It's release day at Trinity Stamps and I am playing with one of my favorite dies from this release. And it is part of a YouTube hop! You are going to LOVE all the new inspiration in the projects you see today.
You can check out ALL of the products in this amazing new release right HERE.
For my projects I chose to play with the new Slimline Skelly Die set. And when I first saw this skeleton die set I really wanted to make a rainbow skeleton! And that is what I did today. I die cut the skeleton one time, but was able to make 2 shaker cards!!! One being a FULL PANEL shaker and the other traditional style shaker. You can check out the video right here and see these fun cards come together.
If you can not see the video up on this screen, you can watch it right HERE.
The Slimline Skelly die set is very cleverly designed because it has a die that cuts out all the bones and it has a die that cuts all around the skeleton. As well as a few accent pieces for it; a hat, bow, and heart. At the end of this post I share two other cards I made using the skeleton die with the outline die. For these cards I ink blended a panel of white card stock with the following Distress Oxide colors; Kitsch Flamingo, Mustard Seed and Salvaged Patina. This blended into a beautiful rainbow panel. I die cut the skeleton from this panel. I used the bones for my full panel shaker card and the negative panel for a traditional shaker card. Tell me what you think of a rainbow skeleton. I am loving how it turned out and think this could be used other times beside just Halloween.
If you are not familiar with a Full Panel style shaker card it is very easy to create! You just need to save up some cellophane type packaging material. The piece I used was the packaging from a pack of vellum. I cut it so it was larger than my card front panel. The panel is 3-1/4" x 8-1/4", the plastic is about 4-1/4" x 9-1/4".
Once your card panel is complete you lay it face down onto the plastic sheet, so it is centered. Cut off the corners of the plastic sheet, pretty close to the card front panel. Then using double stick tape you wrap and adhere the flaps of the plastic around the card front panel, only doing 3 sides. Do not pull it back too tight. Leaving one end open allows you to now add the shaker elements. I used the Oh My Stars Silver Holographic mix. Lastly, fold over and adhere the third flap. Then you can adhere this panel down to your card as normal.
I attached my full shaker panel to a scalloped border from the Slimline Scalloped Card Panel Die set, which also has the die I used to cut the black sentiment strip. The sentiments are both from the new Shaker Your Bones stamp set, which if you love skeletons, you are going to LOVE. It is stamp set of skeletons in all different poses and some punny sentiments. Like, "it's going tibia okay".
If you look closely to at the background behind the skeleton in this full panel shaker cards you may be able to see some wispy clouds in a Metallic Frost ink. I stenciled those on used the October Night stencil set.
Now let's chat about the traditional shaker card.
I loved my ink blended rainbow panel so much that I could not just throw out the panel after die cutting it. I thought it would make a great shaker card panel. So, I adhered it to a window sheet and piece in the eyes, nose, ribs and pelvis bones. I added the bow and heart die cut from glitter paper, as I did on the first card as well. Then I lined the back of it with foam strips, add more of the Oh My Stars mix and backed that with another window sheet. Doing the sandwich method with the window sheets makes it so much easier to then add the shaker to the card.
Since my original ink blended panel was only 7" long. I added a strip of glitter paper to the top and bottom of the card and this made the perfect spot to add my sentiments.
You can really see all the shimmer I added to the rainbow panel in the picture below. That is good old Perfect Pearls mixed with water and splattered on.
I added some bling to my cards too, the Melanite Magic Rhinestones. They are black gems with an iridescent finish.
I would love to know which card is your favorite! Leave a comment below to let me know, I so enjoy chatting with you.
As this is part of a YouTube video hop you should check out my video for these cards and from there get the next stop on the hop. Be sure to like comment and subscribe as you hop a long for a chance to win one of two $25 gift certificates being given away to the Trinity Stamps shop. All the details about the giveaway are in the description box of the video.
Below are all the supplies I used to make today's cards as well as the entire Autumn Impressions release.

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