Hello everyone! It's May!!!
I'm still adding cards to my Mother's Day series. This one like several of the others I've cone this year is again more "non-traditional" - I know that Mother's Day can and is really hard for some - for so many different reasons. I've been trying harder lately to incorporate ideas for cards that aren't specific and geared towards one specific thing (while I know we can take inspiration from anything and turn it to any occasion - I still like to make non-traditional and think out of the box as much as I can) not only because of this but because it's nice to create cards to have on hand that can be thoughtful and used all-year-round and for many different people in our lives. I also wanted to add huge (((((hugs))))) for those that struggle with Mother's Day ❤️❤️❤️.
I literally have a million things on my plate at the moment, and piles of things on my desk (and all the surrounding surfaces and floor - some days it almost nearly resembles a scene from Hoarders.......kidding - not really!) for future projects and hauls and giveaways and all sorts of fun things. One of those piles was the Waffle Flower Rainbows stamps and dies and these Lucy's Rainbow Bright Jewels. I've been wanting to make a shaker card with them since they got here and finally scratched that off my "to-make" list:
I like stamps and dies that work together and take all the guesswork out of everything - which is exactly what these stamps and dies do. You don't HAVE to create a shaker card with them - but that frame in the die set just makes it easy to so of course I did!
I die cut everything from Bristol Smooth card stock and used Distress Inks and a water brush to color them in. The card base was also Bristol Smooth and I sponged on my "go-to" sky combo for Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass and Broken China. The jewels that I used for the shaker and to embellish the rainbow are from the Lucy's Diamonds - Rainbow Bright Mix. They're literally diamond shaped instead of the usual flat-backed rhinestones that we're used to. I've been hoarding them for a while with the intention to use them for cards like this - it's like they were meant to go together ;).
I finished off the inside of the card with a sentiment from the Waffle Flower Rainbows stamp set and a little die cut rainbow and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
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