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.
November 15, 2016
That clear and sparkly polar bear is absolutely adorable!
November 15, 2016
Cute cards! I love the polar bear one! Cute!
November 15, 2016
Great shaker cards! I think the polar bear is my favorite though. What a great idea & use of color. Thank you.
November 15, 2016
Heather your shaker cards are so amazing!! I love the colors and the plaid backgrounds. So cute 😊
November 15, 2016
Oh wow! I love shaker cards and yours are simply awesome!
November 15, 2016
Awesome shaker cards. Love them!
November 15, 2016
Wow, who would have thought to use these dies for shaker cards. And I love the colors you used inside the shakers. I always learn something from you, Heather. 🙂
November 15, 2016
What a simple, but beautiful design! Thanks for the inspiration!!
November 15, 2016
Wow .. beautiful shaker cards! I love how full they are and the colors are fantastic! 🙂
November 15, 2016
Lovely cards!
November 15, 2016
Lovely shaker cards. Sending my CHCD cards in today!
November 15, 2016
Neat shaker cards! Cool!
November 15, 2016
What a lovely idea for a Hop and what gorgeous cards! Fabulous colors and great technique. I'll be looking at my dies in a differnt way from now on. xxD
November 15, 2016
I like the card drive idea and your cards are so pretty.
November 15, 2016
I love the polar bear and such a unique way to make a shaker card!