Caring Hearts Blog Hop

Today is World Kindness Day and we are celebrating with a fun blog hop in support of the Caring Hearts Card Drive. The purpose of this card drive is to collect handmade holiday cards for the elderly that live in nursing homes around the world. Since 2010 we have been bringing joy to many nursing homes throughout the US, Canada and Australia. And this year, we are branching out to the UK! What better way to share our love of card making than to bring joy to others, right? We hope you’ll join us in supporting the card drive. Details for the card drive can be found at: Vera Yates Blog HERE or Jennifer McGuire’s Blog HERE.

I’m sharing two cards I created for the card drive…

To create these cards, I used THESE coordinating dies from THIS stamp set and cut them from the center of a piece of cardstock and a piece of extra thick fun foam. I love using the negative portion of a die that is a basic shape. I encourage you to take a second look at your dies and find some basic shapes. They make perfect windows to shaker cards.

I love creating shaker cards but as I was adding the fun little bits to these, I couldn’t stop so a filled shaker card was born! I left a bit of room at the top of each card so the pattern of the paper would peek through and give just enough space for a little shake…

I heat embossed a sentiment from THIS set under each image and added a few snowflakes to this card to finish it off…

Here’s a closer look at each…

I can’t seem to get enough plaid print lately. The deer card uses THIS paper pad and the bear card uses THIS paper pad.

Simon Says Stamp MAGICAL CHRISTMAS Wafer Die SSSD111644 Believe In The Season	Simon Says Clear Stamps CHRISTMAS ESSENTIALS SSS101664 Believe In The Season	Doodlebug POLAR PALS 6×6 Paper Pad 5038	Lawn Fawn PERFECTLY PLAID Petite 6×6 Paper Pack LF1114
Avery Elle Steel Dies SWEET SCALLOPS DIE Set 023314	Memory Box CROSS STITCHED FRAME BORDERS Craft Die 99124	Hero Arts ACETATE FOLDED Cards & White Cards & Envelopes	Pretty Pink Posh SPARKLING CLEAR Seed Beads PPPB004
Little Things From Lucy’s Cards PEACOCK Sequin Shaker Mix LB106	Martha Stewart IRIDESCENT HEARTS AND STARS GLITTER SET	Little Things From Lucy’s Cards FAIRY DUST Confetti Mix LBCM01	Simon Says Stamp Sequins SNOWDRIFT SDT32
Neat and Tangled WINTER WONDERLAND MIX Sequin Pack	Hero Arts 48 Count PEARLS 3MM SMALL ch136	Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# BLACK	Tim Holtz DISTRESS WATERCOLOR CARDSTOCK
Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets	Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder Bag	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark	Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts PW200 Wagner
Hero Arts EMBOSS SILVER EMBOSSING POWDER	Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER WHITE Fine Detail	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White 660425	MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool Kit mistimini
3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 0.25 Inch Adhesive Glue Gun	WHITE FUN FOAM 12 Pack 9 x 12

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