Monday, June 13, 2016

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!
Underwater Bendi Card
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.
Underwater Bendi Card
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.
Underwater Bendi Card
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.
Underwater Bendi Card
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

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17 comments:

  1. Super cute, love
    the shaker waves!
    Carla from Utah

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  2. Wow!!! Oh, WOW!! This is a breathtaking project! Love this bending shaker card, such a clever idea and the result is awesome!! Love, love any detail! Great work!
    Pinned! :D
    https://it.pinterest.com/pin/534802524483247935/

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  4. This is absolutely amazing! You've taken the bendy card and lifted it into the stratosphere! ☺🎆

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  5. Awesome card Jess, thanks for sharing and inspiring.

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  6. Wonderful card, Jess! I've seen a bendi card a couple of times, but I don't think I've ever seen one with a shaker panel. Neat idea! Great job on all the coloring & inking. Tfs! ~ Andrea

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  7. Totally amazing!!! Bookmarking for future reference... I want to try this!!!

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  8. Wow, Jess, I'm in awe!! What an unbelievable card construction and what and amazing scene!

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  9. How fun is that??? You are such a wonderful artist! I LOVE everything you touch!!! Thank you for sharing your gift and ideas with us!!!

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  10. OH my, OH MY!!! This is unbelievably so cool!! I am in love with the interactive and way fabulous cards you are making!! Way to go, Jessica!!

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  11. That's amazing! Incredible structure!

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  12. Totally adorable! LOVE the shaker element!! TFS!

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