Hello! It’s Noelle again and this week we are celebrating my daughter’s 16th birthday! *GASP* My youngest is 16? How did that happen?
It is the perfect time for a shaker AND sequin card in a different kind of way!
But first cake! It is vanilla and so tiny!
Those gross chalky circle things totally reminded me of shaker card filler! LOL
First, I grabbed a slimline die from Elizabeth Crafts and started cutting up paper from my My Mind’s Eye HOORAY pad!
Then I grabbed my Balloon Layering Stencil Set and boy did that paper soak up the ink LOL You can barely see the balloons, but lucky for me, Carlee thinks I am the best card maker in the world, so she didn’t even notice! {Not to mention, it doesn’t really look like shaded lilac on top of the other colors LOL}
I stamped and embossed on all 3 of them and put foam dots on the back of the shapes and stamped the happy banners right on the base. I glue the base to the back piece and I really love how it is perforated. I love to bend them all different ways for dimension. That is my assistant Bella’s tail is the bottom right corner. He leaves me 8 inches to work in and I am used to it! LOL
Here’s the thing I love so much about Unity! I planned to use Cheers & Confetti that is made to fit into Bevy of Balloons and that is the stamp set that goes with the stencil set I used. Only I picked a smaller balloon. So it didn’t fit. No problem! I needed 3 birthday things that would fit! SO EASY! Happy Birthday Gnome and Party On Gnome were perfect!
OK, here comes the shaker and sequin part! I grabbed some string. It’s kind of shiny. It came in a thrift store bag. I like it. It’s thick like twine. I put a mini glue dot on the back of each sequin and lightly set it on the string. I didn’t count them but they have 11 or 12 each. I carefully flipped them over and then put another glue dot on a sequin and pushed it on the bottom one. Once they were all matched up, I rolled the edges to match them up, they aren’t perfect because of the string, but it still works.
SHAKE!!! SHAKE!!! SHAKE!!!
I hope you join us! There will be gift card given for prizes and next Thursday there will be a new challenge! And it is going to be fun!
Thanks so much for joining me this month! I hope you had fun!