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.

I hope you will give this filled shaker card technique a try and create some cards for this amazing card drive. 
KEEP HOPPING
Like I mentioned, this is part of a fun blog hop. Click HERE for the next stop on the hop and visit the super fun, Julie Ebersole. Click HERE to start at the beginning of the hop. 
GIVEAWAY
No hop is complete without a fun giveaway, right? Simon Says Stamp has generously offering $150 gift card for this hop. All you need to do is visit and leave comment on each blog. Winner will be randomly selected from one of the participant blog. You have till midnight Thurday, 11/17/2016 to leave comment. Winner will be announced on Vera’s blog on Friday, 11/18/2016.
Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a great day! 
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438 Comments

  1. Debbie Peysen
    November 17, 2016

    What adorable shaker cards. I love the polar bear. I think full shaker cards may be the next big deal. Thanks for the great cards.

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  2. Stephanie
    November 17, 2016

    What fantastic shaker cards! Wow!

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  3. Jackie S
    November 17, 2016

    I always fail miserably when I make shaker cards. I need to keep trying. I just love the look

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  4. Heather DePasquale
    November 16, 2016

    Love your color combos. Beautiful shaker cards. Thanks for sharing!

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  5. Andrea La Vigne
    November 16, 2016

    Heather, I usually look at a full shaker as a problem, but yours turned out great! Love your color scheme for both cards. Tfs! 🙂 ~ Andrea

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  6. Denise Ward
    November 16, 2016

    Love these shaker cards! They are fun but clearly perfect for adults to enjoy! Great design!!!

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  7. Judie
    November 16, 2016

    Awesome shaker cards!!! Love the reindeer one!

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  8. Isabelle Siry
    November 16, 2016

    This is super cool Heather ! I love your creative idea of filling almost completely the shaker card ! No need to have a background, the beads make the job ! Amazing ! thanks for sharing.
    Izzy Scrap

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  9. LaurieJ
    November 16, 2016

    Oh wow! I love the "filled up shaker" look, especially for the bear.

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  10. Stacy
    November 16, 2016

    oooh! So beautiful! Love that plaid 😀

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  11. Berina RGA
    November 16, 2016

    Beautiful shaped Shakers!! Love them both!! Love the shakers!!

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  12. Patty Beers
    November 16, 2016

    Beautiful cards. I love your soft colors.

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  13. Misty Elam
    November 16, 2016

    Beautiful shaker cards!! Love the sequins you chose.

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  14. Kim Hill
    November 16, 2016

    Love the fun, non-traditional look and feel of these cards!

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  15. Laura Litzinger
    November 16, 2016

    Love your shaker cards.

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