Hi, crafty friends. I’m sharing a very simple shaker card that I made for my dad’s birthday. He turned 77 in March, and threw a big party. He did the same thing for his 55th and 66th, which is kind of fun. He’s a retired structural engineer, and we lovingly call him Reodor, which is a character from the movie Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (Flåklypa Grand Prix in the original Norwegian). The character is a bicycle repair man by trade, but he’s known for his quirky inventions, and that’s why we’ve nicknamed my dad after him, as he comes up with these quirky solutions too. He’s installed a smoke detector that you can lower at our cabin in the mountains. The ceiling is so high that it’s very impractical when the smoke detector goes off or the battery needs to be changed. His quirky little invention keeps us from having to get a ladder whenever that happens. He used the elastic from old underwear as a fan belt for his car back in the 90s, and he’s added a base and tires to a generator to make it easier to lug around (also at our cabin). There are lots of other things too, let’s just say he’s earned the nickname.

The Flåklypa universe has had a big resurgence in the past 10-15 years or so. Additional movies have come out based on the original and there’s a bit of merchandise available. I have a few calendars, and for this card, I used a calendar page with Reodor looking at his latest machine, wrench and technical drawing in hand. I sampled the color on his shirt to create a colored cardstock to match, and die cut the letters for the name Reodor using the In Stitches Alphabet die set from My Favorite Things. I die cut a few layers from white and the top layer from my custom colored cardstock and added them below the image.

For the shaker portion of the card, I used the Outline Numbers and Solid Numbers die sets from My Favorite Things. I die cut the outline from the image as well as a few from white cardstock, and used the solid number die for the acetate. I used microbeads for shaker filler and colored the top layer with a layer of a very pale grey Copic marker to make it stand out a little against the background. The card was very well received, and my parents have actually framed it and put it on display in their dining room.