CCARY ~ November's Christmas Challenge

  Hello crafting friends and welcome to this month's challenge

 at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

November's Challenge ~ Pink & Green Colour Combo

This is November's Christmas cake inspiration pic.

For this month's DT project, I made a cute shaker ornament for my little granddaughter, Emma.

I  used the Snow Globe dies from Hunkydory, to cut out the snow globe several times in order to turn it into a shaker ornament, and then I used several other dies to cut out all the elements inside the snow globe. I added a sequins mix from Kat Scrappiness as my shaker fillers.

Products used to make this card:

Hunkydory - Snow Globe

Marianne Designs - Presents Bag

Elizabeth Craft Designs - Holiday Elf ~ Hers

Kat Scrappiness - Iridescent and White Snowflake Sprinkles, Sparkling Clear Drops

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Now it's your turn to make a Christmas project that falls within our challenge theme, and come play along with us.  You have till the end of the month to link your project to our blog at  Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

Crafty hugs,

Fairy Stamper ~ Peacock Snow Globe

  Hello crafting friends, and welcome to my Friday share.

As you may already know, Fairy Hugs stamps had a brand new release that came out on Wednesday.  One of the many beautiful stamps is a Peacock.

I love snow globes and peacocks, so I thought I would put the two together to make this card.  I began by die cutting all the pieces I would need for the snow globe. Then I took the background piece and very lightly inked in the blue sky. Next I stamped and coloured Ania's Tree, and using the acetate of the stamp, figured out exactly where my peacock was going to perch.  I stamped the peacock and coloured him in using polychromos pencils.  The tree looked a little bare, so I drew in a few small leaves here and there. Once this was all done, it was time to add the teal, silver and white shaker sparkles.

On the inside of the card, I inked it the same way as I had done the snow globe and stamped Ania's Tree again, leaving enough space for my personal message.

Now for the list of crafty supplies I used, each linked to the Fairy Stamper store, for your convenience.

Fairy Hugs stamps - Peacock, Ania's Tree

Distress Oxide inks - Broken China

VersaFine Clair inks - Blue Belle, Pinecone

Snow Globe - Moonstone Die - Hunkydory

Thank you so much for stopping by.  I hope I have inspired you to create a project and come join the fun. Our challenges go live every other Thursday on our Facebook group.   All you have to do is to create a project and upload the pic to our challenge album.  There is a $15.00 prize for one lucky participant.

Till next time,

stay safe and well.

Still sharing Valentine cards :-)

 I know ... we're in March! But believe it or not, cards that I put in the mail at the end of January so that they would arrive overseas by the 14th, are only arriving now.

So without further complaints, here is a shaker card I made.

For this 5.5" x 5.5" card, I used the following supplies:

Divinity Designs - Patterned papers

Elizabeth Craft Designs - Entwined Hearts

Shaker elements - my stash

Gems - my stash

I still have another couple of Valentine cards to share with you, so I'll see you tomorrow.

Till then,

stay safe and well.

Eskimo Kisses

Hello crafting friends and welcome back to another fun challenge starting today at Crafty Gals Corner!  

Challenge # 204 ~ Add a Heart!

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(listed in alphabetical order)

   

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I fell in love with this sweet image from Colour of Love, called Eskimo Kisses.  Using this image, I decided to make a shaker, snow globe shaped card with it. 

I used Silhouette design # 108550, by Amy Robison, for the snow globe.

 I coloured the image with Copic markers.

Shaker elements are a mixture, but mostly from the Kat Scrappiness Sugarplum Fairies collection.

Used a very light brown card stock and stamped the wood effect using MFT's Wood Plank stamp and Memento's Toffee Crunch ink.  Ribbon is from my stash. 

Although I do have a few hearts on the image itself, which is perfect for this challenge, I added a small heart on the bow for a little something extra :-) You can see the shaker elements better on this pic too.

On the inside, I used a computer generated greeting, and that was it.  Very quick and easy to put together :-) and another card towards my Christmas card stash!

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you liked my card and feel inspired to get crafty and come play along with us.  You have until 12:00 pm, CST, on 17 March 2020, to link your card to our challenge.

Happy Crafting!

Shaker Ornament Card

Hello crafting friends and welcome back to

The Merry Christmas Challenge.

Challenge #4 ~ Anything Christmas Goes

Optional Theme this week ~ Ornaments

For my card, I stitched the top border of the card so that I had a place to hang my shaker ornament from.

I used the Ornaments 2 dies from Elizabeth Crafts to cut the ornament.

Microbeads were used inside the shaker element.

The center of the poinsettia was made with a gold Pearl Pen.

I added some ribbon to the ornament to finish it off.

As you can see, I kept the inside pretty simple.

Now it's your turn to join in the fun.  Don't forget to visit our blog for more inspiration from the Tinsel Team.  Looking forward to seeing your festive creations.

Till next time,

Crafty hugs,

Fun, yet Elegant Christmas Card

Hello everyone. It's my turn again to share a project on the DiesRUs inspiration blog. I made a Christmas card with an ornament shaker element. I would also like to show you how easy it is to incorporate dies with other card elements. In this case, I added my die as the focal point on a stitched card.

  

So, let's get started. First I stitched the frame with embroidery floss, and then began working on my shaker.

 I used one of the ornaments from the Ornaments 2 set from Elizabeth Crafts.

I took the base piece and cut a hole in the centre of my stitched frame and in the centre of a piece of white craft foam. The card is cut to 5" x 5" and the foam to 4.75" x 4.75". 

I cut a piece of acetate about 3" x 3" and placed double sided tape adhesive on all four sides and adhered it to the back of the ornament opening. This will create my "window".

  

Next I adhered the foam. I always rub the opening of a shaker card with my anti-static tool.  This will prevent anything getting stuck to the glue that sometimes seeps through on the sides of the window.

I cut out the ornament shape out of red mirror cardstock, and adhered it to the acetate.

When I placed the panel on the card, I didn't like the red background. Too much red since I was planning on using red microbeads in the shaker, so I adhered a 3" x 3" piece of white card as the closure to my "window" after I had placed the microbeads in it. Lastly, I adhered the whole panel to a 5.25" x 5.25" red card base.

As a finishing touch, I added a little bow and a few gold flat backed pearls to the centre.

All that was left to do was the inside of the card. I added a few fancy corners that I had left over from another project and stamped my Christmas greeting. This is a stamp from the Christmas Sayings stamp set by Creative Expressions.

I hope I was able to inspire you to use your dies, create a project, and come play along at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog for your chance to win a gift voucher to the Dies R Us Store.  A new challenge begins on the first and fifteenth of every month.  Be sure to Follow Us on Facebook too. 

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Till next time,

Crafty hugs,

Best Fishes ~ Take 2!

Hello bloggie friends.

I had so much fun making the water shaker card I shared with you last week, that I made another one - this one for my SIL.

As you can see, I used a fish bowl for this one.  It is from the same stamp set called Fintastic Friends by Lawn Fawn.

For a tutorial on how to make this card, please visit Yainea's blog.

  

Thanks for stopping by today.

Hugs,

 

Best Fishes

Happy Saturday!

Yes, Fall has come to my blog.  I know it's not officially Autumn yet, but having lived in South Africa for so many years, I got used to the 1st of September being Spring Day.  So now that I live in the US, I decided that the 1st of September for me is Fall Day!  It also gives me an added incentive to decorate my home and garden with all the wonderful warm and rich colours of  the season :-)

Today I'm sharing a card with you that I made for my son who started his 3rd year of university.

Isn't it cute? When I saw a tutorial of this card on Yainea's blog, I just knew I had to try my hand at it, and I must admit, I'm so happy with the way it came out :-)

It looks so real :-) It's a water shaker!

And the best part, it's really easy to make! If you want to learn how to make one of these cards, then please click on the link above.

See how the water moves around when  you shake it.

 It's such a fun card :-)

I added some of the bubbles paper to the inside to bring it all together and left the rest blank to write my own personal message.

Items used to make this card:

Card base - Recollections 6.5" x 5"

Card stock - Bazzill - Blue Calypso

DP - Doodlebug Designs - Anchors Aweigh

 Lawn Fawn - Fintastic Friends stamp & die set

Copic markers used to colour image.

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and were able to draw a little inspiration from my card.

Have a blessed weekend.

Hugs,