A New Idea

Okay, so, this one is sort of a twist on all of these fun shaker cards that everyone has been making...  How about an etch-a-sketch card?  LOL  I was walking around the dollar store last night and saw these adorable mini Etch A Sketch toys and thought, 'Hey!  I need to make a card using one of these!'.  LOL  So I started to look at the shaker cards online to get some ideas on how I could maybe go about doing it...  It's a card and a gift all in one!  :)

I started with a solid piece of cardstock, first I thought, hey, I cold use this long skinny oval punch for the slide and 'pen' spots, but, the carstock isn't quite sturdy enough for that to make it so the card would hold up for very long with use; so I scrapped that idea and went with starting on the edge of where they both end.  I then cut out the center using my cutting tool.  I used an fun image from Whoopsi Daisy that I had from when I was on their DT.  I used word dies for the sentiment, added a butterfly and some gems and bam!  That was the top.  I used hot glue to put it onto the card base.  I thought it would be fun to put the age on the center...I just put 5 because...well...why not?!?!  haha 

So here it is!

Thanks for looking!

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