Shaker Week: Day 3 (and a giveaway to celebrate!!)

Good morning!  I’m having a fabulous time devoting my week to shaker cards and I hope you’re enjoying them, too!  And to help one lucky person celebrate with me, I’ll be giving away a $10 gift certificate to The Ton to let someone pick out some of the stunning gems and beads from our new gilding release!  Just leave a comment on my shaker week posts and you’ll be entered to win!  I’ll randomly choose one comment and announce it on Sunday! 🙂  If you’re looking for my previous shaker week posts you can find them here: day 1 and day 2!

Anyway, here’s my card for today!

It’s quite bright and cheery and it just says summer to me!  I started off by sprinkling Color Burst Pthalo Green powder onto a 5″x7″ piece of watercolor paper.  Then I spritzed it with water and tilted the paper around to help move and blend the color.  And I’m still not sure how this happened but there’s a few flecks of blue powder that ended up in there too…oh well.  Once I was happy with the color I set it aside to dry.  One of my favorite aspects of the color burst powder is that they don’t really fade much as they dry!

Next I smooshed Abandoned Coral, Dried Marigold, and Picked Raspberry distress inks onto my craft sheet and spritzed them with water.  I also dripped a little Winsor and Newton Iridescent Medium on to my craft sheet and mixed it in with the distress inks.  I dabbed a second piece of watercolor paper into the inks until it was thoroughly covered and then set it aside to dry.

Once the background panel was dry I die-cut several of the flowers from the Ellen Hutson Essentials Wild Garden die set and removed the cut outs from the panel.  I adhered a piece of acetate to the back of the green background panel.  Then I die-cut the same flowers from the distress ink colored panel and inlaid them onto the green panel.  Next I turned the background panel over and carefully added foam tape around the flowers to create compartments for my shakers.  Then I added various beads from The Ton to each individual flower!  To close up the shaker I adhered a piece of Bazzill Candy Hearts cardstock to the foam tape and turned it over!

I really wanted to give the card the feel of a wild garden so I die-cut a few more small flowers from the remaining distress ink colored panel.  I adhered the smallest ones directly to the background panel but didn’t like the look of the large flower over the green.   So I found a scrap of cardstock in my stash that I had watercolored with the red color burst powder and used that to create a base for my large pink flower.  To finish the card I added a sprinkling of clear gemstones and iridescent and satin peach and pink sequins!  The sentiment is from Paper Smooches and was die-cut from black cardstock and adhered with rolled up glue dots!  I had to create an over-sized card base but mounted the panel to a pink base!

I love the sparkle of the sequins, beads, and gemstones and how well they go with the watercolored elements!  This wasn’t the fastest card to assemble but it was quite fun! 🙂  Thanks so much for visiting today and don’t forget to comment for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to The Ton!  See you tomorrow!

I’m also entering this card into the Ellen Hutson Mix It Up Challenge featuring Ellen Hutson Essentials and Paper Smooches!

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