Welcome Baby Shaker Card!

Today I am sharing a sweet baby shaker card. I haven't had the chance to make a shaker card in awhile and I had gems and bling just screaming to be used! A friend and colleague just became a Grandma and so I thought this was the perfect time to indulge in some bling filled crafty time.

I used a variety of products that are listed at the bottom of the post for your convenience.

The stencil that used for the inked background (MFT Graduated Dots stencil) is unfortunately no longer available, but here is a picture in case you have it in your stash or something similar.

I ink blended my three distress ink colors on the background and then redid the same blending with the stencil over top. Love the effect that this creates. I then spritzed some water over top to give it a bit of texture. I then used a die to cut it out for the front card panel and give it that great stitched detail.

After doing my stamping and die cutting for both the inside and the front of the card, I inked the inside of the card to match the front. I used raspberry distress ink to create the paper to die cut the shaker window and the greeting strip on the front. I added some shimmer to the onesie and on the heart and a few of the dots on the inside of the card for some added interest. You can never have too much sparkle . . . right??

I stacked up the middle fancy frame die 9 times to make my shaker focal piece. I wanted lots of room for all of that gorgeous bling to move around in. I used a variety of items in my shaker window (listed below) and sealed it all off with some acetate. I used the Hero Arts liquid adhesive to put this all together and loved how easy it was to work with.

At this point, I decided that I needed to tie in some of the white on the onesie and I added tiny white dots with a gel pen to the background, greeting strip and shaker frame. I then added a sprinkling of gems over the front panel. Again, I used the Hero Arts glue -- really love how easy it came out. Finally, I added a matching cute onesie to the envelope to make it all coordinate.

I would like to enter this in the Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes Challenge.

I hope you have enjoyed my project today! Thanks for visiting!

Happy Easter and Happy Crafting,

Glittery Background: Birthday

Hello everyone. Today I have a card using an oh so fun technique that I learned from this post by the amazing Jennifer McGuire. This was my first attempt and 2 of my glitter colours were not glitter ritz and they definitely did not work as well or as easily as the glitter ritz colours, but I still like the end result. I will definitely be trying this again.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Sister Act Card Challenge - anything goes

Stamplorations - stamps and glitter

Crafty Girls Challenges - anything goes

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I appreciate you!

I'm back with another quick post from my Stenciled class. I tell you homework has never been so much fun before! What a fun technique - adding shimmer to your stencil work . . . LOVE this! I took a few pics so hopefully you can see all that shine that is so hard to capture on camera. I am working really hard in 2014 to use things in my "stash" - thus the black flowers on my last two projects.

I would like to enter my card at Make It Monday where it is always anything goes.

Sparkly Hello

A quick post today for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge this week, which is a colour challenge. I decided to join in as I have a hard time with color schemes that don't include pink and am trying to push myself to consider other color palettes more regularly. :) I also had to decorate an envelope (which actually corresponds more to the inside of the card), but wanted to try out a new stamp set (for me) from Cas-ual Fridays. It has tonnes of great fun words and hope to create a card with those next. I had already started this card when my package arrived in the mail. Woohoo!

Anyhoo, the glitter paper is DCWV glitter stack. The cardstock is MFT as are the dies. The stamps are CAS-ual Fridays (splotch), SSS (dotted line on envie) and Hero Arts (inside greeting). Ink is Hero Arts and Memento.  To make the card, I die cut the hello and arrow where I wanted it in the background paper and then die cut the images again with the colors I wanted to fill with. That's it ... easy peasy! :)

Edited to add this challenge (ran out of time when I was posting yesterday):

Make It Monday - always anything goes

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