Birthday Bonanza Shaker Card ~ Video Tutorial

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Shaker Cards are such a lot of fun, especially for children but I am sure an adult would enjoy one as well!  It was our youngest granddaughters birthday last week so I thought a fun card would be just perfect, particularly as she will not be having a party with friends and extended family this year.

We later found out that she wanted an ‘elephant’ cake for her birthday – which her talented parents made for her – so the Birthday Bonanza DSP, with the cute animals, I used for her card turned out to be in the right theme!

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Merry Merlot and Tasteful Textures ~ thank you card

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Merry Merlot and Balmy Blue are not two colors I would have naturally put together, until I remembered there is a UK soccer (football) team whose colors are claret and blue !

I used the Tasteful Textures Stamp Set for my card today along with the Basket Weave Embossing Folder to add even more texture. ~ just love texture on my cards.  This is a stamp set I have used quite a bit and I have put some links to those cards a little further down this post.

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Healing Hugs Get Well

Most  of us would really rather not  make get well cards (cos’ it means someone is not well) but isn’t it wonderful that when the need arises we have the perfect stamp set to make one with ~ the  Healing Hugs Stamp Set is that perfect set and it even has the perfect name to get your message across.

Heads Up – if you order it today you will get 10% off the regular price – click here to see

Once again my colors were decided by my ribbon drawer – it is one of my main sources of color inspiration!

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