w&w 1st Birthday Bash | Shaker Challenge with Julie

Hello and Happy New Year!  And with the new year, we get to celebrate our birthday!  woot woot!  I was working on ideas for my challenge, and suddenly it came to me - SHAKER CARD!  Absolutely perfect way to celebrate!  A shaker card is a party all by itself!  LOL  So, in the infamous words of Taylor Swift, let's "shake - shake - SHAKE"! {you knew I had to say it!}

>>>CHALLENGE DETAILS<<<

For the Shaker Challenge, you will create a new project that includes a shaker element. This could be a card, a tag, or some other similar project.

>>>MY PROJECTS<<<

Card No. 1

The first card is for my sweet niece, Kamilla.  I made a frame with her name in it for her bedroom, and I am still gravitating to the same color palette, which is fine because it works great for Valentine’s Day!

I started with a 4.25 square card in a pretty aqua color, and then used beautiful pink heart paper from Love Notes (Crate Paper) to cut the “circle with heart” using The Write Stuff: Love Story cut file.  I stamped the handwritten love from You’ve Got Love Mail and the you from The Big, the Bold and You set.

Since this is for a little girl, I used some sweet little buttons, a few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and some glitter flowers from my stash.  I also used a heart punch to cut hearts from aqua glitter paper.  This one is very sweet – for my sweet girl! I hope she loves it.

Card No. 2

This one is all SHAKER! I figured, why not just go for it!  The background starts with a birthday FREEBIE – this is a journal card in our new freebie set found in our store called 1^st Birthday Bash Digital Elements.  There are some fun goodies in this download, and they all coordinate with our fun fresh logo colors.

I did resize this journal card a little larger to fit my 4.25 x 5.5 card.  It is the perfect background as it includes a sentiment, plus confetti style images.  This would be simple to create with stamps  as well, but I thought the journal card was perfect for this.

The top of the shaker is white cardstock inked using our Scenery: Classic Diagonal Creative Screenings with distress inks in our logo colors.  Here are the ones I used:  picked raspberry, dried marigold, mustard seed, crushed olive and salty ocean.  I let the colors overlap and blend, just like they do in the logo.  Just love how it turned out. 

Next, I built my shaker sequin extravaganza with a mix of sequins Shay gave me last year around this time, some other sequins I had in my stash and some pink blush, aquamarine, sparkling clear and silver heart confetti from Pretty Pink Posh.  I also added a little glitter called “fairy dust” and it is very fine, but I love the added confetti effect it provides. 

I actually made this card for Shay – my winnie & walter partner.  We’ve made it through our first year and I can’t wait for us to celebrate!  I also used one of her favorite sentiments from Bubble Talk inside the card – HEY GIRL – we laugh every time we say it! There is no doubt in my mind that we are a dynamic duo and I count myself extremely lucky to be on this journey with her.  Great big hugs and Thanks to you, Shay!  You really are the best!

I hope these cards have you inspired and ready to celebrate with us.  And, don’t forget, there is a giveaway (read below).  And, don’t forget to check out ALL of the fantastic challenges we have today!!  It’s going to be a great month J I can't wait to see what you make!

>>>GIVEAWAY<<<

Link up your take on this challenge for a chance to win a $50.00 gift card (gift code) to the w&w shop.  One random winner will be chosen.

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