Monday 7 November 2011

Christmas Advent Shaker Card

Here's the card that I have been slowly making the past few days for my entry in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. I wanted to do something a bit out there and this week's sketch gave me the idea of a Christmas Advent style shaker card. Hope you all like it. :D

Christmas Advent Shaker Card




Advent Shaker Card Tutorial


1. I used an A4 sheet of white card to make the card itself. I drew a line 14cm from both top and bottom of the sheet, this created a strip down the middle for the card fold. I then also drew a line 14cm in from one side of sheet. I then cut the excess off.
2. I then folded along both lines either side of the card fold strip.
3. Next I turned the card over and drew up a grid for my advent windows (each window was 4 x 4cm).
4. I then cut the windows out using a craft knife and cutting mat. 
I then covered the front of the card with patterned paper (I chose red with white polka dots) and once it was stuck on I then cut the windows out of it as well. I glued a strip of metallic green handmade paper across the middle of the card. I then cut a circle out of white and green polka dot paper to put under the digi and glued it on, and once again cut the windows out of it.


5. I used the squares I cut out of the windows to make the doors. First I glued them onto a piece of metallic brown paper and then cut them out.
6. I then glued the reverse side to a piece of A4 computer paper.
7. I then cut them out again, leaving a 5mm flap on one side. I then sat them on top of the windows and pushed and glued the flaps to the inside of the card.


8. On a piece of white card I measured out the templates for the shaker boxes and cut them out (I made them in strips of 3 and cut them out individually before attaching them to the card, there were 6 boxes in total). I then cut tabs into the zig zag corners of each and glued them up into little boxes.
9. I then glued plastic transparency across the windows to the back of the card. Next I glued papers and embellishments to the inside of my boxes. Once dry I added my shaker ingredients (I used glitter, mini diamonte stars, diamontes, foil stars and glass bead balls). I then glued each box to the back of the card and glued scraps of paper over any gaps.

I used a hole punch to make the door handles out of gold paper. I then finished off my card by gluing 3 green star diamontes to the metallic green handmade paper strip, and my elf digi to the circle. The elf digi I made myself and is available here.

This is the funnest card I have ever made, and possibly one of the best and I would like to thank Kate from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a very inspiring sketch. :-* Good luck to all that enter. :D

13 comments:

  1. OMG Teegs aren't you SUPER DUPER clever !!
    Thats BRILLIANT !!

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  2. WOWOWOWOW this is amazing what a brilliant idea and stunning card, I love it, thanks for the tut too its ace, Thanks for playing on Willow Sketchie this week again, Love Hazelxox

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  3. Oh WOW!!! this is fantastic, what a fab idea! Love it!!

    Thank you for sharing with us at Willow Sketchie this week!
    Hugs Shell xx

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  4. wow this is fantastic , I love how you made the sketch into a shaker - brilliant !
    thanks for joining us at willow sketchie challenge this week -Kate x

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  5. Wow, this is fabulous, what a great idea. I love your main image and all the little images in the windows. Great tutorial as well, thank you for sharing with us at Willow Sketchie again this week. I always look forward to seeing what you create each week, you're going to have to go some to top this one.
    Pauline
    x

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  6. Wow this is brilliant.Such an amazing creation.Love all the pictures and details.Thanks for joining us at Willow Sketchie Challenge.Hope to see you again next week :D
    Lisa x

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  7. Wow this is so clever!! Don't think I would have the patience my aperture card really tested that!!
    Love what you have come up with and thanks for joining in this week's challenge at Willow Sketchie.

    Hugs
    Kelly x

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  8. Wow this is amazing. Love what you have come up with.

    Thanks for joining us this week at WSC.

    Anne-Marie x x

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  9. Thanks Donna :-* Jim said it's the best I have made yet... N I kind of have to agree ;) He has given me permission to keep it (not that I needed it ;) ), as he saw all the work that went into it, plus he said it's too good to give away ;)

    Thanks Hazel :-* I'm glad you liked the tutorial too... Thought it was best to add one with all the detail that went into making the card itself ;)

    Thanks Shell :-* I wanted to do something a bit fiddly, as my last entry was such a rush ;)

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  10. Thanks Kate :-* Couldn't have done it with out your fantastic sketch... As it was the inspiration behind the advent style shaker boxes... So thanks again for such an awesome sketch :-*

    Thanks Pauline :-* You know me... I always have to be the one that takes it that one step further ;) Lol... Somehow I don't think this one can be topped ;)

    Thanks Lisa :-* Glad you like it :D I wouldn't miss next week's challenge for the world :D

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  11. Thanks Kelly :-* It took me 4 days (spending 2 - 3 hours a day on it) to make... so was very time consuming... I was beginning to wonder if I would have it finished on time ;)

    Thanks Ann-Marie :-* Glad you liked it :D Must say I was pretty pleased with it myself ;)

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  12. WOW this is just brilliant and a fab way to use the sketch too. Thanks for playing along with Willow Sketchie this week. Hugs, Claire x

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  13. Thanks Claire :-* Got the idea from the sketch layout, so I just went with it, turned out far better than I expected though :D

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