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 16, 2016
Gorgeous shaker cards, Heather! Stunning and unique. Thanks so much for sharing with us and for participating in this great hop and giveaway.
November 16, 2016
I love your non-traditional cards!
November 16, 2016
great cards.
November 16, 2016
Such a fun and pretty way to do a shaker!!
November 16, 2016
What a great idea to use the plaid and non-traditional Xmas colors. Love the fuller shaker cards and all the little bits you used. Thanks for sharing
November 16, 2016
two great cards but I would say the bear is my fav !
November 16, 2016
So cool!!! And filled with glitter — even better!
November 16, 2016
Such festive shakers are perfect for the holidays!!!!
November 15, 2016
Oh gosh, these shakers are amazing, hugs
November 15, 2016
WOW! Both cards are fabulous and magical!
November 15, 2016
Beautiful cards and a worth while cause. I have a ton of cards ready to go for the drive this year. I applaud Vera and all of you for helping bring smiles to the elderly this holiday season.
November 15, 2016
Love these shaker cards!
November 15, 2016
These are wonderful!
November 15, 2016
Cute cards! Love to coordinated plaid too!
November 15, 2016
Such beautiful cards! Thanks for sharing!