Good Morning Tulle Shaker Card

I really love making shaker cards.  Usually I make them using window sheets, but today I am making a shaker card using glitter tulle instead of window sheet.  The use of tulle for shaker cards was inspired by Jennifer McGuire here .  Check out her video on how to make tulle shakers.

 

Stamp:  Good Morning Magnolia

Inks: Mossy Meadow, Petal Pink

Papers:

• Petal Pink- 4 1/4 by 5 1/2" - card base
• Petal Pink - 4 1/8 by 5 3/8" - inside
• Whisper White 4 by 5 1/4" - card base layer and one for inside
• Magnolia DSP 3 3/4 by 5 - adhere to Whisper White layer.
• Magnolia DSP 3/4 by 5 1/4" for inside
• Scrap of Whisper White for sentiment and to punch 4 flowers using Perennial Flower punch
• Scrap of Daffodil Delight to punch flower centers
• Scrap of Mossy Meadow - punch 3 leaves using Leaf Punch

Accessories:

• Stitched Nested Label Dies
• Tasteful Label Dies
• Perennial Flower Punch
• Leaf Punch
• Snowflake punch- flower centers
• Shimmer Crystal Effects
• Dazzling Diamonds
• 3/4" White petal pink edged ribbon
• Champagne rhinestones
• Glimmer tulle
• Dimensionals
• Shaker elements

Celebrating Summer - a Diorama Card - SUO Challenges #252

When I think about celebrating summer I think about many things.

I think about my garden, with the cacaphony of colour as all the flowers are blooming

I think about the sounds of the birds as they call to each other and tend to their young.  There's a cardinal nest in my lilac tree right above my swing chair.

I think about warm sand and going to the beach and getting my nose sunburned - about children playing in the sand building sand castles.

As impossible as it might seem, all these thoughts were put into one card - a Diorama card.  For the challenge with SUO Challenges summer is celebrated with a different focus.

To celebrate summer, two little girls (Beautiful Moments) are visiting Grandma who happens to live by the beach and has this neat garden.  On this day, gathering pails in hand, they head through the garden gate down to the beach to spend the day building sand castles. Grandma (unseen) is watching) If they get tired they can take turns sitting in this lovely pink (Magenta Madness) beach chair.  Don't you wish you could join them?

The sentiment from "Celebrating Sunflowers" bobs on the ocean reminding us what this day is all about.

Several stamp sets are used to set the stage for this 3 layer Diorama card.  Grace's Garden stamps and die cuts are used to create Grandma's garden, from the front gate to all the colourful flowers to the curious kittens being teased by the local birds, to the blooming vines over head.  The girls pause briefly as they walk through the gate hardly noticing the colourful scene all around them, their eyes focused on the beach ahead.

The ocean setting with the water and beach are created using the High Tide stamp set, with a brayered Balmy Blue sky, Pacific Point ocean and crumb cake beach.  An Adirondack chair, die cut using a Seasonal Layer die, sits among the beach grass on the shore. The shrill call of the Sea birds echo overhead as the girls step onto the warm sand of the beach.  The soft ocean breeze ruffle their hair as they take in the view, looking first at the water, then at the beach looking for a good spot to build their castles.  Finding a spot, they sit down to play.  Grandma is still watching.

This 3 layer Diorama card is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2" and 2 1/4" deep.  It will fold flat for mailing but a special, custom envelope will have to be made.

Layer 3 (back) is Whisper White 4 1/4 by 7 1/2" scored 1" at each end and has the beach scene.

Layer 2 (middle) Whisper White 4 1/4 by 7 1/2" scored 1" at each end. It has an aperture die cut in the middle using a medium stitched Label die. This is the end point of the garden, with flowers on both sides and vines over head.

Layer 1 (front)  Seaside Spray 4 1/4 by 11 1/2"  scored 2 1/4" each end. It also has an aperture die cut with the larger stitched Label die.

This is the beginning of the garden.  A variety of Stampin' Blends are used to colour the flora and fauna as well as the gate. It reminds me of my garden.

To put the card together, fold up the ends of layer 3 and adhere to the outside of the ends of layer 2 which have been folded down.  Adhere layer 1 with the folded ends added to the outside of both of the other layers.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Grace's Garden, High Tide, Beautiful Moments,  Celebrate Sunflowers
Inks:  Black Memento, Watercolor pencils (girls), Balmy Blue, Pacific Point, Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, various Stampin' Blends for the garden flowers,
Papers:  Whisper White, Magenta Madness, Seaside Spray, Garden Green
Accessories:  Garden Gateway dies, Stitched Nesting Label Dies, Seasonal Layers dies, Ornate frame die (sentiment) Blender pen

A garden, birds overhead, warm sand on your feet, the sound of waves, and a soft ocean breeze - what more can you ask for to celebrate summer.

Lilypad Lake Shaker Sympathy card

I often walk beside the canal near my home and occasionally I will surprise a blue heron feeding in the shallows.  Their size always amazes me.  I stand and watch them until something startles them and they take off.

The shaker window is die cut using the Stitched Nesting Label die on a 4 by 5 1/4" piece of Whisper White.  The sunset scene in the window was created on an identical size piece of Whisper White card stock.

A slightly larger piece of window sheet was adhered to the wrong side of the front, and after adding strips of adhesive foam around this as well as the card stock edges, the shaker was created.  The shaker elements are Tranquil Textures sprinkles.  This unit is adhered to a Balmy Blue card base.

A blue heron is stamped, coloured, die cut and adhered to the lower left of the shaker element using dimensionals.  A lily pad and lilies were also coloured, die cut and adhered to the lower right.

The sentiment is also from the stamp set, and is die cut using one of the coordinating dies of this set.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Lilypad Lake, Sailing Home (birds)
Inks:  Scene:  Sky: Daffodil delight, Calypso Coral, Pumpkin Pie, Water:  Pool Party, Balmy Blue and Pacific Point.  LIlypad:  Rococco Rose, Granny Apple Green.  Heron:  Smoky Slate, Basic Black, Balmy Blue
Papers:  Balmy Blue, Whisper White
Accessories:  Lakeside Dies, Stitched Nesting Label dies, Window Sheets, Tranquil Textures Sprinkles, Dimensionals.








       

Diorama Card - Blossoms of Life's Garden

Gardening has always been one of my passions, so I was excited when I saw I saw the Grace's Garden stamp set and coordinating dies (Garden Gateway Dies) in the new Mini Catalogue. It's been a while since I got it, and I finally finished a project using it.

I have made a Diorama card before here but I used a tutorial at Splitcoasterstampers here to refresh my memory.

The front layer of this 3 layer Diorama card is Purple Posy card stock; the other two layers are Whisper White with the base layer being Thick Whisper White.

Two sizes of stitched Nested Label dies were used to make the apertures; the largest being used in the front.  This gives  a tunnel effect and directs your eye to the back of the card which has a statement stamped on the back wall:  "Of all the blossom of life's garden, friendship is the most fragrant"

The open gate (the die cut gate was cut in half to allow it to open) provides an invitation into the garden which consists of many coloured flowers, vines, as well as some curious cats and birds.  These are all stamped, coloured and die cut from the Grace's Garden stamp/die set.

A close up of the open gate

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This is a side view of the right front of the card.

Close up of the left side.  See the bird on top of the post teasing the cat?

 Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Grace's Garden
Inks:  Black Memento, Stampin' Blends  combinations of Daffodil Delight, Highland Heather, Old Olive, Real Red, Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Calypso Coral)
Papers: Whisper White, Thick Whisper White, Purple Posy

• Thick Whisper White 4 1/4 by 9 1/2": scored 2" at each of the long ends 
• Whisper White 4 1/4 by 7 1/2: scored at 1" at both long ends
• Purple Posy card stock 4 1/4 by 9 1/2" scored 2" at each of the long ends
• Whisper White 1/2 piece to stamp images.

Accessories:  Garden Gateway dies, Stitched Nested Label dies

Free as a Bird - Another catalogue sneak peak

 Birds are harbingers of Spring.
I keep waiting for my favourite season to arrive, but all I keep hearing is the 'cold' word and even 'snow'
So, I'm hoping this card will remind you of Spring.

These little birds have got to be a favourite of mine (as well as several other new images but who's counting). The little one at the end seems to be singing his heart out.

The stamparatus was used to stamp the image from the "Free as a Bird" stamp set onto Watercolour paper. Then using ink pads and an aqua painter, I painted the birds with Daffodil Delight, with shading done with Crushed Curry, the leaves Old Olive, the branch Early Espresso, and the flowers Melon Mambo.  I used a pumpkin pie marker to colour the beaks.  Balmy Blue was used to create a watercolour wash behind the birds. As with a lot of the new suites, a trinket, specifically for this one, is added below the branch on the right.

The image was die cut with the Stitched Nested Labels die and adhered to the card front using dimensionals.

The card base is a 5 1/2 by 11" Balmy Blue card stock scored at 5 1/2 to form a 5 1/2" square  top fold card.  The card front is first layered with some beautiful floral pattern Bird Ballad DSP, followed by some Whisper White card stock and then with another pattern (pink dots) of the DSP.

Finally, a 1 1/2" strip of Balmy Blue card stock is adhered to the left side covering all the layers.

Along the right card edge a piece of 3/8" scallop lace ribbon and ribbon knot is added.

The sentiment is also die cut with the same die set as the image and adhered to the right below the art piece.

Some previously made paper flowers, left over from another project, are added on the left side below the image. Some leaves, punched in Old Olive with the Leaf Punch, is added with the flowers

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Free as a Bird
Inks:  Black Memento, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Early Espresso, Melon Mambo, Balmy Blue
Papers:  Balmy Blue, Whisper White, Bird Ballad DSP, Old Olive
Accessories:  3/8" scallop lace trim, bird ballad trinket, Stitched nested label dies, dimensionals. leaf punch.