Digi Choosday Project - Birthday Shaker Tags — Cute, Colorful & oh-so-Shaky!

Today I’m sharing a set of birthday-themed shaker tags I made using the Party Bear with Cupcake digi. I’ve been loving shakers lately, so of course… I made three! These turned out so cute and sweet, and the best part? They’re really simple to put together.

Let’s Make Some Shaker Tags!

Materials Needed:

• Die cutting machine
• Tag die
• Rectangle die
• Pattern Paper - I used Polkadoodles' Noodle Panda
• Digi Stamp - I used Polkadoodles' Party Bear with Cupcake
• Shaker Bits
• Acetate
• Foam Tape
• Ribbon
• We R Memory Keeper Crop-a-dile
• Bearly Art Glue

First things first, prepare your tag bases by choosing your patterned papers. You can totally use solid cardstock, but since I’m all about color, I reached for patterned ones instead.

Next:

1. Die cut the back tag bases using your favorite tag die.

   

   
   

2. Die cut the front pieces using the same tag die plus a rectangle die to create the window.

   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

3. Die cut acetate using the tag die as well, this makes everything line up perfectly.

Assembly Time!

For these shaker tags, I used the Bearly Art Cubies Starter Pack Craft Adhesive Foam Tape Extra Tall. This is my go-to for shakers because the extra height gives the shaker bits so much room to bounce and shake around!

Here’s what I did:

• Adhered the acetate to the front tag piece.

  
  
  
  

• Added foam tape all around the edges.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Poured the shaker bits onto the back tag base, I used colorful sprinkle-style pieces with stars to match the cupcake on the digi.

• Carefully placed the front piece over the back to seal everything in place. Shaker magic activated! 

Time for the Cute Details

I picked the Party Bear with Cupcake digi stamp (colored version!), so no need to color this time. Then I chose sentiments from the Wanda Messages & Quotes collection and layered them together with the bear using glue.

Since the tag die I used didn’t have a big enough hole, I grabbed my We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile to make a slightly larger one for ribbons.

I threaded my ribbons through…

And because I can get a bit OC, I burned the ends so they wouldn’t fray. 

And that’s it! Super cute shaker tags ready to make any birthday extra special!

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