Eggstra Special Shaker Tag

How to make a Egg-stra Special Shaker Tag

Supplies Used:

• Stamps and Dies (from the Maker’s Movement)
• Die Cut Machine
• Clear Acetate Sheets
• Double Sided Craft Foam
• Black Ink
• Art Markers
• Deflecto Expandable Marker Accordion
• Heavyweight Watercolor Paper
• Decorative Scrapbook Paper
• Tape Runner
• Ribbon, Twine, Button

• Stamp the chick image with black ink onto white cardstock.
• Stamping on non-porous white card-stock helps the markers blend easier.

• Color in the edge of the chick with the light ochre marker.  Use the pale yellow marker to blend and fill in the rest of the chick.

• Line up chick die with the stamped image.  (cutting side down)  I use a piece of removable tape on my die to hold it in place as I run in through the die cut machine. 

• Using a nesting tag dies, center and tape the two dies together to create a tag frame.

• Cut a large tag from the largest nested tag die.
• Cut a large green dot tag.  Cut a wavy line die on the bottom of the tag. 
• Adhere bottom of the wavy cut tag onto the blue skies tag.
• Cut a acetate tag from the next largest nesting tag die.
• Cut a large purple gingham egg, a floral cracked egg and several small eggs from coordinating scrapbook paper.

• On the back of the tag frame, add a thin line of adhesive around the inside opening of the tag.
• Remove the protective coating from both sides of the acetate and place it on top of the adhesive.
• Cut thin strips from the double-sided foam sheets.  Remove one side of the protective layer from the foam strips and place around the inside edges of the tag.
• Add shaker bits inside tag.
• Remove the second side of the protective layer from the foam strips and adhere to the blue skies layer on the inside of the tag.

• Glue the small floral cracked half egg onto purple gingham egg.
• Add foam to the back of chick and egg and add to front of the card.
• Punch a hole on the top of the tag using the crop-a-dile, add purple and white twine.
• Adhere ribbon bow to top of the tag.