Welcome back!
I”m excited to show you a double see-through shaker card with a summery coffee/tea theme for the final day of My Favorite Things Camp Create online summer camp featuring Spectacular Shakers. I also used Virginia’s View – All About Color inspiration.
I learned a lot with this challenging card! First, Color Box pigment inks are sooo juicy, they take ages to dry, even with a heat gun. They’re gorgeous, but they’re not made for impatient people. : ) I made several long, slow passes with my heat gun and tested with a paper towel after each when I thought it would be dry… Nope. No. Nuh-uh. Almost… Even when I finally was SURE it was dry and went to heat emboss, some stray particles of the embossing powder stuck, in spite of using a powder duster. I fixed that by purposefully re-wetting some areas and sprinkling more embossing powder randomly around the card front for a distressed, almost starry night look.
Oh, wait… you’d probably like to see the inside…
Love that kitty and sentiment! Here’s a quick video of the card in action:
I loved the cool idea of a complete see-through shaker they showed at Camp Create, but wanted to make mine a double layer, so I broke out the Fuse tool. This was my first attempt at using it. I practiced all over two Ziplock freezer bags before I got good enough to get a good seal without melting the plastic. I like how the pattern gives me an outline of the balloons on the front page, adding more depth to the double layers.
If you want to see a step-by-step tutorial of this card with tips and tricks in the near future, let me know in the comments… If I get enough requests, I’ll do another one sooner rather than later. : )
That’s the final badge for the Camp Create. Now I have all 5! It was a fun and challenging ‘retreat’!!
Here it is laying flat:
Materials used:
- My Favorite Things stamp sets: Steeped in Love, Feline Better & Heart Balloons
- My Favorite Things Heart Balloons dies
- Recollections white cardstock
- Versamark ink
- Inkadinkado Linen White embossing powder
- ColorBox Classic Pigment Inks: Cyan & Violet
- Memento dye ink – Tuxedo Black
- Copic Markers: B24, 29; C1; E00, 02, 13, 31; G05; R22, 24, 39; Y13, 15, 17; YR24
- Martha Stewart Crafts Metallic Microbeads: Florentine Gold, Garnet, Lapiz Lazuli
- We R Memory Keepeers Photo Sleeve Fuse tool
- Misc. washi tape and Ziplock freezer bag
If you want to play along, with any of the hops or challenges that I’m entering below, just click on the description for more information.
- My Favorite Things Camp Create – Spectacular Shakers
- Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
- Virginia’s View Challenge #22 – All About Colors
- Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Animal Magic
- DL.Art June Linky Challenge – Anything Goes
- CropStop Linky Party #17 – Anything Goes
Now I have to get back to recovering any salvageable data from my old hard drive as my current backup was bad, too. Technology! I had a couple more cards planned for the Coffee Lovers hop… we’ll see if I get time to get them made up and get around to visiting some of your projects before it’s over. Happy hopping!
Thank you all for stopping by and for your kind comments!
~D.Ann
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Your balloon shaker card is fantastic, I would like to see a tutorial on how to make it. Love the background on the front of the card…super fun card.
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Super cute, love the shaker balloons
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Cute shakers. I love those little beads but somehow I always make a mess with them. Your Fuse served you well! 🙂
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Thanks! I usually make a mess, too, but this time I rolled 1/2 a sheet of paper into a funnel and it worked without any stray beads!
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Super fun, love how the coffee/tea theme is revealed on the interior.
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Wow, gonna have to come back after work (I’m on break now) to see this video of your totally fabulous card!
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Awesome card!! Love how the middle balloon is really on the inside! Very cool!
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Such a great shaker card! Love it
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These shaker cards are amazing! Beautiful!
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Super cute & creative!! Love it!
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Fun shaker card, I love it
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Simply fabulous card!
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What a great technique — very fun card!
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super fun idea
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Great card! Love the shaker. Thanks for sharing.
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Nice shaker card. Inside and out!
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Awesome creations!
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Awesome shaker card, beautiful colours and FABulous inside too – love it. Hugs Bev (Uniko) x
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What a very kewl shaker card love it !!!
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Lovely shakers.
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What a great take on all the challenge! I love the colorful shaker elements! Thanks so much for playing Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Animal Magic” Challenge! Well done! Happy to see that you linked up to Virginia’s View Challenge, too!
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Cute card, D.Ann, keep them coming I am enjoying seeing them! Happy Hopping and Enjoy your summer!
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love this card!
Bad Kitty’s Craftroom
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Such a cool shaker card!
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Sorry you had such problems with the inks! Love your shaker card and how you used so many different things to put it together! Very intriguing!
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Oh this is a totlly awesome card inside out!
Have a java great day.
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Wow! Your shaker card is breathless!!!! Love it so much!
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Fabulous and FUN inside and out!
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This is such an awesome card, D.Ann!!!! I love the sweet kitty and your marvelous design. WOW!!!
I hope you win the grand prize for doing all 5 of the MFT camp challenges!!!! How fabulous would that be??!! Yay!
❤ J
jwoolbright at gmail dot com
HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com
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Oh, yes…..and Color Box pigment inks? I have had the same experience! You almost *have* to heat emboss it to get it dry.
❤ J
jwoolbright at gmail dot com
HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com
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So fun!! 🙂
Suchi xx
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What a fun shaker card!
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Oh wow! This is amazing! I love that you not only have the top see-through layer but you have an inside layer too! And, great work with the Fuse tool! Good luck with the data recovery!
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Cool shaker with the beads. So very fun!
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Lovely.
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