Love What You Do - Another Catalogue Sneak Peak

Friends are so important in life so I just love the sentiment that is part of the "Love What You Do" stamp set- which goes  like this:

I'm lucky

to have a 

friend

like you

The sentiment was a perfect focal point in a shaker element for this card - a shaker made using glitter tulle rather than window sheet.

The base card of Mint Macaron card stock, is layered with Love What you Do DSP with an oval aperture die cut in it. This was covered on both sides with Glitter Tulle using tear and tape adhesive with Fancy Frost Sequins shaker elements in between the tulle.

The sentiment, black embossed on a separate piece of Whisper White on a stamped off Mint Macaron background, was positioned under the die cut aperture.

To provide a more distinctive delineation between the shaker and the DSP, I added a Basic Black border around the shaker element.

Before adhering the 2 layers together, some 3/8" metallic edge Berry Burst ribbon was added to the left side of the shaker element.  An embellishment was added over the ribbon.

On a separate piece of Whisper White card stock I stamped and colored a flower and 3 flower elements - then fussy cut them and adhered them to a small oval die cut.  This was added to the edge of the shaker element using dimensionals.  The ribbon bow was added to the base of the flowers.  Clear Wink of Stella was added to each of the blooms.

One advantage of using tulle instead of the traditional window sheet is that the resultant card is much thinner and lighter.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Love What You Do

Inks:  Mint Macaron, Versa Mark, Black Memento, Dimensionals.

Papers:  Mint Macaron, Basic Black, Love What You Do DSP, Whisper White

Accessories: Layering Oval Framelits, Glitter Tulle (non SU), Fancy Frost Sequins (retired) shaker elements, 3/8" metallic edged Berry Burst ribbon. Black Embossing Powder, Dimensionals, Clear Wink of Stella

Snowflake Shaker card - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #248

That's one thing we have had very little of this winter (so far) - is snow.  Not that I'm complaining!  I prefer this to shoveling and slipping and sliding.

The challenge with Try Stampin on Tuesday is a sketch challenge - snowflakes can be added if we wished to.  Guess what, I wished to.  I decided to make a snowflake shaker card.

• This is a 5 by 5 Pacific Point base card which has had a shaker element built into the front of it.
• I used Fun Foam to make the shaker, die cutting the circle using the Circle Framelits.  The Whisper White front layer was die cut at the same time.  I also die cut a piece of Christmas DSP that had snowflakes in the pattern- to place behind the shaker.
• A window sheet, die cut with the circle framelits was attached to the wrong side of the whisper white layer using the Fine Tip glue pen.
• The die cut fun foam was adhered to the DSP which was attached to a piece of Whisper White cardstock slightly smaller than the card size.
• Frosted Sequins were used as the shaker elements.
• On the right side I used the embossed resistance technique using Plenty of Wishes embossed with white embossing powder and then the panel sponged with Pacific Point ink.  A paper towel was used to make the snowflakes "pop".  A circle framelit was used to cut the circle around the shaker, and it was then adhered to the front of the card.  A piece of silver ribbon was adhered to the edge of this panel.
• The rest of the Whisper White card front was stamped randomly with the snowflake stamp from Happy Scenes in Pacific Point ink.
• Before adding the snowflake embellishments, I die cut a circle of dazzling diamond glimmer paper (use 2 sizes of circles and die cut at the same time) and adhered it around the periphery of the shaker circle.
• The embellishment consists of a small snowflake punched in Pacific Point using the Snow Flurry punch.  On top of that, and adhered with a glue dot is a snowflake punched in dazzling diamond glimmer paper, using a non SU punch.  In the center is a silver sequin.

• Only the first part of the sentiment is on the front of the card.  The rest is on the inside.

Supplies Used: 
Stamps: Flurry of Wishes, Happy Scenes, Sentiment (unknown)
Inks: Versa Mark, Pacific Point, Black Memento
Papers: Pacific Point, Whisper White, Fun Foam, Dazzling Diamond Glimmer paper, Window sheet
Accessories: Circles Framelits, Frosted Sequins, Snow Flurry Punch, snowflake punch (unknown), glue dots, silver sequin, silver ribbon.