Shaped shaker card

I've got lots of crafty stash that I've got from kits or bundles, for example ive gotbshaped cards from Hunkydory kits and micro beads which I got as a free gift when I brought some embossing powders from eBay.

I decided to make a shaker card using the shaped card. I used a lovely image I brought from Polkadoodles, it's an Emma Canning digi image of a girl with an umbrella. 

I coloured her using similar colours to the frame on the shaped card, mostly Spectrum Noir BTs and CRs. I made the shaker with acetate and clear microbeada and backed this with some Hunkydory printed card so you can't see the workings when you open it. 

I stamped a sentiment onto a die cut shape and layered this onto another shape. Finally I added some bling.

I love this card and am so please with how it turned out. 

I'm entering this into the Digichoosday challenge - Shaping Up

http://digichoosday.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/wk-7-digi-choosday-challengeshaping-up.html?m=1 http://digichoosday.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/wk-7-digi-choosday-challengeshaping-up.html?m=1

http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/odbdslc192-shaped-card.html?m=1 

http://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/week-8-polkadoodles-challenge-sugar-and.html?m=1

- sugar and spice (that's what little girls are made of)

Crafty Birthday Card

Now this is kind of spooky...I made the below card at the weekend as a break from Christmas card making and today I've seen Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Challenge is to make a craft related card!

I love the Emma Canning Digis and brought her CD back in August from Polkadoodles and loved the digi I've used in this card as it has a Sizzix Big Shot style die cutting machine in. I coloured it in Spectrum Noirs and framed it using a frame made die cut from foil takeaway tray lids (see one of my previous posts). I used similar dies to the one in the digi to bring it all together then I used felt flowers from Craft Artist as embellishments. 

Back to Christmas crafts now for me - can't wait for the Christmas Wreath making event at Hobbycraft tomorrow. I'll post a picture of our finished wreaths once they're done (I booked tickets for my Mum and I and as we have similar tastes they'll probably be very similar)