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!
Loving the poppy with the seed beads. This is a spectacular card Jess!
These are so beautiful and love the matching seed beads. Was just looking at all of them at The Ton today and drooling over all the colours. Might need to do some sneaky shopping……don’t tell my husband….
As usual, just beautiful! You are the shaker card queen!
wow… love those inlaid flowers and the awesome color combo! Beautiful card!
Ok, you are pushing me over the edge! I have not yet made a shaker card because they appear to be complicated but now I am going to try. You have inspired me this week.
Your shakers are creative and fabulous!
I love color and I love shaker cards! This card is right up my alley – especially with the 3 shaker sections!! Beautiful!!
This is so lovely! The bright, vivid colors, and the way you created such a fun shaker! Wonderfully done!
What a fabulous card Jessica! I just love those awesome colors!
This is GORGEOUS! I love those shaker flowers and they pop against the watercolor background!
This totally inspires me to make a shaker card. Beautiful!
OMGOsh what a great idea, this is so fun.
Ha, when I saw the top of your card, I was thinking ‘oh, I can do this using the new dies I have just ordered from Ellen Hudson’. Guess I was right lol. Your card is simply stunning. I think the powdered pigments do contain a few grains of a different colour as well. I have seen Brushos demonstrated in videos and they also contain specks of different colours. Cannot wait to have a play with them. I simply could not resist ordering them.
Very pretty floral card and I love the sequins in the flower dies!
This is so uniquely you and so gorgeous with all those colorful blooms bursting among the pretty blue background!! WOW – so wonderfully done!!!
Poppies are my favorite flower…I love the color and the shaker element! So creative.