Stampn'HI: Seasons Giving Blog Hop

I'm completely blown away by everyone's comments

and can't thank you all enough for taking the time to stop by

for this year's

Season's Giving Blog Hop.

Each comment meant so much to me and I hope you all continue

to drop on by!

The random winner is...

Juliana TJanuary 4, 2015 at 1:58 PM

Happy New Year! I love shaker cards and this one's a honey!

Juliana T. was e-mailed!

I love to have random giveaways especially to my favorite store

Butterfly Reflections Ink

so stop by often since you never know when a gift certificate will be up for grabs!!

On to today's card...

Lawn Fawn You've Got Mail, Lawn Fawn for Studio Calico Future is Bright,

Simon Says Stamp inks

I decided to go CAS with a bokeh look to enter the next

The Card Concept Challenge

I was playing off that hint of blue with the shades of pink and green.

Tip: To create the bokeh effect use a mix of light and dark

shades of ink (even second generation stamping could work)
to create that blurred/out of focus effect!

That's it for me today, but I'll definitely be back with more!

My goal this year is to make some project videos which I'm currently

doing some research on.

If y'all have suggestions on what you'd like to see leave a comment below!

I'm not the most tech savvy, so the hubby is getting me trained...haha

Mahalo for stopping by!

Toodles!!

Welcome to this years

Season's Giving Blog Hop!
(A list of all the blogs to hop on through are at the bottom of my post)

I'm super thrilled to be joining this talented group and be able to share

some of my unloved stash!
(unfortunately mailing only to the US)
I hope you'll be able to make it through my pictorial
and leave some comment love for your chance to
WIN a box full of goodies!!!
Let's get started shall we?

Today's card is a SHAKER...

		Supplies needed: Die cut shape, stamp set of your choice, Hero Arts Shadow Inks (not shown), Tombow markers, vellum, microbeads or sequins (basically anything you want to put in for a shaker)
Lay out pieces to create design of your choice. I chose to go with a circle shaker with the Hawaiian Islands in my shaker and sentiment to be on the top and bottom of my shaker. Once happy with your layout start die cutting circle!
		I used some painter's tape to make sure my circle die cut stayed where I wanted it to, then ran through my Big Shot Pro.
I LOVE the latest Simon Says Stamp Stitched dies! They leave a stitched mark on either side of the cut line!! Super cool!!!
		On card front, stamp out sentiment and background stamp. The sentiment was stamped slightly curved to follow the circle. I decided to do a rainbow of ink colors using Hero Arts Shadow inks in Pale Tomato, Butter Bar, Green Hills, Pool and Grape Juice.
Place card panel on front of card to be able to center the inside stamped design of the shaker.
		Tombow markers have been my latest coloring obsession
On back side of card front adhere vellum. I decided to go with vellum because my card front was so full of color I wanted to mute the coloring of the Hawaiian islands a bit.
		Then add foam tape to create a frame around the die cut image. This will hold all of the shaker goodies!
I used some Martha Stewart microbeads in clear and blue with some leftover flower punches and placed in center of image on card front.
		Remove foam tape backing and adhere to card front. Make sure you have a good seal to keep all your shaker goodies in!