Shaker hearts

 Do you like making shaker cards? I am NOT an expert, but I'm trying to practice to get better, because they're so much fun when they're done! 

And I made a video! 

 

The shaker mixes I used in this shaker card are available TODAY ONLY at Picket Fence Studios.  

 

 Available from Friday 30th of July 10:00 A.M. CT to Saturday 31st of July 10:00 A.M CT.

 Each bag is $3.99 or Buy All Six for $21.99. 1 tablespoon in each bag.

The mixes I used are called Pom Pom (red, white and orange), Fizzy Soda (orange and yellow), Lime Soda (yellow and green) and Skylight (blue and white).

These are available in VERY LIMITED QUANTITIES so if you want some, you can't wait!   

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Rainbow love!

The challenge over at A Blog Named Hero this month is "Rainbow".  I am going to make the most of it - I love making rainbow cards!

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Adding stenciling to Jennifer McGuire foiling

As I have mentioned here on my blog before, I was incredibly lucky last year to receive a kindness package from the one and only Jennifer McGuire. I have taken one of her foiled sentiment cards today and added some colour over the top.

I used the Hero Arts Large Lotus Pattern stencil with some Mermaid Lagoon distress ink. I didn't use the whole stencil - I used the largest lotus in the top left corner of the card, and then rotated the stencil to put the same pattern in the bottom right.  A few enamel dots were the finishing touch.

It is so difficult to photograph foiling, but you can see in this photo that the foiling is a gorgeous pool/turquoise colour - so beautiful! I am so grateful to Jennifer for sharing her talent and her love for papercrafting, and for her never ending encouragement of other crafters.  Jennifer, you are the best!

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Hero Arts Flickr Scramble!

I saw a Facebook post by Lisa Haines this morning, saying that a Hero Arts Flickr Scramble was on! These are usually on at times that I can't join in (middle of the night kind of thing), but I saw this one at 8:00 am, and it still had 30 minutes remaining, so I got cracking!
The first option for the scramble was
Option A:
2 - Use TWO colours (Neutrals are allowed in addition to the two colours)
0 - NO diecutting
1 - Use ONE image - (Background, stenciled image, a stamped image, etc)
6 - Use SIX embellishments (buttons, sequins, gems, etc.)

This is what I came up with: 

 Unfortunately, I went to upload my photo to Flickr, and Flickr just refused to load on my computer, so I missed out on the cut off time!  :(

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Stenciling over foiling

Last year, I received a kindness package from the one and only Jennifer McGuire.  I still can't get over the excitement of it all! 

Today, I took one of her foiled notecards (it was blank except for the foiled sentiment), and I added some colour using Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar Distress Inks, over the Swirl Stencil from Hero Arts. I then added some sequins from my stash, and I was done! 
You can find info about Jennifer's "Share Handmade Kindness" movement HERE, and you can download this sentiment (which was designed by Kristina Werner) HERE - and it's totally free!

Foiling is SO DIFFICULT to photograph!  Suffice to say, the shine is AMAZING! 

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PS you can check out this post at the A Blog Named Hero Facebook page HERE.  

A little bit of kindness

Jennifer McGuire.  Seriously people. 

Her Share Handmade Kindness challenge is in its 4th week - and this week, we're sharing with strangers.  I'm going to make a bunch of these and  have them on hand to give to whomever I think needs a bit of cheer.

I used the "A Bit of Kindness" stamp from Hero Arts (that was in my little package of awesomeness that I received from Jennifer on Monday), which I heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.  I then added some flowers from Hero Arts "Night and Day Flowers" in Soft Pool and Tide Pool inks from Hero Arts (I think the colour scheme from Jennifer's box of happy might have influenced me!)  A touch of Wink of Stella was the final touch. 

 I encourage you to join in with Jennifer's challenge and spread some kindness. Everyone needs some random kindness once in a while.

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Kindness is goodness is magic!

I am such a lucky lady!  I received a package in the mail today from Jennifer McGuire! A little parcel of happiness, with some handmade foiled cards, a stamp from Hero Arts, washi tape, temporary tattoos, stickers, the list goes on!
I decided to take one of her foiled cards and decorate it.  This required some cutting down (eek! I actually cut a card made by Jennifer McGuire! I'm not quite over the shock of my bald-faced guts!)

I started with some white cardstock from Papertrey Ink.  I added the fairy-tale castle from a Disney Princess stamp set from EK Success. I then cut masks with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders die, and added some Hero Arts shadow ink in Green Hills and Soft Pool, using a Ranger ink blending tool over the masks.  I put some of the washi tape from Jennifer on the left of the card, then popped up the foiled sentiment on some foam tape.  A sprinkling of sequins from Simon Says Stamp, and I'm done!

The foiling is just so shiny - I've never done foiling, and I've never actually seen the results of foiling with a Minc machine up until today. I'll have to put it on my wish list for next year (I've already getting something else from my crafty wish list for Christmas - can you say MISTI?!)

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