Welcome Baby But Make It A Shaker!

Who doesn’t love a shaker card? They are fun to make and fun to receive. A friend of mine needed a couple cards for expecting mothers so I got to work. I grabbed my Baby Rattle Shaker Dies from Pretty Pink Posh plus some patterned paper I’ve had for a while. While I was scrolling Instagram one day, I came across a post from @stampwithsandie that had a card template I liked. You can see that post here . I thought that was the perfect starting point for these cards. Using my cardstock scraps, I pulled some coordinating colors to use for my die cutting.

I used Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb cardstock to create an A2 card base. Then I created a gray frame using the largest of the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles dies. I adhered that to my card base using liquid glue. Then I cut my patterned paper according the measurements in the card layout. The paper I chose is a retired designer series paper pack I’ve had for years from Stampin’ Up. It’s called Twinkle Twinkle and was the perfect color theme for these baby cards. I arranged each piece onto my card base and then adhered them down with liquid glue.

I die cut the baby rattle pieces in the coordinating colors of cardstock. For the shaker frame, I cut that six times from white cardstock. That helped me avoid using foam tape on such a small shaker element. I used liquid glue to assemble the baby rattle shaker pieces for each card. For the shaker beads, I used the Pretty Pink Posh Sweet Dreams.

For my sentiment, I cut a piece of white cardstock according to the measurements in the card layout and then used my Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper on the stub side to add some detail to the corners. Then I grabbed my Baby Basics stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh and stamped “Hello Little One” with Misty Coast ink from Pinkfresh Studio. Then I also stamped the block images in the stamp set onto coordinating cardstock which would go on the inside of my card. Using a scrap of one of the patterned papers I used on the front, I stamped the onesie from the stamp set…..again….for the inside of the card. Using the coordinating dies, I cut out each of those images.

I glued my sentiment directly down to my card base and then placed the shaker rattle to the left on both cards. The rattle added enough dimension to the card and I didn’t want to create more and make it hard to mail. To embellish the card front, I added some Heavenly Skies Confetti Embellishments from Trinity Stamps with liquid glue.

Using the block letters and onesie I stamped and die cut earlier, I decorated the inside of my card. I used a panel of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb cardstock cut to 5 1/4 by 4 inches. The blocks were my sentiment for the inside and the onesie went in the bottom right. My card is never finished until I do something to the inside that ties in to the design on the front. Aside from all the die cutting, this card came together pretty quickly. I hope it inspires you to create something similar. If you’d like to see the process video, check out the link below. Thanks for stopping by today! Now go get crafty!

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