenciled and the background of the jar was dry embossed with ink blending and gold paste added. You can watch her video tutorial on the Altenew blog.
Some of my all time favorite stories are Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass so of course I’m in love with this shaker card from Kari! She created the card to look like a book, with gold embossed words on the spine, a stenciled cover and keyhole opening. Alice is stamped and colored with Copic Markers, ready to step into the stenciled opening that has silver edges and is filled with sequins. Check out the how to video on the Miss Ink Stamps blog.
Savannah’s delicious cupcake birthday card looks good enough to eat! There’s sprinkles pattern paper, a pink die cut circle for the shaker (that’s filled with colorful sequins), a stamped and heat embossed combo sentiment and the stamped and colored cupcake. She used products from Pink and Main for this shaker and you can take a closer peek at her Savannah Land Instagram page.
Sometimes something as simple as a partial circle can add lots of interest to a design. Jingle’s shaker card has an ink blended blue background behind the opening, a stamped sentiment below and die cut Daisies to the side. The shaker is filled with colorful discs and tiny flower sequins. Find step by step directions at the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L blog.
I hope you’ve been inspired to create some fun and interactive shaker cards that are sure to bring a smile to anyone’s face!
-Heather
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