Another Power Poppy digi stamp gets coloured for the first time. I could have just added a sentiment and created a simple Christmas card with it, but somewhere along the way I had the idea to turn it into a shaker card. I haven't made one of those for ages... checks... four years apparently. The… Continue reading Spiced orange pomander
We’re heading towards the end of yet another month so it’s time for another challenge card. After last month’s turtle, Gerda Steiner gave us a cute little mouse with a hoard of strawberries to colour. Inspired by the sketch challenge from Seven Hills Crafts, I thought I’d combine the two challenges and make a shaker… Continue reading Strawberry mouse shaker
Sci-fi, bad movies and shaker cards. Yes it was time to make a birthday card for my other half again. This time I went straight for This Island Earth aka Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and created an interocitor. Once I found a reasonably clear image of the whole of the interocitor, I used… Continue reading Interocitor
This was made for a friend who is a radio geek (among other things) — hence the valves — and whose eyesight is bad enough that I always make an effort to put extra texture or interactive elements in; this one is basically a full-size shaker. Looking back at the photos of this card I… Continue reading Valves shaker
The bonus lessons for the wrap-up day of the Clear and Sheer card class were on shaker cards. I’ve made a few shaker cards in the past, but I’ve always used acetate for them; it had never occurred to me to use vellum, so I had to give it a go. And I really like… Continue reading Vellum shaker
Create A Smile is celebrating its second birthday and this month’s challenge is, fittingly, to create a birthday card. That gave me a really good reason to finally ink up the crokisses stamp set, which I absolutely love, but haven’t got around to actually using yet… I also decided that a shaker card would work… Continue reading Birthday: Crocuses
I have thought of so many different designs for this month’s challenge image in the last three weeks, but I wasn’t really happy with any of them. Then I finally came up with one that I actually liked enough to make. How: I started by printing out the bunny on Copic-friendly Neenah solar white card,… Continue reading Easter: Jump rope bunny
What: I bought a fuse tool a little while ago, but I hadn’t got around to trying it out. It seemed daft to get these things and leave them unused so I pushed myself to give it a go. And I’m really happy with the results. How: In an effort to use up some of… Continue reading Happy Day card: Shaker tag
What: Cute critters are a must-have for any card for my mum. I spotted these mice a while ago and knew I had to make mum’s Christmas card with them, but it’s quite a skinny image so I had to come up with a way of using it on a card and not have it… Continue reading Christmas card: Mice shaker
What: A Christmas card for my other half’s sister. She loves bunnies, so what better than a bunny bearing gifts. The idea: To make a Christmas bunny shaker card and to use some paper from my collection of paper pads. How: Bently bunny was printed onto Neenah solar white, coloured with Copic markers, and fussy… Continue reading Christmas card: Christmas Bently
What: My first attempt at creating a full-size shaker card using my new Brother ScanNCut. How: The first thing I had to do was create the design for the front of the shaker. I started by sketching the Merry Xmas design on paper and inking over it. If I had been happy with it at… Continue reading Christmas card: Full shaker
What: It’s that time of year when I have to come up with an idea for a birthday card for my other half. It had to have a shaker element, as he has liked the ones I’ve done so far (and didn’t want to give away the first one I did). He likes sci-fi and… Continue reading Birthday card: Robot and coffee
What: A masculine birthday card for a radio-loving friend. How: After mocking up the layout, I started out by cutting the window for the shaker element. Then I stamped and fussy cut the radio from masking paper so that I could apply the embossing paste through the stencil and still leave space for the radio.… Continue reading Birthday card: Radio shaker
What: This card started off with the idea of having the amigos hanging their signs out of windows and developed from there. I had a long think about what to use to fill the shaker windows — as the card was still quite masculine at this point, I didn't want to add pretty sequins or… Continue reading Birthday card: Amigos shaker
What: Friends of ours have just had their first baby; a little girl. I don't have any baby-themed stamps, so I had to find something suitable — I think the bunny works well, and it is certainly my most successful attempt at no-line watercolouring so far. Inspired by: This one was definitely inspired by Kristina Werner's… Continue reading New baby: Pink bunny shaker
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