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A project from our live show Create Together Club - 5 Days of Creativity - Broadcast Friday 6THTH June 2025 · 06/06/2025 · watch it from 32:45
Create an elegant shaker card with a custom vellum window aperture featuring dimensional floral embellishments. This portrait-format design showcases soft pink tones with vintage-style flowers, greenery, and decorative cake imagery. The project combines die-cutting, vellum layering, and dimensional decoupage techniques to create a sophisticated greeting card with movement and depth.
Select a patterned paper with decorative floral detail along one side. Place it on your cutting mat and mark where you need to trim it to fit your card front.
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Mark where you want your aperture window to be on the card front, following the decorative detail of the floral paper design.
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Using a craft knife and ruler, carefully cut a window aperture in the pink card, following the floral design as a guide for placement. Cut along straight lines to create a rectangular opening.
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Trim any rough edges around the aperture with scissors to neaten the cut. Ensure all edges are smooth and clean for a professional finish.
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Select a light-coloured vellum sheet and cut it to size to fit behind your aperture window on the card front.
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Apply foam tape around the aperture window on the card to create a shaker chamber. Ensure the foam tape is sealed completely to prevent the shaker contents from escaping.
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Place a thin piece of white paper inside the shaker frame to act as a backing, preventing the embellishments from falling behind the vellum window.
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Add your shaker contents onto the paper backing inside the aperture. Use pink and white sequins and chunky glitter. Use an anti-static bag to prevent the glitter from sticking to the vellum window.
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Adhere the vellum window to the foam tape border, pressing firmly around all edges to seal the shaker chamber completely.
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Mount the decorated vellum panel onto a white matting layer using adhesive. Then attach this mounted panel to your white card base using foam pads for dimension.
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Fussy-cut flower designs from your paper collection. Add them to the top corner of the card using foam pads to create dimension.
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Add a second flower with greenery to the bottom area of the frame to balance the design. Trim the greenery flush with the flower edges before attaching.
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