Sweet Birdie Borderless Shaker Card

We are shaking it up for the month of May with this sweet little birdie card! Create a borderless shaker card featuring Marlene's Sweet Birdie stamps and a beautifully blended Oxide ink background! This is a fun and different way to create a shaker card that doesn't require the use of dimensional foam tape. There are links to the video tutorial and PDF instructions below. Hope you enjoy making this sweet birdie card yourself!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock and Acetate

Sweet Birdie by Marlene stamp set

Sentimental Flowers by Simon Hurley Stamp set

Black Archival ink

Oxide inks in: Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar, Speckled Egg, Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire

Domed Foam Ink Blenders

Assorted Water Based Markers

Water Brush

Scrappy Tape

Bone Folder

Tape Runner

Scissors

Faber-Castell Metallic Highlighters

PDF Tutorial Here

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