Robot shaker card

I'm beginning to feel a bit like a Tiddly Inks groupie, but I just couldn't rest until I had tried their Shaker Card Challenge with Christy's adorable Dr. Love Boto (the digi stamp that led me to Tiddly Inks in the first place!)

This is my third shaker card, and it's certainly my most complicated; I was really inspired by the DT examples for this challenge, plus the many shaker cards I've been seeing around the craftosphere. Note to self: try not to make the window frame 1/4 inch and rounded. I mean really, what was I thinking. I colored the edges of the foam with matching copics, which helps it look clean. I cut the interiors by hand, which seemed faster than trying to do it in SCAL, my usual favorite trick.

For the sentiment, I did something I've been threatening to do for some time: I used CSS/HTML code instead of real typography. This isn't a new thing (see poet Jenny O'Grady's fantastic series Homepages), but I chose to use in-line CSS and colored the text as it appears in HTML editors. If you read code, you'll see that some of it is redundant and some things are missing, but the HEX code is in fact the text color. And yes, I was nerdy enough to use Courier New for the 1s and 0s I cut out with SCAL and my Cricut. Oh how I love a good binary joke!


Inspiration: Tiddly Inks Challenge #39: Shaker Card

Digi stamp: Dr. Love Boto by Tiddly Inks

Supplies: Core'dinations, X-Press Copic, and Recollections cardstocks, clear plastic, emery board, Fiskars papercutter, finger swivel-knife, and deckle scissors, HP printer & ink, Adobe InDesign, Cricut and SCAL, ZipDry glue, Tim Holtz & MS detailing scissors, Recollections eyelets, Crop-O-Dile II

Copic Ciao markers: R27, RV29, C-1, C-5, C-7, B32, BG10, B23, B39, 0


Update 2/4/11: This card placed in the Top 5 of Tiddly Inks' Shaker Card Challenge. Wow, thank you!