Kool Kitty Musings: Shake it out and shake it up...

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Friday, 12 December 2014

Shake it out and shake it up...

This week on the Daring Cardmakers blog, Sharon has challenged us to hop on the shaker card bandwagon which has recently been brought back to life!

I remember back in 2003 or so making one of my first shaker cards with beads and Doodlebug buttons - back then we didn't have the fab and versatile dies that we can now use to create really unique apertures for the shaker windows...

But despite all that, I have gone for a pretty simple shaker card look with the humble circle!

Paper: Crate Paper, Simple Stories
Stamps: Neat & Tangled
Dies: Lil' Inker Designs, MFT
Enamel dots: MME
Other: Mica flakes, 3D foam

I didn't have any acetate to hand, so salvaged some clear packaging from a set of embellishments to do the job. And the perfect stamps for my little winter wonderland window? The Winter Wishes stamps by Neat & Tangled, I love the font they've used for the greetings too! I want more Christmas wishes in this font! :D

And at long last, for the shaker element.... I opened the pack of Mica flakes by Melissa Frances that I bought a couple of years ago in Florida, and finally used a sprinkling! You can't quite see the twinkliness here, but it's very frosty in real life. :)

Definitely go check out the fab shaker cards by the design team! There are some real beauties!

Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Noel paper	Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Christmas Trees	Simple Stories - December Documented - Blue Snowflake/Chevron paper	Neat & Tangled - Winter Wishes stamp set
Lil' Inker Designs - Stitched Mats: Circles die set	My Mind's Eye - Just Sayin' - Enamel Dots	Melissa Frances - Mica flakes

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Posted by Handmade by Natty at 10:00 AM in Cards, DCM, Kool Yule, Made in 2014 | Permalink

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Love this one - I have been experimenting with glitter, for sparkle in my shaker cards this year... varied results (I'm sure you can imagine!!!) Maybe I will have to get some of the mica, it looks fab ;) Rx

Posted by: Ruth S | Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 10:15 AM

I really love your card Nat, the little scene is so sweet and I also really love that font. I'm going to have to have a little search now for my mica, I know I've got some somewhere!

Posted by: Sharon (glitterangel) | Monday, 15 December 2014 at 01:51 PM

fab card Natty.

Posted by: Leigh | Tuesday, 16 December 2014 at 10:35 PM

Gorgeous. Love the seen inside your shaker, reminds me of a snow globe.

Posted by: Dawn | Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 08:30 AM

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