Ever have one of those blue truck kinda days when an old pick-up truck full of flowers (maybe sunflowers?) would really brighten your day? Here is a fun spinning and shaking little truck full of flowers to brighten your day!

For this spinning shaker truck, I cut 3 craft foam trucks, 2 sets of the blue truck, wheel cover, tires, hub caps and brown truck bed fencing. I also cut 2 pieces of acetate to cover the truck bed fencing. Before I cut the foam pieces, I covered enough foam on both sides with sheets of double-sided adhesive to cut two of the three foam trucks.

Having made other spinning shaker elements for cards I found that having one sheet of foam that is not covered in adhesive will help stabilize the shape. Aligning one adhesive backed foam shape with the plain foam shape and then slowly pealing off the backing paper means that your truck shape will be properly aligned. Align and adhere the blue truck paper to the front of the truck by slowly peeling of backing paper. Repeat with other double-sided adhesive foam piece and blue truck piece.

Glue acetate to back side of the 2 truck bed fencing pieces. Glue one of these pieces to the truck. Fill the truck bed with shaker elements. Glue other acetate fencing piece to seal up shaker element. Finish adding tires, wheel covers and any other decorating of truck, such as a thin strip of blue paper to cover the exposed edges of foam.

Thread a long sewing needle with black thread and pull the center of truck.  Create card base with cut out rectangle on front.  Align truck and thread in the middle of the rectangular opening. Tape thread in place off card base and glue overnight to card base. Once glue is dry tape thread in place and trim excess thread off.  Decorate card base with frames of patterned paper.

Using Versamark Watermark ink stamp sentiment on white card and heat emboss in black. Adhere white card to inside back of card.

I stamped a yellow flower on the back-envelope flap.

Supplies

Dies

• Queen & Co. – Special Delivery Kit
• Queen & Co. – Special Delivery Summer Celebration Kit
• Art Impressions – Steel Dies-A2 Rectangle Double Stitched – 5063

Stamps

• Queen & Co. – Special Delivery Kit
• Simonne Clay’s Summer Meadow stamp set fromCardmaking & Papercraft issue 198, August 2019

Paper

• Little Makers -white craft foam sheet

• Dura-Lar .0005 Clear Film acetate
• Black heavy weight cardstock
• Queen & Co. – Special Delivery Summer Celebration Kit – Solids 6×6 paper pad
• Queen & Co. – Special Delivery Kit –patterned paper 6×6 pad
• Colored and metallic scraps from my stash

Ink/Embossing Powder

• VersaMark – Watermark Stamp Pad
• Recollections Detail Embossing Power- Ebony

Shaker Elements

• Queen & Co. – Special Delivery Kit – yellow sunflowers and orange hearts
• Queen & Co. – Special Delivery Summer Celebration Kit – green shaker balls

Miscellaneous

• PVA Glue – Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
• Elizabeth Craft Designs – Clear Double Sided Adhesive – 6×6 inches
• Black sewing thread
• Clear tape like Scotch Brand Magic tape