How to Make a Stocking Shaker Card

Use your stash of unique holiday dies to make fun shaker cards that are sure to bring that Christmas cheer this season.

Today’s fun holiday card is from our designer, Lisa, who is dazzling us with this perfectly festive shaker card. Lisa said, “The 5721D Large Stocking With Bow Die is one of my favorites! Big enough to be the star on a card, but small enough to add more elements if you want. And it’s perfect for a shaker element!” We couldn’t agree more. Check out this tutorial so you can recreate this awesome project later!

I started by die cutting the largest rectangle from the 5013d Nested Rectangle Small Stitch Die Set from a Deco Foiled Poly Glaze Sheet.
Next I used another of the rectangles that was just big enough to be able to cut the stocking from leaving enough room on the edges for foam tape and placed the rectangle onto a Deco Foiled gel print and placed the stocking die inside it and taped both in place and cut them together leaving a panel with a stocking shape cut from the center.
Then I adhered acetate to the back of the panel with the window and added foam tape around the edges of the panel and then around the edges of the stocking… both for support and to keep the sequins within the stocking shape.
The shaker filling was placed in the center of the area where the window would be and then the window panel with foam tape on the back was adhered over the shaker pieces.
Remaining bow pieces were adhered… some with glue and some with foam tape for dimension.
Finally the 5829-01d Ho-Ho-Ho Script Die word was cut from deco foiled gel print and the shadow was cut from white cardstock. They were adhered together with liquid adhesive, popped up onto the bottom of the shaker panel and the ends were trimmed to align with that panel.