Scrapbooking: Installing a Window on Your Beaded Shaker Card

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Elizabeth, and on behalf of Expert Village, we’re moving forward with creating a shaker card as part of our series of using beads in your cards. So what we’re doing is we’ve cut the window in the card. Now, we’re going to cut the window that’s going to allow us to see the shaker in the shaker part. So we’ve got a 1 ½ x 2 ¾ inch piece of cardstock. I’m going to line this in my cutter at 2 ½ inches so that it’s going to give me ¼ of an inch frame all around. I will start my cutting at ¼ of an inch, and I will go down to 1 ¼ . Start it here at 1 ¼ inch lined up. Again, starting at ¼ of an inch, making sure that you’re in there solid. I’m going to stand so I can see a little better. You want it to start at ¼ of an inch, go down to 2 ½ inches. You’re going to turn it again so that it’s at 2 ½ inches. Starting our cut at ¼ inch, coming down to 1 ¼ inch, turning it one more time, setting it at the 1 ¼ inch mark, and then making our final cut from ¼ inch down to 2 ½. That gives us our frame. From here, we can just card this piece. At this point, what we’ll be doing is taking the sticker and adhering on to the background and texture paper, the patterned paper. Just kind of centering it. At this point, we will then assemble the rest by gluing the clear sheet onto the frame that we’ve made. We’ll just use your adhesive. You want it to be very solidly on there so that the beads don’t escape. So you want to use your adhesive all around the frame’s edge. Be careful not to rip it when removing it from your sticky fingers. Line it up and arrange it like so. From this point, we will adhere it from here with the foam tape. Once we do that, we will be ready to add the beads. "