BLast From The Past...

 

 It's Monday, so here's  another card from waaaaay back when I used to make lots of shaker cards. (2010!) First cutting out frames from Crunchie Nut cornflakes packets, adding acetate and tiny beads. I even glued some tiny beads on those tiny heart buttons. Papers look like Pink Petticoat. And of course the cutie little puss-cat is a Penny Black Sticker-roo. I have this image on a little tray and on a mug, just too cute! Can't remember who I sent it to, but I hope they liked it! Thanks for stoping by!

Box Shaker Card. (Made with Freebie Papers)

I made this Shaker Valentine's card for a sketch challenge over on Card Making and Paper Craft, (front of house rather than on the main forum) I've used only papers that you can down load for free from the same place.. (or come with this month's magazine!) I've squashed in five flowers instead of four, which only proves I can't count! So I hope that won't matter! Also, look out for Bev's card on the Front Cover of the Magazine!!! (and crafty bits inside) How cool is that!!

I've made more of a box shaker this time, only because I used some thicker 3D foam pads. I've added an extra strip of paper around the box so's to hide them.

The little Forever Friends bear (is part of a set) has been coloured with Promakers, although the heart was paper pieced so the colour matched with the card. (My only red Promaker didn't match at all!) If you're very quick there's still time to join in! I have tried to enter but unfortunately all you can see is four empty spaces...!! (doesn't that make you mad when you can't delete something that's gone wrong!?!) Anyway. This is the card! Go hunt out those freebie papers, 'From The Heart.'
There's a few valentine Challenges I've found while blog hopping. I hope I'm not too late to enter and will add them as soon as I've double checked!

New Followers ((Big Wave!!)) Daverod46962 a new blogger! Please pop over and say hi, Dave would love a visit! Thank you for your email and comment Dave, so I could find your link and blog! Then there's Mikila with no link (yet) and Irene S has lovely things to have a snoop at!
Oops, forgot to add and link my Challenges!! Hope I'm not too late! For these challenges I've added a bit more sparkle to the card, die-cut corners and a tiny sentiment. The font is called Honey Bunches and you can download it free HERE Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges
Totallypapercrafts-add a heart
Papercutzchallenge-your choice
PaperIssues-Valentines Party!
Fresh Brewed Designs-Valentines Day (show some love)
Bunny Zoe's Craft: Love is in the air
Secret Crafter Saturday: With love
Pileitonchallenge-love is in the air
Penny's - Anything Goes

Happy New Year!! 2011 Mini Shaker Card

01.01.11. The start of the New Year!! I wonder what we'll all be up to in the coming months?
Here's my first card of 2011. Happy New Year, which I made for my Mum and Dad. I used the same Forever Friends papers as their Christmas Card so they would match (sort of) but used my own 'Happy New Year' digi (freebie until midnight tonight) The little cat started life off as a rabbit, would you believe, but I just couldn't get his ears to look right with that hat. So glad I changed it!

It's a sort of a mini shaker card too. I folded the front of the card back, and then punched out two shapes with a Woodware punch, so they matched up once folded back again. Made a sort of acetate pocket inside the fold and filled it with some chunky gold glitter and stuck it all down.
My little elf has been coloured with Promakers and splattered with micro fine glitter then fixed to the card with DS sticky tape. The font I used on the front is called PC Sunny Day, at the moment I can't find a free down...but there must be a freebie out there somewhere so I'll keep looking! (The freebie you can get isn't this one)

New Followers: Hi and a big (((wave))) to CT Girl no link here, but I think this is you! Life in the Craft Lane and Bonny C, with A Scrap Above

Now, I found a load of Happy New Year Challenges the other evening, but do you think I can find them now? nope, never mind. I'll go on another hunt!! Thank you for stopping by!

Challenges.
SweetstampinChallenge- Your Favourite Song.
(Kool and the Gang-Celebration)
Pixie dust studio pixie challenge-Happy New Year and to use gold/silver
(Silver Micro glitter and Gold glitter in the shaker)
Dutchdare card challenges-New Beginnings
(New Year)
Totally Papercrafts-Time To Party.
Sew Many Cards - New Things.
(New Year)

For Fun Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes
Opus-gluei.-Anything Goes
(No food but drink!?)

Happy Birthday Deb

It's my sister-in-laws birthday today. Feel a bit guilty as I haven't a new card to show you as I made her this shaker card quite some time ago. (She likes cats) It had a few sentiments added to it back then, but seeing it was a DT card, I'd (shhh!) fixed them on with that white blu Tack, so I could peel them off again after I'd taken the photos... so here it is again...naked!! Happy Birthday Deb!

An Iceland Baby Shaker Card

I haven't made a shaker card for ages so when Tom asked me to make a baby boy card, I thought I'll make a few for him to choose from, but one of them's going to be a shaker! I decided to use my Quirky Craft's sketch for this one (with a square instead of a circle) The new baby boy will be flying back to Iceland very soon! I found some icy blue papers, used white faux stitching, using a white gel pen, added Stickles Icicles glitter, frosty silver and silvery eyelash wool and tiny snowflakes inside the shaker as well as on the corner with the flower. Penny Black image of course, coloured with my ProMarkers. I stamped out the letters using my Quickutz. I've also (although it's hard to see) embossed the rectangle behind the shaker, with hearts. The little stork I'm sure I brought back with me from USA last year. I've also added a bit of silver and white ribbon, which wasn't on my sketch but I thought it looked nice. Hope I'm not too late for some of the challenges I've found. There were some shaker card challenges but I think I've missed those.

New Follower, hi and a big ((wave)) to kobies crafty corner pop over and say hi!
Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges
i love promarkers-icy colours
Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges -must include an animal -Winter
Crazy 4 challenges - square card
Crafty Cardmakers - dry embossing
Cardsformen-animals (baby boy Card-hedgehog)
Raise The Bar - baby
Cute Card Thursday-Anything Goes
Lexi's Creations - Anything Goes
Digi Doodles - Anything Goes
Freshly Brewed Designs - two or more patterned papers

It's A Girly Quirky-ness! Shaker Card

It's that Quirky time again, or it should be, when the Quirky Craft's Challenge Blog starts off with a new Challenge,. Thank you to every one who entered last time, there were some really lovely Chocolate and Cream projects! We'll soon let you know who the winners are! Now the next fortnightly Challenge is a really nice easy one. We want you to go all....

'Girly Girly!!'

Anything you consider to be really girlie, lots of bling and sparkle, gems, feathers, make-up, dresses, handbags, shoes, or just something very simple, like a lovely photograph and a few swirls, in fact anything, you consider 'Girly' we'd love to see it over on the Quirky Craft's Challenge...

I'm not really girlie but I decided it was about time I did another Shaker card (That's my motto, if in doubt, do a shaker card!) and added a few flowers, tear drop gems, a gem butterfly, a dotty bow, a sparkly flip flop and a paper frill, oh and loads of sticklers Glitter too!
The lovely papers are 'My Minds Eye' (Pretty Please Spring Papers) and were a freebie with Cardmaking and PaperCraft Magazine a few months ago. Tilda was coloured with Promakers, of course. I haven't put a sentiment on, but it will be a birthday card. I have a few June birthdays coming up! Well ,there you have it! Come and join in!! Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges
The Crazy Challenge- It's a Girl thing
Magnolia Down Under Challenge -Flowers
Passion For ProMakers -Blog Anniversary- Fabulous Prizes!!- Anything Goes
Paper Garden Projects-Girlie

An Inspirational Snowy Shaker

I really really love how this card has turned out! It's my daughter Maria's Christmas Card so it's winging it's way over to the States. Hope she likes it! The only thing is I wish is was BIGGER!!I've run out of cards, and I've only got small ones left, not the thing to do when Christmas is looming up at 90 miles an hour!
This card was made by cutting down a 12x12 pearl cream card, then covering the front with a layer of black card and then Pink Petticoat Christmas papers.I followed the sketch over on Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog and as soon as I saw it I thought, oh yes!! that would make a great shaker card. Never made a round one before. I drew around two different sized cups to get the circle, but apart from that I made the shaker in the same way as I usually do. (Scroll down to see 'How to make a Shaker Card'. Just in case you hadn't spotted it!) The circle might have looked better if I'd printed straight onto the card but I used a Crunchy Nut Cornflakes packet for the circle (Remove Crunchy Nuts first! Add milk and eat!...) and then covered that with the Pink Petticoat Christmas Papers, so by the time I'd finished wrapping the paper around it, and adding the acetate, it didn't look too good, so that's why I ended up covering the circle with the fern leaves. Hides a multitude of sins!
I'm also thinking I might put this card into the Simon Says Challenge too. Their challenge is, Let it Snow and I think the shaker 'snow' (beads and silver stars) is pretty good 'snow'! And also The Penny Black Saturday Challenge (just about in time!!) which is...Christmas for the girls...and it is a card for my daughter, and it's Penny Black too...so I think it fits!!It's also 'Christmas' over on the Pink Elephant Challenge, so I think this fits and it's also 'Christmas' on the Sophisticat Challenge too
And and and... Penny's Challenge Blog is doing 'Christmas Stars', for their next challenge. 'So, where's the star?' I can hear you say. Well, you'll have to look into the shaker, there's hundreds of them!! So! Back to the card!! The snowflakes inside were done with Woodware and Dovecraft punches and the words I just made up! The inside font is a freebie sometimes! But I'm having trouble finding it. The link to the freebie keeps disappearing, probably because on most sites it isn't a freebie! **Update**: Inside font is called Freehand591 or Freehand591BT you youcan download it for free HERE (everywhere will charge you!!)
As you can see there's a little pocket at the back of the card to add a few surprizes.
I took loads and loads of pictures of this card because I just couldn't get a good colour. The purple just didn't look purple! Then later, when I got home from work round about two-ish, and the sun had come out and the rain had stopped, I quickly nipped outside and took a few more! As you can see, the top picture and very bottom picture is sooo much better than any of the others taken around the house with different lights on! All I can say to that is, roll on Spring!!!!The font on the front of the card is a freebie. I'll pop back later with links for you to download it, meanwhile can you guess what famous frozen cartoonist it's been named after??!!Have to go now, I'll pop back later to finish off here, and maybe add another challenge or two as I'm in the middle of putting up some Christmas lights and I've left poor John 'hanging around' waiting for drawing pins...ummmm, well, I forgot!!!
Two Updates! The Freebie font on the front of the card is called...did you guess? Walt Disney Script. Google the name plus the word font or free font and you'll find loads of sites where you can download it! Back later with another Christmas Card! AND best of all!! This card won me a $25 to spend at Simon Says Stamp!! I love blogging!

Paws For Thought Shaker

Don't you think he's cute!?! He was a download from The Tinker and Co Shop. In the set there's twelve papers, three sets of bears and a page of 'ribbons'. So I decided to make another one of my favourite shaker cards. (Nooo! We'd never guess!) This time I've used not only beads but tiny stars, tiny hearts and splinters of gold (not real gold!) inside the shaker window. I've printed the bear and all the background papers on the satin brochure paper I've mentioned once or twice, (five times) before! (Links no longer apply)

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The insert I printed on ordinary paper and made the bear a lot smaller! The bear on the front has been decoupaged (using the brochure paper) I kept changing my mind about what I was going to put next to him. First it was a sentiment, then I changed it to a flower. I dabbed a dollop of PVA glue in the centre of the flower then pured on the same gold beads. The acetate was cut from the box lid of a Forever Friends decoupage set (I throw nothing away!) The 'lace' is self adhesive paper lace. Now then, there's a challenge, which I hope I'm not too late for~over on Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog This week you have to use acetate on your card, so I hope this counts!!
This last picture was taken before the flower was put on...who can spot was else is missing?
I'd just like to say "Hi" to a New Follower PinkLilacs who at the moment has some yummy blog candy! (It's on my side bar!) pop over and have a look! Right, I'm off, back to watching the end of Harry Potter. I've had the DVD on, got fed up with the adverts on the telly, so there's about half an hour to go on the T.V. I still find myself moaning about all the bits they miss out or change! Dobby was meant to give Harry the Gillyweed!! And weren't they supposed to meet up with Lockhart again in the hospital? Moody also had an invisibility cloak in the book. Credit must go to the maze. I think that was better in the film, everything in the book was missed out. It must be really hard making a film. I'd never know what bits to miss out! I'd probably make it go on and on and on.......and on....and on...night night!
Later I added, Happy Birthday Dad and inside, lots of bear hugs from me and him
What else was missing? A little bird in the top left hand corner.

Tinker Brown, Penny Black Shaker

In between chasing my fish and taking their pictures (they smiled...see below!!) I've been blog hopping. Have you been over to Tinker and Co yet? This is what I made with the lovely Freebie Papers. Aren't they great! They're called Vintage Dad, but I think they could be used for anyone or anything. Of course, I had to make another shaker card. Don't forget there's a tutorial at the bottom of the blog for those of you who think it's too fiddly. No it's not! It's easy! I teamed the papers up with a couple of Penny Black Stickeroos, some brads, a flower made with three, no four Woodaware punches and some lovely spotty brown ribbon from my stash. I also did some swirls with a glue pen and added some gold glitter. The Happy Birthday is a clear stamp from Papermania. I've added some tiny stars to the beads... wish I'd put more in now, but they kept rolling about! Now, as I said before, I've been blog hopping...and found two challenges one over on Saturday Challenge to include spots and stripes! Fancy that! And the other on Creative Card Crew for Pokadots. So I think I might enter this card into their challenges. Yes? Okay! The inside? oh yes...I made that with the odd bits left over and did a bit of doodling to make the squares look like pressies, then scanned the finished page, saved it to my computer so, when I'm in a hurry and in need of a brown insert to a card, I'll have one already made. Now then, this is between you and me...looking into my Crystal ball I can see into the future and sometime in August I will find another challenge blog for this card! The Challenge will to be to make a brown card for Dad and have some metal on it somewhere. Well...I thought (or will think) this is most definitely brown and those brads are metal and the papers are called Vintage Dad and I will be giving this card to my dad when it's his birthday, so, if you're reading this now wait til August and then pop over to Bizzy Becs Creatalicious Challenges and join in! You've been forewarned so you'll have plenty of time to make a card!!
If you have scrolled down today, you'll find a 'Clip it' from Sylvia's blog, she's been playing with shrink plastic don't forget these 'clip its' are from other people's blogs (It's alright, I asked first!) and if you're feeling very energetic, and scroll a bit further down you'll see I've been awarded two Awards from the lovely Josefa Laura. Please pop over and see her lovely blog!
I was hoping I'd have time tonight to give out some Awards, but Fire Fox or was it Blogger (!?!) has already crashed once tonight, so I won't tempt fate! Be back tomorrow with the Awards! Right...I'm off to Saturday Challenge first! Thank you for stopping by!

Happy Father's Day: Shaker Card

Happy Father's Day all you dad's and Grand dads and, Great Grand dad's even! 21st of June and the longest day of the year, 16 hours and 45 minutes of day time.~ or of course~ the shortest night. The Summer Solstice. Did any one go and dance around a stone circle and watch the sun come up at 3.46 this morning? No, me neither, as usual the cat woke me up around seven, purring in my ear. Feed me. Feed me. Which brings me to my Dad's card. (There's a cat on it) It's covered in denim blue with a Penny Black Stickeroo. I always wondered where and how I would use this cat with his 1st prize rosette. My dad grows flowers for shows and wins loads of rosettes so I thought Ah! Dad, as I'm allowed to add flowers to his cards. The little ladybirds were originally stuck to miniature pegs. (Don't worry, they're not real, they're made of wood!)The cat was first fixed to acetate and then attached to the card with a dob of silicone glue. (I tried 3D dots at first, but they showed through)
The font is called tYpEwRiTeR's ReVeNgE! (some of the letter's are reversed) and is freely available as a freebie download just google it, (there's loads to choose from!) I used raffia, instead of ribbon around the shaker frame, as dad often uses it to tie up his plants. I've also added last years Father's Day card, as I didn't have a blog then. Another Penny Black Stickeroo, with a gardening theme of course.
Emma made her dad a perfect card, so I just had to add that too. Lovely photo of her with her very proud dad, on her Wedding Day last October. She bought the silver peel-offs from Trago Mills, when she was down in Cornwall last week. I've also added the birthday card she made to the post further down...
I think I've made up for not posting since Wednesday! I also have Blog Awards to dish out! And I'm very late with Birthday cards!! They're in the post! Honest. (She lies) Sorry about that, but I had a couple of extra days at work, which puts money in the Trip to Seattle Piggy Bank, so I mustn't grumble! Anyway, it's given me time to think about Blog Candy. I can remember saying something a few weeks back, as my hits were slowly reaching 2000...well, they've gone a bit past that now! So I'll get my thinking cap on. I want to do something as a thank you to all my lovely supportive followers. Something that may get you all making and doing things so, watch this space...or more likely, a future posting!

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...

Little Topper Shaker

The Little Topper shaker, which I made a couple of weeks ago, is now, on a card. Hmmm, not tooo sure about it. I've used the freeby backing paper by artist, designer, Nel Whatmore again. (Free with Quick Cards made Easy a few weeks ago) The spider's inside the window are of course, Pink Petticoat's Happy Haunting. Aren't they just too cute! (The little girl spiders have pink bows!) The typed circle was done on my laptop and printed onto glossy photo paper, coloured with my one and only permanent Promaker, (magenta) and then punched out with a Woodware punch. I did a 'How to type in circles' a little while ago on the TrimCraft Forum. Now bare with me! I'll try to put a link here to that, as, because I'm dyslexic and find not only spelling very hard, but remembering how to do some thing VERY hard too! I'm never really sure on how I should explain some thing, because most of you out there are really experts and brilliant crafters but there's a few, who like me, find even the basics pretty baffling! (I can make a link now! Nah-ne nah-ne-na-na!!) because the more you write the harder it is to understand! Do I start with, "Turn your computer on...?" or as I did on the forum..."Open Word" After typing out as simply as I could on how to type in circles, someone emailed me and asked..."Where's Word?" O-kay....(It's so nice to know I'm not alone!) But then Hubby told me, not every computer comes equipped with 'Word'. Now...where did I get too? Oh yes...the little 'buttons' on the card are Clear Stamps by Papermania, also coloured with the same Promaker. That's is for now, catch you later...oh! and a very warm welcome to Eiglas, Michwot and Queenie!

How to Make A Shaker Card.

After I spend hours trying to line up pictures to text, I finally gave up and made a slide show on photo bucket on how to make a shaker card and placed it down at the bottom of the blog. **Update, now moved to 'pages', link at top of blog** Hope you like it. It still needs tiding up a bit but it'll do for now! ...oh wow!! It's nearly 4.30 in the morning!!! Night!!

Afternoon! Did I get much sleep? What with the cat purring, John snoring, and the postman ringing the door bell at eight o'clock this morning...no! Aw- well, it's been a nice day today, sun shinning, bees buzzing so I thought I'd take my card out into the garden and take a 'daylight' picture, and show you the inside too. Think there's still something missing.... back later.

There we go... I thought it needed another (smaller) Tilda inside the card. Lovely day today..think I'll do some gardening...

Catch you later!!

Party Tilda Shaker Card

After a few, a couple, maybe one person asked me how I did my shaker cards, I was going to be all clever and do one of those picture tutorials, using this card...I got right to the end, when my camera died a death. Flat Batteries. (Bother... although I didn't actually say, bother.) The photo down there was taken when I was wondering what to put in that blank spot on the left. Some black feathered wool? Another Stickeroo? A big purple glitter flower? After much pondering I decided on the silver and white glitter flower. (Which was recycled from a gift bag I had some yummy non-crafty goodies in for my birthday) The 'Party Time' and the 'Happy Birthday'stamps are from Papermania (Claire Curd's Signature Range) The little hedgehog is a Penny Black Stickeroo. Tilda was coloured in with Aqua Promaker pens and a paint brush.
I will have a go at doing a picture tutorial, but next time I'll make sure my batteries are fully charged! (That's the camera's batteries of course...not mine!)