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Shaker Saturday #2 and GIVEAWAY winner!

7 Mar

Welcome to my second installation of Shaker Saturday…I think this card could be easily considered the very opposite of CAS.  Ha.  I wanted to create a card for St. Patrick’s Day.  Most people think about St. Patrick’s Day and picture four-leaf clovers, leprechauns, and gold…I get all that, but as a harpist, you can’t do St. Patrick’s Day without Irish music and harps!  So I had to figure out a way to use all of it…well except leprechauns…(they kind of scare me). 😉

And here’s what I came up with!

Shaker Saturday www.allthesparkle.comI started off by die-cutting various sized hearts from gold and green glitter cardstock and two different shades of green cardstock.  Then I glued them together to create shamrocks and fussy cut a few stems for some of the shamrocks…can you find the four leaf clover in the card?

I also die-cut hearts from a 5.5″x4″ piece of green cardstock to form a few shamrocks that would become my shakers!  I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of vellum and fussy cut it into a fishtail banner.

Next I took the harp chipboard, covered it with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder.  I used several layers until it was nice and smooth.  I wanted to use music in my card but all of my music stamps are classical sheet music, until I had a lightbulb moment and realized that (duh) as a harpist I have an entire shelf filled with Irish music!  So I copied a very famous piece by Turlough O’Carolan and reduced it by 30% so it would fit on the card.  I hand tore the edges and blended a little Delicata golden glitz pigment ink onto the edges.

Then it was sequin time!!  I used sequins from The Ton and filled two of the shakers with Meet Me in Maui sequins, one with Key Lime sequins, and one with Metallic Gold sequins!  I mixed 4mm and 6mm sizes in each shaker.

Shaker Saturday www.allthesparkle.comTo assemble the card I mounted the shaker to a green cardstock base and left space at the bottom to add the gold glitter stripe.  I used foam mounting tape to adhere the sheet music and glued the harp onto the music.  I added the sentiment banner and then arranged the shamrocks around the card.  I finished it off with more Metallic Gold sequins!

I’m entering this card into the following challenges: Curtain Call: Lucky, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Just a Hint of Clover, and the Sparkle and Shine Challenge #1!

lucky

Oh and if you’re curious….this is what the music sounds like!  This is the Belfast Harp Orchestra under the direction of Janet Harbison.  I had the pleasure to meet Janet a few years ago and she is an amazing performer and wonderful teacher.  I would love to go to Ireland and study with her someday!

And finally, thanks again to everyone who left comments or subscribed to my blog this past week!  I hope that you’ll occasionally stop by and say hi!  The winner of the $25 gift certificate to My Favorite Things is Shannon McComb:

“This shaker card is amazing, with the different colored sequins! Love it!”

Shannon, please send me an email (my contact info is at the bottom of my blog!) and I’ll get that to you ASAP!

Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful weekend!

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Comments

  1. Milka says

    March 7, 2015 at 2:52 am

    WOW! WOW! What an AWESOME shaker card, Jessica!!! LOVE IT!!! 😀

    Reply
  2. Anja curvers says

    March 7, 2015 at 3:35 am

    Such an awesome shakercard love it and congrats to Shannon.

    Reply
  3. Kristie G. says

    March 7, 2015 at 8:11 am

    This is one awesome shaker card, Jess! LOVE it! Congratulations to Shannon!

    Reply
  4. Rubeena says

    March 7, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    Awesome shaker card!!!!! You rock at these 🙂

    Reply
  5. Kara Lynne says

    March 7, 2015 at 2:38 pm

    Such an amazing shaker card! I love your gold harp and the wonderful shamrocks!

    Reply
  6. karenladd says

    March 7, 2015 at 4:48 pm

    What a clever way to make the shamrocks!! A really fun card!

    Reply
  7. ionabunny says

    March 7, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    Great shaker. Congrats to Shannon. Hugz

    Reply
  8. Sandra says

    March 8, 2015 at 8:05 am

    What a fun shaker card! All the clovers are fabulous! Thank you so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Hugs, Sandra

    Reply
  9. Nancy Carroll says

    March 8, 2015 at 11:16 am

    what a wonderful shaker card, I adore the harp–wonderful idea, it is such a powerful symbol of Ireland.

    Reply
  10. Heather - housesbuiltofcards says

    March 11, 2015 at 8:57 am

    Wow! Look at all that yummy sequin goodness! Great card!!! Thanks so much for playing along with Sparkle and Shine’s first challenge!!!

    housesbuiltofcards@gmail.com
    http://www.housesbuiltofcards.blogspot.com

    Reply
  11. Nicole says

    March 12, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    Holy moly! Such a cool card with lovely effects! Thank you so much for playing along with S&S challenge!

    Nicole Picadura – Sparkle & Shine DT
    scrapsandstamps.com

    Reply
  12. chark says

    March 12, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    love the harp–both on your card and listening to it!

    Reply

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