My First Shaker Card!

Back in the fall dancingpecan posted an Interactive LTC swap.  I wasn't really interested so I didn't pay much attention but it filled up and she posted another one.  It filled up and she posted another one.  I decided I would jump on the bandwagon and joined the last one. 

My card is called, "Sun Tea" and it is my first ever shaker card :)  I probably did this the hard way but I had a lot of fun.  Here we go...

I carved the lemon, tea bag, and jar.  I stamped the lemon on yellow paper, the tea bag on cream paper and brown text paper, and the jar on white paper.  Then I cut them all out, along with the inside of the jar.

The back layer of the card is just brown card stock.  I usually make the back of the card last but was smart enough to do it early in the card process this go round.

Now to assemble the top layer of the card.  I cut the table cloth paper to size, cut the sky to size but tore the bottom, and tore some white clouds, and glued it all together with a glue stick.  I glued the jar on top and used an X-ACTO knife to cut the sky and table cloth out of the middle. 

At first I glued the clear transparency paper to the back of the top with tacky glue.  But the glue would ooze out and make a mess so I switched to a tape runner. 

After the clear window was in place, I added the foam tape.  I saw a video on YouTube where a kid folded the tape over to make it thicker.  I liked the idea and did it too.  I cut a section of foam tape, folded it in half and then cut it down the middle to make it thinner.  I attached it to the back of the top part of the card.  Then I filled the window area with the tea bags, lemon, beads, sequins, and some times glitter.  The Princess insisted that they needed the glitter.  I wasn't sure about it and left it out sometimes. 

Now for the hard part, attach the brown back so that it is centered.  I tried making the card in reverse and had issues.  One time I attached the foam tape to the brown background, filled it with beads, sequins, tea bags, and lemon and went to attach the top.  But guess what?  You could see the foam tape in the window.  So, I figure the only way to make sure the foam tape is hidden is to attach it to the back of the window.

Some of the cards are not centered.  Also, sometimes I got carried away with the glitter.  I think there were two that I threw away because I felt that they had too much glitter.  But I enjoyed making the cards and will search for an easier way to assemble the cards if I do this again.  The swap was for 9 cards and I made 12 if anyone wants to trade.

When I first joined this swap, I looked up shaker cards online and bought the We R memory keepers Photo Sleeve Fuse tool.  As you can see, I didn't use it at all.  I plan on making another shaker card so I can try it out.  I'm thinking about a snow globe card this winter.