Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest - Tami White

Welcome and thank you for joining me in a special Crazy Crafters team blog hop.

We are hopping with a special guest - The talented Tami White.

The theme of this blog hop was to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) one of Tami's cards.


Here is the card of Tami's that I chose to CASE:

I've been wanting to try my hand at a shaker card for ages. And what better reason is there to give it a try, than for my youngest son's 4th birthday. To checkout Tami's card in more detail click here.


Here is my version:

As my card is for a 4 year old I wanted something bright, so I decided on a colour combination of Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight & Pumpkin Pie.

I sketched out a layout and after checking out actual sizes of the framelits I wanted to use, I decided that I needed to make a bigger than usual card - so I went with a 6" x 6" square card.

I cut a 15cm x 15cm square from an A4 sheet of Whisper White. Then using my Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight & Pumpkin Pie ink pads, some sponge daubers and the Stars mask from the Hearts & Stars Decorative Masks set, I created the stars background.

Using the 2 largest framelits from the Stars set, my magnetic platform & Bigshot, I cut out the star outline using Pumpkin Pie cardstock. The number 4 was cut from Daffodil Delight cardstock using the Large Numbers framelits and the Happy is cut from Tempting Turquoise cardstock using the Hello You thinlits.

I stamped the Birthday sentiment from the Number of Years stamp set in Tempting Turquoise onto some Whisper White and cut it out using the banner from the Gift Card Envelope & Trims Thinlits and my magnetic platform to help line it up.

I created my own star confetti by punching out a bunch of stars using the Confetti Stars Punch and some Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight & Pumpkin Pie cardstock.

When I had worked out the location for the star on the front of the card, I marked the area I would need to cut so I could still use the middle of the star background for the back of the shaker. I then cut it out carefully with a sharp blade.

Next I adhered the Pumpkin Pie star to the front of the card using Tombow glue, ensuring I was covering up the star shaped hole I had cut out. Flipping the card front over, I then cut a piece of window sheet that was bigger than the star and adhered it using Fast Fuse.

I then placed foam adhesive strips on to the window sheet using the star shape as a guide, making sure I left no gaps for the confetti to escape.

Using the star shape I cut from the star background card front, I lined up the coloured stars so they were going in the same direction as the card front and then I adhered my die cut number "4" with a little Tombow and then stamped the "TH" (also from the Number of Years stamp set) in Daffodil Delight next to it.

With my card front still upside down I placed all my star confetti in the foam edged star and then stuck the centre star (with the 4 on it) on to the foam strips. Now the tricky shaker part was done.

I stuck down the 'happy" die cut using tiny dots of Tombow to the front of my card. I decided I wanted the Birthday banner to stand out a bit so I curled it with my fingers and adhered it with a piece of the foam strip under the "th" in Birthday to make it stand out and a bit of fast fuse under the 2 spots where it touches the card front.

Lastly for my card base I cut a 12" x 12" piece of Whisper White card stock in half and scored it in the middle. I cut a few more little squares from the foam strips and used these around the edge of the card front, plus a small bit of fast fuse in the middle of the star (for extra hold power) and attached it to my card base.

.....and.... voila, my first shaker card complete. Pretty happy with my first attempt and I think I'll be making more of these as they are such a fun card for someone to receive.


Here is a list of the supplies and tools used to create this card:

Whisper White A4 Cardstock (106549)
Whisper White 12” x 12” Cardstock (124302)
Tempting Turquoise A4 Cardstock (108598)
Daffodil Delight A4 Cardstock (121680)
Pumpkin Pie A4 Cardstock (108601)
Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Pad (126952)
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad (126944)
Pumkpin Pie Classic Stampin’ Pad (126945)
Confetti Stars Punch (135861)
Hearts & Stars Decorative Masks (133777)
Stars Framelits (133723)
Number of Years Stamp Set (Photopolymer 140653)
Large Numbers Framelits (140622)
Gift Card Envelope & Trims Thinlits Dies (135854)
Hello You Thinlits (137363)
Magnetic Platform (130658)
Window Sheets (142314)
Sponge Daubers (133773)
Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue (110755)
Fast Fuse Adhesive (129026)
Foam Adhesive Strips (141825)


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Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my creation.

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Don't forget to continue the hop all the way around to see what the very creative Crazy Crafters team have come up with.

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