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Post by streetscrapper on Jan 10, 2015 22:46:04 GMT
I love the shaker card trend and want to incorporate the technique on a scrapbook page, specifically for a page I'm doing for my "re-do" of my wedding album. I have an idea brewing in my mind but would love to see layouts that anyone has done using the shaker technique. Please share them here and let me know if you discovered any secrets for doing to successfully!
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Jan 11, 2015 0:35:12 GMT
Sadly, I'm still working on learning how to upload photos. If I get it together, I will happily share it. The layout I used it on involved one that I purchased, not made myself. It looks cute (it's a map of the USA w/red, white & blue beads in it) on the page telling the story of how my son named the 50 states at school. My only caveat is that like so many adhesives, it gave way a few years after I used it and the beads went everywhere when I opened the album one day. I re-glued it and am hoping for the best. What idea are you brewing?  |
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Post by streetscrapper on Jan 11, 2015 0:48:11 GMT
Tiffanytwisted, I LOVE you avatar!! I laughed out loud!! I'm thinking about a heart border at the top/bottom of the page filled with heart sequins/glitter .... Or a big heart in the middle of the page... Or a couple of floating hearts... Really scattered (lol) thoughts right now so I am hoping to see something that makes it more clear for me.
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Jan 11, 2015 7:42:50 GMT
I am also techno-challenged and unable to post photos, I am still apt to include shakers on my pages and your idea sounds fab! I made a round shaker as an accent for a page showing my husband & I playing board games. I included tiny dice which came out of a Christmas cracker, background was from Carta Bella's "Well Played" pack- I punched out the "Roll the Dice" decal. No help at all to you, really, just chatting. I love the idea of that red/white/blue tiffanytwisted and empathise regarding the adhesive thing. Shakers aside, nothing like that sinking feeling you get when you pick up an older album and have to fix stuff. |
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Post by streetscrapper on Jan 11, 2015 13:39:57 GMT
DIce on a board game page is a great idea! Love that as an embellishment! I know a lot of people think that redoing pages is taboo but I do it all the time. My wedding album was the first thing that I ever scrapped (11 years ago) and it was awful! I hated it and hid it! Never wanted anyone to look at it. Big mistake having your wedding be your first project (for me anyway)! For some reason I picked the album up just before Christmas and knew then that the entire thing needed to be redone! Before I could change my mind, I had the entire book ripped apart, so basically I had no choice but to redo it. And I'm really glad I did! I've got 7 pages done so far and they are 150% better than my first go of it! This album will not be hidden in the corner!
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Jan 11, 2015 15:06:25 GMT
DIce on a board game page is a great idea! Love that as an embellishment! I know a lot of people think that redoing pages is taboo but I do it all the time. My wedding album was the first thing that I ever scrapped (11 years ago) and it was awful! I hated it and hid it! Never wanted anyone to look at it. Big mistake having your wedding be your first project (for me anyway)! For some reason I picked the album up just before Christmas and knew then that the entire thing needed to be redone! Before I could change my mind, I had the entire book ripped apart, so basically I had no choice but to redo it. And I'm really glad I did! I've got 7 pages done so far and they are 150% better than my first go of it! This album will not be hidden in the corner! I hear ya! The first event I scrapped was our annual pool party. I wanted to pick a 'finite' event in case scrapbooking went the way of painted sweatshirts & friendly plastic and there I would be w/half my son's photos scrapped and the others hanging out w/no supplies to scrap them with. Those books got pulled out every year we had the party because everyone wanted to reminisce. It was (and is) mortifying to look back on those early pages. Yikes! |
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 11, 2015 18:47:37 GMT
I just have to laugh about the 'new' shaker box technique. Everything old is new it seems! I had a bunch of layouts in an idea book about using 'found' items in scrapbooks - I used legos on a lego page, an egg dipper on an Easter page, playing cards, dice, poker chips, game pieces, keys, earrings, really ANYTHING! This is at least 10 years ago.
Anyway, shaker boxes are one of those things I made often that just don't hold up well for some reason. Most of mine had sea shells in them, and over time the seashells sort of degrade and get little pieces of sand on the adhesive and the acetate. I made one using the little foil shapes and that held up OK. The ones with beads - those beads find their way out in unknown ways. Shaker boxes are really cute and fun to make, but I have mixed reviews on how they hold up over time.
I do know if you mail them like a card they are likely to get crushed and turn into a big mess, unless you just do a flat shaker box, like 2 pieces of paper together with a transparency window and put some flat shapes or confetti in it.
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 11, 2015 18:50:35 GMT
DIce on a board game page is a great idea! Love that as an embellishment! I know a lot of people think that redoing pages is taboo but I do it all the time. My wedding album was the first thing that I ever scrapped (11 years ago) and it was awful! I hated it and hid it! Never wanted anyone to look at it. Big mistake having your wedding be your first project (for me anyway)! For some reason I picked the album up just before Christmas and knew then that the entire thing needed to be redone! Before I could change my mind, I had the entire book ripped apart, so basically I had no choice but to redo it. And I'm really glad I did! I've got 7 pages done so far and they are 150% better than my first go of it! This album will not be hidden in the corner! ^^^ This!! i have redone entire books, and my wedding book (my first project) is on my list to redo. All the books I have redone are now books I can be comfortable looking at. My style has been pretty set for the last decade, so anything I've done in the past 8 or 9 years I'm OK with. But those first 6 or 7 years? Ugh! |
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Post by scrapaddie on Jan 12, 2015 1:17:39 GMT
Wow!!! Everything old is new again!!
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Post by ka3 on Jan 12, 2015 4:53:03 GMT
I have made several shaker boxes in my old albums. Mostly Sizzix geometric shapes and frames, easier to cut the center. I did do letters once that entailed a lot of fussy cutting before I had my cricut. Loved them, so far they held up pretty well. I was using rolls of foam tape, (as the separator) some of the beads and squeins would get stuck to the foam tape. After watching a recent video on Jen McQuire making shaker cards, she used craft foam and the anti static tool to help keep them from sticking. Loved that what is old is new again. Time to look through all of my old how to technique books for scrapbooking.  |
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Post by scrapnnana on Jan 12, 2015 12:38:45 GMT
I did a lot of shakers on cards. I did only one shaker on a layout. It just does not have the same effect as on a card because in a page protector in an album, it does not shake freely.
It might be okay on a border at the outside edge (or top or bottom) of the page, but I was less than thrilled with the results of the shaker on the layout and never did another one. It was a long time ago. I'm not even sure what album that layout is in. Sorry.
It's interesting how old techniques make a comeback eventually.
I still like shakers on cards, just not that much on (my) layouts.
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Post by streetscrapper on Jan 12, 2015 13:12:02 GMT
Yeah, I guess the shaker technique is an old one that has recently been revived, and come to think of it I did do one with sand years ago on a scrapbook layout... Guess I should have a look to see how it has held up!
The idea I'm mulling around is using a "flat" shaker technique that Jennifer MxGuire did recently. She used some Martha Stewart glitter that looks like small sequins and sandwiched it between acetate. By doing it this way she was able to kind of place the glitter all over the acetate and it didn't move around like a regular shaker. So it gives the appearance of a shaker! She made a card but I thought that this would be a really great idea on a flat scrapbooking layout.
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