Saturday, February 25, 2017

Happy Birthday Shaker Card

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

I thought Spring had sprung in our area, but it is much cooler today! Nice day to stay inside and play with the Cricut machine! Today I am sharing my first attempt at a shaker card. Needing a birthday card for one of my Red Hat Lady friends, I was excited to play with red and purple. I was inspired to use sequins by the FCCB blog but would you believe I had to buy sequins! I like the way this turned out so I will probably use sequins again!

My white cardstock card measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Patterned paper is from a Red Hat Society paper pack that I have had for ages! Solid papers are Recollections scraps from previous projects. 

Cricut Cartridges:
Cindy Lou - Frame is cut 3.50" wide x 3.02" high. I actually cut two frames, one from red paper and the one from purple paper. I chose to use the purple frame and I cut the red flower segment out of the red frame and placed it on the purple frame. I could not find any acetate paper so I hand cut a piece from a scrapbook page protective cover. The light purple paper was hand cut for the backing of the frame. Red and purple sequins are used inside the frame.
Classic Font - Thinking of You is cut 2.75" wide. I lost the two little dots for the i's and chose to use two sequins. Works for me!
Anna's Lovely Layered Cards - Happy Birthday Friend is written with a red Precise V5 Pilot pen on a 3.75" square.

Inside of the card!

Challenges:
CARDZ TV -  Ch. 3 Anything Goes
Cut It Up  - Ch. 116 Birthday Cards
DL.ART    -   February Linky
FCCB  - Ch. 295 Sequins  

Hope you enjoy! Thanks for your visits and comments!



8 comments:

  1. Well, you used your Cricut very creatively! And nice placements of the sequins too! Thank you for sharing your talent at Fantabulous Cricut!

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  2. I love mixing and matching cartridges, but I never think to pull out the pens.

    Lovely card! Thanks for joining us for our Birthday Card challenge at Cut it Up!

    Evelyn
    http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com

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  3. Pretty card! I know that your friend loved it! Thanks for joining us at FCCB Challenge this week! ~Cynthia

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  4. Love the shaker card! Thanks for joining the FCCB challenge. Dorlene

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  5. Love that you used the pen, I've been using it a lot more frequently lately and I'm loving it. Great shaker card! Thank you for joining us at FCCB! Blessings, Jamie

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  6. What a very pretty shaker card!! Thanks for joining us at Cut it Up challenge! Have a great day.
    Gerda
    http://cardscreations.blogspot.com

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  7. I love this pretty shaker card! And you've decorated the inside just as beautifully! Thanks so much for joining us for the FCCB challenge this week! Hugs, DT Karla

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  8. Congratulations on winning the Sequin Challenge at the Fantabulous Cricut challenge Blog. Your card is Beautiful!

    Linda
    http://lindaisrael.com/

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