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 18, 2016
Who doesn't love a shaker card!! Theses are great!!!
November 18, 2016
Oh I looove shaker cards and yours are fabulous!! *-* So inspiring
November 18, 2016
Love your shaker cards and the inspiration and the chance to win awesome swag.
November 17, 2016
Beautiful shaker cards! Thanks for inspiring me to use plaid paper as background! I love it. TFS
November 17, 2016
Such fantastic shaker cards. Definitely going to be viewing my dies in a new light – simple shapes make great windows! 🙂
November 17, 2016
I love that polar bear! What a creative idea to make them into shaker cards!
November 17, 2016
Great cards.
jen dot barnard at btinternet dot com
November 17, 2016
Fun shaker cards so full of sparkle. The recipients will love them. Thanks for the inspiration!
November 17, 2016
Fantastic cards! I love how filled these shakers are!!
November 17, 2016
these are so pretty, can't pick a favorite!
November 17, 2016
Very fun shaker cards!
November 17, 2016
Ooooh, your cards are gorgeous! I really like the idea of shaker animals. And the colors are just gorgeous <3
November 17, 2016
Very colorful shaker cards!
November 17, 2016
Great cards. I love both cards especially the deer card.I love the way you filled almost completely. This reminds me of a jeweled broach.
November 17, 2016
Oooohhh!!! So pretty! Love all the sparkle!