Faux Shaker Cards for Twins

Our Great Nieces are celebrating their 2nd birthday and here are their cards. I made the cards almost the same since they are twins, but made sure they weren't identical. I also added an A and an E to the front of their cards for their initials.

I created faux shakers by wrapping a transparency around the smaller panel, adhering the edges down on the back after the confetti and acetate ephemera was added. The papers & ephemera are from Doodlebug - I always love the cheerful colours and images. 

Below you can see the inside of one of the cards - the other one has a different sentiment from the same set.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Lets Party, Doodlebug

Ephemera - Hey Cupcake, Odds & Ends - Doodlebug

Transparency

Mirrored heart confetti - Kat Scrappiness

Rainbow holographic cardstock - Recollections

Small Happy Birthday - LJD Birthday Greetings, MFT Stamps

Cloud punch - Stampin' Up

Pops of Color - Icicle

Inside stamps - Everybody Says Happy, Catherine Pooler

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Carly Alpha - i-Crafter

Glitter Dots

Slimline Wiper Birthday Card

Today I'm sharing the 4th card in my monthly series: Throwback Fun Folds using a Wiper die set by Lynda Kanase at iCrafter. When they first started out I was on their Design Team and I loved their Wiper dies - this one is the Hello Sunshine Wiper Insert. It is still available, which is great as a lot of my older fun fold dies are long retired. Back then I was also tickled that they can work in a Slimline card so that is what I did today. 

This birthday card was made for a grandson who loves Pop Up cards. He was disappointed that his St. Patrick's Day card didn't have a pop up inside, so I made sure his birthday card did. 😊 I added the Gus & Gertie stamps (Taylored Expressions) because I just love them and haven't used them nearly enough.

Below is a peek at the inside and the dog/balloons slide up from the left with the clouds sliding up from the right as the card is opened.

I added Karen Burniston's Celebrate to the front of the insert piece and stamped the sentiment off to the left. The balloons and dog noses are nice and shiny with a Nuvo Glaze coating.

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally. 

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 15 Cards

Additional Supplies:

Alcohol markers

Hello Sunshine Wiper Insert - i-crafter

White cardstock

Dark teal cardstock

Cloud patterned paper - Flea Market, Doodlebug Designs (from my stash)

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Tweet Warm Wishes Bookbinding Card

Your Next Stamp is having an Instagram Hop with the theme of 'Winter Wonderland'.

I have wanted to try a Bookbinding card for awhile, now, so made my first one for this hop. There are only a couple of sheets left in this 6 x 6" patterned paper and I was able to use almost one full sheet and most of the second one on this card. I'm really hoping to use it up this year!

I chose the Tweet Warm Wishes stamps with Coordinating dies to feature on my card, adding some snowflakes with the YNS Snow Flurries stencil. The scalloped rectangle and sparkly gumdrops are also from Your Next Stamp.

Here is a peek at the inside ...

Here are more details on the Instagram Hop - 

 hope you can hop along there and 

see all the fun inspiration 

from the Design Team!

Welcome to the YNS Winter Wonderland IG hop!  The Instagram Hop starts at 11 am EST on 12/13/2021. Join in our hop, leaving comments as you go, for your chance to win 10 packages of YNS gumdrops!  The Instagram Hop starts at YNS' Instagram and continues on... 

• @yournextstamp
• @kerri_michaud
• @samjolden
• @madebymeghank

• @kaliscards
• @sue.th
• @karenaicken
• @julie_elak  
• @jksand2001

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Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Patterned paper - A Winter's Night, Recollections 6 x 6"
Coloured pencils - Prismacolor
Gamsol and blending stump
Black marker

Sending Hugs Tag (or Bookmark)

Hello! Today Your Next Stamp is one of the sponsors for the Cut It Up Challenge Blog! The theme for that challenge is All You Need is Love (Valentine or Love related) and the prize is a YNS $20.00 egift card. Check out all the details on the Your Next Stamp Blog.

I made a HUGS tag/bookmark using several YNS products, which are linked below. 

The Fun Faces stamp set has such cute little faces and I couldn't resist adding one to the bottom of my tag. I also added a pearlized white doily and a sparkling white GumDrop!

Supplies:

Bookmark/Tag Die Set - Your Next Stamp

Stripe-Tastic Heart Die Set - Your Next Stamp

Whatnot Sentiments 14 (sending) - Your Next Stamp

Fun Faces - Your Next Stamp

Cute Bows - Your Next Stamp

Cute Bow Die Set - Your Next Stamp

Hugs die - Your Next Stamp

White Sugar and Sparkle Gumdrops

Card stocks

Shimmer spray

Heart Stencil - Scrapbook.com

I-crafter blending brushes

Pearlized doily - Stampin' Up

Sakura white gel pen

White string

Waterbrush

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April 2020 Paper Pumpkin - First Card Group

Hello!  I have been lucky enough to find a couple of on-line listings for un-used Paper Pumpkin kits, and one of them is called My Wonderful Family (April 2020 Paper Pumpkin Kit). Today I'm sharing the first four cards I made using the kit and all of them were mailed to family members.

I have a walkthrough of my cards on YouTube here:

The kit came with four printed panels with a lovely family verse printed on it. Those panels are what inspired these first four cards. The card bases were all 'fun folds', so this first card uses one of the Z-fold card card bases.

 

I love the pretty envelopes that come in the Paper Pumpkin kids, so I kept these cards all A2 so I could mail them in the envelopes.

The second card uses another one of the fun folds and I really liked the bright pops of yellow that were included. The small butterfly came in the kit, but the larger one is was punched from yellow card stock and stamped with the tree foliage in yellow.

Here is a peek at the inside of that card, with the pretty family sentiment.

I made this third card into a pocket card, and added some of 'that paper' because the colours matched so perfectly. The pretty green sprig came in the kit. The photo below shows the sentiment panel inside the pocket ...

... and here it is out of the pocket.

I used the negative part of the sprig piece to lightly stencil the back side of the pocket insert, and added another sentiment on a fish tail banner. That is also where I signed our names.

Finally - the fourth card! I adhered the green printed piece flat against the inside of the card for a different look, and added a die cut strip of yellow card stock above that. One of the bare tree die cuts from the kit  was adhered over the the stamped foliage, and I added a bird from the kit and a stamped fish tail banner.

Finally, here is a look at the inside, with the printed sentiment. This last one went to our son so it's a little less 'fussy'.

I have the next four cards done and will share those with that video later this month.

Supplies:

April 2020 Paper Pumpkin, My Wonderful Family

Card #1 (additional supplies to the Paper Pumpkin kit)
Stitched Mini Scallop Rectangles - MFT Stamps
Card stocks
Square Vellum Doily - Stampin' Up
Tasteful Label dies - Stampin' Up
Crayola markers
Wink of Stella
I-crafter blending brushes
Clear resin hearts - Stampin' Up

Card #2 (additional supplies to the Paper Pumpkin kit)
Tree trunk - Paper Smooches
Butterfly punch - Stampin' Up
Wink of Stella
Card stocks
Sequins

Card #3 (additional supplies to the Paper Pumpkin kit)
Patterned paper - Eucalyptus, Paper Studio
Card stocks
Butterfly punch - Martha Stewart
Wink of Stella
Scotch Tape

Card #4 (additional supplies to the Paper Pumpkin kit)
Cut off gatefold portion and adhered it right to card base
Halftone Lines Cover Die - Studio Katia (for yellow strip)
Water brush
Card stocks

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Cactus Birthday Tag

Hello!  Today I'm sharing a sweet cactus tag that I made to go with my hubby's Birthday gift last month. I bought two sizes of white gift bags several years ago and like to have a bright and colourful tag to tie onto those bags. (Hubby's gift bag contained books).

I really like this stitched tag die set from Your Next Stamp, as well as their sentiments. The cactus set is from Lawn Fawn and coloured with Ohuhu alcohol markers. 

The patterned paper has pearlized bits in it, which I love. Since this was for a man I tried not to make it TOO sparkly. But ... a few clear sequins to catch the light and a TINY bit of Wink of Stella made me happy.

 

Supplies:
Cool Tag 6 - Your Next Stamp
Various card stocks - stash
Patterned paper - Cute Cute Cacti, Recollections
Year 10 stamps and dies - Lawn Fawn
Ohuhu Markers
Wink of Stella
Cool Tag Banner Sentiments - Your Next Stamp
I-crafter blending brushes
Fishtail Banner - MFT Stamps
Majestic Confetti - Studio Katia
Ribbon - Stampin' Up
Hemp cord

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Bright Floral Birthday Card

Hello!  Today I'm sharing another card that has been done for months. But I was busy with Design Team obligations and seasonal cards so this one kept getting bumped. I had received a couple of new stencils with an online order back in September and I just wanted to have a quick play with this floral one.

I was happy with the background panel so decided to go ahead and make a finished Birthday card to donate to my Mom's old nursing home. I stencilled another, smaller panel and matted it on black. Then I added some pretty bling. I never have to worry about bulk with the nursing home donation cards as they are hand delivered to each resident.

The self adhesive gems were clear, so I used Copic markers to add colour to them.

I added some light stencilling inside the card then stamped the greeting on top of the pattern.

I used my Taylored Expression Blending Brushes and Catherine Pooler Inks. Can I just say again how much I love those inks? I'm slowly replacing all of my Stampin' Up ink pads with the Catherine Pooler ones, which is a HUGE step for me. I've used SU inks for many years. 

If you are on Instagram, you may have already heard about my exciting news - I will be joining the Crafty Meraki Design Team!!! The January release, called Meraki Hugs is a great one and we will be sharing the entire release spread out over the month of January. Tomorrow is the first one - so be sure to check back and see what I came up with using these amazing products.

Supplies:
Floral Stencil - CrafTreat
I-crafter Blending Brushes
Taylored Expressions Blending Brushes
Various card stocks - stash
Shimmer spray
Sentiment on front - Your Next Stamp (unsure of which set)
Simple Strips Backer Die - Taylored Expressions
Bling - Michaels
Copics
Sentiment inside - Large Birthday, Technique Tuesday
Mini MISTI - My Sweet Petunia
Card size - standard A2, 4.25 x 5.5"

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Sunshine and Cactus Slimline Card

Hello crafty friends ... 

Because of COVID we didn't get to visit Arizona in November as planned so my Slimline card today is a cactus theme and I had fun using one of my Stamploration stencils and this wonderful cactus die by Paper Rose.

The inked plant pot was given a coating of Glossy Accents so it's raised and shiny and resembles a glazed pot. The pretty rainbow sequins add another touch of sparkle to the card front. Even though the banner hangs over each side, this card still fits in a #10 Business Envelope.

Finally, here is a peek at the inside:

Supplies:
Aperture Stencil - Stamplorations
Card stocks - stash
Slimline dies - Slim Ornate Banners, Pink Fresh Studio
Taylored Expressions Blending Brushes
I-crafter Blending Brushes
Slimline Stitched Dies - Trinity Stamps
Cactus die - Paper Rose
Circle die - Hero Arts
Banners Pick A Punch - Stampin' Up
Words - Home to Roost, Stampin' Up
Sunshine stamp inside - Impression Obsessions
Fineline markers
Crystal Rainbow Confetti - Studio Katia
Glossy Accents 
Card size -  3.5 x 8.5", fits in a #10 Business Envelope

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Snowman Mug Slimline Card

Hello crafty friends ... 

Here I am with my last holiday card of 2020 and of course I made it a Slimline card. 

If you follow me, you know that I rarely post my cards in the same order I create them. So while this is the first 'Fold Flap Slimline' card I'm sharing, it's actually the third one I've made! Since I prefer to share Christmas cards in December, the others won't be posted until after the holidays.  I have the measurements at the end of my post if you are curious.

I have seen lots of these Fold Flap cards on social media, all of them in an A2 size and held closed with a belly band. I love how this technique works on a Slimline card though! You simply fold back the right front edge of the card and decorate as desired. 

I also noticed a couple of snowman faces on die cut mugs during the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop so pulled out my Tonic Studio's shaker mug die and the i-crafter Animalopes for the eyes and nose. I didn't use the shaker cups that come with the mug though, as I wanted a card that was mailable and those shaker cups require a fair bit of extra postage. 

Here is a peek at the inside, with a stamped sentiment and embossed snowflakes at the top and bottom edges of my sentiment panel.

I just love how fine the embossed snowflakes are! I lightly inked over the top of the raised snowflakes with a blending sponge and then added a few of those iridescent snowflakes from Stampin' Up.

One more look at the card front ...

Measurements for my Fold Flap Slimline Card:

• Cut card stock 7 x 8.5"
• Putting the 7" edge at the top of your scoring tool, score at 1-1/4" and 3-1/2".
• Fold your card in half at the 3-1/2" scoreline, to form your card base
• Fold the 1-1/4" scored edge to the front of the card.
• NOTE:  I adhered the flap right to the card front using thin foam tape, but most of the A2 Fold Flap Cards I've seen utilize pretty patterned papers and have the card open as more of an accordion. 
• I chose these measurements for my card as then the patterned paper layer measurements are easy to figure out. I usually make my patterned paper layers 1/4" smaller, so if that top flap on the card base is 1-1/4 x 8-1/2", my patterned paper strip is 1 x 8-1/4".

Supplies:
Various card stocks - stash
Patterned paper - Holiday Bash, Recollections
Coffee Mug Die and Shaker Set - Tonic Studios
Acetate
Various shaker filler
Seam binding - Stampin' Up
White pearl card stock
Large snowflake die - Impress Rubber Stamps
Copic markers
Animalopes (eyes & nose) - I-Crafter
Stitched circles (cheeks) - MFT Stamps
Coffee Cafe (whipped cream) - Stampin' Up (retired)
Snowglobe Sentiments - MFT Stamps
Snowflake confetti/embellishments - Stampin' Up
Winter Snow embossing folder - Stampin' Up
Sentiment inside - Crazy Stamps (old, from my stash)
Card size - 3.5 x 8.5", fits in a #10 business envelope.

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Christmas Wreath Trifold Card

Hello crafty friends ...

Today I'm sharing a Christmas Trifold card that I made using a bunch of older items in my stash ... I love using these things up, especially when they have been hanging around in my craft room for as long as some of these have!

I have a walkthrough of my card and a tutorial on ways you can make a Trifold card HERE on YouTube!

This larger than A2 card fits in a standard 5 x 7" envelope and it started out with the wreath. Then I chose the patterned paper and what I wanted to use to decorate the wreath. The sentiment was a cut-apart from an older paper pad and the layered poinsettias were in my stash.

Inside I added a large sentiment stamp and another one of the layered poinsettias.

I love Kraft card stock and have used it a LOT this year. In fact, I went through an entire ream of it and I'm already on my second one. While I will continue to use Kraft in 2021, you can also expect a lot of rainbow colours as well.

Supplies:
Various card stocks - stash
Patterned paper - Pinecone Lodge, Recollections
Wreath die - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Shimmer spray
Cricut cut poinsettias with bling (stash)
I-crafter blending brushes
Cut apart - old patterned paper pad 
Stitched Journal Card die - Lawn Fawn
Noel die - Scripty Words Holiday, Lawn Fawn
Ribbon
Snowflakes - Santa's Workshop Enamel Spots, Stampin' Up (retired)
Words inside - Merry Christmas to All, Stampin' Up (retired)
Card size - 5 x 6", fits in an A7, or 5 x 7" envelope

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Egg Nog Holiday Slimline Card

Hello crafty friends ...

Today I'm sharing a fun Slimline card for the holidays, using the Happy Eggnog stamps from Your Next Stamp. The stamp sets featured in this series are also on sale!

I also made a 'Lift Flap' feature in the centre using the Little Peek A Boo Doors die set.  I have a walk through of my card here on YouTube 

Such fun images, right? The stamp set comes with little faces, so I added them as well.

I knew I wanted to separate the sentiment onto two fishtail banner strips, so I cut the stamp apart! It was easy to do, and they will quickly line up on a stamping block or my MISTI if I want to use them together another time.

The Little Peek A Boo Doors die set actually die cut a perforation and the idea is that you pull up and tear away the perforations to reveal a sentiment or image etc. I chose to cut along the perforation marks before adhering it to my card, so it's more of a 'Lift Flap" card. Just another way you can use these dies!

Finally, here is a peek at the inside, where I added another image from Happy Eggnog Season and also a sentiment from the Cozy Christmas stamp set. The border stickers came in the paper pack, and I did use glue to adhere them since they are so old there wasn't much 'stick' left on them.

One more look at the card front ...

Supplies:
Little Peek A Boo Doors Die Set - Your Next Stamp
Happy Eggnog Season - Your Next Stamp
Black Olive Ink - Your Next Stamp
Believe in the Magic (Cozy Christmas) - Your Next Stamp
Card Stocks - Various, stash
Patterned paper & border sticker - Basic Grey (OLD, stash)
Ohuhu Markers
Mini MISTI - My Sweet Petunia
I-crafter Blending Brushes
Sakura white gel pen and gold gel pen
Shimmer spray
Stickles
Water brush
Banners Pick A Punch - Stampin' Up
Gold foil card stock - Stampin' Up
Card size - 3.5 x 8.5", fits in a #10 Business Envelope

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