Underwater Birthday Bendi Shaker Card!

Good morning!  Jess here with a bendi card featuring a shaker panel and a horde of adorable underwater creatures!  I recently discovered bendi cards and I am in love!!  If you've never seen or created a bendi card before you can see a video tutorial of a bendi card I created last week here.  After getting comfortable with the process I decided to push it a little further and create a shaker panel for one of the sides!  And this is how it turned out!

To start, I stamped a bunch of the critters on Neenah Solar White cardstock with copic-friendly ink and colored them with copics before using my ScanNCut to cut them out.  I also stamped the solid corals using Lawn Fawn inks.  I knew I wanted a few images to be visible from both sides of the shaker so I used a faux lightbox to trace the reverse image on scrap cardstock, colored them with copics, and cut them with the ScanNCut.  I took a little artistic license to create the backside view of the brunette mermaid which you can see below.  I created the shaker using the ocean waves dies as a guide for my Fuse tool and filled it with iridescent sequins.

I also die cut the sand and waves using the stitched hillside border dies from Lawn Fawn.  I blended distress inks onto both sides of the left panel and the background before spritzing it with water and shimmer spray.

Then I cut slits in the background panel and left panel to allow the card panels to bend and attached the shaker and side panel to the background panel.  I adhered the happy birthday word die and all of the critters to the card with glossy accents and then fit the notches into the slits which created the curved shape.

I am so excited by all of the creative possibilities for this type of card and I LOVE that you can take the notches out of the slits and then the card folds completely flat for mailing!

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my card!  Have a wonderful day!

-Jess

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Mermaid for You	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Fintastic Friends	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Life is Good	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, So Jelly
Lawn Cuts Dies, Stitched Hillside Border	Lawn Cuts Dies, Simple Stitched Hillside Borders	Lawn Cuts Dies, Ocean Wave Borders	Lawn Cuts Dies, Happy Birthday Border
Mini Ink Blending Tool-1	Ranger DIS-27119 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Chipped Sapphire	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Peacock Feathers	Ranger Tim Holtz March Distress Ink Pad, Mermaid Lagoon
Mister Bottle-2 Ounces Empty	Tsukineko 2-Pack Pssst Sheer Shimmer Spritz, Ultra Fine Mist, Frost and Sparkle	Tsukineko 2-Ounce Refill Bottle, Pssst Sheer Shimmer, Sparkle	Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Lobster
Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Pumpkin Spice	Copic Sketch Markers	Couture Color - Caviar Hybrid	Gilding
Classic Crest Super Smooth Solar White 80# Cover 8.5	Environment Desert Storm 80 Lb Card Stock - 25 Pk	Avery Elle Stamp and Die Storage Pockets, Clear, 25-Pack	We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool
We R Memory Keepers FUSE, Fuse Tips	We R Memory Keepers FUSE, Mat & Holster

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