Shaker Cards

There is a large group of ladies that meet on a regular basis to chat, craft, hang out and trade handmade cards. We usually meet for a couple of hours and snack on delicious food and coffee while someone in the group teaches the others the latest techniques in card making. The minute you walk in the room you're struck with the energy and passion for card making and paper crafting. It's something that only a crafter, like myself, can understand and appreciate. The conversations are always dynamic as you hear things like glitter, rubber stamps, embossing, distressing or die cuts. Today's conversation was on "shaker cards". Shaker cards are greeting cards that when you shake them up and down, a part of the card will rattle with beads or confetti or even candy!  These are really fun cards, specially for kids and teenagers and the occasional fun person that appreciates something different.  I brought home all my trades but I'm only going to share a few with you selected at random.

The first one is mine, I cut out a lava lamp image from the internet and added small red beads inside a plastic pouch.  I used Microsoft Word to add the sentiment

On the next card, by Rose Rodriquez, she created a circular card filled with Valentine's day images.  In the heart, you can see she used cake sprinkles, brilliant!

This next one, created by Tina Rivas, she used confetti inside her shaker circle to simulate hard candy.  The candy machine was stamped and she used Crystal Effects (a dimensional gel) on the machine to give it that shine, way cute:

The next one is by Mary, she used a cupcake cut out and added glitter to the inside of her shaker card, too cute:

And the last one I want to show you has a really cute sentiment "sending worm wishes on your bug day".  The shaker part is on the bug on the top right hand corner.  She added tiny seed beads. 

I hope these cards inspire you to make your own shaker cards.  Thanks for zooming by, come back again for more cards, more crafts and more fun!