Merry Gingerbread Shaker

Hello everyone, June here! Today I’ll be sharing some more details about this shaker card I made using a couple of the new (and older!) Christmas products. 

I made a cute little Gingerbread Shaker and decorated him using elements from the Christmas Bucket Additions. From that set I used one of the candy canes and the little candy. I added some shading and gel pen lines to give them some extra detail. For the shaker bits I used a combination of the Gingerbread Shaker Beads and a selection I made from the Holiday Gingerbread Clay Confetti.

I cut a panel from the largest of the Stitched Torn Rectangles and blended a background using the Cascading Snowflakes stencil. I used Tattered Rose and Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide for this. I also added splatters of Saltwater Taffy and white acrylic paint to give the illusion of even more snowflakes falling from the sky.

I cut out a couple of the Stitched Snowflakes to adhere on my background behind the gingerbread man. I love how subtle they are against the light background, nothing too distracting. To bring in more of the red, I cut a bow from Beautiful Bows and also a wavy banner from Banner Greetings 1 to put my sentiment on. Instead of stamping directly onto the banner, I stamped the ‘merry’ from the Christmas Bells stamp set so I could cut it out and layer it on top. 

And that’s the card! I hope you enjoyed reading about it as much as I enjoyed creating it. See you again soon with another blog post!