Scrapping Fun with Tonya: Sweet Shaker

GDT Tonya here today to share with you a great shaker card using a Samantha Walker's Silhouette file.

I have been bitten by the Christmas bug and have been making Christmas cards for weeks and weeks already.

When the file is opened, it is fit for a 12 x 12 sheet.

My plan was to use the file as a printed background for a shaker card. So I modified it.

The first thing I did was ungroup the pieces. I used the file color option in the software and colored the candy swirls red, since I was using a white card base. Once colored I moved the swirls to fit on the 'wrapper'.

The swirls were not lined up the way I wanted. To correct that, I highlighted the swirls and rotated them until they lined up with the red meeting the wrapper ends.

I wanted the outline of the wrapper to be a charcoal tone. To do this, I clicked the line color option and chose the correct level of gray tone.

Since peppermint candy wrappers are clear, I chose a lighter gray so that they appeared to be slightly transparent on the background.

Next I drew a rectangle and sized it to 4.25 x 5.5 inches. This represented the base of my A2 size card.

The cardstock I used was 8 1/2 x 11 inches. To make things easier (visually), I changed the page settings to fit. Also, to represent printing, I positioned the page in portrait.

Next I moved the rectangle I drew to fit the bottom left corner of the page.

The peppermint candies were sized and replicated to fit my pattern.

I intentionally left a bit of space between the candies in the upper center for a sentiment to be stamped.

When using a cut file for a print design, it is very important to be sure you have the print lines selected.

The option to do this is under the line style icon. Since I did not want the rectangle to print as I only used it as a reference, I did not select those lines.

When I had everything where I wanted it, I sent it to the printer. I used my paper trimmer to cut the cardstock to 4.25 x 11 inches, then scored at 5.5 inches to created my card base.

For the front of the shaker, I just used my reference rectangle and created a few offsets for the layers.