Hello my stamping friends, today I have some card featuring the new Nestabilities Essentials Squares Etched dies from Spellbinders.
Nestabilities always makes me think of shaker cards because they make it so easy to create a frame! The new addition to this line is a set of dies with layering perforated dies. The currently have Squares, Rectangles, Circle and Ovals available in this new line. BUT THAT IS NOT ALL. I am very excited because you can also get a coordinating set of Glimmer Hot Foil plates to go with each of these new die sets! I do love Glimmer Hot Foiling!
I used all the things on my cards today; Square die, Square perforating die and Square Glimmer Hot Foil plate!
For this first card I decided to make a 4" x 4" card, because that is the size of the largest square die in this set. Then I was able to use the next square to make the frame.
On this card I also used the perforating die to add detail to the window sheet.
The background for the card started with some ink blending on white paper to create a ranibow. Then I stamped over that with the Flower Tangle background stamp. I turned out so amazing! I love this background stamp. I could not waste any of that background, so I inlaid the square cut from the center of the frame onto the card, so it was the background of the shaker.
The shaker bits I used are Silver Shavings, they are very fine and make a bit of a wave sound in a shaker. I used them on card number two as well.
For this card I used a 3-3/4" x 3-3/4" piece of card stock and the second square die to make a frame around the opening of this shaker card that is A2 sized. The squares in this die set are 4", 3", 2" and 1". I did the same inlay technique. On this frame I added a Glimmer Hot Foil detailing with the Essentials Squares Glimmer Hot Foil plates.
The Smile die I used is also new from Spellbinders, it is the Bold Type Smile set, with 2 die in it. One die cuts the word smile with etched lines in it and is slightly larger than the other plain smile die cut. The one with the etched lines is designed to be a shadow behind the plain die cut. But you can also use them each alone. My first card shows the dies used together with the shadow die as a shadow. My second card I used the shadow die as the main sentiment. I used the slightly smaller die cut plain smile to stack up this sentiment to make it thicker. As it is slightly smaller it is easy to get lined up and it is is hard to see from the front. Great for making stacked sentiments. Spellbinders came out with several of the sentiment die sets, I might need a few more of them. I really like the shadow die.
You can see these card in the making in this video:
Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share my shaker cards with you.
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