Shaker Card 1 - Guest Designing for ICR

Hello!

This is going to be a special post for 2 reasons

1. Guest Designing for Indian Craft Room - The first challenge I participated last October was for ICR! And now I'm a guest designer! Isn't that a great honour? :) Thank you so much ICR team for choosing me!

2. It's not one card this time, but 2 cards - and the theme? well, it is the ongoing coasteride ICRCMON01 - Shaker card + 3 patterned papers

So, onto the first card.

I was so inspired by the Star fold card I saw recently on the Itsy Bitsy blog, that I wanted to try one! That is a very clearly explained tutorial.

Here is what I made - a star fold shaker card!

Wondering where are 3 PPs here? One more for surprise on the inside :)

This is how the card looks on the inside. Those strawberries are yummy, aren't they?

I started by making the base of the star fold card out of a 12x12 inches black cs, following the tutorial. I've then measured, trimmed and glued parts of a geometric patterned paper from the DCWV sweet stack. I loved those strawberries in rows and trimmed and glued them too. I then stamped the sentiment onto the middle portion and added a few sequins to add some interest.

Then began the journey of creating the shaker. I took a black cs, cut it in the shape of a circle for the base and adhered a contrasting patterned paper to it. I then took a corrugated sheet that came in some packaging and cut out 2 circle frames. This gives the depth to the shaker, since foam tapes do not look good on forming the circle shape. The frames are stuck one on top of another and attached to the circle base in black and yellow pp. I covered the inside and outside using same colored quilling strip so that the corrugated sheet is not visible. The next step is to add the sequins to form the shaker element. I made another frame of the same size out of the yellow pp, attached a circle cut acetate sheet to the back and glued it to the base with the sequins. That completes the shaker element!

It is then attached to the base star fold :)

I've also done some stencil work on the back of the star, along with heat embossing on gold. I've used the Mini Punchinella stencil from TCW.

Backside of the card after folding

Front side of the card after folding

That's it for the star card :) Check out my next post on the second card! :)

Linking the cards to,

1. ICR - ICRCMON01
2. Ranganjali - July - Geometric
This card is entirely geometric, listing down a few

1. Shape of the card - A 6 pointed star
2. Patterned paper used - Symmetrically trimmed and used at each place, for all 3 patterned sheets used
3. Sentiment stamp chosen for its shape - contained within a rectangle
4. Gold embossing using stencil - geometric patterns
5. Sequins placed around sentiment in the shape of a triangle

3. PABD - #8 - Layers
4. Pink and Main Challenges - #11
5. Country View Challenges - July - Fun with circles
6. Craft Stampers - Take It Make It July

Thanks for stopping by, hope you like my cards! Do let me know your feedback!
Have a nice day :)