Shake it Up!

Ahhh!  It's the weekend!  I've been so busy at my job at the school I work at.  I've been reminded how much I enjoy my job but it's worn me out!  I got use to days with little schedules and, well, sleeping in! :)  Now I'm up early and working all day.  It has worn me out.  I usually work part time but for the first 3 weeks before school starts I'm on full time hours.

So my therapy, when I can keep my eyes open, is sitting and crafting!  After work on Friday I came home and put together a fun little card for this week's Catered Crop Challenge.  Since my card was chosen as a winner in their last challenge, I get to Guest Design with them this week!  How fun!

I thought that this Instant Camera 3x4 Photo Card die from Frantic Stamper was the perfect base for my shaker.  The sides are such an easy width to create a shaker box with!  Score!  

I am so in love with the gold trend!  It is hard to resist putting gold on everything.  For the sentiment I used an awesome word die "Bravo!" from the Frantic Stamper Accolades die set.  I tied some of my favorite Gold Shimmer twine around the shaker base as an accent.

I thought it would be fun to stack a bunch of the die cuts together to create my shaker space rather than using foam tape.  It worked perfectly and I like the clean edges it left!  How fun would it be to insert one or two colored pieces in the middle?  Wish I would have thought of that before.

You still have time to play along with the Catered Crop Recipe Swap: Shaker challenge!  You can link up your card until Saturday, August 16th at 7 PM Central.  Thanks for joining me today!  Have a wonderful weekend!  We are preparing to celebrate my son's 12th birthday today (his birthday is tomorrow).  Where has the time gone?  Sigh. :)

Supplies:
Dies:  Frantic Stamper Instant Camera 3x4 Photo Card & Accolades Die Set
Paper: Heidi Swapp Hello Today, DCWV Glitter Paper
Twine: Twinery Gold Shimmer
Sequins:  Misc

Dance in the Rain!

Hey!  How are you?  I wanted to quickly share a card I made using some new products that Lil' Inker Designs released last week!

I love the new Dance in the Rain stamp set!  I embossed it in black on a Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine card.  I just love the font for these large sentiments!

I then die cut the clouds from the Cut it Out Clouds & Accessories die set.  I left all of my striped slits in the clouds.  A quick tip on the easiest way I found to do that was to carefully remove the die cut from the cutting plate and then flip it over and adhere a piece of scotch tape to the cloud.  The pieces will stick easily to it and won't fall out!  I die cut the lightening bolts from yellow glitter paper.  I also die cut the black strip with the On the Diagonal die.

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have a wonderful week!

Smile!

I can't tell you how excited I am to be posting today!  I've been keeping a secret and today I get to share it! I am going to be guest designing with the Frantic Stamper design team for several months.  You can see the announcement here.  Yippee!! To say I'm in love with their exclusive dies just wouldn't quite sum up how much I adore the collection!  They are wonderful!  When I first saw them in Fran's store I was immediately drawn to them!  I can't wait to share what I've been working on!

So here we go!

Oh boy!  I was tickled pink when I first put my eyes on this card panel die!  To create the background of this card I used Frantic Stampers Alternating Diagonal Card Panel die.  Yeah, so this die is wonderful!! Can you imagine the background designs you could create with this?  I'm dreaming of colors and patterns right now! 

I am drawn to camera images, and camera dies are just icing on the cake!  I love this little camera die that is included in the Frantic Stamper Instant Camera 3x4 Photo Card dies set.  It is so adorable!  I die cut the camera once in cream cardstock and then a second time in gold cardstock.  It adds the classy details while still keeping the focus on the camera.  The smile die (isn't the size of this one perfect!) from the Frantic Stamper Diagonal Stripes 3x4 Photo Card is also cut from gold cardstock.  

To create the bokeh-like effect that you sometimes get with photography I punched several sizes of circles from vellum and added a few clear sequins.  I really like the end result!

I'm entering this card in the Cutting Edge Challenge #6!  The inspiration I took from Amy's challenge card was the layout of the card being focused on the left side of the card, using vellum, the "striped" piecing and my sentiment placement.  I also used the colors in the Amy's card scheme but in a darker color family.

I'm also entering this in the Moxie Fab Clicking Cameras Challenge!

Thank you so much for visiting today!  I'd LOVE to hear what you think of these dies!  Have you seen them before?  Do you LOVE them like I do?  I can't wait to share more with you!

Here are the Frantic Stamper dies that I've used on this card: 

Frantic Stamper Alternating Diagonal Card Panel

Frantic Stamper Instant Camera 3x4 Photo Card

Frantic Stamper Diagonal Stripes 3x4 Photo Card

Please stop by Frantic Stamper to see the complete lines of products that are carried!  I think you'll be glad you did!

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Frantic Stamper Precision Dies Direct Link
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Frantic Stamper Facebook Page

Smarty Pants!

Last week was enrollment for our school district.  It was a very busy day in the office for me but I always enjoy meeting new students and their parents and seeing others that I haven't seen all summer. So you can imagine that the start of the school year is on my mind a lot lately since every day that is what I'm working on.

Last week I used the glasses die from Whimsy Stamps and I had another card that I wanted to make with that die too!

I kept it very simple because I wanted my focus to be on the glasses. :)  I created the sentiment from Whimsy's School Spirit stamp set and the Smarty Pants stamp set.

I die cut the glasses from the Glasses & Bracket die set.  To wrap the middle of my nerd glasses I cut a small strip from white twill and carefully wrapped it around the glasses being sure to end the strip on the front. 

I am entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Hope your day is great!