Just sharing a Christmas card I made for my 11 yo DD which I couldn't share before Christmas as it would spoil the surprise.
I haven't made a Shaker card for ages but as I have seen alot of them around Blog-land recently, I thought I would make one as they are really fun. I used a Large Round Shaker Card Pouch SHP02 which comes in a pack of 10 by Impression Obsession. You can get many different sizes and shapes of pouches. They are really cool because you just peel off the adhesive and stick it down - although I did actually add some Stampin' Up Fuse Fast adhesive which is super-strong as I was a little afraid the adhesive on the pouch wasn't really strong enough. The shadow at the top part of the pouch from taking the photo out in the sun looks a little odd but if you check out the link to the Impression Obsession website at my blog-post (see below), you will get a better idea of what the pouch looks like.
The main image is from the Stampin' Up set - The More the Merrier which is retired. Oh my gosh, those snowmen are so adorable - I ♥ them :-)
I stamped the image onto Ranger Distress Watercolour cardstock with Jet Black ink and coloured it with a variety of mediums: Tombow pens plus Lyra and Faber-Castell watercolour pencils using a paintbrush. I stamped a couple of snowflakes from the Stampendous set - Winter Warm above the snowmen using SU Soft Sky ink then chalked around the image with Kaisercraft blue chalk for the sky. I had meant to add glitter to the snowmen's hats and scarves but only remembered about 5 seconds after I attached the pouch to the image.....oops.....sigh...... :-(
I added Stampendous Cotton White Fun Flock mixed with fine Crystalina glitter to the ground for the snow and to the cuffs and pom-poms on the Snowmen's hats using Tombow Mono Aqua glue.
I added sequins, stars, glitter and gemstones from my stash in various colours for the Shaker contents and then diecut the burgundy and blue cardstock circles and attached them over the top of the Shaker pouch using Tombow Mono Multi glue.
The designer paper, twine, tag and large brad are from My Mind's Eye - Winter Wonderland (from 2012) which has been a favourite of mine this Christmas season. The blue and burgundy cardstock layers on the card base were trimmed to 1/8" and 1/16" respectively using my Perfect Layers Tools. I then popped this up on X-Press It mounting tape on my white cardstock base.
Thanks for having a peek at my card! Please come and peek at my blog - this link will take you directly to my blogpost----> http://instead-of-ironing.blogspot.c...aker-card.html I have a close-up photo of those cute little snowmen.
ETA (for mods) - fixed typo!
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