Create Shaker Tag Ornaments with Dies Class

1. Create Shaker Tag Ornaments with your Dies Class: Hello and welcome to the shaker tag ornament class. My name is Cheryl and I'll be teaching this class. In this class, I'm going to share with you how I like to use some of my dies and a little bit of a different way and create some Shaker tags out of them. They're great for adding two gifts. And then after they're done being used as gift tags, you can use some mystery ornaments. Let's go take a look at what we're going to create in this class. These are the five tags that we're gonna be creating in this class. We're going to first take one that is intended to be completely see-through and open. And we're going to close the back of it and put some acetate in the front and create a shaker card like that. You can write your message on the back of it if you want. And they all have hanky loops on them to use this tree ornaments or even to help you adhere your tag to your gift. Then we're going to take a wreath dye that has just come out and use that to create a shaker card. With that, The Snowman card is a little note card that opens up. And we're gonna, I'm gonna show you how to open up the center of it to create a shaker card with that. And I'll walk you through each one of these step-by-step. Now you don't necessarily have to have shaped ornaments to do that. You could do them with just simple circles and put in your own little scene. I created a little winter scene here with Santa and slake going over top. Now this sentence, lays is the same one that was used in the first card there. And then finally, this cute little nutcracker or toy soldier. He is also a little note card that you can use as a gift tag and then an ornament to afterwards. So I'm going to show you how to do all of these ornaments step-by-step. This class also includes a downloadable PDF that has pictures of each one of the finner samples as well as the supplies used to create them. The supplies are also linked to where you can purchase them and have them delivered right to your home if you choose. But I encourage you to also take a look at this dice and the supplies that you have and just see which ones you can create shaker cards out of because they're really fun and they're a great way to just add an interactive element to them and they're really fun to play with. Also great for kids. These are all holiday versions, but they definitely don't need to be limited to that. You can make them for any occasion. And they're just fun to give, make, and receive. Now let's go create some Shaker tags. 2. Snow globe Shaker Tag: Cutting & Colouring Part 1: Alright, so the first card, or shake or tag ornamental you're going to make is this cute little guy right here. Now, it's a snow globe ornament intended to look like a snow globe. All of the pieces have openings in them, but I'm going to turn it into a shaker card. I've got most of the pieces that I cut. I'm using ford separate dies, doorsteps here. But you could just narrow it down to a couple and then say flip the hills or whatever and just alter it so that you didn't use quite as many dyes if you wanted. But man, That's adorable. Alright, so very first step, this is the back of the shaker snow globe whatnot. So I'm going to die cut this. Yes, there's some ink on here, but this is not gonna be die cut. And the window part of the back, it gets cut out when I die cut. So I'm going to end up putting another piece because of the snow globe thing. I'm going to end up putting another piece behind it because I want to do my Skype heart rate in there so that it is in there for good and it's not going to fall out obviously, while we're using our ornaments or hanging or ornaments or creating tags, whatnot. So the very first thing, this one here, this Backer has lions and it's meant to line up the tabs to layer these. Now I want to cut this section off here because by using that, I have to be stuck with my foam tape and I'd have to layer it too high in order to make it match those pieces. And I also don't want to have an ornament that's super, super thick. So I'm going to use the first cut line and cut that. I'm going to keep that and put that on the front part of my ornament. And now I have a little piece of Painter's tape here or die tape. I'm just lining my side of the ornament here. I want to actually move this, it's a little bit too high. What I want to do is I want to have this bottom one here lined up with the first score line. It's pretty much at the end of my tremor. But what I wanna do is I want to trim all of them and I want to have them all the same. So that's why I'm putting the tape here and lining it up. So that is all the same. I'm getting that side with this side of my tremor. And then lining up my edge here with the top. I'm going to do that for all of these. Then the last one here. There we go. So we've got all of those trimmed the same length. Now I'm just going to move this two right here for a moment. I'm going to ink my bottom piece here. And this is going to be the back, it's going to be the sky. So I'm using some shaded lilac, some saltwater taffy and some uncharted Mariner. I like this combination for skies. Going to start at the bottom with assaulted taffy, saltwater topics. I knew as soon as I said it, I said the wrong thing. I'm using dye inks to blend for this. You could absolutely use oxide inks or a different brand if you prefer, or your choice for inking skies. It doesn't have to be these ones at all. These just the ones that I quite like together. Normally, I'd put my lids right above my pads so I knew which color was what would not make a mistake, but I don't want to accidentally get some ink transferred onto those pieces there. So we'll just keep taking them on and off. And I'm just going to take this violet color and just put it up a little bit. I'm trying to get just a little bit of an arc there. Turn this around so that I'm working on the right end. This uncharted Marriner. I love this color for the dark part of the sky. And you wanna be pretty liberal with your inks when your ink blending. Make sure you get nice coverage. So I do go back into my pad quite regularly. I'm going to go back and just blend again with the first two just to get a really nice ink blend between all of the colors there. I'm going to move it over because I probably have some salt. What are some uncharted Marriner on my mat here, and I don't want to accidentally grab some of that. So make sure to do this in a different area. Perfect. Tuck those ink pads to the side. Just going to this isn't what it's dry, but I just want to pick up any ink that might be there so that I don't get it onto anything else. Now what I wanna do with this is I want to put this on a different piece of card stock and glue the backing as well as the sky piece in there. And then I'm just going to trim it by hand because I want those join together. This is also going to give the ornamental little bit more stability. I'm gonna glue them on and then I'm just going to leave them there to dry and I'll trim it off once everything is dry. It's also going to give a nice back to the ornament as well. There we go. There we go. And I'm going to put an acrylic block on here just so that that holds that down while it dries. It's not going to move anyways, but I just want to make sure that it is down really, really well. So next part I'm going to take is my background pieces here. And I'm going to just ink the trees. Now, if I were to just leave it like this, I would likely get ink all over the place. So what I'm going to do is take some dye Tate. And I'm just going to protect the pieces that I don't want inked. And I'm not trying to get really dark green trees here. I'm just wanted lightly inked. So I'm just going to add a little bit of ink and then move this. I'm trying to keep that snow part white. And really when I'm inking these, I'm trying to basically get the bottom of my trees darker. The top of them. I'm like I'm leaving them lighter. Just so that'll kinda looks like maybe snow is falling on that has fallen on the top of them. No need to rethink your blending brush frequently during this because I'm not trying to get a lot of ink on there. We just want to get some color. I mean, this probably would look really, really pretty as well in a lot of whites. But I do think it would look nice with just some color in there. There we go. You can see I'm reusing that same tape over and over again. There's no point in getting new tape every single time. It can absolutely be re-used. There we go. I will though take this now that I've used it several times with green and I'll toss it just so that I don't accidentally have or get picked up some green. With my other colors. Grab wet wipes, clean this off, and then dry it off so that I don't have moisture here. Just trying hard not to get any ink transfer between the different colors. 3. Snow globe Shaker Tag: Colouring & Assembling Die Cut Elements: Alright, so these are all the colors, are all the things that I need to ink. First one I'm going to do is the sky here. So I'm just gonna get this guy the clouds. I'm just gonna get grey pad and I'm just putting a tiny little bit of shadow underneath. Barely noticeable. But it'll add some definition in there and dimension. And then I also want to get a little bit of gray on this little smoke part four. The house. There is my house piece and front of it. So this part here, I'm going to ink yellow as if there are lights on in the house. There we go. Don't need a really bright yellow. Just a little bit of a glow is good. Now some bits I'm doing with distress and can blending in a little bit. You'll see I'm using markers to help color so you could take this in ink, the whole thing with markers if you wanted. I just like sometimes the ink lending with ink pads, it gives a bit of a softer look. You just get some darker edges so it almost naturally shades itself. We go. Now I'm going to glue the front of the house onto the back so that it's all ready for me when I want to put it into my shaker. There we go. I had a little bit of or one of the pieces from the inside of the window head and actually dropped completely out. There we go. That's better. Then that door. I don't want it to be red, so I'm going to take a Copic marker and I'm going to color it. You could use any marker for this database marker would totally work fine. This just happens to be what I have sitting on my desk here. The one thing you wanna do with it though, is you want to be very, very gentle. And be careful. You've got some guidelines there with the cutting line as to where it starts and stops. So I like to try to stay within that. And then I'm going to glue my smoke on here. And then leave that aside here to dry. Perfect. Then the last thing here is I have some snowman. I'm not going to use all of the snowman. I'm just going to use bits and pieces. So I want to use the Top Hat here, so I'm going to color it black. Again, any markers would work for this. I'm just choosing a Copic markers because they were What happens to be here, but diabase markers would absolutely work here. I'm going to do some brown on the arms and I'm only using this guy here and this one here. And they come with these dyes there, so they're not separate. I'm dyes like this one here is part of this one. So this one, you get the backing, you get the cloud, and you get the snowman. This one is just a backing and a cloud. And this one here, you've got this horse or sorry, Stan and slay and the house. Alright, I want a little carrot nose. This guy here, it's not actually put right into there, but I want to add it. And then the last thing I wanna do is just give them some black eyes, as well as the little buttons. There. There we go. Alright, so all of that stuff is ready to go. Actually, I'm going to assemble the snowman here. Well, my little pop up my pieces and get them assembled so that they are all blue together when I am ready for them. So what's going to help with this as some tweezers to hold them because some of these pieces are really quite tiny. I'm using distress collage medium to glue these pieces in. Just because if anything happens to seep out, it is going to be clear and it's going to be Matt, you're never gonna know there's glue there. And some of these pieces like here, I got some glue radon to the snowman. Some of these pieces are so tiny that it's hard to get just the tiniest little bit of glue in there. Alright, there we go. And while we are going to wait for something to dry, I'm just going to add little bit of red stimulus for the trim on his hat. And I'm going to give this guy a little hat. I didn't choose any of the hats that were included with them because they tended to be quite big. I wanted his little to just be a tiny thing. There we go. Alright. We're going to let all of that dry and I'll see you in the next video and start putting it together. 4. Snow globe Shaker Tag: Assembly the Bottom 2 Layers of the Tag: Alright, so our bits and pieces have all dry so we're ready to start assembling. So first thing I'm gonna do is cut this off of that backing, just following the die cut line. There we go. So that is already. Then the next thing I need to do is I need to put a little acetate window in the front. Otherwise our shaker bits are going to fall out and that would not be very good. I'm just going to take some double-sided tape, run it through here. There's gonna be some creases where the embedding the tape that's totally fine. If you have time to wait for glue to dry, you could also use the distress collage medium and glue it. But I'm just choosing to do double-sided tape because it's a lot quicker and I don't have to wait for it to dry. There we go. Take the backing off. Those creases in the tape are not going to affect the acetate sticking in any way, shape, or form. Alright. It doesn't need to be covering the whole back. Just as long as it covers that window, we're good. You can even use some recycled packaging for the acetate. The main thing to make sure though if you're using recycled packaging is sometimes the recycle packaging has a lot of scratches in it. So you want to make sure that you don't have a bunch of scratches in it so that you get a nice clear window. But it is a great way to reuse something that would otherwise be thrown out. There we go. Alright, I'm just going to put this guy. This is the piece that we cut off the back that was to wrap around and go to the front. If you were to use it in the traditional way the die was intended for, I'm just going to glue it to the front. It's just going to give it an extra hill. There we go. And then while we're at it, I'm just going to glue the snowman to the front just so that they can sit and dry while we're assembling the rest of the card. You can certainly wait till the end though and glue them on afterwards. But we might as well have them on there and let that glue start drawing. It's probably not gonna glue completely to be by the time we're done the end, but it'll be enough. There we go. Took that to the side. Alright, so we have our back here. We're going to, this is the tallest hill, so we're gonna be putting this onto the back. So I'm gonna put my adhesive on the back of here so that I can put some behind the hill here. And I'm using some thin foam tape. You want to make sure that it's thin enough so that you're not going to see those pieces of the foam tape in front of your window. And this stuff here, it's thin enough that it curves quite easily. We're gonna be doing this on each of the layers so that we get some dimension between the different parts of our snow globe. When you put the two pieces together, you want to make sure that there's not an opening there. You want to make sure that it's completely closed off. This is an extra piece there. I'm just going to put some in the center. Any of my smaller pieces, I'm going to put there so that they can help support those bits and pieces there. Then once again with the bottom piece, I like to go right to the edge of the next piece of foam tape. Just gonna give it a nicer look on the outside. Another scrap piece of their take the backing off and glue those two layers together. Sometimes those vaccines don't want to come off. But you can always use a dye pick to help pick them off, or a pair of tweezers to help pick it off. You'll find some will have to fight with a little bit more than others. There we go. And I see now that we lost our saltwater taffy color, but that's okay. So before I go to my next layer on, I wanted to put one of the clouds. And for this I'm just going to use a little bit of the distress collage medium around the curve. And the curve is pretty close to the curve on the die. If it goes a little bit and that's okay, we're putting the next layer on it anyways. So this one here is the next layer. I'm going to put tape on it, same as the first one. I'm not putting the tape like rate up to the edge. I want to give it a little bit of leeway. So I want to say it's maybe like a 16th of an inch from the edge. But if you'd prefer to put it to the edge, you absolutely can do this part first. You want to make sure there's not any openings in this foam tape. Otherwise, you're going to have bits that are going to come out that are going to fall out of your shaker. And we're trying not to have that. If by chance you find an opening, you can put it a little bit of distress collage medium in there and that will help close it up. All right, I'm starting to get a little piece here and put it in here. I ended up using my little bit on the side there. And you can absolutely do that. This isn't a huge area to worry about needing support, but I definitely want to make sure that it has some support to it. It's also a great way to use up some of those excess pieces, those little bits. You don't have a ton of joins. I go, this one goes right in here. Now before I put my next cloud on, I have my little hanger here and I'm just going to put some double-sided tape there and put that in there so that it's between the layers of foam. But I want to put some double-sided tape for it to stick to. Not just rely on the wet adhesive. I'm going to use on the Clouds there. I have a little knot at the end so that the ends don't accidentally slip out. And I want my Cloud to hide that. There we go. And once again, it pretty much follows the curve of the snow globe. If by chance you have a little bit going in, that's totally fine. The next layer is going to cover that anyways, I'm just gonna put my acrylic blocked there to hold that in place while I'm putting my adhesive on this next part. But before I do that, I have a little jar of glass beads here that I'm going to use this, uh, wait, I want to put my house here so that I don't forget to get that between the layers. A little bit on the bottom of the house and a little bit on the smoke part is going to go in front of the clouds there. Now I'm going to put my block on. The beads are just going to help hold it down. 5. Snow globe Shaker Tag: Finishing the Tag Assembly : Hold it down. This piece here is lifting up because of the bulk from the knots. And I want to just make sure that I have something to hold it down. You could also just hold it down yourself. But I also want to kind of continue on and not sit there holding it. You can see it's really quite an easy thing to put together between the die cut and the inking. But it just looks so adorable. And it'd be such a cute thing on like to use as a gift tag on a gift or even have it just as an ornament for your tree. Actually put that one down and use a new piece there so that it goes all the way across. By putting the adhesive are putting this foam on these bottom parts of the hills. What I'm doing is making sure that the shaker bits stay where you can see them. If I didn't put adhesive to the bottom here, all of those shaker bits would fall in there. And yes, you could shake them to bring them out. But it's one of those things. You see them, you can kinda see right away that you need to shake it. Just a fun way to add a little interactive element to a gift tag. And also nice that it has a second life, using it as an ornament rather than just being tossed away. We never like our creations being tossed. Alright, I'm taking the backing of the tape off here. Before I glue this onto the front of that next layer, I want to add my shaker bits in there. So this is just doing this so that it is ready. We go, take my beads off. I got a little bit of ink transfer from my hands on there. But again, the next layer is going to cover it. So I just, I collect little jars of bits and bobs. So these guys here, I got them just because I really liked the jars. Sometimes I like the bits in them and sometimes I like the things that are carrying them. So I've just got some little holographic stars and snowflakes array and silver snowflakes. These are just ones that I had punched out with a snowflake punch I had. If you can find it, you could also use Snowflake confetti. It's just not the right time of year and the only stuff that I have is really, really, really big. And that to me is just far too big for this little card here. You can add as much or as little shaker bits as you want. I usually like to add just a few different ones. There's a bit of variety and then I'm just going to put some Micah flakes in here. These are just flakes that just have a really pretty shimmer. There we go. Now. Put this on here. Hold it down, make sure to press that tape down before you start shaking it because if you happen to shake it ahead of time and that tape hasn't stuck, then it was a good chance some of your bits are going to fall out of your card, just going to add some glue to the back of the deer. Now, there is a little hole here that gets dicot when you die, cut this die. I'm trying to hide that with one of the deer bodies because it's not something that we're going to use with this card. All right. I'm just going to put that there for a moment to hold that down rather than actually hold it down with my hands. Just going to take some sticklers, add a little bit to the top of these hills. I didn't bother doing it on the inside of the car. There's enough going on there. But I just thought it would be really cute to have some sparkle on the front of the card tag. And then I want to add little red circles dot to the front ears, nose. I like to do that just because to me, that's Rudolf. Just adds a little red circle there. And then the last thing I wanna do is I have a gold gel pen. I'm just going to put some of the details of the sleigh in just the top there. And then the rains just adds a little bit of a gold detail to it. No, this isn't stuck right down, so I do need to hold that. And then I have my smoke here that came out because I didn't need to use the whole piece. I'm just going to trim that down. But there we go. Very cute. Shake your card tag ornament. And you can do writing on the back or whatnot if you want. 6. Wreath Shaker Tag: Die Cutting & Wreath Assembly: Alright, so the next time we're going to do shake or tag is this one here. And I actually wanted the bell to move a little bit, so I'm going to adjust it for this. And hopefully it will move a little bit. The very first step obviously is to die cut all of our pieces. And this is how I like to lay things out before die cutting them. I like to get an a piece of card stock that's big enough and put the dyes on the actual card stock that I want to cut out with that particular die. And that way I have everything laid out, but I know exactly what needs to be die cut out of what, and it keeps things nice and organized. Now, once I've die cut it, I'll keep that same die with the dye cut. And then I'll put them away while I'm assembling them. I just go through my pieces. I could cut more than one piece at a time if I wanted to, just because they are all separate dye cuts. And usually several will fit on the plate of the die as well. Some of these are obviously a little bit more tricky to get out of the card stock. Not because they haven't cut, but because like this one here has all the spines from the centers of the Holly and they like to get caught on each other as I'm pulling them out. So some will take a little bit more patients to get out than others. In any of those bits that are stuck in there, you can just use a dye pick. Sometimes I'll use a just a thumbtack as well if you don't happen to have a dipole. But this is a pretty handy tool that I use very often. So I'm just going to go and die cut all of these off camera so that you're not watching me die cut everything and I'll be back in a moment. Alright, my pieces are cut out. So this is from a new colorized die that just came out this fall. And I absolutely loved it. I loved the colorized dies anyways. But I really like Christmas ones and Christmas reason. And it's just sometimes you like to feel like coloring and sometimes it's just fun to die cut different colored pieces and glue them together and create something really, really cool. We'll leave the cap off my glue. Now, what I'm doing here, There's this unique little jog in here and I'm matching those up to put my layers together. Now, these the glue that I'm using is distressed collage medium. So if I happen to shift anything while I'm putting it together, the glue is going to dry completely clear. And it is also going to dry mat. So you're not going to see where that glue is. Once again, there's that little jog there and I just find it easier to find a specific spot on this dye to match up. And the hardest pieces to join or to put down are these ones here. So I'm going to be cheating off of my sample. Because when I put my sample together, actually put some together in the wrong spot. But what I found out is it's much easier to place them if you figure out where the biggest pieces go first, then then put the smaller pieces in after you've got those big pieces. You can also use the cover of your packaging of your dye that will really help as well. And I found it helped with this one for sure. Alright, Now this piece here, back behind here, I believe. There we go. This right there has a mismatches that part right there. So I did eliminate a few of the layers from this diet just because I don't think they're needed for this particular project, as well as the fact that I figured it would save a little bit of time for assembly. But you can absolutely add to them on the only reason I eliminated them, simply time. That's it. For this one actually, I was matching it down there, but it actually goes up here. This one here goes in, right in there. But you see how once you've got the bigger pieces and it's a little bit, it eliminates some of the spots for the other ones, so it makes it a little bit easier to show you exactly where those other pieces go. This one here would be this piece right in there. If you wanted, you could even eliminate this last piece if that was too frustrating, whatever you could eliminate that, you could also ink these pieces to get some depth. That way. I just chose to do it this way instead. So I actually have my bot here already out of my die. I didn't do it in the traditional red. I did it in a pinky toned burgundy red. And again, there is a third layer to this bow as well. I just found it wasn't necessary for this particular project, so I left it off. Go, put that on top there. Then we've got these berries. Now these berries, I'm using two of the three pieces that come with it. There is a third layer which actually doesn't outline. And once again, I didn't find it necessary for this project is because I'm making a single project or a single shaker tag ornament out of it. But you certainly could use the third layer if you want it. I'm just going to move these to the side there. So there's one berry here that has a solid and then there's another barrier that has little hole out of it. So what I did was I'm gluing barry with the whole over top of the one without and it just puts a little kind of a highlight in there. Then what I've done with them, and you could wait until your pieces completely together to do this. But sometimes, especially if I'm gonna do a bunch of things at a time, I'll do steps ahead of time and let them sit and dry so that it's completely ready. When I'm done, I put some glossy accents on there just to make those barriers glossy and then put them aside to dry. So I'm just doing these two for now because I actually have some that are completely done. I'm not lifting that one up, but you can see how it's got a frosty look to it. Once it dries, it'll be nice and clear like this and shiny. So let's move those out of the way just so that I don't accidentally get accidentally put something on top of it. 7. Wreath Shaker Tag: Assembling the Bell: Now let's put our Bell together. The way that I had done the bell for the sample was I had put a cord through the top once the bell was completely done and tried to hang it and it didn't work. So what I'm gonna do for this one is I'm going to assemble my bell and then I'm going to put a cord between the bell and this card stock here and just have a single one going up. And hopefully that lets it move a little bit more than, well, let's hit Move period compared to the one that I have in my sample. We shall see, even if it doesn't move, it's still really cute. I just thought it would be really cute to shake your card and have the bell move while you're doing it. Just make that a little way. This bell is a lot easier to put together. Then the holly on the reef. There are some in dense right where the different pieces lay on top of each other, so that makes it a little bit easier to assemble them. And the way this bell Is, it just has a ton of dimension to it, which I really, really like. You'll notice I keep my dies with my pieces before I assemble them. And that's basically so that if by chance, I'm second guessing what a piece is, I have the dire nearby and can tell exactly where it goes. I typically only need to do that for the first couple of times, putting something together. Once I've put it together a couple of times, I typically don't need to do that anymore. Then there's some pieces that I didn't even bother to tiny little dots here that go in there. I just didn't even bother gluing them on because I didn't think it took anything away from the bell by not having them in there. This little piece here, it goes on the side of the bill. And then piece goes on there. Alright, so now that we have all those pieces together, I'm just going to let all that glue dry. And then in the next video, we're going to assemble our bell and just assemble our card and put everything together, including the shaker. 8. Wreath Shaker Tag: Assembly & Accents: Alright, so my glue is dry on the bell especially and the rest of it because it was done before time. One thing I wanna do before I do anything else is I want to add a little bit of foundry wax to that bell. So Foundry wax is a liquid leafing wax. Rather than doing this bell with a bunch of different metallics, trying to get some different textures in there. I did it all with the same one when I'm taking the foundry wax and putting it on there. And it doesn't look too impressive when you first put it on there. But you need a heat gun and the heat gun is going to bring that leafing wax to the surface. Make the magic happen basically, let me get my tweezers here to hold this. So the reaction is almost like when you're embossing, you see something go for a matte too shiny, you see the leafing come to the surface. But it just has a really, really cool effect on this. We just take some paper towel and dry this off. And the leaving Wax itself dries super, super quick. So it's dried on my surface. They are really, really quick and then it just cleans off with rubbing alcohol or even a baby wife if it's not dry yet, I'm just gonna put some double-sided tape on this bell so that we can add little hanger. I just have a little piece of the cord here. I'm just going to put it on here. Then I'm going to get some of the distress collage medium to glue the rest in place just because it's a weird shape. And you can't really get double-sided tape to go around a corner nicely and I don't want to add any more bulk to it. So there we go. Double-sided tape is just going to hold it in place. And then the distress collage medium is going to help glue everything else together while we are waiting. So I've got my back here. I just have a circle that I cut out that is smaller than the outside, so I'm not going to see any of this from the outside here. I'm going to take my foam tape and I'm actually going to do two layers of the foam tape. But I'm going to hang that bell between the layers so that it has some room behind it and some room in front of it. Now this foam tape, I'm trying to put it as close to the edge as possible without going over. And I also want to make sure that I don't have any joins or any space between where the end of one piece of foam tape goes and the beginning of the other one. There. There we go. So to put that little piece there, I'll use it on a different project. I'm going to take the backing to my foam tape off. I'm going to hang my little bell in the center, making sure that that string is stuck to the foam tape. I've got another one here that's just a loop. I'm going to hang that in a similar spot. I want to make sure that my loop is on top and the bell is below it. It would not make sense to have the loop to hang the ornament on another area. And now I'm going to put a second layer of the foam tape. I want my joins in a different area from the first layer. Mainly because those joins are kind of openings where some of the shaker bits could fall out. And by having the joins in separate areas, the other layers are holding those joints together. And then I don't end up with a big area that has a join. This foam tape is easy enough to get to like to turn. You can see there are some puckers in it, but that's okay. It's still stuck and it's still holding in place. There we go. Before I put my shaker bits in there has tried to put it together. I'm going to glue a piece of acetate, so it's just a square and then I just cut off the edges here just to hold or just so that I don't have any pieces of acetate coming out from the outside of. You want to make sure that this center part is also not smaller than your whole. Otherwise you're going to have exposed pieces of tape and we don't want that. It will be fine there. Take the backing off of that tape. You could only use a liquid adhesive here to glue the acetate to the back of the reef. But then you'd have to wait for that to dry. For the sake of time and getting everything done fairly quickly. I'm just using some double-sided tape. There we go. Alright, so our wreath front is ready and so is our back. I'm going to take that backing off of the foam tape there. I'm going to add some little bits in our shaker part 1 s. I can't get this lid off. It's not wanting to come off. Let's use some different ones. So I'm going to use some of these kinda little holographic stars. Some white ones here. White ones are a little bit opalescent, so you'll still see them. See if the lid comes off of this one E zero, that one's better. Put that in there. So I've got exposed tape on here. So I'm trying to only put my shaker bits on the center and not accidentally have any going in or on top of my tape. Put a little bit of this glitter on there. You can put as much or as little of the shaker bits as you want. Now I want my bot to be in line with the top of that loop there. I'm going to press this down, makes sure it's got some good contact with the back before I go and shake it. If it doesn't have good contact with the adhesive, that adhesive can actually are, that those shaker bits can come out and then they'll be stuck on the adhesive and it just doesn't work. So the bells still doesn't really moved too much there. But it was a great, nice idea while it lasted. Sometimes you have great ideas and sometimes they just don't work. So I'm just taking my distress collage medium. I'm going to take these berries because they're totally done. I can just put them right on there. If you hadn't done the glossy accents on them already, you can put them on and then put the glossy accents on afterwards. You would just need to wait afterwards and let it dry really well before touching it. And we're going to have to wait a little while anyways before touching it. Because what I'm going to do after I put the little berries on there, I'm just going to add some stick to my holly and my bot. Just looks a little bit more finished with another texture on there. And stickers or a really easy way to add just a little bit of sparkle in a little bit of texture. There we go. But the stickers will take a lot less time to dry. Then. Then the Glossy Accents, the Glossy Accents tweet takes quite a big, quite awhile. We go. So I'm just doing this tickles just around, it's just a highlighted, it's not really to cover anything in glitter, although if you prefer that look, you certainly could do that. I just wanted to add just a touch of sparkle. Kinda highlight the edges of those leaves. Once again, much or as little as you want. The one thing was sticklers, though, the more you use, the longer it does take to dry. So just be prepared if you're really heavy handed with your *********. Because some people just love it and think more is better. It is going to take longer to dry if you use a lot more. Personal preference, typically what I do is I will put it on my piece and I will go and do some stuff around the house because if I have wet sticklers sitting on something nearby, That's usually where my hand goes or that's where it usually where I put a sec next project to dry or something or have a drying shelf or something out of your reach. There we go. Just be careful with this tickles, but very, very cute, really cute way to add just a fun decorative element to a gift or a parcel. And then you can use it as an ornament afterwards. And you can write your message or whatnot on the back of it. 9. Snowman Shaker Tag: Die Cutting & Assembling Snowman Elements: Alright, so our next shaker tag or an image is this little snowman here. And he's got a folded card inside so you can write a message inside the card. Now the one thing I did not do while I was making the sample was put a hanger on him. But I'm gonna do that with this one while I'm showing you. In order to create the card that has the fold. I've got a piece of card stock here that is twice the length of my snowman. I've got it folded in half. And what I'm going to do is put the snowman on that card with part of the blade hanging off. And what that's gonna do is it's going to cut everything around here, but it's not going to cut through that part there. And then we're going to create a card. You can do this with many, many different dyes. Some obviously will work better than others. Some won't work at all. Because for instance, if you had a circle, you would do and you did it like this, you'd had no end up having a flat part. So in order to create that circle, you would have to put another one on top of it, which may or may not work for whatever you're thinking of. Because I'm going through two pieces of card stock here and it's quite thick. I am going back and forth a few times because I wanna make sure to cut all the way around. It is quite thick, but this shape of the snowman is fairly simple. So a few passes should do it. If by chance there's a spot that hasn't been cut through, you can take some scissors and go through that spot to get it cut all the way through it. Like there's a spot right here. Usually a few passes enough to do it. So there is the note card there. Now if you wanted, you can completely eliminate the shaker part and just do all the pieces of the snowman here and just have a snowman gift card that would be absolutely adorable as well. But we're gonna go one step further. And we're going to create this guy is a shaker card, so I've got some acetate here. Now, acetate does not like being die cut. It is going to warp and it's going to bend. And there's not really a way to avoid that. It also doesn't like being cut on its own. So what I'm going to do is put a piece of card stock on top of that so that it has something else to go through as well. And I put it through both ways also just to make sure that it's cut. There we go. So this is the bending I was talking about. This particular dye has got some details in there as well that press into that acetate that also contribute to the extra bending of it, if you will. But there's no way to avoid it. The only other way to do this would be to say put your die cut on top of a piece of acetate, trace it around and hand cut it. But I liked those details pressed into there because it just adds a little bit to the design. It also shows you exactly where things get placed when you're putting it together. So before I put my machine away, there's one last step that I want to do. Now. I can't create this as a shaker obviously because it's not see-through. Don't want to use the acetate on its own. Because when I go to put the foam tape, you're going to see exactly where it is. So what we're going to do is we're gonna take some circle dies. And we're going to cut out part of the inside to create that shaker reveal. I've got two different sizes here, one for his body and one for his head. You can see I'm using tape to hold these things in place. It's just die tapes, so it's temporary tape. It comes off fairly easy. And you can see that I reuse it over and over again pretty much until it starts sticking. Or if I've used it to mask for ink, I will regularly not use it too often because it has ink residue on it. Alright, there we go. We have our reveal for the front of our snowman, we can put the machine away. I've got the details of four, shake her part. Already, cut and ready to go. What I'm going to do before we put the shaker together as I'm just gonna put some of the layered pieces together so that they can dry. While we're assembling our shaker. The hat itself has two pieces, it's got a full piece and then it's got just a little highlight piece there. I'm going to use my distress collage medium. Once again, I like it because it dries completely clear and it dries matte. So if anything happens to squish out, you're never going to see where that glue was. I'll put that up a little bit. There's a perfect example. So I've got glue here. But once everything dries, you're never going to see that that was there. The next thing I want to layer is my scarf pieces. I just did green for the lower layer and red for the printed upper layer. This die has even more pieces in there so you can put more layers. But because we're doing the shaker once again, I didn't think it needed all that extra detail. There's enough in it with just having the layers that we do. So just because you have a die that has a ton of layers, doesn't necessarily mean you need to use all of them. So this bottom piece here, the green piece that I've cut, it actually cuts the fringe to the scarf as well, but I cut it off for two reasons. First of all, the dye didn't cut all the way through and rather than put it through the machine, the red goes in front of it. So you never even going to know that it was supposed to be there. So I just cut it off. But if you'd like having that underneath there, you can absolutely leave it on. If it doesn't cut all the way through for the first time, realign your dye and just put it right back through. Last thing I'm gonna do is put the little berries for the Holly in place. There we go. I like putting a tiny one at the top and the big ones at the bottom. But it's just personal preference. It doesn't necessarily need to be like, Okay, now I'm going to take my dicot here and glue it to the acetate piece. You could use double-sided tape on here. It would absolutely work perfect. I'm just using the distress collage medium to let that sit and dry. It is going to take a little bit longer to dry just because the acetate is non porous, I'm going to put an acrylic block on there to hold it in place. Now for our tag, we're going to start putting our foam tape on there. And I like to go around the edges. Actually, I'm going to I'm gonna change my mind. I'm going to wait for this to completely dry and then I'm gonna put the tape there. I don't want to risk putting tape on here and having it being exposed with the acetate. So I'm just going to hold off, let that completely dry. I'll see you in a moment. 10. Snowman Shaker Tag: Assembling & Finishing Shaker Tag: Alright, alright, adhesive is not 100% dry, but I think it's dry enough that we can continue. I don't think it's going to move anywhere. So this is just going to give me a better guide of what part is covered and what part is exposed. So I know where to put the foam tape and where to not put the foam tape. So once again, when you have two pieces meeting, make sure that they have a really nice join and that there's not an open space for some of your shaker bits to fall out. And you can see I'm doing a little bit at a time and I'm pressing down as I'm doing it just to make sure that it is stuck in place and stuck well, this big part here doesn't need to be completely contoured with the tape. A straight line is totally fine there. Then I'm going to cut there. So I'm gonna do two layers at the foam tape because the acetate buckles from the die cutting. It goes in and there's no way to make it push out. I really wish it would push out so that it gave it a bit of a rounded look, but it doesn't and I don't really, um, I'm not competent in the amount of space that one layer of foam would give it. I want to give it a little bit more space for their shaker bits to move around is So I'm gonna do two layers of the foam tape. But before I put the next layer on, I want to put my shake my shaker. I want to put my hanger on there so that it is stuck between those two layers of foam tape. We go. I'm also making sure and I've said this before, that my joints are not in the same place for both layers. By putting them in different places, it just makes it a little bit stronger. It makes that join hold together by having a different opening on the next layer. We go. Perfect. So obviously the snowman is not the only one that you can do in this way. Take a look at your die, is there might be different ways that you can incorporate shaker parts to them. And it just makes it more interesting to look at really. Alright, I'm going to take my foam tape backing off. Before I put the two pieces together. I'm going to put my shaker bits in there. Now I wanna make sure to avoid that exposed adhesive. Going to put a little bit of micro flakes in there. I have some larger snowflake sequence that I want to put it in there. I also have some smaller ones that I cut out with a punch. There, actually silver and holographic, they just all happen to be turned the wrong way. But take a look at some of your scraps. You could also use a snowflake die to create these as well. Then I want to take some smaller bits and pieces and put them in there. There we go. So this is just some silver balls. This is just some kinda almost chunky glitter. And then these are little holographic ones. They're actually hearts. But I just like the holographic sparkle in there. Alright, that is enough. So I'm gonna take my bottom part, turn it over and I'm, what I'm working on as matching where the arms are. I want to make sure to press it all in place before turning it around. So there we go. We have our little shaker there and they've got enough room to move around by having those two layers of foam strips in there. Now, I'm just going to add my little detail pieces. I'm going to leave that lid off there. My hat on the scarf really outlines for where it goes, so it makes it a lot easier to know exactly where everything goes. Like I said, I'm not using all the pieces to this this particular guy also has a broom. You could put that on there as well. I just thought it was an extra piece that wasn't really necessary. But if it's a detail that you love, absolutely. Put it on there. I put the holly on their nose. Now these bigger pieces, I just use my hands to place them, these smaller ones. And by smaller ones, I mean, I've got little dots here for the eyes and the buttons. Those ones I'm gonna put the dots of glue rate on the acetate. And because the detail from that snowman die is pressed into place, I can see exactly where they need to go. Alright, so there's two smaller ones here that are the eyes. It's going to take a minute to lift him up. Even with the tweezers. We go. The nice thing about using the liquid glue to put these pieces on is it helps you to move things around. But you do want to be careful when you're doing it on the acrylic. You're not moving around a lot because that glue dries matte. It'll have a different finish than the acetate. So you don't want to go and smear all over the place a little bit as fine. You probably not going to notice it, but you want to be fairly close. There we go. Our details are on there. Now, typically I will wait before doing this next step, but right now I'm going to do it. I just wanted to take some stickers and just add a little bit of sparkle. So I'm gonna do it on the holly berries and you see how that Holly shifted. That's normally why I wait for it to dry before doing this. Because that glue to put those pieces down is not quite dry yet. And I'm just putting them for this one. I'm just putting it in some of the details for my sample. I put it in all of the openings that showed the green, but you can put as much or as little as you want. It just adds a different texture to the front. And just a little bit of sparkle, which I think is really cute for Christmas things. Alright, I'm going to leave that one. I'm not going to touch him. But there we go. That's what we have. Cute little shaker card that has a tag there that you can add your message or whatnot in there. There we go. Cute way to add something festive onto the front of a card. But then with the hanger, you can also use it in as an ornament afterwards. 11. Ornament Shaker Tag: Die Cutting & Layering: So the next shaker card we're going to create is this cute little one here. Now, it's just a round circle. You could put a little dicot for an ornament topic here and make it look like more of an ornament. But when I was creating it, actually didn't think it was necessary. But if you feel like adding that to it, you can I've got most of the parts already cut for it, but I wanted to show you how to get a nice edge around your piece here. Now I'm taking two circle dies and in order to keep them nice and even I'm laying them out where I want them to be. And I'm just going to put a piece of painter's tape to hold them in place. While I'm done cutting, I don't need to tape them to the glitter card stock. I only need to take them to themselves. Flip them over. I like it with my dyes, have the blade face up and I put my paper nice side down. The reason I do this is years ago I was teaching a class. And this is how I've always done it. And I noticed people in the class, we're not doing it that way, but I just let it go because I was curious what would happen. And by the end of the class, the die that was being used was kind of a half circle shapes. So I always do it with the blade facing out, the pressure goes on the blade and not on the back of the die. So there we have our circle part here. I've got the little Santa and slay already cut. It's from the same die cut that we did, the snow globe in the beginning. So it was just the perfect size for that. Now for our little village set here, I've got a set of dyes that have a bunch of different ones to them. And I chose this one because I really liked a little low church in it. It just gave it a little bit of a different height. So I've got a circle that I've cut out of some scrap card stock and I can take my dy here and put it where I want it to go. Flip it over and die cut that. That is all the die cutting out I need to do right now. So before we assemble anything, we're going to do a little bit of prep on some of these dicots. So the first thing I'm going to throw that scrap away. First thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to glue my piece of acetate to my glitter cards dark ring here. You could use regular card stock as well for this. I just thought the glitter would look really, really pretty and add a nice sparkly outline. It just shows you that you can use any card stock for things you don't necessarily have to only use plain. Since this is a holiday. I'm looking for the block that way this down. Since it's a holiday project, it's always nice to use metallics and card stock or in glitter card stock and stuff like that. For that, I'm going to line it up and then I'm just putting my acrylic block on there to hold it down if by chance because it keeps shifting every time I do that, I can just trim anything that has come outside of those lines. Once we are completely ready to assemble. So next I want to take these windows, so particular dicots, so all these windows and I really like it when it has some gold in there, it makes it look a little bit festive. What I like to do is I go to the back of the die cut, put some double-sided tape. And then I'm going to fill in those window areas. It doesn't need to be perfect on the back because all of this is gonna be completely hidden. The only way you're going to see any of this is if by chance you have some edges of your card stock or whatnot exposed in the front. You can see I'm just using my finger to rip the edges of this. You don't need to cut it. The thin stuff is great. You can just rip it. Right now. I'm going to take all of those backings off so that they're just all exposed adhesive. This is a great thing to deal with scraps. All of this is really a great thing to do with scraps. But for this, especially often you'll have little tiny bits and pieces when you're done cutting up a sheet for different things or for dicots or whatnot. So this is a great way to use them up. So I tend not to toss too many of them away. There we go. Alright, or adhesive is exposed. So I'm just going to do one house at a time. And all I'm doing is making sure it's within the edges of the house so that I don't see any over the front around the house. I just want it in the window areas here. And it doesn't necessarily have to go only one way or another. So you'll see how I changed directions of the card stock there. That was mainly because the way that I had it, it was going to show out or show up outside of the building. So I wanted to make sure that everything was completely covered. This one here, I'm going to see this little corner, so I'm going to cut it off here. Might be a bit too big for that. Let's go from the other end. There we go. Just cut the tip off. We can do this bit here. Anything that's really close to the edge, I want to say within a quarter of an inch. We don't need to worry about whether it's covered because this is going to cover a whole lot of that. I want just a little tiny piece to cover this window here. Then most of these in this corner here won't be shown. But you will see probably that one right there. So I'm just gonna make sure that that one is at least covered. The rest of it. It doesn't really matter, but it is going to get covered. Alright, now I'm going to cut around the edges here. Putting any of the other stuff, they're away. Before I set this aside because I'm already waiting for the liquid glue for the acetate to dry. I'm going to, I don't like this one here. This one is separated in the jar so it needs to shake it up. Let's do this one here because I have to wait for that liquid adhesive to dry for the acetate on the glitter card stock. I'm just going to do my stick holes here. We'll let that dry completely. Before we go and assemble our piece. You could wait and assemble things and then put your stickler on before you add the top to your shaker card. But because we're already waiting, we might as well just do it now. And as well as putting some of the roof, I'm just going to pull it a little bit just to make it look like snowy hills. It just adds a bit more sparkle. And it ties the glitter card stock on the outside to the inside piece here. Alright, so now that is going to go aside to dry. And then one last step before we wait for everything, actually, I'm gonna do two steps. I put some gold accents on the little Santa and slay. When I was creating the sample, I put it in or put it on while it was glued to the back of the card. But since we have to wait anyways, I might as well just do it now. And then little Read Range. Your nose make sense is hot red and let's set that aside to dry. And then for our sky, I just have a light blue circle here. What I'm gonna do is take some distress ink and I'm going to anchor around it just to create a dark outside. Gives it a little bit more interests by having it shaded. You can do as much or as little as you want here. I'm using uncharted mariner, which I really, really love for night skies. It's a newer color. But I absolutely love it. But you could use any dark blue that you love for this. Whatever you like to ink blend with. Alright, I'm going to let all of that dry and then we'll continue on. I'm going to wash off my surface here just because I did some ink blending on it and I want to make want to make sure that I'm not transferring any of that color. When we go to assemble, will see you in a bit. 12. Ornament Shaker Tag: Assembly: All right, our pieces are derived and ready to go, so we're ready to start assembly. So the first thing I want to do is I want to put some tape along the bottom up the back of little houses. I'm doing it fairly close to the edge. I don't want it to go over the edge. Today. I'm going fairly close to same as all the other ones. Make sure that you don't have any spaces between your tape here. The other thing that I want to do because I want to put some tape at the top of the houses. I don't want any of these Shaker things to go behind them just because you're going to lose. They're gonna get lost back there. So I want to put them behind the houses to kinda seal that off and keep those shaker bits where you can see them. It doesn't need to look pretty because we're not going to be able to see any of this anyways. I'm gonna put a little bit behind the top of the church building as well for the same reason. And then put that rate across. Wanna make sure that none of that is exposed to the front, that you can't see any of that. If by chance you can, because there's a little notch in here and you probably wouldn't even notice. But if by chance you do get a little peak of your foam, you can just snip it out like that. There we go. So now I'm going to put this onto the back, my blue piece here. And I made sure to put my adhesive rate up to the edges of those die cuts so that when it's glued down, it's gonna be very easy to continue. Putting the next piece close to the edge of the dicots. We're going to do two layers of the foam tape on this just to give it some extra dimension. If I only did the one layer, then this window is going to be raised against the village here and we're not going to see any shaker bits go in front of that. This house doesn't go all the way to the edge of the card, but that's totally fine because we have our frame on here that's going to be hiding that. But once again, you want to make sure that your foam goes all the way to the edge of your circle so that it is hidden by that frame. And you also want to make sure that you do your foam all the way to the edge of your village. So there's no openings there. And I'm positioning the edge so that I can just see a little bit of it. There's actually a tiny little bit of an opening right there. So what I'm going to do because I want to do two layers of the foam tape. I'm just gonna do a little squeeze of the collage medium in there just to seal that up. I think it's small enough that no bits are going to come through, but just to ensure that none do, I'm just going to put some collage medium there to seal that in. I'm gonna put my little hanger piece here on the top of my ornament. Cut any excess bits off there. And now I'm gonna do a second layer for my foam tape. Once again saying with all the other ones, I wanna make sure that the joins are in different spots so that it seals previous layers. We go one last little area there. Any of these excess little bits that can be used for other projects there. So they're not going to go to waste. There we go. So now I'm going to put my Santa enslaved down, making sure not to have too much so that it squeezes out here. So my churches obviously a little bit more in than I did on my sample, but that's okay. It works just fine. I'm going to take this adhesive off the top of these pieces of foam tape. Before we put our front onto the ornament. I'm going to add my little shaker bits in my sample. I use some of the big snowflake pieces, but they actually don't really move very much. I'm leaving them off of this part. Go and last but certainly not least, the mica flakes. I liked the sparkle of the microfluidics in there. Natural color. So they have a little bit of a silvery brownish tone to them, which might not be everyone's cup of tea. And if it's not, you absolutely don't need to add them. And now we're adding our front. Make sure to press it down before you lift everything up and shake it. There we go. Cute little ornament and you can do your scene whatever you want. It doesn't necessarily need to be a Santa with a village. I just wanted it to be different for some of the other cards. But a fun way to add another interactive thing to a gift. And you can use it as an ornament afterwards. So write your message on the back if you'd like. Super cute. 13. STO6 Toy Soldier Shaker Tag Diecutting & Assembly: So the last little shaker tag ornament we're going to create is this little guy here, this little toy soldier. His name is Harvey, is another physics die that was just released. And there's a whole bunch of different things that you can do with them. I just thought this would be a really cute way to use them and be interactive. You could also just use them as is. Now, just like some of the other ones, I did eliminate some of the layers. In order to do the shaker tag hole, I just have a square dy that fits in there and gives it a nice border. I'm going to use that both on his body as well has his hat. Now some of the layers that I eliminate it, you could add them to this. The only thing is, is you would have to line it up and then cut out the square. And once again, because of the shaker part, I kinda thought it didn't need that extra detail. And some of those details would hide the shaker areas. But I love that there's just so much different variety and choice that you can do in this guy. Alright, so we've got our two squares cut out of them. And now we need to take those squares and cover them with acetate. Alright, now go to the back. I've got a piece of acetate here that I cut into a neural. Can be a little bit narrower than I had it. It doesn't need to look pretty. This is on the Baptist is completely covered. You just want to make sure that your square is covered and that you don't use any go any acetate beyond the edges of the outline of him. I'm going to use the distress collage medium with this. You could also just use the double-sided tape that absolutely would work as well. Go. I have the rest of the die cut pieces for him already cut out. You've seen me do other die cutting, so there's nothing new about any of those pieces. So I'm just putting this together and then I'm going to put an acrylic block on it so that that can dry. There we go. I'll see you when it's all dry and we'll continue. Alright. We are all dry now, so we're ready to continue. Now, the top of the hat is black. Rather than cut out the hat in black and then position the square in the same spot, the cutout in the same spot. I chose to just take a Copic marker and color it in. It doesn't have to be a Copic marker. You could use a Sharpie, you can use just a diabase marker. And then a little bit down here for his chin strap. There we go. I just wanted to do that before assembling the rest so that that was completely done. So now I'm going to put the shaker part together and then we'll do the details on the front of the card. Once again, where's my small scissors? Once again, putting the foam tape around the edges of the box, making sure not to go outside of the card as well as not going inside the box. And the square that I use Gibbs just enough space. There's so many different square dies out there that it should be easy to find one. You could try rectangle tool if you had one, but the ones that I have, none of them were the right dimensions, right size for this, I chose not to use them. I chose the square instead and I think it works just fine. Once again, all of my joints, I'm making sure that they are meeting up with each other so that none of the shaker parts inside the card will fall out. Go and cut this end off the back of this particular guy. He's actually supposed to be flushed colored and then all these different parts are supposed to go on top of them. I chose to do them red because I wanted the body to be red. And I don't think it takes away from them because you get the face in the peachy tone or whatever. But I've seen so many different variations of them, not as a shaker card, but just as a flat piece. And really the sky's the limit for color choices, which is pretty fun. Alright, I've got this backing off of those pieces. I chose to do fillings that we're golden red for this just because it kinda fit the color scheme of the front. And I didn't have any shaker bits that were black, otherwise I would have included them in the hat part. Once again, you can do whatever you want for little bits inside. There we go. Got a little piece on there that in there. Alright, now I'm gonna take my, well, first of all, I'm going to take the little hanging part, put it on my adhesive there. Then I'm going to take this part, match it, glue it to the front, make sure to press everything down so that all of those bits are in place. There we go. Alright, so now I'm going to glue all the little pieces on here, and I'm actually going to be quiet and just speed up the video so that it goes a little bit faster for you. Because this is a part that you don't necessarily need me to talk you through. So I'll see you in a bit. Okay? Okay. So all my pieces are in place and you can tell this guy kept giving me a little bit of trouble. He kept going up and curling. So some of the pieces you will need to hold down a little bit. The other thing that was the most challenging to put on where these little gold strips, and this is where it's nice to have liquid glue because you can move them around and get them all nice and straight. So that glue that's on there is going to dry completely clear so you won't see it. The last step I want to do, because I want to put a little bit of glossy accents on the little metal on his head thing. I also want to put some on his boots, make them nice and glossy. Skip them a bit of a different texture. I think it just makes it look a little bit more interesting and it catches your eye. Alright, so obviously it's milky looking because it is wet. As it dries, it'll go completely clear. If you have any bubbles, just use a pin to pop them before anything is dry. And there we go. That's what it looks like when he's all dry, but you see how it's fun to have the nice glossy boots. You could use glossy card stock there as well. But there you go. 14. Create Shaker Tag Ornaments with your Dies Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for the shaker tag ornament card class. I hope you enjoyed learning how to create different shaker tags with some of your dice. And I hope it's inspired you to look at what you already have. Just see if you can create a shaker element out of it, or even just a gift tag element out of it. It's a great way to get more use out of our suppliers that we already have and have fun with them and have them be kinda new again. I hope to see you soon in another class when you do make a shaker tag, please post it. I would absolutely love to see and please take a moment to review the class. I would appreciate it. Thank you so much. Have a great day.