Daring Card Makers Challenge - Shake It!

It's time for a new Daring Cardmakers challenge and the theme this week is

Shake It!

I've made a shaker card with some random tiny gems I had in my stash and some sequins - the plastic front is from an acetate cover that I've recycled and I've used some bottle dies and some freebie papers to create the focal point.

Good luck with the challenge!

Daring Card Makers Challenge - April Elemental Inspiration

It's time for a new Daring Card Makers challenge and the theme this week, as it is the first Friday of the month is an elemental inspirational theme:

Don't forget that you need to use at least three elements in your creation, colour counts as one choice.

I've used cloud, rain drops, rainbow and wording.  I've used a Polkadoodles Fluffy Clouds die and then made a shaker card with some seed beads I had in my stash.  The sentiment is one I've had for lifetime and is from There She Goes and the rainbow paper is from Funky Hand - Keep In Touch download which is no longer available.

Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

Creative Fingers:  Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday:  Anything Goes
Through The Purple Haze:  Anything Goes
Crafters Galore Encore:  Anything Goes
Fab n Funky:  April Showers

Blue Mini

Here is a cute shaker card I made especially for a little boy who loves his cars! It had to be coloured with blue Promarkers as his Daddy is a Man City supporter!  You can get the Mini Cooper image from Dr Digi for only £1.

I've used an X Cut die for the oval shape and also the stars.  The snowflake is a Marianne Creatables die.  Sizzix die cut tag has been handwritten and I've added organza blue ribbon from my stash.

And of course, liquid pearl dots around the edges!  I've used a combination of blue seed beads for the 'shaker' stuff and some fake glittery snow which I bought a large bag of a few years ago really cheap because I knew I'd use it one day!

I'd like to enter the following:

Christmas With The Cuties:  Anything Goes Cute Christmas
Craft-Dee BowZ:  Anything Goes With A Handmade Bow
Incy Wincy Designs:  Tic Tac Toe - middle column - star / word 'Christmas' / Sparkle  WINNER
The Merry Christmas Challenge:  Create A Scene

Crimbo Crackers Challenge 105 - Snowmen

Time for a new Crimbo Crackers challenge and the theme is:

Snowmen

I've used a cute From The Heart Stamps image - Snowman Hugs which I've coloured in Promarkers and made a shaker card.  Ribbon is from Tesco and the wooden snowflake and charm are from my stash.

Good luck with the challenge - the link up is open until 12 noon on 4 May.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

CRAFT:  Christmas
ABC Christmas Challenge:  H is for Hat
Crafting By Designs:  Get Ready For Christmas
Craftin' Desert Divas:  Shakers

Shake It!

Sometimes I see a challenge and I think - yeah, I'll have a go at that. Then I spend the next three days mulling it over, that is once I'd coloured the image as I knew which one I wanted to use. Then I decide I can't work it out and put the idea out of my head. Then inspiration strikes me when I've got a quiet moment (not many of those this last week I can tell you!) So I decide to make it.

And when I do it takes me all of 90 minutes to make! Rarely do I make a card on a whim - I usually spend quite a while thinking about it and working it all out which is why I generally have at least 6 or 7 cards or projects on the go at any one time. My time is limited and I have to plan it carefully and because I've been the domestic goddess this last week and done enough cleaning to last a lifetime (and its not over! and where the hell does all the bloody dust come from? I've only just cleaned it!!) I've had time to ponder.

Enough waffle. Here is the shaker card I've made for the Tiddly Inks challenge:

I made the card blank myself from a lovely large sheet of very nice silver card that I found (under Samuel's bed), cut out the aperture, stuck the acetate on, added 3d foam pads around the inside edge, added silver and pink seed beads and then the image (coloured with Promarkers plus chalked behind). I then added the frame to hide my rubbish knife lines, inked them and drew a border.

Then decided it looked a bit too bare and added the bunting. Papers are from my stash and so too the black embroidery thread. Good job its a very girly card as Jacob was quite taken with this offering too. Although he has asked for a shaker card for his Birthday (September). But not with beads. Sweets. I said I'd think about it......

• Image: Tiddly Inks, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Not sure as found in my box of bits
• Everything else: My stash