I'm 'SHAKING' this week at Just Us Girls

 

Have you always said I must make a Shaker Card one of these 'One Day'

Well my one day came when our

Hostess Sue

 asked us to do that for our Trend Week at

Just Us Girls

and I had so much fun I am going to play with

that trend some more as it was much easier than I thought.

 

Here are the products I used -

White and Hot Pink card stock

Acetate

Hot Air Balloon stamp was given to me by a friend

The clouds and sentiments are from

Art Impressions

Background stars stamp - Hero Arts

Sequins

Variegated cotton

Kindy Glitz

Pop dots/tape.

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Pop over to our blog HERE to see what

the other Designer's have made

and then hop into your craft room and go for it.

Hope to see you there soon.

 

Thanks for dropping in.

 



It's Sketch Time again at Atlantic Hearts

Here is a card I made for the current Sketch Challenge

over at Atlantic Hearts.

You can find their blog HERE

 

 

 

I am not completely happy with how this turned out

but maybe I am being a little critical of my own work.

We do that don't we?

Here are some of the products I used

White/Kraft card stock.

Background is made using the

shaving cream technique -

 although you can't see too much of it.

The image is heat embossed in white

and is from Stamp It

The background was inked with

Tim Holtz Distress Inks and Stencils

The border is a Stampin' Up punch

Sentiment is also from Stampin' Up.

Finished with some variegated cotton.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Hope to see you back again soon.

 

 

 

Another Heat Embossed card for The House that Stamps Built.

This is the second card I made for the current

Designer's Choice Challenge at The House

 

 

Something completely different from my previous card.

Again I used another of the lovely Repeat Impression stamps

I have in my little collection and perfect for

heat embossing. Thanks Kathy.

 

I used the RI stamp 1713J - Dandelions

(I know they are supposed to be yellow)

as my focal image (popped)

 and embossed it with

Zing Embossing Powder

Basic card stock

Background is a Sizzix embossing folder

Corner rounder

Sentiment and ribbon are from

Stampin' Up Rich Razzleberry

also spritzed with the same colour.

 

Again I hope you like what I made.

I love to read your thoughts.

 



It's Designer's Choice at The House - Heat Embossing

My friend Kathy Stacy has one of my favourite techniques

for the current DC Challenge at

The House that Stamps Built Here

and she has asked us to create a card with Heat Embossing.

Thanks Kathy - I love doing this especially with RI stamps.

 

I have made a couple of card and here is the first one.

 

I went cas on this one by just using white card stock

The gorgeous flower is from

Repeat Impressions - Daffodils 904W

I cut out an oval from a Spellbinder die for masking

The embossing folder is from Stampin' Up

Sentiment from Inspired by Stamping

Inks - Tim Holtz

Broken Chins/Stormy Sky

Memento - Pistachio Summer Sky

Dandelion/Olive Grove

Black Embossing Powder

 

So you see it is pretty simple and I will send this off

to a friend who is a little under the weather.

 

I will post my second card a little later.

Thanks for stopping by.

 



Time for a change - G is for Glitter at ABC Christmas Challenge

 

My thoughts turned to GLITTER and CHRISTMAS

for the Current Challenge over at

The ABC Christmas Challenge

 

 

I think Christmas cards should mainly be CAS as we need to

produce so many. So that is what I decided to do with this card.

 

Christmas is not Christmas without

Glitter and of course a Snowflake.

So of course I got my favourite (and oldie)

Cuttlebug Snowflake die and cut it out

with this lovely coloured glitter paper.

I chose Gold Metallic Paper as my base

I then topped it with similar paper embossed with

another Cuttlebug Embossing Folder added gold

paper to back my scored gold paper.

Popped my gold snowflake after adding a

Sparklet to the centre.

 The sentiment is also an olide but goodie

from Stampin' Up - Heard from the Heart

and inked with Versacolor Gold

Also scored top and bottom of the sentiment.

 

Thanks once again for stopping by

 



And while I was at it - I kept on playing

And I kept on playing at the

Top Tip Tuesday

Mellow Yellow Challenge

 

 

I again used the paper and pre coloured image from

Fred She Said - HERE

and went with a swing card using

basic card stock

embossing folder and

Spellbinder die.

Finished it with some Liquid Pearls and

Glossy Accents on the butterfly.

 

That's it for now..