SWEET! Brutus Monroe DT - Slimline Shaker Card

Happy Friday friends!

The sun is shining, the sky is blue and it makes me long for Spring!

But, before that can happen, we need to celebrate Valentine's Day AND another shaker card!

This is a slimline card for the Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team

Using the 'Sprinkled With Love' Stamp set.  The stamp set mostly features donuts and sweet treats,

but I wanted to use the hearts to make something a little unexpected.

Using the Chroma Glitter Glaze in Navy, I coated the cardstock behind my shaker openings.

While it was drying, I die cut 4 scalloped circles in the card front and added some foam tape to create space for the shaker areas.

The most difficult part was heat embossing these hearts using Alabaster Embossing Powder onto acetate. I used heat-resistant acetate, but it can still warp if you heat it too directly. Despite using a powder tool, My craft room is full of static and a tornado of dust, glitter, and everything that will stick to acetate. It took a couple tries, but I think the results are totally worth the effort!

Then the fun part, of adding the sequins and putting it all together!

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you have a sweet, sunny weekend!!

Below is a list of supplies I used and a link to where you can find most of them.

(Some affiliate links used that are at no cost to you)

Cheers Shaker Card & Video

I made a fairly quick shaker card for a 60th birthday using the My Favorite Things

‘Uncorked’ stamp set and the Wine Glass Shaker and Frame set. 

The shaker die & frame set makes things so much easier and faster, and was perfect for this recipient.

You can click on the link below or HERE to go directly to my YouTube channel.

I used the Pearlescent cardstock in ‘Blush’ from Craft Perfect (Tonic Studios) to cut out the wine glass frame.  To add some interest and a focal point for the wine glasses, I used a left over piece of gold glitter that I had used to cut circles from.

I mounted the gold glitter circle to a piece of white cardstock, a layer of foam and then onto a piece of polka-dot patterned paper from Avery Elle.  Before adhering the glass outline frames onto the card, I used a liquid glue to adhere the shaker bubble piece to the back of the frame.  Then I placed a small pile of sequins and confetti in golds and purples where I planned for the glasses to be on the card.

To finish up the card I heat embossed one of the sentiments from the MFT set onto vellum and added several of the gold oval gems from Nuvo around the card.  I loved the way it turned out; bright and sparkly and festive!  I will be using this set again soon for some New Year’s cards.

Thanks and cheers to you for stopping by the Blog today.

Below is a list of supplies I used and a link to where you can find most of them.

(Some affiliate links used that are at no cost to you)

Cards from Creativation 2019 - Tonic Studios

Even though it is June, I still wanted to share the cards I created for the Tonic Studios booth at Creativation 2019 this past January.  All of these cards were created using the ‘Adorables’ Stamp & Die Sets and colored with Nuvo alcohol markers, as well as other Tonic products.

This first card I used different sizes of the Tonic Basic circle dies to cut out circles for these colored images from the ‘Ellie Goes Nuts’ set.  I used some of the Hybrid Inks to blend color underneath the circles.  I heat embossed the sentiment that is parts of the stamp set.  I covered the balloon in Nuvo Crystal Drops to give it the shine.

The next card, I used one of the Patterned Panel Dies to cut a panel out of white cardstock.  I adhered it to another piece of A2 sized cardstock and misted them both using Nuvo Mist in Turkish Rose.  I cut out a scalloped circle from the misted piece and added foam tape to the back.

I used Distress Oxide Inks to blend the area behind the scalloped opening and added this skunk and other elements from the ‘Scent Wiff Love’ set.  I love the speech bubble with its hearts and free form shape. 

For the final card, I used the Adorables ‘Kirby & Lulu’s Wash Day’ stamp set to create this window border shaker card.  I used a couple different stitched border frame dies for both the window and outside frame.  I used a combination of acetate & vellum behind the frame as a background for my shaker elements and the sentiment.

I used dimensional foam tape to pop up the center shaker portion and add some patterned paper between the two frames.  I used several types of Nuvo confetti and glitter for the shaker bits.  I adhered all my colored images from the stamp set and from a couple other new Tonic ones to the outside the acetate.  I heat embossed the sentiment in black onto vellum and added Some detail with a white gel pen.

That’s it!  It took a while to post these, but wanted to spread them out between several weeks and other projects!  There are so many recent, fun examples of projects using the Adorables sets, check them out! 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great week!

Spring Fling Instagram Hop - Hello Shaker Card

Hey friends and Happy National Craft Month!

This is my project that I created for the Spring Fling Instagram Hop sponsored by Scrapbook.com  

The hop information is in my IG post HERE and you have until March 31st!!  Winner announced no later than April 5th, 2019.

You can click on the video below or HERE to go directly to my YouTube Channel.

I absolutely adore this metal die from Pinkfresh Studio.  I was inspired by a recent video from Jennifer McGuire where she made a shaker out of a large group stamp outline die.

I chose to do this using this large 'HELLO' die, but insetting the HELLO letters back into the die cut.  I layered the inset die cut and letter back into some Bristol Paper I used several pinks and green Distress Ink blended inks.

I added some Embossing Ink to the bottom half of the 'Hello' letters, added Gold Fine Detail Powder from Nuvo and heat embossed it.  I placed my top die cut outline piece,  layered with dimensional foam, over a small amount of the Ice White Circles confetti and the Rainbow Quartz Triangles confetti.  I mounted the entire piece onto some Pistachio Green cardstock from Tonic/Craft Perfect.

Thanks so much for stopping by and make sure to check out the video as well as the original Instagram post to enter for the $50 prize!

Supplies below:

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Tonic Studios Craft kit #19 - Shaker Cards

Today, I am sharing a couple shaker cards I created for Tonic Studios using two of the Shaker & Die sets.
Using lots of products from the Tonic Craft Kit #19 - Sweet Sentiments and several of the newly released tools, I had plenty to play with!

Tonic Studios provides me with some products, but the ideas are solely my own.

*Affiliate links are used at no cost to you and the profit goes to helping fund more supplies and this channel...*

Below is the video process I filmed creating these cards.
You can click on the video below or HERE to go directly to my YouTube Channel.

I love these shaker sets, they make creating shaker cards so clean and simple.
I used both the star and heart sets and two of the large detailed word dies that are in the Kit under each of the shaker bubbles.

I chose a large detailed die from the Craft Kit for each card, "hello" and "believe" as well as one of the stamps and the coordinating die.  I used various techniques on the large word dies, including glitter and blended embellishment mousse.  Each of the stamps was heat embossed on vellum, die cut and adhered below the large word.

I added a few of the new gems, the Rose Triads, also part of the Craft Kit, that are flat backed and perfect for embellishing.

I also used the Glitter Drops 'Summer Sunrise' to embellish the card front.

I used the new blending brushes with the embellishments mousse, mixed with water to make a creamy watercolor like paste and brushed across the background panel.

I used the large word die with the Craft Perfect Double Sided Adhesive sheets and two colors of blue glitter.  I heat embossed this sentiment using the Classic Silver embossing powder to match the Chrome Silver 6x6 cardstock that was part of the Kit. 

This card turned out better than I had imagined, never having used the glitter with adhesive paper before.

I think it would make a great card for a young or teen boy.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed these cards and check out the video.
I truly think those shaker die sets are such an amazing product!
Have an amazing day!