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If you have arrived here from the lovely Fiona's blog, hello..
If you have arrived here from the lovely Fiona's blog, hello..
Today am showcasing a 'shaker' style card - now made so much easier with the newly introduced Foam Adhesive strips available in the new catalogue and need to say thankyou to another lovely lady - Betty Pollard - for the step by step instructions..
...and it's real departure for me as I have opted for green as my colour of choice - and not just any green, but Emerald Envy - one of the 2016-2018 in colours. Just love this.. a real jewel of a colour and that's from someone who would not normally turn to green, as a first or any choice usually. But.. teamed with Whisper White as my card base - I love how fresh it looks.
For the 'shaking' sprinkles I have a fair few of the 'Brights Sequin Assortment' - amazing value, you get approximately 750 sequins in a pot.. Needless to say I didn't use quite that many!..
and a neat trick here, again passed on - use your embossing buddy to brush the inside of your window sheet as this helps to cut down on static and stops the sequins sticking to the sheet. I also used a pipette which I kept sticking into the embossing buddy to pick up some of the chalk and just ran it round the inside of the foam strips again in an effort to stop the sequins sticking to the sides as you shake it..!
My 'dotty' background was a fair few repetitions of the paint spatter stamp from the new Painter's Palette' set and you can just make out the 'Hello' in the middle of my card? - I used one of the stamps that come packaged with the 'Oh Happy Day' project kit, using my Basic Black Stāzon Ink. I just stamped it a 2nd time, with the help of my Stamp-a-Majig, to slightly offset it, to create a wider result...
and the sentiment at the bottom of the card ' Sending a smile your way' ?
This is from another of the New stamp sets, Love and Affection and thought it teamed nicely with my 'Hello' and instead of my customary bits of bling am usually so fond of - just punched a few of the tiny stars of card offcuts using the Sprinkles punch - yes another new product...
and here it is all 'shook up' ..or down as seems to be the case here !
Well I hope this has raised a smile with you all too..
Thanks for visiting and next stop is the lovely Anna - make sure you don't miss anything en route, as there are lots of lovely things to see and all are sure to inspire as you hop around the complete tour.
Til next time
have a lovely week
Jan x
Great card Jan
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DeleteThanks so much for leaving a lovely comment I realy appreciated it.. and am definitely in agreement with the thoughts on the bees on your blog - oh yes!
I haven't made a shaker card for ages! totally need though, your card is lovely and a great way of using all those sequins!
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who hoo thanks so very much Hannah - that's really nice of you to say and a shaker card was a make and take on on stage local and so much easier with those adhesice strips x thanks again
DeleteWow, your card is so bright and vibrant! I really need use stronger colours more as I love how uplifting this is. Great project x
ReplyDeletehi Kim - thank you very much - yep that emerald envy is definitely bright! so trying to make good use if it as much as I can.. definitely out of my comfor Zone! Jan x
DeleteHello Jan... Love your HELLO card. very lovely. I like your style so much. :) x
ReplyDeletethanks very much Swathi - that's a lovely thing to say and so much appreciated. it is a bit bright I must say.. jan x
DeleteSuper fun and bright card Jan, love it and thanks for the tip about the embossing buddy! Have a great weekend x
ReplyDeletehi Michelle thank you very much - for stopping by and leaving a nice comment like that - oh boy it is certainly a bit bright I must agree - and glad to pass on the tip - it did seem to work .. Jan x
Deleteoooo I love a shaker card !! thanks so much for the inspiration :)
ReplyDeletehi Sarah thank you very much and must say your's was a real stunner as well!!!!!absolutely fabulous idea.. Jan x
DeleteGreat shakercard. Love the pop of color
ReplyDeletehello Caroline and thank you very much - uhmm.. it certainly is a bit of a bright colour! amd my aim is ti try to use all of nre new in-colours equally so that is off to a good start I hope! Jan x
ReplyDeleteReally fun and colourful card Jan. I love shaker cards x Great tip with embossing buddy. Wish I knew it earlier. I've made one shaker card while back where all shaker elements sticked to the foam tape haha...I learned it hard way ;)
ReplyDeleteawhhh.. thanks so Anna - that's so nice of you to visit and leave a comment.. very much appreciated - yep it is a bit colourful must admit.. and glad to pass on the tip.. I was only left with one erring sprinkle which refused to budge from the adhesive strip so think it worked.. thank you again..
DeleteJan x
This is fab Jan! You were brave going with the green...I can't quite go that far out of my comfort zone! Thanks for the reminder about the embossing buddy...I made a shaker card today and totally forgot about that! :)
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awh thanks Lizy
Deletethat's really nice of you to say and in all honesty it really is just a bit bright... but its a bit wet here today so may be it doesn ping off the screen quite as much! :-)
hope all OK with you and really lovely to hear from you.
Jan x
Fantastic Card Jan. I'm just today getting a look as I've been sick. Love the color choices and thanks for giving me credit for something you made look so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteDear Betty thank you so much for visiting and saying such lovely things X it certainly would not have come together half as easily without your step by step instructions X Sorry you have not been too well but hope you are well on the mend now X Jan X
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