Are you thinking of Christmas? We are thinking about it at Stampin' Royalty, infact that is our challenge today!
I used the Snow Friends stamp set as it is one of my FAVES! It carried over from the previous Holiday Catalog to this years annual catalog. YAY! As you can see this stamp set has coordinating framelits, BONUS!
I decided to make my card into a shaker card. A shaker card really is the perfect thing for a Winter/ Christmas themed card.
For the "shaker pieces", I made my own custom colored beads from SILICA!!! You know the little packages with the warnings not to eat that come in your shoe box! Well you can dye them any color and make fun shaker cards! Click over to this post to see how to make your own DIY Shaker Beads! My beads are dyed Pool Party to match the color of my stamped snowflakes. What I love about the dyed Silica beads is that they come out in all different shades of the color you make them.
What do you think of the new Emerald Envy In Color as a Christmas color! And it goes so well with Pool Party. New colors are so fun to play with. And Emerald Envy is a very versatile shade of green, I am loving it. If you've been around Stampin' Up! as long as I have you might remember Glorious Green, this is almost identical to that color.
And if you like shaker cards but are not happy with how hard they are, you need to meet Foam Adhesive Strips...
BAM! Shaker Cards are now simplified! Use these to make the raised area to put your shaker pieces in, peel the top paper off and stick the window to them. They make me happy! I want all cards to be shakers now!
You can find all of the things I used to make this card in my online store (except the Silica, I bet you can find some in your house somewhere). If you need help making a shaker card, please let me know. My favorite thing is helping others be creative!
Want more Christmas in July? Check out what my fellow Stampin' Goddesses made for this challenge at Stampin' Royalty. You can play along with us too!
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