Shake it Baby!

Have you ever made a shaker card?? I bought a couple of new stamp sets out of the new CTMH Catalog that came out in May. You can view it here.

To Create your shaker card; Cut your base, which is half of an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of cardstock. I used CTMH Olive. I then used some Dutch Blue B&T paper. I cut it 5 x 3 3/4 and rounded the edges. For the shaker winder I cut a 3x3 piece of White Daisy and stamped by Frog image using the CTMH stamp B1309 - Fun Times. I cut a 3x3 piece of Dutch Blue and a 3x3 piece of clear acrylic I purchased at Craft Warehouse. Measure in 1/2 inch and cut out the inside of the Dutch Blue. This will create a frame.

Use either mono adhesive or sticky strip and attach the clear piece to the Dutch Blue piece.

Now attach 3M 1/2 inch mounting tape to the outside edge of the clear piece.

Carefully pour micro beads inside the frame, then attach the white stamped piece to the mounting tape. You now have a little shaker box that you will attach to your card.

You can use beads, glitter, punched shapes, etc.. to put inside your shaker box.

I attached some garden green ribbon, a sentiment from the same stamp set and some Robins Nest Water baubles. Isn't it cute???

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Hello Friend

I love this color combo. I used my new CTMH stamp sets D1280 -Spot Backgrounder and B1277 - Hello Friend. Sweet Leaf, Chocolate and Buttercup cardstock. Cocoa Ribbon, Sweet Leaf eyelets, lime stickles and Robins Nest Spring baubles.



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Cottage Floral

This is the Criss Cross card I created using the Stamp kissing technique.

I used CTMH Creative Basics X5804 Boom Di Ada. Hollyhock, Sweetleaf and Colonial White CS.

Ink Colors are: Hollyhock, Olive and Autumn Terracotta. Stamps are CTMH D1280 - Spot on Backgrounds, B1306 - Cottage Florals and D1283 May SOTM - Say It In Style.

Buttons are Z1283 - Autumn Craft Buttons.

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Stamp Kissing

Have you tried Stamp Kissing?

Ink up a solid stamp like the flower I used here

Use another patterned stamp and stamp onto the solid stamp that is inked.

Lift patterned stamp off solid image.

Stamp onto paper and you will see the patterned flower.

Cut out image for your project.

Sneak peak of what is coming tomorrow...

Karma.. when the sun rises, think of your life just beginning...

Mother

I dedicate this post to my Mama. She is a very kind and loving lady. She has always worked hard to take care of my siblings and I as we were growing up. She still works her fingers to the bone managing a Winco Foods store in Northern Idaho. Its hard having her so far away but I know that if needed, she would drop everything and be here in a heartbeat. She is very creative and a great story teller. check out her blog here. I love you Mom!

My Mom, Dad, Brother Darrell and Myself... 1964

I made this card using My Minds Eye papers. CTMH Sunkiss Yellow cardstock and ribbon. CTMH April SOTM. Prisma Color Pencils and Martha Stewart pearls. I used the Cracked glass technique on the butterfly. If you haven't tried this, you stamp and color your image, cover the cardstock with versamark ink then cover with clear embossing powder; melt the powder with your embossing gun, while sticky cover with more embossing powder then melt again. Repeat this several times until you have a thick clear layer. Let dry and cool. Gently bend paper a few times and the clear embossing powder will crack.

"Happy Mother's Day" means more than; Have a happy day. Within those words lie lots of things we never get to say. It means, I love you, first of all. Then, Thanks for all you do. It means, You mean a lot to me, And that I honor you. But most of all, I guess it means that I am thinking of Your happiness on this, your day, with pleasure and with love

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Sneak

Here is a sneak peak for you. I created this using the Cracked Glass Technique.......

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