Happy Birthday Balloons Vellum Shaker Card | Studio Katia

Hello, again my friends! 

I am back again today with another birthday balloon shaker card done with vellum featuring the cute Mini Balloon Dog Stamps. Make sure you are following me on Instagram as I will share a Reel on how this fun card came together.

CARD RECIPE

• To begin, I ink-blended the balloon for the background using the Birthday Balloons Duo Stencils in rainbow colors.
• Then I created the shaker pocket using vellum. The vellum was cut half inch larger than the panel. I then trimmed the corners, and creased the edges along the perimeter of the panels to create the flaps for the pocket. To the flaps/tabs I added a strip of Crafty Adhesive Tape and secured 3 of the 4 tabs to the panel, leaving the top open. 
• Pour the Dots Glitter into the vellum pocket and then secure the last tab down to seal the shaker closed.

• At this point, I had forgotten to stamp the sentiment first on the front of the vellum. Luckily the filler for the shaker was pretty flat so I was able to stamp the sentiment onto the pocket without any issues. Normally I would have done this step first before creating the pocket. The sentiment I used comes from the Mini Balloon Dog Stamps and then I heat set the black ink so it wouldn't smudge.
• Glue the shaker panel to a card base.
• Next, I stamped out the Mini Balloon Dog Stamps onto Bristol paper, colored them using Karin Brush Pro markers, and then die-cut them with their coordinating Mini Balloon Dog Dies.
• Glue the balloon dogs to the front of the shaker and then draw some balloon strings. To add highlights I used a white gel pen and added a black dot to give them eyes.
• To finish this card I used black twine to create small bows and glued them to each of the dog's necks. 

I hope this cute Happy Birthday Balloons Vellum Shaker Card inspired you today. I think I may be a little obsessed with these Mini Balloon Dog Stamps and they are just the perfect price point too if you are looking for a lot of bang for your buck!

Thank you for stopping by and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 🎈

SUPPLIES

Mini Balloon Dog Stamp Shop at: SK	Mini Balloon Dog Dies Shop at: SK	BIRTHDAY BALLOONS DUO STENCIL Shop at: SSS | SK	Ink Blender Brushes Shop at: SSS | SK
Dots Glitter Shop at: SK	Bone Folder Shop at: SSS | SK	Crafty Adhesive Tape Shop at: SK	SK Glue Shop at: SSS | SK
Atelier Ink Bee Sting Yellow Shop at: SSS | IO3	Atelier Ink Sweet Petunia Shop at: SSS | IO3	Atelier Ink Peacock Blue Shop at: SSS | IO3	ATELIER MY PURPLE JAM Shop at: SSS | IO3
Vellum Value Pack Shop at: SSS | AMZ	Blackout Ink Shop at: SSS | HBS | IO3	Neenah Solar White 110lbs Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS	Bristol Paper Shop at: SSS | AMZ
New Mini Misti Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Platinum 6 Die Cutting Platform Shop at: SSS | SB | SB	KARIN BRUSHMARKER PRO Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS	SMALL TIP WATER BRUSH PEN Shop at: SSS | IO3
Micron Pens Shop at: SSS	Uni-Ball Impact Gel Pen Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB

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Honey Bee Hexagon Shaker Christmas Card | Honey Bee Stamps

Are you all ready for Christmas!? Can't BEE-lieve it is only a little of a week away 😬 How has this year just flown by... Haha, sorry I can't help myself with the Bee Punnies, lol! Well, today I wanted to take this opportunity as one of the Honey Bees and wish you all a very Merry and Bright Christmas as this will be my last Christmas Card for the year.

  CARD DETAILS

To begin this card, I stamped out the MERRY LIGHTS Stamp onto vellum paper and using Versafine Onyx Ink and then heat set the ink using black embossing powder. On the underside of the vellum, I used 3 Copic markers to color glow around each light. Next, I die cut the panel for the shaker portion of the card using the third largest Hexagon from the HEXAGON SOLID STACK CUTS. I then blended out the panel using 3 colors of distress oxide ink (see links below).

Now as you all know I am a little obsessed with making Frameless Shaker Cards and today I wanted to show you that it is possible to make these shakers any shape only this time I used vellum. I cut the stamped vellum piece a little larger than the hexagon panel that I had blended out. I then cut each corner off of the vellum hexagon piece and flipped back the vellum flaps to secure it to the back of the hexagon panel using Scor-tape. Before closing up the shaker pocket I filled it with BOKEH LIGHTS Confetti. To finish and embellish the shaker pocket, I added coordinating Crystal Drops to each Christmas Light bulb and set it off to dry. (If you want to learn more about making frameless shakers click HERE.)

To continue the Honey Bee theme, I stamped out the cute little bees from BEE HIVE, colored them with Copics and then cut them out with the Coordinating BEE HIVE DIES. To each little bee, I added glossy accents to the body and Liquid Pixie Dust to the wings.

To make the Card Base I die cut the largest Hexagon from the HEXAGON SOLID STACK CUTS and then created a hinge to glue the two pieces together. I also die cut a pink and yellow Hexagon in decreasing size to layer on the card front.

On the inside, I stamped out Christmas Wishes by using both the BELIEVE BUZZ WORD and the WINTER stamp sets. I then added another little bee and trail from the BEE HIVE to finish off this cute little Bee themed Christmas Shaker Card.

I hope this Honey Bee Hexagon Shaker Christmas Card has inspired you today. 

Thank you all for stopping by 😊

Until next time... Happy Crafting 👋

SUPPLIES

MERRY LIGHTS Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS	HEXAGON SOLID STACK CUTS Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS	BEE HIVE Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS	BEE HIVE DIES Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS	BELIEVE Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS
WINTER Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS	DETAIL BLENDER BRUSHES Shop at: SSS | HBS	BOKEH LIGHTS Confetti Shop at: HBS	MINI MISTI Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SBC | SK | HBS	Vellum Value Pack Shop at: SSS | AMZ
VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SBC | HBS	Black As Night Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | IO3	Gemini Jr Die Cutting/Embossing Machine Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SBC	Strathmore Bristol Pad Shop at: SSS | AMZ	MERMAID LAGOON Oxide Ink Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SBC | HBS
PICKED RASPBERRY Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS	Oxide Ink SQUEEZED LEMONADE Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS	CARIBBEAN OCEAN Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS | HBS	DANDELION YELLOW GLOSS Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS	SHIMMERING ROSE Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS | HBS
SMALL TIP WATER BRUSH PEN Shop at: SSS | IO3	LIQUID PIXIE DUST Shop at: SSS | IO3	Scor-Tape 0.25 Inch Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS	Glossy Accents Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SBC | HBS

To make supplies easy for you to find, I have linked them above. If something is no longer available I will link to a similar product. Affiliate links may be used depending on the product linked. Please help support my blog by using these links while shopping at no additional cost to you. For more information about the affiliates I use, please visit my disclaimer here. Thanks so much for all your support!