Summer Shaker

I love these lush freebie Scrapbook papers I down loaded from Summer Driggs lovely blog. I just had to make a couple of shaker cards. Get the link, Summer Shaker...see, clever eh? Pop over and leave some lovely comments. Summer has some wonderful kits, plus a few 'how to' tutorials. (The kit's called Easy Breezy, also, look out for other lovely kits in older posts, go and have a hunt!!)
This was a very quick and easy breezy card, (as I'm late once more with forum birthday cards! sorry!) I didn't add any contrasting paper inside the window this time, as I thought the big blue flower was too good to hide, so I just fixed the acetate frame straight over the beads and onto the card, with thin 3D foam pads, so I didn't have to pay for a 'large letter' post!(call me scrooge!)

I added a few sparkly peel off dots, inside the window, curling round like a stem and a bit of Sticklers glitter on the flowers and leaves. The hedgehog (and ladybirds) are Penny Black Stickeroos. I always feel I cheat when I use them ~ they're so cute and easy! This one was fixed onto acetate first, so you couldn't see the pattern through his tummy and so he could actually stick to the card (over the frame) I've used a dollop of silicon to hold him in place (Looks like he's looking at the ladybirds, doesn't it!) The wording is a clear stamp by Papermania. In the freebie kit there's loads of elements and ribbons. Wish my small brain could get round digi scrapping!!
I didn't have any navy or dark paper for the inside, (the blank card was a very dark blue) only a really really nice linen black...and I wasn't going to use that for the insert. (call me scrooge again!) So I just stuck a few pieces inside, along with Loony Lyn.
I inked all the edges with..(can you tell, I'm looking, reading and copying this off the lid?!) Blue Iris, from the ColorBox Petal Point fluid Chalk option pad. (bit of a mouthful!) I've used this a lot for edging lately and the little sponges don't wear well, going a bit rough around the edges.(like me!)
Now, what do you put on the back of your cards? My old cartoony type cards used to have, 'Oh no! Not Another Lyn-loony' and.. 'An arm and a leg plus V.A.T' where the price should be...I decided I needed something a little more sophisticated these days, a bit more posher...so I came up with, Loony Lyn and my email with the background to match the papers on the card... Dragonsmoore being the Title of one of my 'never ending stories'. You'd have to be very clever to find it on Google! (No I'm not linking it, as it's very old and I've changed it a million times since then!~just can't remember the password to take it off) Anyway, I'd love to know what you put on the back of your cards, if anything! A squashed toad, a thumb print...Catch you tomorrow, with another Summer Shaker...