Hello Clear Scraps Friends, and Happy Spooky Season!!! Can you believe that we are already in October?Holy Moly this year is speeding past us! Misty @Mommyofkidz here with you today, and I am going to share a new project, and I with everything going so fast around me, I decided to slow things down a bit. Heck maybe even take a trip beck in time. I decided to go RETRO! It is no secret that I love making the shakers…and I have no shame in saying that it is my addiction! LOL For this card, I used the Mini Shaker TV. I also tossed in the Multistars Chipboard pieces. Well, two of them. I used the others on a previous project and these were lonely…so I figured, why not!!??
I decided that I didn’t want to do a shaker tag this time. Since I used the patterned paper for the backing inside the TV, it would not be see-thru, and that just didn’t make me happy. LOL SO…a card it is! After painting the entire TV black and covering the backing, I filled it with tiny shaker balls and added the acrylic. I wanted the “screen” to be on top, not inset, so that is how I assembled it. Well, I didn’t realize it would leave air bubbles between the screen and the body of the shaker, which I was not a fan of. SOOOOO, I painted the acrylic solid black.
In the photo below, you can see where the vent slots and knob holes are… Well, I painted right over the top of those and completely forgot to mark where they were! SO…I improvised. I used large flat crystals for the knobs and liked how it turned out…crisis averted! LOL. We don’t have mistakes, we have happy accidents!
After I finished assembling the TV, I started thinking about the card. How could I make it even more Retro? Then it hit me. I save all the 4×6 outer edges of the chipboard pieces! I found a few of those that were a perfect match in size, glued them together and painted them red. for the backing, I used a light grey and stamped with black the retro rainbows. I had to hand draw the HBD, but it turned out pretty good! I mean…take a look at the photo below… and then the one below that…I think I did a pretty good job of capturing the 80’s Retro vibe!
So I “built” an Etch-A-Sketch and a retro TV. Now it was time to put the two together and build a card! And I did exactly that! The card presents the TV First, as just a regular Birthday card…I even added an antenna to the TV!
The TV opens up to reveal the hidden surprise.
And another Message! When reading the card, it says ” Happy Birthday! NOT OLD.” then you open it up and it says RETRO! HBD ………How cute is that?? Well, I did design it so I am clearly biased! LOL
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Retro Card Creation! Hop on over to the Clear Scraps Shop and see what you can grab and go Retro!!
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