The Big Reveal

Shaker cards with my own mix of sequins and a GIVEAWAY

  

Happy Monday (is there such a thing?) my crafty friends!  Today I want to share some shaker cards I made over the weekend.  I had been having a lot of issues making shakers in the past, mostly because all my sparkly bits were getting stuck to the sides and it was frustrating me.  Thanks to some research and advice, I had much more success this weekend using a double stick tape instead of a wet glue!

This first card is the result of embossing on heavy textured watercolor paper.  I had been anxious to play with this new background stamp of peonies by The Ton.  I love to watercolor and emboss, so I embossed it on to some Tim Holtz watercolor paper.  I was really disappointed how the embossing came out, sort of splotchy.  But I decided I would practice my water coloring on it anyway, and not use it to make a card.  Well, I was really happy with the coloring, so I thought I'd try to use it anyway, and here is my result!  You really cannot see the splotchy embossing (unless you are looking for it now that I've pointed it out! Ha!)  And I'm really happy with it! 

The lesson here is to not throw away your mistakes! :)

This card was the second attempt at stamping that large background stamp and embossing it.  I used a smoother watercolor paper and the embossing  came out so much better!  I wanted to make another shaker card, but did not want to cover up this glorious stamp so I used a die frame from My Favorite Things.  It worked beautifully!  This card was relatively easy to make. 

I also spent some time mixing up my own sequin mixes for these particular cards.  I love making my own custom stuff and since I have a lot of sequins and newly discovered old beads (from my jewelry making days) I was like a mad scientist mixing up sequins and beads and whatever else I could find.  Even one of my dogs came up and she had a pink sequin stuck to her nose! :)

If you would like to win one of my special sequin mixes, please leave me a comment here!  I will draw a winner over the weekend!

Have a great week!
Peace,

Jacquie

 

 

Peony scrolls watercolor cards

 

 
Watercolor is my favorite thing right now.  I just cannot get enough and there are so many ways to use watercolor on your paper crafts.  I love the Zig Clean Color markers the most.  Here are a few cards I made with the fabulous Altenew Peony Scrolls set.

For this card I decided to use Kraft colored cardstock to offset the pretty watercolored peonies.  I also used some white pigment ink inside the frame to highlight the sentiment.

On this card, I used the Zigs to create a soft muted watercolor background.

I stamped and embossed all my peony images with white embossing powder and then watercolored them, and fussy cut them out.

I finished off the cards with a bit of sequin bling!

Here is the complete supply list.

Stamps: Altenew- Peony Scrolls, Sentiments - The Ton-Get it Girl , MFT -Written in Watercolor

Sequins - Diamonds are A Girls Best Friend - Butterfly Reflections Ink

Zig Kuretake clean color markers - Marker supply

Dies: Stitched frame - MFT Dienamics

As always, thanks for looking!  And I love comments! :)

Peace,

Jacquie

Pretty peony card using colored pencils

Just popping in with a quick card I made using Wild Peonies from the Ton stamps.

This card was pretty simple.  I stamped a bunch of this peony image onto my smooth cardstock and then I used my colored pencils to add highlights. 

I fussy cut out the peonies and then stamped the leaves all around on the card panel.  I decided I needed to highlight my leaves as well, so I used colored pencils for that. I used foam tape to adhere and pop up my peonies to give this card some extra dimension.

I finished it off with a cute sentiment from Clearly Besotted stamps.

Until later!

Jacquie

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