Cottage Lane Stamper

Sometimes shaker cards can be a bit intimidating and, I for one, have messed them up more than once.  This one is easy enough for anyone, unless you are like me have 4 thumbs, like me today.  :-) If you follow my 2nd attempt with the sequins you will succeed!  Stuff always happens when you go live.  LOL This shaker uses one of our clear envelopes that are usually used for storing or displaying cards.  It makes for an easy shaker card!  Who'd a thunk it! I love the adorable Snowflake Sequins!  They really are enhanced against this Snowflake Splendor DSP.  This DSP is one of my favorites with it's blues and color washes.  Frosty sure looks at home in this little scene.  I used the Snow Wonder stamp set and coordinating dies, Snow Time. Frosty is colored with Stampin' Blends.  You could also use Watercolor pencils and a Blender Pen. I made another card yesterday with the Trimming the Town DSP and Pear Pizzaz cardstock. Which do you lik...

 I saw a technique the other day, with alcohol markers and a window sheet that gave a beautiful watercolor background.  But for the life of me I couldn't get it to work, sadly.  It seemed to dry out too quickly for me, even when I spritzed it with the alcohol.  Changed the game plan a little bit and used one of my larger clear blocks and some shimmer paper.  If you wanted to use a larger piece of paper you could used the largest clear block F which measures 4-7/8" x 6".  In this video I used our clear block E, which measures 3-7/16" x 4-7/16". I think it turned out beautifully!  Here's a video on how I did it, if this video does not show up on your phone here is the YouTube link .  Google has changed something in Blogger and videos aren't showing up on phones like they used to. One thing I forgot in the video was die cutting the color wash piece with one of my Rectangular Stitched dies.  It does give it a more finished look.  The one sho...