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Magical Unicorn See-Thru Shaker

Here's another cute card for one of my "littles" ...

My grandniece turned 2 this year.  I wanted to make her a card with a simple interactive element and shaker cards are the best for that, in my humble opinion ... nothing to move that could tear up the card. 😂  I also wanted to stretch my crafting skills a bit and step it up from normal shaker cards so I decided on making a see-thru shaker.  With that decided, I went to my handy dandy stash of saved and unused Freshly Made Sketches designs and picked #FMS358.  Next, I looked through the splitcoaststampers.com past color challenges for a "girly" color combo and chose #CC1004.  Lastly, I looked through my Big Book of Stamps and found the rarely used SSS Magical Birthday set ... I actually think I used this stamp set to dress up the brown wrapping paper on her present last year, hmmm, theme?

BTW, my handmade card related hobbies are BUYING stamps and dies, ORGANIZING stamps and dies and USING stamps and dies.  I've created two binders for my organizing hobby ... Big Book of Stamps and Big Book of Dies, Punches, Stencils, Embossing folders.  Everything I buy gets catalog in a spreadsheet and then recreated in one of the Big Books.  That way I can either search the spreadsheet for a keyword and/or look through one of the books for inspiration.

I really like how this card turned out.  The see-thru aspect wasn't as difficult as I imagined it would be.  It turned out very girly indeed.  What do you think?

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.

Card Recipe

Stamps: Simon Says Stamp Magical Birthday
Punches & Dies:  
Embossing folders:  SU! Lucky Stars
Paper: SU! Whisper White, Lemon Lolly, acetate from stash
Paper Size: A2 5.5" x 4.25" card
Ink: SU! Lemon Lolly, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, MyFavoriteThings ExtremeBlack, alcohol markers
Accessories:   glitter, sequins from stash
Techniques:  see-thru shaker, dry emboss, heat emboss, ScanNCut images






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