Be Mine Shaker Heart Card

Hello, Happy Tuesday! I have a super fun shaker card to share with you. I had done a version of this card last year using different colors. See the post HERE for the card I made last year.  I had a request to share some instructions so I figured I should make another version while I write up the tutorial. I decided to go with a different color scheme, something a little more manly. Although I'm sure anyone would enjoy a cute card like this.

Look at all of those sequins! Don't you just love a shaker card?!? I'm not going to go into too many details as I've written a lot of them out in the tutorial so I'll just share another picture.

I hope you like today's card. If you are interested in receiving a tutorial on how to make the shaker, please send me a message and I'll email it to you. :)

Have a wonderful day!!

Just Add Ink #440 - Valentine's Shaker Card

Happy Sunday!! The creative juices have been flowing in the past few days so with this wintery weather we've been having, I'm trying to take advantage as much as I can. We've had a wintery mix here so it's great weather to just stay inside and do nothing. The kids gave me the chance to get into my craft room to get crafty. The idea I had in my head for this card, came out just as I wanted. It did take a little trial and error to get there but I think it came out so cute. I decided to use this card as my entry for the Just Add Ink #440 challenge this week. The challenge this week was to add something new. You can find the challenge HERE.

My something "new" was using the Be Mine Framelits dies and the sentiment from January's Paper Pumpkin kit. I had the idea that I wanted to make a shaker heart and I also wanted to use the collection of hearts dies as part of the design. It took me a couple of times to get it right but how cute do all of those hearts look inside the large scalloped heart??

Oh and those little stamped hearts on the Pool Party card stock is from the January Paper Pumpkin kit as well. Aren't those fun! Inside the shaker heart I used a mix of Iridescent Sequin assortment plus some of the Sprinkles sequins from the Occasions catalog 2 years ago I think?

I hope you enjoy this super fun shaker card. Maybe it will brighten you up on this cold gloomy wintery day!

And I'll be back soon to share my Valentine's decor. I just had to share this card first because I loved how it came out!

Enjoy your day!

Snapshot Hello!

Well here I am, still waiting. I didn't get a chance to post yesterday since I was home with my son. He has decided that now is the perfect time to want to make the switch to a real bed and not take any naps, so that has been fun! I had no intentions of switching him to the bed yet but I guess he had other plans, haha! Tomorrow I go to the doctor to see what is going on with this baby. Unless she is going to be like her brother than she may make her appearance early tomorrow morning since that will be day 5 overdue. But I don't know, I feel fine, like absolutely nothing is happening yet. But we shall see.
Today's card is another shaker style card. This one you can see the sequins better in it. I used the Snapshot camera stamp which I think is really cute. Not a stamp I would normally go for but I'm really starting to like it and think it's a fun stamp. I stamped that on to Coastal Cabana cardstock. The sentiment is from Four You which is stamped and cut out. I cut out 2 pieces of vellum from the circle dies for the shaker part. Then I used the Starburst Framelit dies in Strawberry Slush. I used the circle dies again with the Strawberry Slush cardstock to make a circle border. I wanted to be able to cover up the adhesive I used to close the shaker circles. For the background I used the Handcarved stamp (once again) in Crisp Cantaloupe. To finish it off I added some Natural Chevron ribbon and more sequins.
Don't forget about the great Big Shot promotion going on. Purchase a Big Shot to use all of these fun dies and get a free exclusive bundle. It is a great deal!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Snapshot, Four You, Handcarved
Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Black
Paper: Crisp Cantaloupe, Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana, Vellum
Accessories: Starburst Framelit dies, Circle Framelit Dies, In Color sequins, Natural Chevron ribbon

Christmas in August

Happy Monday! As you can see, I am still here waiting for Baby S to come along. Hopefully any day now. In the meantime, I have a sneak peek of a new stamp set called Good Greetings that will be available for hosts once the new Holiday Catalog comes out. This set will be available in an upcoming promotion for hosting a party. As part of this special promotion, if you host a party you will receive this set for FREE when you hold a party--which means you'll be able to use your host rewards on any Stampin' Up! products! The Good Greetings Stamp Set is extremely versatile and will cover holidays from Halloween to Valentine's Day and beyond! Watch for more information on this upcoming host promotion.

For today's card, I decided to make a Christmas card. I am far from thinking about Christmas but I just had this idea in my head so I went with it. I used several of the sentiments from the set and stamped them in Baked Brown Sugar onto Crumb Cake cardstock. Then I ran this through the Big Shot with the Decorative Dots embossing folder. Oh Don't Forget, there is a great Big Shot promotion going on during the month of August. Purchase a Big Shot and get an exclusive Framelits and Stamp Set Bundle for FREE when you purchase a Big Shot. Or, if you already own a Big Shot, get a 15 percent discount on these select bundles. Contact me for information on this great promotion!! Now back to the card. I again used the Big Shot to cut out the Deco Label framelit dies in Vellum and Champagne glimmer cardstock. I wanted to make a shaker style card with the Deco label framelits. I added gold sequins between 2 layers of vellum cardstock and then made a frame with the Champagne glimmer paper. You can't see the sequins as much as I would have liked but they are there. (See the 2nd close up picture). Next I stamped the flower image from Hello Darling in Cherry Cobbler and Mossy Meadow. I cut out the pieces that I wanted to use on the card and adhered them with dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped in Mossy Meadow onto vellum and the final step was to add Cherry Cobbler seam binding.

I hope you enjoyed the sneak peek of this cute new set. The font is fun and it really is a versatile set. Contact me for more information on this promotion or on the Big Shot promotion. If I'm still here tomorrow I will have another shaker style card to share with you, so stop by and check it out!

Have a great day!

Stamps: Good Greetings, Hello Darling
Ink: Baked Brown Sugar, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow
Paper: Baked Brown Sugar, Crumb Cake, Vellum, Champagne glimmer paper
Accessories: Deco Label Framelit dies, Decorative Dots embossing folder, Gold sequin trim, Modern label punch, Cherry Cobbler seam binding