Hi, crafty friends. I have a fun shaker card to share with you today, featuring the Kite Builder die set and Kite Strings stamp set from Concord & 9th.
I die cut the base of the kite from white cardstock and ink blended a gradient from the bottom using Oceanside and Aqua Sky inks from Concord & 9th. I taped the base die and the die that creates the wiring together and used it to crate my walls, snipping away the cross in the center on all but one of the layers. I filled the shaker with an embellishment mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards, closed it with a piece of acetate and put a white die cut kite on top.
I cut some cardstock down to different widths, stamped and white heat embossed a sentiment from the stamp set onto one of the strips and adhered them at an angle onto a piece of Soft Stone cardstock from Papertrey Ink. The strip colors are Oceanside, Aqua Sky, Lemongrass, Buttercup, Clementine and Watermelon, all from Concord & 9th.
I mounted the panel onto a white card base, white heat embossed another sentiment from the stamp set onto black cardstock, added that to the card using foam tape and adhered the kite to the card.
Using black cardstock, I die cut the kite string and a bow in the die set, adhered them to the card and finished off with a few black enamel dots from Altenew.
I love the super sized sentiment dies from My Favorite Things. They have several in this style, and they’re great for all sorts of techniques. Today I used the negative of the Big Birthday Wishes die, cut into X-Press It blending card. I normally use this paper for coloring only, but I wanted the white background to match the white trim on my die cut bears, which are colored on the same paper. I added foam tape to the back of my negative die cut for dimension, making sure to keep the counters so I could put them back in. I added a strip of solid colored cardstock from Concord & 9th behind each of the lines in the die cut. I used Honeysuckle at the bottom, Clementine in the center and Buttercup for the top. I then adhered everything to a card base I created from Blue Breeze cardstock from My Favorite Things.
I stamped the bears from the Bitty Bears stamp set from My Favorite Things and colored them in with Copics and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I added three white die cuts behind each of the bears for dimension and placed them on the card. I didn’t want to cover up too much of the letters, so I made sure to create a wide border around the die cut words. I also wanted a chunky border around the white, so this card is quite large and measures about 5 1/4 x 6 1/2″.
At first, I wasn’t sure how to add dimension behind the small counters, especially on the triangle in the A, because it’s very very small, but I wound up putting foam tape behind some X-Press It, then die cut the letters I needed once more to get counters with dimension. It worked really well, so I’ll remember this trick in case I need to do something similar in the future.
Yellows, oranges and pinks, just like the strips of cardstock behind the letters.
I stamped one of the images in the stamp set using black ink and used the coordinating layering stencils to color it in. It’s no secret I’m a fan of Copic coloring, but this was soooo much faster, and maybe it’s okay to cheat a little once in a while. I used the Dried Petals set of inks for the pink in the flowers and the Forest Trail set for the green. For the yellow I used Sunflower and Buttercup inks from Concord & 9th, as I don’t have yellow inks from Altenew.
I created a card base from Sno Cone cardstock from My Favorite Things and used the Angled Mosaic 3D embossing folder from Altenew to add some texture and interest. I mounted my flowers in the bottom center using foam tape, then added a black sentiment sticker strip from Kort & Godt with a couple of layers of cardstock behind it for a little bit of lift, before finishing off the card with Sparkle & Shine ombré glitter drops from Pinkfresh Studio.
After adhering everything to my card base, I cropped the card down slightly. It matched my design better, so this card is 4 x 5 3/8″. I added 
The dimension makes it look like these hexagons are floating on the front of the card, and the pink one with the sentiment is floating a bit more than the rest.
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