Happy St. Patty's Shaker Card

Hey guys I'm up on the Blogger with another St. Patty's card.  This time I did a shaker card for Simon Says Wednesday's Challenge. Click on the link and head over there to see all the info on the challenge, the fun prize and all the inspiration.

I used lots of Doodlebug for this one!  Actually everything is from Doodlebug except the shaker bits and the die I used.  I added some squiggly lines around the yellow die cut wonky frame with a jelly roll white pen.

Pro tip- if you do not have acetate to make your shaker, packaging from your crafty goodies works just as well!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I inspired you to put a smile on someone's face by making them a card!

Stay crafty

Kimberly 

Coffee Lover's Fall/Winter Blog Hop 2025 - Holiday Cheer

Hey guys I'm here with a Christmas themed coffee card for the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.  Here's a link if you want to join in on all the fun now through the 14th of November.

I used my La La Land Crafts to go coffee die set and made a shaker out of the "sleeve" of the togo cup.  I also used some Christmas Tonic Studios glossed mirror papers and my tiny Varsity alpha dies to make the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and hanging out with me!  Don't forget to head over to the hop and check out all of the amazing inspiration for coffee cards this year!

Happy crafting,

Kimberly

Puffy Heart Shaker Card, #47 of the 365 scrapbook challenge and what lessons I learned with this layout

Hi Newbies, 

I'm here working on #47 of my 365 page layout challenge for 2019!  - and yes I do include cards and 8x8 mini albums as part of my layout challenge - -just saying😬 

I will try to link all of the items used (and possibly where I bought them) just in case you decide you like any of it.

I've been seeing all of these shaker cards and decided that I wanted to try to make one.  Well...this layout will have a lot of lessons in it🤦🏻‍♀️

First I want to start off by saying the card makers that make these cards have tremendous talent!  I am in awe of the beautify they create and how easy they make it look...it's not.  You would think making a card would be but, IT IS NOT!

This shaker card turned out to be an inside out shaker card.  I mean, who makes those? 🙋🏻‍♀️  This girl right here does.  Why?  Because when you have used all of the materials up to a certain point and then realize this is all wrong, you are not going to waste all of that money those materials cost and toss it.  So LESSON #1, even if it doesn't work one way, make it work another (and save those materials).

I started out with a pre-made card already scored in plain white.  I wanted to make a card to send to my sister and she LOVES hearts.  I have this awesome heart die that I don't use that often but I love the way it looks so I decided I would be different and use this intricate die to make a shaker card...and here comes LESSON #2, the words "intricate" and "shaker" should not be used in the same sentence.  The "shaker" part of the card needs to have room for the bits to...SHAKE🤦🏻‍♀️

I started off using some Shimmerz SPRITZ, in COTTON CANDY on the white card stock to give it some color and I loved the way that looked.  The shimmer to it was gorgeous!  I some how managed to mess up the fold on the pre-scored card by running it through my Big Shot so I had to be creative and use Washi tape to hide it...and here is LESSON #3, make a mistake, try to cover it up before tossing it and starting over.  This worked, the colors, the design...it all worked for this card so I went with it.  

I always like trying to be different and decided that I would cut the heart die again but this time out of adhesive foam that I have in this amazing pink (see the theme here).  I couldn't believe that my Big Shot cut it...who knew (apparently everyone because it says that it cuts different material right on the directions on how to use it).  I was super excited!  

I then opened the card and added the foam strips (like I've seen all the YouTube how to make a shaker card tell you to do).  After that, I placed the foam hearts into the die cut I made on the front of the card and it fit perfectly.  Once that was in it wasn't coming out and that's when it hit me...those bits were not going to shake at all in those hearts.

So now I have used some Shimmerz SPRITZ, Washi Tape, die cut the card, die cut my pink foam adhesive (purchased from Michaels.com) and had already gone through my stash  (some Vicki Boutin, ephemera pack and some Ink Road Stamps sequence), and pulled what I was going to use and even heat embossed some vellum with one of my Stamps from the set HAND MADE ESSENTIALS that I got from scrapbook.com (that was a freebie that you had to be at the right time and place to get because they went fast....LESSON #4,  follow some of your favorite scrapbooking and card making companies on IG and FB because they love to do giveaways)! 

I was at a cross roads.  What to do, what to do...through all of it out, waste my materials and time it took and start all over?  I decided to continue instead of tossing it.

I had already put the foam tape on the inside and there was no getting that off without tearing the card so I put a backing on from a scrap piece of card stock that matched the pinks on the front (it would be showing through the front hearts die cut).  

After that I was still wanting to make this a shaker card, I mean come on, I had went out and bought some bits and sequence and really wanted to try this so I went for it... just on the inside instead of the outside.   I mean when she opens the card...SURPRISE!  Shakers!! Who wouldn't love that!  So I guess this would be LESSON #5 (I told you there were a lot of lessons with this one), just because something is suppose to be made one way, switch it up and make it your way.  No rules...just creativity!  So GO FOR IT!

I followed the directions from some of the YouTube videos and went for it and it worked!  However,  and here comes LESSON #6 for this work of art...make sure you like your background BEFORE you start finishing up the card.

After I made the shaker part successfully, I hated the all white background so I started trying to fix it with a Wonky frame cut from pink scrap I had left over and using Nuvo Embellishing Mousse in Peony Pink I had gotten from Sparklensprinkle.net.  Let me tell you how hard it is to try to use Mousse when you have something you don't want the Mousse on.  I had to cover each side as I used the Mousse and try to get all the white covered.  As you can tell not only did I not get all the white covered...the Wonky frame I tried to use to cover the Shaker part up didn't quite make it around the entire shaker part.  Ugh!

But, seriously I couldn't stop now!  So I stamped the other side with pink ink from Ranger and a really old block stamp I had and really liked it...except for the all white back ground so I got creative with some Lemon Sorbet Nuvo Mousse  PURPOSELY leaving some white around the wording because I liked that look.   

I added the hearts that came out of the die (which is one reason I love this die, not only do you get the see through hearts, you get the cut out ones to use as well). 

Well, it may not be perfect but it was made with love!

There you have it...number 47 of my 365 layout challenge for 2019.  Thanks for following along on my journey of 365 scrapbook page challenge that I am doing, and reading about the lessons I'm learning along the way!

Please leave a comment below and let me know if you have ever made a shaker card and how it turned out.

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Happy Scrapping🤗

Kimberly