Santa Shaker - Santa's Workshop Card Tutorial – Chloes Creative Cards

Hello Crafters,

Today we're bringing you this fab, tactile Christmas card with a fun shaker element. Using the newly-launched Santa's Workshop collection, Rebecca has crafted this wonderful masterpiece and has written up all the instructions so that you can recreate it for your friends and family. It will certainly be a much-talked-about and admired card with the recipient!

Read on for a full step-by-step project tutorial, complete with full linked materials list.

YOU WILL NEED:

Santa’s Workshop collection:

8x8” nesting dies – Snowflake Oval
Pearl card – Lapis Lazuli, Jupiter, and Crystal White
Bling Box – Candy and Everyday Essentials
Sparklers – 12mm
Sequins – Frosty Christmas
WOW! embossing powders – Opaque Bright White and Clear Gloss
Sparkelicious glitter – Red Poinsettia, Crystal Crush, and Winter Wonderland
White cardstock
Thick red organza ribbon
Versafine inkpad – Onyx Black
WOW! clear embossing inkpad
Alcohol markers
Foam pads on a roll
Chisel-tip glue pen
Pinflair 3D glue gel
Art Glitter Dries-clear glue with a fine-tip applicator
8x8” white straight-edged card blank
Die-cutting machine

INSTRUCTIONS:

1 Trim a sheet of Lapis Lazuli pearl card to 7¾” square and affix to a card blank using dries-clear glue. Trim two panels from white cardstock: one to 7½” square and one to 7¼” square. Edge both panels with a chisel-tip glue pen and cover in Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter. Affix to the card blank using foam pads. Finally, trim a sheet of patterned paper to 7” square and affix to the card using dries-clear glue.

2 Die-cut the outer snowflake frame edge from Crystal White pearl card and affix to the card using foam pads. Die-cut the next filagree snowflake layer from Crystal White pearl card and cover the snowflakes with glue using a chisel-tip glue pen. Cover in Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter and affix to the card using foam pads. Add a crystal to the centre of each snowflake. Die-cut an oval from patterned paper and affix to the centre of the frame using dries-clear glue.

3 Stamp the Santa image onto white cardstock using a Versafine black inkpad and heat-emboss using Clear Gloss embossing powder. Colour in using alcohol markers then glitter using Red Poinsettia and Winter Wonderland Sparkelicious glitter. Affix to the centre of the frame using dries-clear glue.

4 Die-cut an oval frame from white cardstock. Affix to a sheet of acetate and trim to fit. Add a double layer of foam pads to the back, making sure to leave no gaps in between. Add a small amount of snowflake sequins to the centre of the card and affix the frame over the top.

5 Stamp out one of the postmarks onto white cardstock using black ink and heat-emboss using Clear Gloss embossing powder, then die-cut using a scalloped circle. Die-cut a circle from Jupiter pearl card and one from Lapis Lazuli pearl card. Adhere together and then onto the card blank using foam pads. Stamp out another of the same postmark, this time onto Jupiter pearl card using a clear embossing inkpad then heat-emboss using Opaque Bright White embossing powder. Carefully trim out the centre part and affix in place over the first postmark image using a foam pad.

6 Tie a double bow and affix to the top left-hand corner of the card blank. Add a sparkler to the centre. Add three pearls to the two remaining corners, as shown, to finish.