Halloween Moon - Rachelle Anne Miller Creative Studio

Hello,   I have a fun infinity shaker Halloween card for you today using the digital stamp image called Halloween Moon by Rachelle Anne Miller Creative Studio.   This is a digital stamp, so you just click and buy, it is delivered to your email address virtually immediately and you can then proceed to print the image using your home printer and immediately have some creative fun with it!

To create this card I first ink blended an A2 panel of white cardstock using Distress Oxides.  I slid this panel sideways into a stamp storage pocket for a really nice snug fit.   I popped open the end by squeezing the edges of the cardstock carefully and tipped in a variety of shaker filler contents in a blend that suited my planned colours for the entire card.  Once I was satisfied with the mix and the degree of fill, I wrapped the excess of the stamp pocket around the back of the panel and securely adhered it down using my tape runner.   I then applied that to a cardstock base.   Everything else happens on the outside of the pocket!

I printed my Halloween Moon image on Copic friendly cardstock and then trimmed down the image using some fussy cutting.  I coloured the image using my Copic markers, here's my colour palette:-

Witch Costume - W9, W7, W4, W3, V01, V12, V15

Hair - E000, E42, E43, E44, E51

Pumpkin Bag - YR82,  E93, E95

Bear - E43, E42, E41, W5, W3

Moon -  RV000, RV10, RV02

Ground - RV000, RV10, W2, W1

I then adhered the image to the top of the pocket using my tape runner again.

Finally for the giant sentiment I die cut the Boo To You Word Die from Hello Bluebird Stamps from black cardstock and applied in the same way.

Try and make an infinity shaker if you never have before.  These are by far the best and the easiest of shaker cards, the contents move about freely and don't stick to anything.

Happy crafting!

 

Boo To You and Little Haunters - Hello Bluebird

Hello!  The Hello Bluebird Stamps new release is now available for purchase.  I made this infinity shaker card because I had it in my head for a few days and the only way to deal with that was to actually make it!



For my card I cut an A2 panel of Bristol Smooth cardstock.   I ink blended the background using Distress Oxides in Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot.  I distressed the background with water splashes that I blotted up and then also splattered on some white acrylic paint that I'd loosened with a little water.  I knew I was going to be adding the black strip of grass later and didn't want all the shaker contents to be lost behind the grass so I applied a strip of tape along the width, right below where the strip of grass would later be going.


  
I took a stamp storage pocket and slid the 5 1/2 inch length of my background panel into the 5 1/2 width of the storage pocket I pressed down and sealed where I'd applied the tape that will be hidden, thus sealing off the bottom 1/4 of the panel.  Now, you want and need for this to be a very snug fit in this pocket because obviously you will lose some shaker contents around the back of the panel if it isn't a close fit.  I trimmed the pocket down leaving about a 1 inch piece and then I added my shaker contents.  Once happy with the quantity and mix I firmly folded back the 1 inch portion of the pocket and adhered it very thoroughly on the reverse and then applied the whole shaker panel to a 110lb cardstock base.  You need a sturdy base for these infinity shakers!



I die cut the Boo To You die from black cardstock and adhered it to the front of the pocket and from the same cardstock I die cut the Grassy Knoll edge and this was also adhered (and you'll note it covers the tape inside that prevented the shaker contents from disappearing behind.

On Bristol Smooth cardstock I stamped my Little Haunters characters using Archival Ink in black.  I watercolour painted them using Kuretake Zigs in Orange, Flesh Colour, Natural Gray, Marine Green, Light Gray and Beige.  Also used were two Tombow ABTs in 912 and 723. 

Points were highlighted with a white gel pen, they were die cut backed with tape and also applied to the scene.



Finally I found a perfectly sized speech bubble from Photo Stack and stamped the sentiment.  This was applied with a little piece of dimensional tape behind it.

Have you made an infinity shaker card before?  Perhaps this will encourage you to do so - couldn't be more fun either for you or the recipient and actually significantly easier to make than a regular shaker card.

Happy crafting!

Nicky x