Kindness Butterfly Shaker Card

Aloha!


This is a card using a beautiful butterfly die and stamp set from Gina K. Designs. The entire set is filled with gorgeous images and sweet sentiments. I put a link to the stamps below.

Shaker cards can be fun because we can gear them up for little children or for adults. It just depends on the images and shaker bits! I didn't use that many bits for this one though. And I will pick out the sentiment after I know who this will go to. But check out the whole stamp set because all of it is incredibly designed, clean, elegant and thoughtful.

The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Stamp Set: "Love and Kindness" by Gina K. Designs
Cardstock: GKD
VersaFine Onyx Black
Acetate: Grafix
Colored with Sharpies!
Circle and Pierced Circle "Must Have" die sets by Scrapbooking Made Simple (SMS) in Santa Clarita, CA
Shaker bits: Mixture of beads, confetti, stars and sequins (Mostly PPP and Studio Katia)
Adhesive Foam Tape by 3M

Thank you for looking👀

Summer Float with Iced Latte

Aloha!

This is a card for the Coffee Lovering Papercrafters SUMMER Blog Hop 2017. It will also be entered into the House Mouse #243 Interactive Card Challenge.

For the Coffee Loving Papercrafter's hop I made the drink an iced latte. For the Stampendous Challenge it is supposed to be interactive - all I could think of right now is shaker card. I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it all with Prismacolor Pencils. Then I used a bit of Gamsol to smooth out any lines. The bunny is so adorable to me, floating during the summertime heat, cooling off with an iced latte that a bumble bee is sipping from, too :)

A touch of Memento Summer Sky and Angel Pink are sponged around for the sky, and Diamond Stickles are covering the latte glass, the water, and the fish decorating the inner tube. Don't you love the little ducky tied to the tube?

I used one of Gina Krupsky's videos at StampTV to make this "pinch and cinch" bow. You just tie some ribbon with twine, thread the twine into a button and tie it off. Cut the ends off. I've misplaced the roll of adhesive foam (YES, I did) so I just adhered two layers of fun foam cut 1/4" wide to make the shaker frame.


Stamp: Happy Hopper Inner Tube Nap by Stampendous
Cardstock: Gina K. Designs 120# White and Wild Dandelion
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Angel Pink, Summer Sky
Prismacolor Pencils and Gamsol
Dies for the Frame: Scrapbooking Made Simple "Must Have A4 Rectangles"
Sequins: Pretty Pink Posh
"Grafix" Clear Craft Plastic (for window)
Double Side Adhesive 1/4" and 1/8"; Liquid Glue by Scrapbooking Made Simple
Stickles Diamonds
Stash - ribbon, twine, button
Bumble Bee: Jolee's Boutique

Summer Float with Iced Latte

Mahalo for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!

Con-CRAB-ulations!!!

Aloha! Yes, I'm making up words again.

This is for our youngest grandson who will be entering first grade. If the grandkids are getting older, why is it we aren't?

I thought this would be entered into the Lawnfawn challenge, but the colors are wrong. Will try again for next grandchild's card 😃

As you can see, I added too many sequins. Last time I didn't add enough. There has to be a happy middle ground somewhere?

I'm working on the phone again, at least for several days. Forgive all the additional errors.

Stamp Sets: "Life is Good" by Lawn Fawn
Dies: Stitched Squares by Lawn Fawn, Small Squares and Scalloped Squares by SB
Acetate from Grafix
Copic Markers
Memento inks for sponging sky
Sequins and seed beads by Pretty Pink Posh
Signing White Gel Pen, Dries Clear, Scor Tape, Adheshive Foam

With aloha ❤️

Thank you for visiting! 

Shaking Good Coffee

Aloha!

A new week. Is it me, or are weeks flying by like the blink of an eye? Maybe it's the coffee I drink.

I only drink one, maybe 1-1/2 cups in the morning. They don't help me with energy but it is comforting to wake up with a hot, cozy drink. This one you can shake for some extra happy!!

I tried very hard to finish this before yesterday for the STV weekly challenge. Boo. Missed it. My best isn't fast enough. Is there a snail pace challenge I can start following?

If you look on Pinterest (or maybe Google) you can find all kinds of templates. I found this one and printed it on cardstock. It's REALLY large, like 7x6-1/2 inches, even bigger than an A4 card? I didn't feel like shrinking, saving, reprinting, so it is what it is. A massive, giant coffee drink!

I used a ruler and French curve rulers to cut the center of the cup out, adhered acetate to the back, used 1/4 inch adhesive foam and filled it with sequins and seed beads. I stamped some beans and distressed the edges of the panel and used Copics to add shading on the cup and shadow. The cardbase is run through a swiss dot folder twice because of the size. Inside for the coffee color I used distress inks. I glued some sequins to the back and the rest fell to the bottom. There are mini hearts, mini stars and several neutral color sequins in there. Wrapped twine around it and called it 3 days LOLLOLololOOlol! Yup, I'm a slow slow poke.

Link to Template for Coffee Cups

Stamp Sets: Both are GKD by Claire Brennan "We Go Together" and "Coffee"
Cardstock Neenah Solar White 110#; Grafix Clear Plastic
Distress inks: Brushed Corduroy, Espresso; Delicata Gold (some of the coffee beans)
Copic Warm Gray 1, 3, 5
Cuttlebug Swiss Dot Embossing Folder
Sequins Pretty Pink Posh; Sparkle Twine; Corner Rounder, Scor Tape, Adhesive Foam, Dries Clear

Mahalo for stopping by!

Each and every visit and comment adds smiles to my day!!! 

♥

A New Baby Niece

Aloha sweet friends,

I am back after compromising with Bruce about the foot. Instead of the ER, I called insurance and they said it would be fine to go to a local Urgent Care, that it was trauma ready. Yay! We drove in to town and they have no x-ray machine so we came home. That is a compromise in my book.

I finished the interior and the envelope for a card made earlier this week. My brother who is closing in on 65 just remarried a younger gal and they have a new baby. This card is for them. I have no idea how he does it but he was a real cutie in school and girls are always drawn to him, even now :-) We siblings have grandkids out of high school which is making our family tree more confusing to me as the years go by. Remember the song "I'm my own grandpa?" I'm hoping this doesn't happen.

The pink elephant and scalloped Circle are heart embossed with pink Embossing Powder. The flowers on the DP are accented with Crystal Lacquer.

Stamp Set: "Hello Little One" by Unity Stamp Company
"Pink Embossing Powder" by Whisper
Memory Box "Onesie" Die
Designer Paper by Anna Griffin
Pretty Pink Posh Sequins and Vintage Sparkle Glitter
Adhesive Foam Circle by Stampin' Up
3D Crystal Lacquer, Pink Rhinestones
Clear Acetate
Ranger Enamel Accent, White
Spellbinders Circle and Lacy Circle Dies

Thank you for your visit and lovely comments!

Fishy Shaker Card

Aloha dear friends,

We have not needed to turn on the air conditioner for at least a week - yay! The fans are enough. But it's "chilly" in the mornings (don't laugh) like 66 degrees.

I've had this stamp set for so long and never did get it inky. Do you have any of those? The guilt finally got to me so inky it is! And it's been a while since I've made a shaker card -- this is for a young girl who is about 5 but can read at a 3rd grade level! She has practiced so much.

Inside the card I stamped the fish bowl with some star fish, mini fish, and will print out "You're a STAR!"

The sentiment is just snipped on both ends and I used a Memento blue marker to add the stitching and dots. The little tear drop pieces that fell out of the frame die are inside with all the sequins and beads. 

Stamp Set: Stampendous "Sushi Bowl Party"
Inks Pad and Markers: Memento
Perfect Pearls: Royal Blue
Sequins: Pretty Pink Posh, Martha Stewart, & Little Things by Lucy's Cards
Dies: Spellbinders Circles & Tear Drop Circles 
Cardstock: GKD 120# White, Sweet Corn & Blue Denim
Embossing Folder: Beach Waves
Navy Grossgrain Ribbon
Corner Chomper 1/4" Rounder
Fun Foam, Scor Tape, Tombo Mono Dots, Adhesive Foam Squares

 

Thank you sweet friends -- I love it when you stop by ♥