This card was made for Craft Roulette #176 whose parameters included: a split in the middle, jolly colors, a fruit element and a heart.

My inspiration for this card came from the Berry Special die and stamp set that came in the Die Cutting Essentials, issue 103. (This magazine is available on the Craftstash website. Note that there are different country based websites for this online vender. Use the one that works for you to avoid unnecessary currency/customs fees.) It has a stamp that says “Jam like a strawberry” so I immediately thought of a jam jar shaker and went to my Queen and Company stash of shaker kits.

Cardbase: Using a 8.5×5.5 inch rectangle of heavy white cardstock for the cardbase, I folded it in half and used a bone folder to burnish the card into a 4.25×5.5 inch A2 size. The front and back panels of the card are covered with 4×5.25 inch decorative paper rectangles. The front has an additional strip of blue decorative paper near its middle. The back uses a thin strip cut from the front panel paper as decoration. I used the jar frame die to cut the aperture into the card front when only the front decorative papers had been attached. Next, I glued on the inside decorative papers and cut the aperture again.

Shaker: Queen and Company are known for their shaker kits which use pre-cut foam shaker frames with adhesive on both sides and clear acetate covers which take the tediousness out of making shaker cards. For the jar I used two acetate pieces and one foam frame that all had been dusted with an anti-static brush. I peeled off one side of the frame’s adhesive backing and attached a pre-cut piece of acetate. Adding the glitter, seed beads and strawberry slices to the frame, I dusted the next acetate sheet again and peeled off the adhesive backing on the foam frame and attached the acetate to enclose the shaker elements. (The chucky glitter had a lot of static electric charge and jumped to the tiny bits of adhesive at the foam edges.) The shaker is attached to the card by gluing a jar frame cut from the front of the card to the inside of the card and then gluing the shaker to the jar frame.

Decorations: Eight layered strawberries were cut using the Berry Special die set from pink and green patterned paper and black cardstock. The dies cut two stems, large and small strawberry outlines and fronts with seeds cutout as well as a plant stem with large leaves. I also used two of the large leaves on the card front. Seven strawberries are scattered on the card front and one large strawberry on the back. A red plaid paper sticker on a foam dot is at the top of the card front.

Sentiments: Using the stamps from the Die-Crafting Essentials gift set, I stamped in purply-pink ink the sentiment “Jam like a strawberry” on the jar tag which is tied around the jar lid with baker’s twine, and the inside sentiment “Thank you berry much!”

Envelope: Stamped on the envelope flap is “You’re the sweetest!” in purply-pink ink.

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Materials Used:

Dies

• Queen & Company – Steel Dies – Love Jar
• Die Cutting Essentials, issue 103 – Dies – Berry Special

Stamps

• Die Cutting Essentials, issue 103 – Clear Stamps – Berry Special

Shaker Elements and Frame

• Queen & Company –Foam Shaker & Acetate – Love Jar
• Red Chunky Glitter
• Pink Seed Beads
• Dress My Craft – Polymer Clay – Strawberry Slices

Papers

• Queen & Company – 6×6 Double-Sided Mat Stack – Flirty Florals
• Crate Paper – 6×6 Single-Sided Patterned Paper Pad – Cool Kid
• Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
• Recollections – 8.5x11Cardstock 110 lb – White
• Black Cardstock
• A2 Envelope – White

Ink

• Simon Says Stamp – Pawsitively Saturated Ink – Sweets
• Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
• Foam Squares

Tools

• Die Cutting Machine
• We R Memories – QuickStick
• We R Memories – Scoring Board and Trimmer
• Stamping Platform
• LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
• Stamping Cloth
• Scissors
• Kat Scrappiness – Anti-Static Tool

Miscellaneous

• Baker’s Twine – Pink & White
• Jot – Paper Sticker- Plaid Heart